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where that payment is less than the amount that would have been the cost amount to the parent or subsidiary of the subsidiary’s obligation or the parent’s obligation immediately before the particular time if the definition cost amount in subsection 248(1) were read without reference to paragraph (e) of that definition and the parent so elects in a prescribed form on or before the day on or before which the parent is required to file a return of income pursuant to section 150 for the taxation year that includes the particular time, the amount paid at that time in satisfaction of the principal amount of the subsidiary’s obligation or the parent’s obligation shall be deemed to be equal to the amount that would be the cost amount to the parent or the subsidiary, as the case may be, of the subsidiary’s obligation or the parent’s obligation immediately before the particular time if