Inland Revenue | | | Inland Revenue | | | | AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE IMPOSITION OF INCOME TAX FOR ANY YEAR OF ASSESSMFNT COMMENCING ON OR AFTER 1,April 2000 | | | | | | BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :- | | | [1st April , 2000 ] | Short title.
| 1. This Act may be cited as the Inland Revenue Act, No. 38 of 2000. | | Imposition of Income Tax.
| 2. | (1) Income tax shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be charged at the appropriate rates specified in the First, Second and Third Schedules to this Act, for every year of assessment commencing on or after April 1,2000, in respect of the profits and income of every person for that year of assessment- | (a) wherever arising, in the case of a person who is resident in Sri Lanka in that year of assessment; and | | (b) arising in, or derived from, Sri Lanka in the case of every other person. | | | (2) For the purposes of this Act, "profits and income arising in, or derived from, Sri Lanka" includes all profits and income derived from services rendered in Sri Lanka or from property in Sri Lanka, or from business transacted in Sri Lanka, whether directly or through an agent. | | | | INCOME CHARGEABLE WITH TAX | | Income chargeable with tax.
| 3. For the purpose of this Act, "profits and income" or "profits" or "income" means - | (a) the profits from any trade, business, profession or vocation for however short a period carried on or exercised; | | (b) the profits from any employment | | (c) the net annual value of any land and improvements thereon occupied by or on behalf of the owner in so far as it is not so occupied for the purposes of a trade, business profession or vocation | | (d) the net annual value of any land and improvements thereon used rent-free by the occupies if such net annual value is not taken into account in ascertaining profits and income under paragraphs (a), (b) or (c)of' this section, or where the rent paid for such land and improvements is less than the net annual value, the excess of such net annual value over the rent, to be deemed in each case the income of the occupier , | | (e) dividends, interest or discounts ; | | (f) charges or annuities ; | | (g) rents, royalties or premiums ; | | (i) income from any other source whatsoever, not including profits of a casual and non-recurring nature. | | Profits from employment.
| 4. | (1) Profits from any employment include | (a) | (i) any wages, salary, allowance, leave pay fee. pension, commission, bonus, gratuity, perquisite or such other payment in money which an employee receives in the course of his employment; | | (ii) the value of any benefits to the employee or to his spouse, child or parent including the value of any holiday warrant or passage , | | (iii) any payment to any other person for the benefit of the employee or of his spouse child or parent, | | | whether received or derived horn the employer or others , | | (b) the value of any conveyance granted free of any charge by an employer to any employee, to any sum so granted for the purchase of any conveyance , | | (c) | (i) any retiring gratuity to any sum received in commutation of pension , | | (ii) any sum paid from a provident fund approved by the Commissioner General to any employee at the time of his retirement, other than such part of that sum as represents his contributions to that fund | | (iii) any sum paid from a regulated provident fund to an employee other than " | (A) such part of that sum as represents his contributions to that fund , and | | (B) such part of that sum as represents the contributions made by the employer to that fund prior to April 1, 1968 and the interest which occurred on such attributions, if tax at the rate of fifteen per centum has been paid by such employee in respect of such contributions and interest | | | (iv) any sum received as compensation for loss of any office or employment, | | (v) any sum paid from the Employees' Trust Fund established by the Employees' Trust Fund Act No 46 of 1980 | | | (d) the rental value of any place of residence provided rent-free by the employer or where a place of residence is provided by an employer at a rent less than the rental value, the excess of the rental value over such rent. | | For the purposes of this paragraph the rental value of any place of residence shall be- | (i) the net annual value as defined in section 5 with the addition of the rates paid by the owner and of thirty three and one-third per centum of such net annual value on account of repairs and other expenses; or | | (ii) the gross rent paid for such place of residence, | | | Provided that, any excess of the rental value over one hundred and twenty thousand rupees shall be disregarded. | | | (2) For the purposes of this section, "the value of any benefit", in relation to an individual who has received, or derived such benefit, means" | (a) where the market value of such benefit can be readily ascertained, such market value ; or | | (b) where the market value of such benefit cannot be readily ascertained, or such benefit has no market value, the cost that would have to be incurred by any other individual to obtain such benefit: | | Provided that the Commissioner-General may, having regard to the market value of that benefit or the cost that would have to be incurred by any other individual to obtain that benefit, by Order published in the Gazette, specify the value to be placed on any benefit and where a value is so specified in respect of a benefit, such value shall be deemed to be the value of such benefit. | | | Net annual value of land and improvements thereon or of any place of residence.
| 5. | (1) The net annul value of land and improvements thereon or of any place of residence shall be determined on the basis of the rent which a tenant might reasonably be expected taking one year with another to pay for such land and improvements or for such place of residence (the tenant paying rates and the owner bearing the cost of repairs) subject to a deduction of twenty five per centum on account of repairs and other expenses | | (2) Where the annual value of any land and improvements thereon or of any plate of residence has been assessed for rating purposes by a local authority, such annual value, less a deduction of twenty five per centum on account of repairs and other expenses shall be the net annual value unless in the opinion of the Commissioner General the assessment made by the local authority does not accurately represent the annual value of such land and improvements or place of residence in the year for which the net annual value is being determined, | | Profits or income arising from rents of land and improvement thereon.
| 6. The profits or income arising from rents of land and improvements thereon shall be the gross rent which is receivable and can be recovered after deducting therefrom rates borne by the owner and, where the owner undertakes to bear the cost of repairs, twenty-five per centum of the balance, but shall, where the rent recoverable in respect of such land and improvements is not restricted by any taw for the time being in force, be not less than the net annual value after deducting therefrom any part thereof which is the income of the occupier within the meaning of paragraph (d) of section 3 due provision being made for any period in respect of which no rent is receivable or can be recovered. | Capital gain.
| 7. | (1) "Capital gain" means the profits or income, not being profits or income within the meaning of paragraph (a), (g) or (i) of section 3, arising from" | (a) the change of ownership of any property occurring in any manner whatsoever ; | | (b) the surrender or relinquishment of any right in any property ; | | (c ) the transfer of some of in lights in any property , | | (d) the redemption of any share, debenture to other obligation , | | (e) the formation of a company , | | (f) the dissolution of a business of the liquidation of a company , | | (g) the amalgamation or merger of two or more businesses or companies , or | | (h) any transaction in connection with the promotion of which any person who is not a party to such transaction receives a commission or reward | | | (2) For the purposes of subsection (1) and in relation to the capital gain of any person, the profits and income arising from " | (a) a change of ownership of property, means, subject to the provisions of subsection (4), the amount by which the value of the property at the time when such change of ownership occurs exceeds its value at the time when it was acquired by that person , | | (b) the surrender or relinquishment of any light or the transfer of some of the lights in any property means subject to the provisions of subsection (4) the value of the consideration for such surrender, relinquishment or transfer , | | (c) She redemption of any share debenture or other obligation means subject to the provisions of subsection (4) the value of all property received by him in consequence of such redemption less the value. of that which is redeemed at the tune when it was acquired by him or where that which is redeemed is any property referred to in paragraph(e) or paragraph (f)or paragraph (g) or paragraph(h)or subsection (3), less such value of that property as is specified in that paragraph , | | (d) the formation of a company, means, subject to the provisions of subsection (4), the value of the consideration received by him for any transaction in connection with the formation of such company ; | | (e) the dissolution of a business or the liquidation of a company, means, subject to the provisions of subsection (4), the amount by which the value of all properly received by him in consequence of such dissolution or liquidation exceeds the value of his share of the capital of such business or company at the time when such share was acquired by him ; | | (f) the amalgamation or merger of two or more companies, means, where such person was a shareholder of any of those companies, any money received by such shareholder in consequence of such amalgamation or merger, and where such person was not a shareholder of any of those companies, the value of the consideration received by him for any transaction in connection with such amalgamation or merger; and | | (g) the promotion of a transaction to which such person was not a party, means, the commission or reward received by him in connection with such promotion. | | | (3) Value, with reference to any property or consideration in the context of the definition of "capital gain" and in relation to any person to whom the capital gain arises, shall be as follows :" | (a) where, the property was acquired before April 1, 1977, by the person to whom such gain arises then, subject to the provisions of paragraph (c ), paragraph (d), paragraph (e), paragraph (f), paragraph (g) and paragraph (h), the value of the property at the time when it was acquired by such person shall be an amount equal to she market value of the property on April 1, 1977 , | | (b) where the properly was acquired on or after April 1, 1977, by the person to whom such gain arises then, .subject to the provisions of paragraph (c), paragraph (d), paragraph (e), paragraph (f), paragraph (g), paragraph (h), paragraph (l) and paragraph (m), the value of the property at the time it was acquired by such person shall if such acquisition was- | (i) by purchase, be an amount equal to the cost of such purchase ; and | | (ii) otherwise than by purchase, be an amount equal to the market value of the property at the time of such acquisition ; | | | (c)where the property was acquired by the person to whom such gain arises in his capacity beneficiary under a trust or the testate or intestate heir of the deceased, in consequence of a transfer by the trustee of such trust or by the executor appointed to administer the estate of such deceased, the value of the property at the time of such acquisition shall if the date of the acquisition of such property by such trustee or executor is " | (i) before April 1, 1977, be an amount equal to the market value, of the property on April 1, 1977 and | | (ii) on or after April 1,1977, be an amount equal to the market value of the property at the time when such trustee or executor came into possession of the property. | | | (d) where the person to whom the gain arises had tome into possession of the property immediately alter the cessation of a life interest of any other person in the property or after the cessation of the rights of fiduciary in that property the value of the property at the Mine when the first mentioned person acquired such property shall if the date of the. cessation of such life interest or such. rights of a fiduciary is" | (i) before April 1,1977 be an amount equal to the market value of the property on April 1,1977 and | | (ii) on or after April 1, 1977 be an amount equal to the market value of the property on such date | | | (e) where. the property is a bonus share, issued on or after April 1,1977 to the person to whom such gain arises, ok value of the property at the time when it was acquired by such person shall be deemed to be nill | | (f) where the. property is a share. issued on or after April 1,1977 to the person to whom such gain arises at a price less than the market value of such share, the value of the property at the time when it was acquired by such person shall be an amount equal to the cost of acquisition of such property | | (g) where the property consists of any shares received by the person whom such gain arises in lieu of shares held by him in any of two or more. companies which have amalgamated or merged or after April 1,1977 the value of the property at the time when it was so received shall if the last- mentioned shares were acquired by him - | (i) before April 1,1977, be an amount equal to the market value of the last-mentioned shares on April | | (ii)on or after April 1,1977 be an amount equal to the cost of purchase of such shares as acquired by purchase and the market value of on acquisition of such shares as were acquired' by him otherwise than by purchase | | | (h) where the properly consists of shares In. respect of which there has been a return or distribution of capital, the value of the property at the time when such shares were acquired shall if such shares were acquired by the person to whom such gain arises" | (i) before April 1, 1977, be an amount equal to the market value of the shares on April 1,1977, less the amount of the capital required or distributed or after that date if the amount of the capital resumed or distributed is not a dividend within the meaning of this Act, and | | (ii) on or after April 1, 1977 be an amount equal to the cost of purchase of such shares as were acquired by purchase and the market value on the date of acquisition of such sales as were acquired by him otherwise than by purchase less the amount of the capital returned of distributed to the amount of the capital returned or distributed is not a dividend within the meaning of this Act. | | | (i) the value of the property at the time of the occurrence of the transaction which resulted in such gain shall if such transaction is " | (i) a sale of the property, be an amount equal to the sale price of such properly ; | | (ii) other than a sale, be an amount equal to the market value of such property at the time of the occurrence of the transaction ; | | | (j)the value of any consideration received by the person to whom such gain arises shall, where the consideration is- | (i) partly cash and partly property other than cash, be an amount equal to the aggregate of such cash and the market value of such property on she date on which the consideration was received ; and | | (ii) wholly property other than cash, be an amount equal to the market value of such property on the date on which the consideration was received ; | | | (k) where, in the case of a change of ownership of the property of any person occurring by sale, the Assessor is of the opinion that the sale price is less than the market value of that properly at the time of the sale, then unless such person satisfies the Assessor that there was reasonable cause for the difference between the sale price and such market value, the value of such property at the time of the sale shall be an amount equal to the market value of that property at that time ; | | (l) where, the property, is immovable property and that property was acquired by way of gift or inheritance, on or after April 1,1977 by the person to whom the capital gain arises from any person who had acquired such property prior to April 1,1977 the value of such property at the lime it was acquired by the first mentioned person shall be an amount equal to the market value of such property on April 1,1977 increased by the cost of any improvements additions or alterations to that property made by the second mentioned person after April 1, 1977 and | | (m) where the property its immovable property and that property was acquired by way of gift or inheritance on or after April 1,1977 by the person to whom such gain arises from any person who had acquired such property on or after April 1,1977 the value of such property at the time when it was acquired by the mentioned person shall if the second mentioned person had acquired that property. - | (i) by purchase, be an amount equal to the cost of such purchase ; and | | (ii) otherwise than by purchase, be an amount equal to the market value of the properly at the time of such acquisition. | | | increased by the cost of any improvements, additions or alterations to that property made by the second-mentioned person after it was acquired by him. | | | (4) For the purposes of subsection (2), the amount of a capital gain shall be computed after making the following deductions- | (a) any expenditure (oilier than the purchase price if any) incurred on or after April 1, 1977, solely in connection with the acquisition of the property by the person who is the owner of that property immediately before the occurrence of the transaction which resulted in such gain ; | | (b) any expenditure incurred on after April 1, 1977, by such owner in making any improvements, additions or alterations to that property if no deduction in respect of such expenditure is. or has been allowed under section 23 of this Act or under section 23 or paragraph (1) of subsection (2) of section 31 of the Inland Revenue Act . No 28 of 1979. | | (c) any expenditure incurred by such owner solely in connection with the transaction which resulted in such gain. | | | | | EXEMPTION FROM INCOME TAX | | Exemption from income tax of certain persons (other than individuals) on the whole or any part of their profits and income.
| 8. There shall be exempt from income tax" | (a) the profits and income of" | (i) the Incorporated Council of Legal Education established by Council of Legal Education Act, (Chapter 276). | | (ii) the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka established by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka Act, No. 23 of 1959. | | (iii) the Sri Lanka Tea Board established by the Sri Lanka Tea Board Law, No. 14 of 1975 ; | | (iv) the Ceylon National Library Services Board established by the Ceylon National Library Services Board Act No 17 of 1970, | | (v) any University which is established or deemed to be established under the Universities, Act No. 16 of 1978 , | | (vi) the Coconut Development Authority; the Coconut Research Board and the Coconut Cultivation Board, established by or under the Coconut Development Act No 46 of 1971 , | | (vii) the Widows and Orphans' Pension Fund of public officers of Sri Lanka (Chapter 431), | | (viii) any Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund or Scheme established lot the Local Government Service | | (ix) the World Tourism Organization; | | (x) any institution or trust of a public character established by any written law solely for the purposes of scientific research | | (xi) the United Nations Organization including the net annual value of any land and improvements thereon in Sri Lanka owned by and occupied by or on behalf of the Organization , | | (xii) the S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike National Memorial Foundation established by the S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike National Memorial Foundation Law No 2 of 1975 | | (xiii) the National Science Foundation established by the Science and Technology Development Act. No 11 of 1994 | | (xiv) the Industrial Technology Institute established by the Science and Technology Development Act, No. 11 of 1994; | | (xv) the International Development Association ; | | (xvi) the Sri Lanka Standards institution established by the Sri Lanka Standards Institution Act, No, 6 of 1984; | | (xvii) the Asian Development Bank ; | | (xviii) any Resort Authority constituted under subsection (1) of section 57 of the Tourist Development Act, No. 14 of 1968 ; | | (xix) the Ceylon Tourist Board established by the Ceylon Tourist Board Act, No. 10 of 1966 ; | | (xx) the International Finance Corporation ; | | (xxi) the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or any other international or foreign organization approved by the Minister, being profits and income attributable to the interest and other charges on any loan granted to the Development Finance Corporation ; | | (xxii) the Monetary Board established by the Monetary Law Act (Chapter 422) being the profits and income of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka ; | | (xxiii) any registered society within the meaning of the Co-operative Societies Law. No. 5 of 1972, the majority of the members of which are resident in Sri Lanka being profits and income of that society arising out of any business specified by the Minister by notice published in the Gazette having regard to Government policy in relation to the Co-operative movement. | | For the purpose of ascertaining the membership of a registered society of which another registered society is a member, each of the members of the second-mentioned society shall be deemed to be a member of the first-mentioned society ; | | (xxiv) she Sri Lanka Foundation Institute established by the Sri Lanka Foundation Law, No. 31 of 1973 ; | | (xxv) the Tower Hull Theatre Foundation established by the Tower Hall Theatre Foundation Act, No. 1 of 1978; | | (xxvi) the Sri Lanka Inventors Commission established by the Sri Lanka Inventors Incentives Act, No. 53 of 1979; | | (xxvii) the Ceylon Medical Council established by the Medical Ordinance (Chapter 105) ; | | (xxviii) Ayurvedic Medical Council established by the Ayurveda Act. No. 31 of 1961 ; | | (xxix) the Homeopathic Council established by Homeopathy Act. No. 7 of 1970 ; | | (xxx) the Sri Lanka College of Physicians established by the Sri Lanka College of Physicians (Incorporation) Act, No. 9 of 1971 ; | | (xxxi) the Institute of Engineers, Ceylon, incorporated by the Institute of Engineers, Ceylon Act, No. 17 of 1968 ; | | (xxxii) the Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation established by the Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation Act, No. 15 of 1978 ; | | (xxxiii) the Sri Lanka Export Development Board established under the Sri Lanka Export Development Board Act, No. 40 of 1979 ; | | (xxxiv) the Sri Lanka Ex-Servicemen's Association established by the Sri Lanka Ex-Servicemen's Association Law, No. 8 of 1976 ; | | (xxxv) a company registered under Part VIII of the Companies Act, No. 17 of 1982, being profits and income arising to such company from a ship which is" | (i) engaged in international operations ; | | (ii) owned or chartered by such company ; and | | (iii) deemed to be a Sri Lanka ship by reason of a determination made under paragraph (c) of section 30 of the Merchant Shipping Act, No. 52 of 1971, | | | other than profits and income arising to such company form the carriage, by that ship, of passengers, mails, livestock and goods, to or from, a port in Sri Lanka ; | | (xxxvi) the Institute of Fundamental Studies, Sri Lanka, established by the Institute of Fundamental Studies, Sri Lanka Act, No, 55 of 1981 ; | | (xxxvii) the International Winged Beans (Dambala) Institute established by the International Winged Bean (Dambala) Institute Act, No. 7 of 1982 ; | | (xxxviii) the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka and any Higher Educational Institution established by, or under, the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka Act, No. 74 of 1981 ; | | (xxxix) the International Irrigation Management Institute ; | | (xl) the Sri Lanka Institute of Printing established by the Sri Lanka Institute of Printing Act. No. 18 of 1984; | | (xli) the Energy Conservation Fund established by the Energy Conservation Fund Act, No. 2 of 1985 ; | | (xlii) the Tea Small Holdings Development Authority established by the Tea Small Holdings Development Law, No, 35 of 1975 ; | | (xliii) the Co-operative Development Fund established under the Finance Act, No. 11 of 1963 ; | | (xliv) the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka established by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law, No. 4 of 1978; | | (xlv) the President's Fund established by the president Fund Act, No. 7 of 1978 | | (xlvi) the National Defence fund established by the National Defence fund Act No 9 of 1985 ; | | (xlvii) the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects incorporated by the Sri Lanka Institute, of Architects Law, No 1 of 1976 | | (xlviii) the Surveyors' Institute of" Sri Lanka incorporated by the Surveyors' Institute of Sri Lanka Act, No. 22 of 1982; | | (xlix) the Institute of Chemistry, Ceylon incorporated by the Institute of Chemistry (Ceylon) Act, No. 15 of 1972; | | (I) the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration established by the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration Act, No. 9 of 1982; | | (li) the Trust Fund set up with European in Economic Community Funds for the benefit of the settlers in" | (i) Zones 2 and 3 of System B area and | | | demarcated and administered by the Mahaweli Authority of' Sri Lanka established by the Mahaweli Authority Act, No. 23 of 1979 ; | | (lii) the Agricultural and Agrarian Insurance Board established by the Agricultural and Agrarian Insurance Law, No. 20 of 1999 ; | | (liii) the Superior Courts Complex Board of Management established by the Superior Courts Complex Board of Management Act, No. 50 of 1987 ; | | (liv) the international Committee of the Red Cross ; | | (lv) the institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka established by the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka Act, No. 53 of 1988 ; | | (lvi) the Credit Information Bureau of Sri Lanka established by the Credit Information Bureau of Sri Lanka Act, No. 18 of 1990 ; | | (lvii) Rubber Research Board established under the Rubber Research Ordinance, (Chapter 439) ; | | (lviii) the Buddha Sasana Fund established by the Buddha Sasana Fund Act, No, 35 of 1990 ; | | (lix) the J.R. Jayewardene Centre established by the J.R. Jayewardene Centre Act, No. 77 of 1988 ; | | (lx) the Institute of Supply and Materials Management, Sri Lanka established by the Institute of Supply and Materials Management, Sri Lanka Act, No. 3 of 1981 ; | | (lxi) the Stabilization Fund for Tea, Rubber and Coconut established under Part IV of the Finance Act, No. 38 of 1971 ; | | (lxii) the Janasaviya Trust Fund incorporated under the Trust Ordinance (Chapter 96); | | (lxiii) the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka established by the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka Act, No. 26 of 1979; | | (lxiv) the Overseas Private Investment Corporation of' the United States of America ; | | (lxv) the Overseas Economic Co-operation Fund of Japan ; | | (lxvi) the World Conservation Union ; | | (lxvii) the Institute of Personnel Management, Sri Lanka, incorporated by the Institute of Personnel Management, Sri Lanka Law, No. 24 of 1976 ; | | (lxviii) Public Enterprises Reform Commission of Sri Lanka, established by the Public Enterprises Reform Commission of Sri Lanka, Act, No. 1 of 1996 ; | | (lxix) the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka established by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka Act, No. 36 of 1987; | | (lxx) the Bandaranaike Museum Committee incorporated under the Bandaranaike Museum Committee (Incorporation) Act, No, 28 of 1997 ; | | (lxxi) the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau established under the Mines and Minerals Act, No. 33 of 1992; | | (lxxii) the Commonwealth Development Corporation ; | | (lxxiii) the India - Sri Lanka Foundation incorporated under the Companies Act, No. 17 of 1982 . | | | (b) the income of any local authority or Government institution, exclusive of" | (i) the income of any trust or other matter vested in or administered by such authority or institution, being income to which such authority or institution is not beneficially entitled ; and | | (ii) the profits and income- for any period commencing on the date of acquisition or vesting, as the case may be, of any business undertaking acquired by or vested in the Government under the Business Undertakings (Acquisition) Act, No, 35 of 1971 ; | | | (c) the profits and income of" | (i) the Government of any foreign country, being profits and income derived by that Government either directly or through any agency of that Government from aid granted in money, goods, services or in any other form by that Government to the Government of Sri Lanka ; | | (ii) the Government of the People's Republic of China, or of any agency of that Government, being profits and income derived from the business of. ship-owner or charterer and referred to in any agreement entered into between that Government and the Government of Sri Lanka ; | | (iii) a foreign currency banking until from all off-shore transactions of the unit. | | For the purposes of this subparagraph any foreign currency transaction which any foreign currency banking unit enters into, with any other foreign currency banking unit, shall be deemed to be an off-shore transaction ; | | | (d) the profits and income of a charitable institution, being" | (i) She profits of a business carried on by that institution if such profits are applied solely to a charitable purpose of that institution and" | (a) either the business is carried on in the course of the actual carrying out of a primary purpose of that institution or the work in connection with the business is mainly performed by beneficiaries of that institution ; | | (b) such institution receives grants from the Government of Sri Lanka and is approved by the Minister for the purposes of this paragraph and the business is of a casual nature ; | | | (ii) the net. annual value of" | (a) any place of public worship and its premises administered by such institution ; | | (b) any place or premises owned and occupied by such institution solely for any of the purposes of that institution ; | | | (iii) the profits and income from any property donated by royal or other grant before March 2, 1815, to any place of public worship administered by such institution, in so far as such profits and income are applied to the purposes to which grant was made ; | | | (e) the profits and income of any undertaking for operating yachts and pleasure crafts registered with the director of Merchant Shipping if such undertaking is - | (i) carried on by individuals who are not citizens of Sri Lanka or by a company the shares of which are owned entirety by individuals who are not citizens of Sri Lanka or by non resident companies , and | | (ii) approved by the Minister | | | (f) the profits and income for any year of assessment of any unit trust or mutual fund if not less than seventy per centum of such profits and income are distributed to its unit holders before the expiry of one year from the end of that year of assessment | | Exemption from Income Tax of certain profits and income of certain officers and employees.
| 9. | (1) There shall be exempt from income tax" | (a) the emoluments pension and any other benefits arising to any person from the, office of the President of the Republic of Sri Lanka. | | (b) the official emoluments paid to" | (i) any individual who holds any paid office under the Republic out of the Consolidated fund | | (ii) any employee of any public corporation being a public corporation which pays such emolument or such pension or such profits from employment wholly or partly out of the sums voted annually by Parliament to such corporation from the Consolidated Fund | | (iii) the Governor of any Province appointed under Article 154B of the Constitution ; | | (iv) any member of any Provincial Council ; | | (v) any employee of any Provincial Council or to any officer of any Provincial Public Service ; | | (vi) any member of any local authority ' | | (vii) any employee of any local authority , | | (viii) any employee of any University which is established or deemed to be established by the Universities No 16 of 1978, | | (ix) any employee of the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka established by the Institute of policy Studies of Sri Lanka Act No 53 of 1988 , | | (x) a member or employee of any board or commission of inquiry established by or under any law being a board or commission all the members of which are appointed by the President or by a Minister | | | and such pension or any such profits, from employment referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 4 as are received by any person in respect of past services performed by such person or by any other person whether before or after the commencement of this Act, as an officer or employee referred to in items (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) (v) (VI),(VII) (VIII) or (ix) | | (c) the emoluments arising in Sri Lanka and any income not arising in Sri Lanka of any individual who is a scientist, technician expert or adviser who is not a citizen of Sri Lanka and who is brought to and employed in Sri Lanka by any undertaking being an enterprise with which an agreement has been entered into by the Board of Investment under section 17 of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law. No 4 of 1978 for the purposes of that under taking | | Provided That the emoluments of an individual shall not be exempt from income tax after the date of the cessation of employment of such individual in such undertaking or the date on which the exemption from tax granted, by such agreement ends whichever is the earlier; | | (d) the official emoluments, arising in Sri Lanka, and any income not arising in or derived from Sri Lanka of" | (i) the Diplomatic Representative in Sri Lanka (by whatever name or title designated) of the Government of any other country ; | | (ii) any such member of the staff of any Diplomatic Representative referred to in subparagraph (i), any such Consul or Trade Commissions, and any such member of the stall of such Consul or Trade Commissioner, as is a citizen or subject of the country represented by that Diplomatic Representative, Consul or Trade Commissioner, if the Minister, on being satisfied that a corresponding official of the Government of Sri Lanka resident in the country represented by that person is or would be granted similar exemption from income tax by that country, declares that the exemption shall apply in that case | | Provided that the exemption shall not apply in the case of any person if such person carries on or exercises in Sri Lanka any other employment or any trade business profession or vocation , | | (iii) any expert, adviser, technician or official who is brought to Sri Lanka by the Government of Sri Lanka through any Specialized Agency of the United Nations Organization or under the Point Four Assistance programme of the Government of the United States of America or through the colombo Plan Organization (including its Technical Assistance Bureau) or through the Asia Foundation or any other organization approved by the Minister as being of a similar character, and whose salary or principal emolument is- | (a) payable out of the funds provided by way of grant or other assistance to the Government of Sri Lanka by any such Organization, Programme or Foundation or any other organization as the case may be ; or | | (b) not payable by the Government of Sri Lanka ; | | | (iv) any trainee from abroad who is sent to Sri Lanka under any of the Technical Co-operation Programmes of the United Nations Organization and its Specialized Agencies, or of the Colombo Plan Organization, or of any other organization approved by the Minister as being of a similar character; | | (v) any official of the United Nations Organization who is resident in Sri Lanka and who is not a citizen of Sri Lanka ; | | (vi) members of any naval, military or air force of any country other than Sri Lanka who are iii Sri Lanka at the request, or with the concurrence, of the Government of Sri Lanka ; | | (vii) persons employed in any civil capacity by the Government of any country other than Sri Lanka who, not being persons resident in Sri Lanka for a period exceeding three months immediately prior to the date of commencement of such employment, are so employed in or visit Sri Lanka for any purpose connected with the presence in Sri Lanka, of such members of any naval, military or air forces as are referred to in sub-paragraph (vi); and | | (viii) any, person who is not citizen of Sri Lanka and who is employed in Sri Lanka by the Asia Foundation or by the Overseas Economic operation Fund of Japan or the C commonwealth secretariat in any of its programmes technical co-operation with Sri Lanka or the Commonwealth Development corporation | | Provided that the liability to income tax of any person referred to in subparagraphs (i) (ii) (iii)(iv)or (v) as regards other income arising in or derived from Sri Lanka shall be the same as though he was a non residue person | | | (e) the official emoluments of any citizen of sri Lanka who is employed as an expert technical official by the United Nations Organisation or by any specialised Agency of that Organisation | | (f) the official emoluments of any individual who is employed by the World Tourism Organization the International litigation Management institute, the Colombo Plan Bureau the Asian Development Bank the World Bank the. international Committee of the Red Cross or the World conservation Union | | (g) the value of any travel warrant or passage granted to a person who is not citizen of Sri Lanka to enable him to come to Sri Lanka to assume duties or to visit his home abroad or to return from Sri Lanka on the termination of his services whether on retirement or otherwise or of any travel warrant or passage granted to the wife or any son or daughter of such person to come to Sri Lanka or to visit his or her home abroad or to return from Sri Lanka on the Termination of the services such person | | (h) any allowance granted by an employer to his employee for traveling, subsistence and lodging in respect of travel by such employee outside Sri Lanka in connection with his employment | | (i) the emoluments earned, or the pension arising, in any year of assessment, in foreign currency, by or to, any individual resident in Sri Lanka in respect of" | (i) services rendered by him in that year of assessment; or | | (ii) past services rendered by him or his spouse, | | | outside Sri Lanka in the course of any employment carried on, or exercised by him or his spouse, if such emoluments or pension are paid to him in Sri Lanka or such emoluments or pension less such amount expended by such individual outside Sri Lanka as is considered by the Commissioner-General to he reasonable expenses are remitted by him to Sri Lanka ; | | (j) the emoluments earned in any year of assessment by any individual employed on a ship which is" | (i) owned or chartered by a company registered under Part VIII of the Companies Act, No. 17 of 1982 ;and | | (ii) deemed to be a Sri Lanka ship by reason of a determination made under paragraph (c) of section 30 of the Merchant Shipping Act, No. 52 of" 1971 ; | | | (k) profits and income not exceeding in the aggregate four thousand eight hundred rupees from all sources other than employment, derived by or arising or accruing to, an individual or any child whose total statutory income is aggregated with the income of that individual, if the total statutory income, for that year of assessment, of that individual consists only of profit and income" | (i) from employment not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand rupees ; and | | (ii) not exceeding four thousand eight hundred rupees from all sources of profits and income other than employment. | | | and accordingly, where any income tax has been paid by deduction or otherwise, by such individual in any year of assessment, in respect of any profits and income which are exempt under this paragraph such life tax shall, on an application in that behalf being made in writing by such individual- within three years of the end of that year of assessment, be refunded to him ; | | (l) the value of any free transport by motor coach provided by an employer to an employee for travel by such employee, from his residence to his place of work or from place of work to his residence, | | (m) such part of any sum paid to an employee at the time of his retirement, from any provident or pension fund. or the Employees Trust Fund established by the Employees Trust Fund Act, No 46 of 1980 as represents income derived by that fund, for any period commencing on or after April 1, 1987 from investments made by it, | | (n) such part of any sum referred to in paragraph(c) of subsection (i)of section 4(1) paid to any employee at the time of his retirement from any employment in am company. formed under the Commission of Public Corporations or Government Owned Business Undertakings into Public Companies Act, No 23 of Act. 1987 as is attributable to his period of service ending before April 1, 1997 in any public corporation or any Government Owned Business Undertaking, as the case may be | | (o) such part of any sum referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 4 paid to any employee at the time of his retirement from any employment in any public corporation other than any public corporation referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of subsection (1), as is attributable to the period of service of such employee prior to April 1, 1997, in such public corporation ; | | (p) any sum paid to any employee by the employer of such employee, being a sum paid as compensation for loss of any office or employment consequent to" | (i) the voluntary retirement by such employee in accordance with a scheme, which in the opinion of the Commissioner-General is uniformly applicable to all employees employed by such employer; or | | (ii) the retrenchment of such employee by such employer in accordance with a scheme approved by the Commissioner of Labour. | | | | (2) Nothing in paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of subsection (1) shall apply lo, or in relation to, any individual who is not a citizen of Sri Lanka and who" | (a) has entered into a contract of employment ; or | | (b) is brought to, and employed in, Sri Lanka, | | | with or by any undertaking, other than an undertaking being an enterprise with which an agreement has been entered into prior to December 31, 1994 on an application made in that behalf prior to November 11, 1993 by the Board of Investment of' Sri Lanka under section 17 of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law, No. 4 of 1978. | | (3) Notwithstanding the provisions of the proviso to paragraph (c) of subsection (1) and of subsection (2) the emoluments of any individual who is not a citizen of Sri Lanka and who is brought to and employed in Sri Lanka by an enterprise with which an agreement has been entered into by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka under section 17 of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law, No. 4 of 1978, and which has opted to be charged with income fax in lieu of the exemption horn income tax granted under such agreement shall he exempt from income tax up to the date of cessation of employments of such individual in such enterprise or the date on which the exemption from income tax granted in respect of such enterprise would but for such option, have ended, whichever is the earlier | | Exemption from Income tax of certain interest received.
| 10. There shall he exempt horn income tax" | (a) the accumulated interest payable to an individual in respect of any Ceylon Savings Certificate issued under the Savings Certificates Ordinance or any National Savings Bank Certificate issued under the National Savings Bank Act, No 30 of 1971, and put chased by that individual on or before November 15,1978. | | (b) the interest accruing to any company, partnership or other body of persons outside Sri Lanka from any loan granted by that company, partnership or body of. persons to the Government of Sri Lanka or to any public corporation or to any Government institution or to any commercial hank for the time being operating in Sri Lanka or to any other undertaking if such loan is approved by the Minister as being essential for the economic progress of Sri Lanka ; | | (c) the interest accruing to any person or partnership outside Sri Lanka from any security, note or coupon issued by the Government of Sri Lanka in respect of a loan granted in foreign currency by that person or partnership to the Government of Sri Lanka, if such loan is approved by the Minister as being essential for the economic progress of Sri Lanka ; | | (d) the interest occurring to any person from moneys lying to his credit in a special account opened by him or on his behalf in a commercial bank with the approval of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka for the deposit in accordance with the conditions imposed by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, of .sums obtained by him by the exchange of foreign currency held by him outside Sri Lanka ; | | (e) the interest accruing to any person on moneys lying to his credit, in foreign currency, in any account opened by him, or on his behalf, in any commercial bank with the approval of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka ; | | (f) any interest forming part of the surrender value of any Tax Reserve Certificate ; | | (g) the interest accruing to any person on moneys lying to his credit in foreign currency with any foreign currency banking unit; | | (h) the interest accruing to any financial institution from any loan granted by it to any venture capital company established for the implementation of any entrepreneur development programme of the Government, if the proceeds of such loan are utilized by such company for the implementation of such programme. | | For the purpose of this paragraph "financial institution" means any company whose business or part of whose business consists of the acceptance of money by way of deposit or loan in the form of debenture or bond or in any other form, and the payment of interest thereon. | | Exemption from income tax of certain interest
| 11. There shall be exempt from income tax- | (a) any dividend paid by a company with which an agreement has been entered into by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka under section 17 of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law. No. 4 of 1978 being an agreement which has been entered into prior to December 31,1994. on an application made in that behalf prior to November 11, 1993- | (i) to any person, during the period for which the profits and income of that company are exempt from income tax under the terms of that agreement or within one year thereafter, out of the profits and income of the company which are exempt from income tax ; | | (ii) to any person, who is not resident in Sri Lanka notwithstanding anything to the contrary in subsection (1) of section 48 ; | | | (b) any dividend paid by a flagship company with which an agreement has been entered into by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka to any shareholder during the period for which the profits and income of that company are exempt from income tax under the terms of that agreement or within one year thereafter out of the profits and income of such company which are exempt from income tax ; | | in this paragraph, "flagship company'' means any company which has entered into an agreement with the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka under section 17 of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law. No. 4 of 1978 and which has. in accordance with such agreement, invested in Sri Lanka, within the period specified in such agreement, not less than fifty million United Slate of America Dollars or its equivalent in any other foreign currency" | (i) in the purchase or construction of any building or in the purchase of any land, plant. machinery or furniture ; and | | (ii) in the acquisition of any asset not included in paragraph (i) for the use of the undertaking carried on by that company ; | | | (c) any dividend paid by a company with which an agreement has been entered into on or after November 8, 1995 by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka under section 17 of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law. No. 4 of 1978 to any shareholder of that company during the period for which the profits and income of that company are exempt from income tax under the terms of that agreement or within one year thereafter out of the profits and income which are exempt from income tax ; | | (d) any dividend out of the profits of any company with which an agreement has been entered into by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka under section 17 of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law. No. 4 of 1978 from the operation by such company of a hospital with facilities for paying and non-paying patients for indoor and outdoor treatment, paid to any share holder of such company during the period of five years reckoned from the commencement of the year of assessment in which such hospital commences operations : | | (e) any dividend out of the profits within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3 of a company" | (i) with which an agreement has been entered into by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka, under section 17 of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law, No. 4 of 1978. and | | (ii) to which a mining license issued under the Mines and Mineral Act. No. 33 of 1992. has been assigned | | | paid to any shareholder of such company during the period for which the profits and income of that company are chargeable with income tax at such rate as is determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) of the further proviso to paragraph (iv) of regulation 2 of Regulations No. 1 of 1995 made under section 24 of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law, No. 4 of 1978, as last amended by Regulation published in Gazette No. 1019/13 of March 19,1998 and specified in such agreement or within one year thereafter ; | | (f) any dividend paid to a shareholder of a company out of such profits and income of that company arising on or after April 1, 1977, which are exempt from income tax under section 15, 17, 18, 19, or 20 of this Act or section 8(a) (xxxviii). 15, 16A, 16B, 16C, 16D, 17A, 17C, 17D, 17J, 17JJ, 17K, 17KK, 17L, 17M, 18, 19, 20, 20A, 20B, 20C, 21, 22, 22A, 22B, 22c, 22D, 22DDD or 22DDDD of the Inland Revenue Act. No. 28 of 1979 or under the Inland Revenue Act. No.4 of 1963. if such dividend is paid during the period for which such profits and income of that company are exempt from income tax under any of those provisions or within one year thereafter ; | | (g) any dividend paid to a shareholder of a company. out of any such dividend received by that company as is referred to in paragraph (a) or (f), if the first-mentioned dividend is paid during any year of assessment in which the second-mentioned dividend was received by that company or within one year thereafter ; | | (h) any dividend paid to a shareholder of a company out of any such dividend as is referred to in paragraph (a) or (f), received by that company through one or more intermediary companies during the period for which the dividends referred to in paragraph (a) or paragraph (f) are exempt from income tax or within two years thereafter, if the first mentioned dividend is paid during the year of assessment in which the second mentioned dividend was received or within one year thereafter. | | Exemption from income tax of certain profit and income from lands and improvements thereon.
| 12. | (1) There shall be exempt from income tax" | (a) the net annual value of not more than one place of residence owned by, and occupied by or on behalf of an individual ; | | (b) the income accruing to the owner of a house for the year of assessment in which the construction of that house was completed and for the six year;. assessment immediately succeeding that year of assessment, if such house is used solely for residential purposes and" | (i) is occupied by the owner thereof : or | | (ii) has a floor area (inclusive of the thickness of the walls of not exceeding two thousand square feet: | | | Provided that where the floor area of the house is one thousand and five hundred .square feet or less the income accruing to the owner shall be exempt from income tax for the year of assessment in which the construction of that house was completed and for the nine years of assessment immediately succeeding that year of assessment ; | | (c) the income accruing to the owner of a house, the income from which was or is not exempt from income tax under paragraph (b) of this subsection and which house is converted into two or more places of residence, each such place of residence being separately assessed for the purpose of rates, such income accruing being the income from any such place of residence for" | (i) the year of assessment in which such conversion was effected and for the five years of assessment immediately succeeding that year of assessment, if the floor area of such place of residence does not exceed one thousand square feet ; or | | (ii) the year of assessment in which such conversion was effected and for the three years of assessment immediately succeeding that year of assessment, if the floor area of such place of residence exceeds one thousand square feet but does not exceed two thousand square feet : | | | (d) the net annual value of any land and improvements thereon owned by a body of persons the primary object of which is the promotion of any spoil which is recognized as a sport for the purposes of the Sports Law. No. 25 of 1973 and used for that object by that body. | | | (2) For the purposes of this .section "owner" includes a co-owner. | | Exemption from income tax of certain subsidies.
| 13. There shall be exempt from income tax any sum paid to any person as a subsidy or grant" | (a) out of the Capital Fund established under the Sri Lanka Tea Board Law, No. 14 of 1975 ; | | (b) out of the Rubber Replanting Subsidy Fund established under the Rubber Replanting Subsidy Act, (chapter 437) ; | | (c) by the Coconut Cultivation Board established under the Coconut Development Act, No. 46 of 1971 ; | | (d) by the Ministry of Fisheries for the purchase by such person of fishing boats, marine engines, fishing gear and other fishing equipment; | | (e) out of the Export Development Fund established by the Sri Lanka Export Development Act, No. 40 of 1979: | | (f) under any other scheme for the planting or replanting of any other agricultural product; | | (g) out of the Mill Development Fund administered by the Coconut Development Authority established under the Coconut Development Act. No. 46 of 1971, for the modernization of machinery. | | Exemption from income tax of certain capital gains.
| 14. | (1) There shall be exempt from income tax" | (a) any capital gain arising on" | (i) the sale by any individual, or the acquisition by the State, of any house constructed by such individual and used solely for residential purposes, such sale being the first sale of that house; | | (ii) the sale by any individual, or the acquisition by the State, of any house owned by such individual and used solely for residential purposes, if such individual has not sold or the State has not acquired from that individual on or after April 1, 1978, any house other than a house referred to in sub-paragraph (i) ; | | (iii) the sale to a customer of any property held by the vendor primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of his trade or business ; | | (iv) the sale of any property by any person, being property used by him in producing income in any trade, business, profession, vocation or employment carried on or exercised by him and in respect of which an allowance for depreciation has been granted under section 23. if the full proceeds of sale are used within one year of the sale, for the replacement of such property to be used by such person for producing income in any trade, business. profession. vocation or employment carried on or exercised by him : | | (v) the passing of any property subject to a trust from the trustee to any beneficiary under the trust ; | | (vi) the passing of any properly belonging to the estate of a deceased person from his executor to any testate or intestate heir of the deceased ; | | (vii) the passing of any property to any person, on the death of the owner of that property ; | | (viii) the passing of any property occurring on the gift of that properly by its owner to any other person ; | | (ix) the passing of any properly, being shares in any company incorporated in Sri Lanka with which an agreement has been entered into by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka under section 17 of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law, No. 4 of 1978. from the owner of that property to any other person by way of sale, gift or otherwise : | | (x) change of ownership of any motor vehicle in respect of which a deduction for depreciation has not been allowed under subsection (1) of section 23 of this Act or under section 23 of the Inland Revenue Act, No. 28 of 1979 or under section 10 of the Inland Revenue Act, No. 4 of 1963 or of any household effect or other article of personal use (excluding jewellery) : | | (xi) change of ownership of a right to exploit a property occurring by a transfer of that right ; | | (xii) the surrender of a life insurance policy : and the surrender, transfer or extinction of a life interest; | | (xiii) the change of ownership of any share in a quoted public company ; | | (xiv) the transfer, upon me conversion of a business carried on by an individual, cither solely or in partnership with others, into a quoted public company, of any part of the capital assets of such business to such company, but only if. such part of those assets as were acquired for that business prior to March 31, 1977 are transferred to that company at a price not exceeding the market value of those assets on March 31,1977 : | | (xv) the transfer upon the conversion of a business carried on by an individual, either solely or in partnership with others, into a limited liability company not being a company referred to in paragraph (xiv) of the capital assets of such business to such company if but only if not less than eighty per centum of the shares of such company are held in any case where such business." | (A) was a sole proprietorship, by the former proprietor ; or | | (B) was a partnership, by the former partners in the same proportion in which profits of the partnership were shared ; | | | (xvi) the change of ownership of any properly. occurring not less than twenty-five years after the date of acquisition of such property by the person to whom such gain arises : | | (xvii) the sale, by any venture capital company referred to in section 22DDD of the Inland Revenue Act, No. 28 of 1979 of any share or stock, held by it in any other company ; | | (xviii) the sale, by any unit trust or any mutual fund referred to in section 22DDDD, of the Inland Revenue Act. No. 28 of 1979 of any share or stock held by such unit trust or mutual fund in any other company ; | | (xix) the sale, by any person of any unit held by such person in any unit trust or any mutual fund after one year from the date of acquisition by such person, of such unit; | | (xx)the sale, by any person of any treasury bill held by such person, in the secondary market: | | (xxi)the relinquishment or transfer of any right to a share received under a rights issue or a bonus issue of a quoted public company ; | | (xxii)the sale by any person of any treasury bond. registered stock or any other security issued under the Registered Stock and Securities Ordinance (Chapter 420) and held by such person, in the secondary market: | | (xxiii)the sale, by any person, of any bond, debenture or other debt instrument issued by any company and held by such person, being a bond, debenture or other debt instrument which, at the time of such sale is quoted in any official list published by any Stock Exchange licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka ; | | (xxiv)change of ownership of any" | (B) financial instrument which is derived from and dependant on another financial instrument. | | | issued by any company and which at the time of such change of ownership, is quoted in any official list published by any Stock Exchange licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka : | | | (b) the aggregate amount of the capital gain of any person for any year of assessment which arises in respect of movable property other than stocks, shares, debentures or debenture stocks, if such aggregate amount does not exceed two thousand rupees ; | | (c) the first five thousand rupees of the capital gain of any person for any year of assessment, if such person has a total assessable income for the three years of assessment immediately preceding that year of assessment which is less than the total of the allowances which under subsection (1) of section 30 of this Act. or subjection (1). of section 30 of the Inland Revenue Act. No. 28 of 1979. are required to be deducted from his assessable income in arriving at his taxable income for those three years of assessment. | | | (2) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (xxii) and (xxiii) of paragraph (a) of subsection (1). "capital gain" means the excess, if any, of the capital gain computed in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) and (4) of section 7. over such part of the interest which hut for such sale, would have accrued to such person in respect of such bill. bond. stock or other security had such bill. bond, stock or other security been held by such person until such bill, bond, stock or other security matured, as is attributable to the period during which such bill. bond, stock or other security was held by such person. | | Miscellaneous exemptions from income tax
| 15. There shall be exempt from income tax" | (a) the emoluments earned in am year of assessment in foreign currency by any individual resident in Sri Lanka, in respect of services rendered by him in that year of assessment outside Sri Lanka in the course of any profession or vocation carried on or exercised by him, if such emoluments (less such amount expended by such individual outside Sri Lanka as is considered by the Commissioner General to be reasonable personal expenses) are remitted by him to Sri Lanka ; | | (b) the income accruing to a person receiving instruction at any university, college, school or other educational establishment from a scholarship, exhibition. bursary, or similar educational endowment: | | (c) any capital sum received by way of death gratuity or as compensation for death or injuries : | | (d) any sum received by an informer as a reward under any scheme for the payment of rewards by a Government institution ; | | (e) wound and disability pensions granted to members or ex-members of the Forces of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom : | | (f) United States Government disability pensions : | | (g) any prize received at a lottery conducted by the National Savings Bank, by the holder of any bond issued by that Bank on which interest is not payable by that Bank ; | | (h) any royally received by a non-resident person from a company with which an agreement has been entered into by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka under section 17 of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law. No. 4 of 1978. in respect of any period during which the profits and income of that company are exempt from income tax under the terms of that agreement: | | Provided that where such company opts, in lieu of the exemption from income tax under the terms of such agreement, to be charged with income tax. the exemption from income tax granted by this paragraph shall apply to any royally received by any non resident person from such company in respect of the period during which the profits and income of such company would, but for such option, have been so exempt from income tax ; | | (i) the profits and income within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3 arising to any person from the sale of gold, gems or jewellery : | | (j) the profits and income arising in Sri Lanka, in the consignor or consignee, from the export of" | (i) any precious stones or metals not mined in Sri Lanka ; | | (ii) any petroleum, gas or petroleum product ; or | | (iii) such other products as may be approved by the Minister for the purposes of this paragraph having regard to the foreign exchange benefits that are likely to accrue to the country from the export of such products. | | | being stones, metals, petroleum, gas or produce as the case may be. brought to Sri Lanka on a consignment basis, and re-exported, without subjecting such stones metals, petroleum, gas or products, as the case may he. to any process or manufacture : | | (k) any prize received by a person as an award made by the President of the Republic of" Sri Lanka ; | | (l) any prize received by a person as an award made by the Government in recognition of an invention created, or any research undertaken, by such person : | | (m) the profits and income arising to any person from an undertaking approved by the Minister for the operation and maintenance of facilities for the storage of goods or commodities brought into Sri Lanka for re-export ; | | (n) any sum received by a person from the President"-Fund established by the President's Fund Act. No. 7 of 1978 : | | (o) any sum received by a person from the National Defence Fund established by the National Defence Fund Act. No. 9 of 1985 : | | (p) such part of any sum as does not exceed three thousand rupees paid by the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment, established by the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment Act, No. 21 of 1985. to any person or partnership licensed by such Bureau, to earn on business of a foreign employment agency. in respect of any Sri Lankan for whom employment outside Sri Lanka has been provided or secured by such person or partnership : | | (q) such pan of any sum as does not exceed three thousand rupees received in any year of assessment by the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment established by the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment Act, No. 21 of 1985. in respect of any Sri Lankan for whom employment outside Sri Lanka has been provided or secured by such Bureau : | | (r) such part of any sum or the aggregate of sums as does not exceed one hundred thousand rupees received by any individual as an award or awards in recognition of his excellence in the field of fine arts. literature or sports, being an award made with the prior written approval of the Minister in charge of the subject of fine arts, literature, or sports, as the case may be ; | | (s) any interest or discount accruing to the "Sudu Nelum Movement" established by the Government and registered under section 114 of the Trust Ordinance being interest or discount on any sum of money deposited by the Sudu Nelum Movement with am commercial bank. | | (t) the relevant part of the profits and income within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3. arising or accruing to any primary dealer. | | For the purposes of this paragraph" | (i) the expression "relevant part" in relation to the profits and income and to any primary dealer means the profits and income of such primary dealer from dealing, in the secondary market, in any treasury bill, treasury bond, registered stock or other security issued under the Registered Stocks and Securities. Ordinance (chapter 420) and held by such primary dealer, after deducting from such profits and income such part of the interest or discount which would have accrued in respect of such bill. bond, stock or other security had such bill, bond, stock or other security been held by such primary dealer until such bill. bond, stock or other security matured, as is attributable to the period during which such bill, bond, stock or other security is held by such primary dealer; | | (ii) the expression "primary dealer" means any financier or bank appointed by the Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka under the Local Treasury Bills Ordinance (Chapter 417) or the Registered Stocks and Securities Ordinance (Chapter 420) and functioning as a primary dealer in treasury bills. treasury bond, registered stock or other security ; | | | (u) any profits and income within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3, derived by, or arising or accruing to any person from the sale of any bond. debenture or other debt instrument issued by a company and held by him being a bond, debenture or other debt instrument which at the time of such sale is quoted in any official list published by any Stock Exchange licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka ; | | (v) any profits and income within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3, derived by, or accruing to, any person, from the sale of any share in any quoted public company : and | | (w) the profits and income earned in am year of assessment in foreign currency by any National Association of Sports registered under the Sports Law, No. 25 of 1973. in respect of services rendered by such Association, or in the course of taking part in any sport within the meaning of the Sports Law. in that year of assessment outside Sri Lanka, if such profits and income (less such amount as the Commissioner-General considers to be reasonable expenses incurred outside Sri Lanka) are remitted by such Association to Sri Lanka. | | Exemption of certain profits and income of any resident guest.
| 16. | (1) The profits and income of any resident guest- | (a) not being profits and income arising in or from Sri Lanka : and | | (b) accruing from moneys lying to his credit in any account opened by him in a commercial bank for the deposit of sums remitted to him in foreign currency from any country outside Sri Lanka. | | | shall be exempt from income tax. | | (2) For the purpose of this section resident guest means a person to whom a tax exemption has been granted under the Resident Guest (Tax Exemption) Act. No. 6 of 1979. | | Exemption from income tax for five years of the profits and income of certain companies.
| 17. | (1) The profits and income within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3 (other than any profits and income from the sale of capital assets) of any company from any undertaking referred to in subsection (2). shall be exempt from income tax for a period of five years such period of five years being calculated from the date on which such undertaking commenced to carry on business. | | (2) The provisions of subsection (1) shall apply to any company which is approved by the Minister by Order published in the Gazette" | (a) being a company which is engaged only in carrying on one or more of the undertakings hereinafter specified, namely an undertaking for " | (ii) the cultivation of Sand with any plant of whatever description other than tea. rubber, coconut or paddy ; | | (iii) marine or inland fisheries : | | (iv) carrying on any activity referred to in any of the foregoing sub-paragraphs and processing the product of such activity ; | | (v) the production from any agricultural produce of Sri Lanka of such commodities as may be specified by the Minister, by Order published in the Gazette, having regard to the need to provide incentives for the production of such commodities ; | | | (b) being a company which is an Export Production Village Company. | | | (3) For the purpose of this section "Export Production Village Company" means a company " | (a) which is a people's company within the meaning of the Companies Act. No. 17 of 1982 ; | | (b) She shareholders of which are the Export Development Board established by the Sri Lanka Export Development Act. No. 40 of 1979, and the producers of any of the products produced by that company : and | | (c) the products of which are exported by the company or through, any other company engaged in the export of goods or commodities ; | | | Provided that this section shall not apply to any company which carries on an undertaking which had commenced to carry on business prior to November 17,1983. or which was formed by the splitting up or reconstruction of any business which was in existence prior to November 17,1983. | | Exemption from income tax of the profits and income of any undertaking which provides certain services.
| 18. The profits and income within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3 (other than any profits and income from the sale of capital assets), of any person or partnership from any undertaking which commences business on or after April 1,2000. for the provision of services of refrigerated transport or cold-room-storage or other services ancillary thereto, shall he exempt from income tax for a period of five years reckoned from the commencement of the year of assessment in which such undertaking commences to carry on business. | Exemption from income tax of the profits and income of any company engaged in non plantation agricultural activities.
| 19. | (1) The profits and income within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3 (other than any profits and income from the sale of capital assets), of any company from any specified undertaking referred to in subsection (2) which commences business on or after April 1, 2000, shall notwithstanding the provisions of section 40 be exempt from income tax for a period of ten years reckoned from the commencement of the year of assessment in which such company commences to carry on business. | | (2) For the purposes of subsection (1) "specified undertaking" in relation to any company is an undertaking carried on by such company and which is engaged in" | (a) cultivating land with plants of whatever description other than tea. rubber and coconut ; or | | (b) the production of planting materials certified by the Department of Agriculture as being of high quality. for cultivation referred to in paragraph (a) : or | | (c) carrying out research work for improving the quality and character of planting materials for cultivation of land referred to in paragraph (a). | | | Exemption from income tax of profits and income of a company which exports fresh or processed vegetables or fruits and cultivates vegetables or fruits.
| 20. | (1) The profits and income within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3 (other than any profits from the sale of capital assets), of any company from any specified undertaking referred to in subsection (2) and which commences business on or after April 1,2000 shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Chapter IX. be exempt from income tax for a period often years reckoned from the commencement of the year of assessment in which such undertaking commences to carry on business. | | (2) For the purpose of subsection (1). "specified undertaking" in relation to any company and to any year of assessment means an undertaking carried on by that company and which is engaged in" | (i) the export of any fresh or processed vegetables or fruits ; and | | (ii) the cultivation of land not less than five acres in extent with vegetables or fruits in that year of assessment. | | | In this section, vegetables include 'betel leaves". | | Exemption from income tax of profits from the construction and first sale of certain houses.
| 21. Where any person who carries on an undertaking for the construction and sale of houses or flats, being an undertaking approved by the Commissioner for National Housing having regard to the housing policy of the Government sells any house or flat, the floor area of which does not exceed two thousand square feet and the construction of which was commenced by such person on or after January 1,1977, such sale being the first sale of that house or flat. seventy-five per centum of the profits and income arising from such sale shall be exempt from income tax. | Power of Commissioner-General to recommend cancellation of approval granted under section 17.
| 22. Where the Commissioner-General is satisfied that any company approved by the Minister under section 17 has not taken any step to commence business within a period of one year from the date on which the Minister has approved such company, he shall recommend to the Minister that such approval be cancelled, and upon such recommendation, the Minister may. having regard to the interests of the economy, by Order published in the Gazette cancel such approval. | | | ASCERTAINMENT OF PROFITS OR INCOME | | Ascertainment of profits or income.
| 23. | (1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (2) and (4). there shall be deducted for the purpose of ascertaining the profits or income of any person from any source, all outgoings and expenses incurred by such person in the production thereof, including" | (a) an allowance equal to the sum expended by such person in the purchase of any implement or equipment for any undertaking of deep-sea or off shore fishing carried on by such person ; | | (b) an allowance for depreciation by wear and tear of" | (i) any plant, machinery or fixtures (other than plant, machinery or fixtures referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) or sub-paragraph (iii)), acquired by such person and arising out of their use. in any trade, business, profession or vocation, carried on. or exercised, by such person at the rate of fifty per centum per annum, on its cost of acquisition ; | | (ii) any motor vehicle, lorry, bus, tractor or trailer (other than any motor coach referred to in sub-paragraph (iii)), or any office furniture acquired by such person and arising out of its use. in any trade, business, profession or vocation carried on or exercised, by him, at the rate of twenty-five per centum per annum on its cost of acquisition ; | | (iii) any motor coach acquired by such person and used for transporting employees of such person to. or from, their place of work, at the rate of one hundred per centum on its cost of acquisition : | | (iv) any qualified building constructed by such person and arising out of its use in any trade. business. profession or vocation earned on or exercised by him. at the rate of six and two third per centum per annum on its cost of construction : | | (v) any unit of non-residential accommodation comprised in a registered Condominium Property within the meaning of the Apartment Ownership Law No, 11 of 1973. acquired by such person and arising out of its, use in am trade, business, profession or vocation carried on or exercised by him. at the rate of six and two third per centum per annum on its cost of acquisition : | | | Provided that no deduction under the preceding provisions of this paragraph shall be allowed to a person in respect of any capital assets referred to in sub-paragraph (i), or sub-paragraph di), or sub-paragraph (iii) or sub-paragraph (iv) or sub-paragraph (v) or this paragraph, in respect of which the total of the allowances granted for depreciation in the preceding years of assessments is equal to the cost of acquisition or the cost of construction, as the case may be. of such capital asset : | | (c) a sum equal to one-tenth of any payment made. by such person as consideration for the licensing, in his favour, of any manufacturing process used by him in any trade or business carried on by him : | | Provided that no deduction under the provisions of this paragraph shall be allowed to any person in respect of any such payment if the total of the sums deducted in the preceding years of assessment is equal to the amount of such payment : | | (d) an allowance in respect of any computer software acquired by him during the period of which the profits and income are being ascertained and used by him in any trade, business, profession, or vocation carried on or exercised by him, such allowance being an amount equal, to fifty per centum of the cost of acquisition of such computer software : | | Provided that no deduction under the preceding provisions of this paragraph shall be allowed to any person in respect of any computer software if the total of the allowances granted in the preceding years of assessment in respect of such computer software is equal to the cost of acquisition of such computer software ; | | (e) any sum expended by such person for the renewal of any capital asset employed by such person for producing such profits or income, if no allowance for the depreciation thereof is deductible in respect of that asset ; | | (f) any sum expended by such person for the repair (not renewal) of any plant, machinery, fixtures, building, implement, utensil or article employed for producing such profits and income : | | Provided that the sum deductible under this paragraph shall, in the case of a company carrying on the business of letting premises for commercial purposes, not exceed ten per centum of the gross rent receivable by such company for such premises ; | | (g) a sum equal to the bad debts incurred by such person in any trade, business, profession, vocation or employment which have become bad debts during the period for which the profits are being ascertained and such sum as the Commissioner-General considers reasonable for doubtful debts to the extent that they are estimated to have become bad during that period, notwithstanding that such bad or doubtful debts were due and payable prior to the commencement of that period : | | Provided that all sums recovered during that period on account of the amounts previously written off or allowed in respect of bad or doubtful debts shall for the purposes of this Act be treated as receipts of that period of that trade, business, profession. vocation or employment ; | | (h) interest paid or payable by such person ; | | (i) any contribution by an employer, to a pension. provident or savings fund, or to a provident or savings society, which is approved by the Commissioner-General subject to such conditions as he may specify ; | | (j) | (i) any turnover tax payable under the Turnover Tax Act. No. 69 of 1981 less any deduction allowable under section 47 or section 48 or section 48A of that Act : or | | (ii) tax corresponding to turnover tax referred to in sub-paragraph (i) and payable, under any statute enacted by any Provincial Council. | | | which such person is liable to pay for the period for which the profits and income are being ascertained in respect of any trade, business. profession or vocation carried on or exercised by him ; | | Provided that where at the time of making any assessment it appears to an Assessor that any such tax so payable has not been paid, he may refuse to allow any deduction in respect of such tax : | | Provided further that where it appears to an Assessor that any such tax in respect of which a deduction has been refused, has been paid within a period of three years from the end of the year of assessment to which such assessment relates, he shall, on an application made in writing within twelve months of making such payment and supported by such proof as he may require make an amended assessment allowing such deduction notwithstanding the provisions of section 142, and any tax found to have been paid in excess as a result of such amended assessment shall be refunded notwithstanding the provisions of section 169 ; | | (k) the expenditure incurred by such person in carrying on any scientific, industrial or agricultural research for the development of the trade or business carried on by such person : | | (l) any expenses incurred by such person in" | (i) opening up any land for cultivation or for animal husbandry : or | | (ii) cultivating such land with plants of whatever description : or | | (iii) the purchase of livestock or poultry to be reared on such land : or | | (iv) the construction of tanks or ponds or the clearing or preparation of any inland waters for the rearing of fish and the purchase of fish to be reared in such tank, pond or inland waters, as the case may be ; | | | (m) the actual expenses incurred by such person or any other person in his employ in traveling within Sri Lanka in connection with the trade, business profession or vocation of the first-mentioned person : | | Provided that no deduction under the preceding provisions of this paragraph shall be allowed to any person" | (i) in respect of expenses incurred in relation to a vehicle belonging to and maintained by him and used partly for the purposes of his trade. business, profession or vocation and partly for the domestic or private purposes of an executive officer in his employ unless such executive officer has reimbursed such person the expenses actually incurred by him in the use of such vehicle for the private or domestic purposes of such executive officer or where such expenses actually incurred cannot be ascertained, such sum as the Assessor considers to be the amount so incurred ; or | | (ii) in respect of any expenses incurred by such person by reason of any traveling done by any other person in his employ between the residence of such other person and his place of employment or vice versa : | | | (n) in the case of a company, expenditure incurred in the formation or of that company ; | | (o) the expenditure incurred by such person in operating a motor coach used for transporting employees of such person to and from their place of work ; | | (p) the expenditure incurred by such person in the payment of gratuity to an employee on the termination of employment of such employee due to cessation of the trade, business, profession or vocation carried on by such person : | | (q) any annual payment made by such person to any fund, approved for the purposes of this paragraph, by the Commissioner-General and maintained for the purposes of payment, under the Payment of Gratuity Act, No. 12 of 1983. of gratuities to employees on the termination of their services : | | (r) such part of the lump sum payment made by such person to any other person in connection with the letting, or lease, to the first-mentioned person of any commercial premises as bears to the total lump sum payment the same proportion as the number of months in the year for which lease rent is payable bears to the total number of months comprised in the lease ; | | (s) any sum paid, by a public corporation or Government Owned Business Undertaking as a special levy, to the Government. | | (t) expenditure incurred by any person in the training, in any recognized institution for a period not exceeding sixty days, of any employee employed by such person in any trade or business carried on by such person, if it is proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioner-General that such training is" | (i) directly relevant to the duties performed by such employee before the commencement of such training : | | (ii) essential for upgrading the skills or performance of such employee, in such trade or business ; and | | (iii) necessary for improving the efficiency and performance of such trade or business. | | | For the purposes of this paragraph. | (A) "training" includes participation in any seminar or workshop : | | (B) "employee" includes any partner of any partnership carrying on a profession. | | | | (2) Where any person is entitled to a deduction in respect of any outgoing or expense under two or more paragraphs of subsection (1). in ascertaining the profits and income of such person from any source such person shall be allowed a deduction only under one such paragraph. | | (3) Where any person disposes of any capital asset used by him in producing the profits and income of any trade, business, profession or vocation earned on, or exercised, by him and | (a) an allowance for depreciation equal to the cost of acquisition or the cost of construction, as the case may be. of such capital asset has been granted in respect of that capital asset, such part of the proceeds of disposal as is not in excess of the cost of acquisition or the cost of construction, as the case may be. of such capital asset shall, whether such disposal takes place while such trade, business, profession or vocation continues or after its cessation. be treated as a receipt of such trade, business. profession or vocation, in ascertaining the profits and income, within the meaning of paragraph (a) of" section 3. of such trade, business, profession or vocation ; | | (b) an allowance for depreciation has been granted in respect of that capital asset but the total amount of such allowance is less than the cost of acquisition or the cost of construction, as the case may be. of such capita] asset the proceeds of disposal as is not in excess of the cost of acquisition or the cost of construction as the case may be of such capital asset over the difference between the cost of acquisition or the cost of construction, as the case may he. of such capital asset and the total allowance for depreciation granted in respect of such capital asset shall whether such disposal takes place while such trade, business, profession or vocation continues or after its cessation, be treated as a receipt of such trade. business, profession or vocation, in ascertaining the profits and income of such trade business, profession or vocation within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3 ; | | Provided that where such difference exceeds the proceeds of such disposal, the excess shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (1) as an expense incurred in the production of income : | | Provided further that nothing in this paragraph shall apply to" | (a) the transfer of any such capital asset to a company referred to in section 14 (1) (a) (xv) on the conversion of a business carried on by an individual either solely or in partnership to such company ; or | | (b) the disposal by any person, of any such capital asset, if the full proceeds of disposal are used by such person, within one year of the disposal for the replacement of such capital asset to be used by him for producing income in any trade business profession, vocation or employment carried on or exercised by him : or | | (c) where a person carrying on any undertaking the profit and income of which are wholly or partly exempt from income tax under this Act, disposes of any capital asset used for the purposes of that undertaking, such person shall be liable to income tax on an amount equal to the amount ascertained under paragraph (a) or paragraph (b). | | | | (4) Subject as hereinafter provided, income arising from interest shall be the full amount of interest falling due whether received or not. without any deduction for outgoing or expenses : | | Provided that- | (a) where it appears to an Assessor that any interest is unpaid and cannot be recovered, any assessment which includes such interest shall, notwithstanding the provisions of section 142. be reduced by the amount of the interest included which has been shown to be unpaid and irrecoverable or. if income tax has been paid in respect of such interest, such tax may be refunded on a claim in writing made within three years of the end of the year of assessment in respect of which such tax was paid ; | | (b)where any interest falling due in any year of assessment in respect of a loan has not been received and is likely to be irrecoverable, the person to whom such interest is due may exclude such interest from the profits and income chargeable with income tax for that year of assessment; | | (c) where it appears to an Assessor that am interest which has been excluded from an assessment under paragraph (b) has subsequently been received and that income tax has not been paid in respect of such interest, he shall, notwithstanding anything in subsection (5) of section 134 limiting the period within which an assessment, or additional assessment may be made, make an assessment or additional assessment including such interest. | | | (5) No deduction under paragraph (a), or paragraph (b), or paragraph (c) or paragraph (d). or paragraph (e). or paragraph (f), or paragraph (g), or paragraph (h) of subsection (1) in respect of any capital asset shall be allowed to any person if" | (a) such person has let on hire such capital asset" | (i) to any undertaking the whole or any pant, of the profits and income within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3. of which are exempt from income tax ; or | | (ii) for the use in any undertaking carried on by the person from whom it was acquired or by any member of the family of that person or any member of his family in partnership with any other person or persons ; or | | | (b) such person uses such capital asset in any undertaking carried on by him in partnership with the person from whom it was acquired or with any member of the family of the person from whom it was acquired : | | | Provided that the provision of sub paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) shall not apply in respect of any capital asset let on hire by any person if such person is a company engaged in the business of letting capital assets on hire. | | (6) The profits and income received by one spouse for services rendered in am trade, business, profession or vocation earned on or exercised" | (a) by the other spouse ; or | | (b) by a partnership of which that other spouse is a partner shall be deemed to be the profits and income of that other spouse. | | | (7) For the purposes of this section- | (a) "allowance for depreciation", in relation to any capital asset, means any allowance which shall be deducted in respect of that asset under" | (i) paragraph (a), paragraph (b) or paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of this section. | | (ii) paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) or paragraph (d) or paragraph (e) or paragraph (ee) or paragraph (eee) or paragraph (eeeee) of subsection (1) of section 23 of Act. No. 28 of 1979 ; | | (iii) paragraph (a) or paragraph (h) or paragraph (i) or paragraph (1) or paragraph (m) or paragraph (n) or paragraph (o) or paragraph (p) of subsection (1) of section 10 of the Inland Revenue Act. No. 4 of 1963 ; or | | | (b) "capital asset'' in relation to a trade, business, profession or vocation means plant, machinery, fixture, fittings, utensils, articles or equipment used for the purpose of producing the income in such trade business, profession or vocation or building constructed for the purposes of such trade, business, profession or vocation : | | (c) "proceeds" in relation to the disposal of any capital asset means" | (i) the sale price of such asset, where the disposal is by sale ; or | | (ii) the market value of such asset at the time of disposal, where the disposal is otherwise than by sale. | | | | after deducting from such sale price or market value, as the case may be. the amount of goods and services tax chargeable under the Goods Services Tax Act. No. 34 of 1996. on the disposal of such capital asset if such tax is included in such sale price or market value, as the case may be : | (d) "disposal", in relation to the disposal of any capital asset by any person includes" | (i) sale, exchange, or other transfer in any manner whatsoever or of such asset by such person : | | (ii) discard of such asset by such person ; | | (iii) cessation of the use of such asset by such person in any undertaking carried on by him in ascertaining the profits and income of which, an allowance for depreciation could be deducted ; | | | (e) "qualified building" means a building constructed to be used for the purpose of a trade, business, profession or vocation other than to be used as a dwelling house by an executive officer employed in that trade. business, profession or vocation : | | (f) | (i) where any capital asset which is used in any trade, business, profession or vocation carried on or exercised by any person and in respect of which an allowance for depreciation has been granted is sold, and the full proceeds of sale used, within one year of the sale, for the acquisition of another capital asset to replace the capital asset so sold, and to be used in such trade, business, profession or vocation, the cost of acquisition of such other capital asset shall be deemed to be the difference between the actual cost of acquisition of such other capital asset and the profits from the sale of the capital asset sold : | | For the purposes of this sub-paragraph the profits from the sale, in relation to any capital asset, shall be the excess of the proceeds of sale of such asset over the difference between" | (a) the cost of acquisition or the cost of construction, as the case may be, of such asset ; and | | (b) the total allowance for depreciation granted in respect of such capital asset ; | | | (ii) where any plant, machinery or fixtures is acquired otherwise than by way of purchase, by any person to be used in any trade, business, profession or vocation carried on or exercised by him. the cost of acquisition of such plant, machinery or fixtures shall be the market value of such plant, machinery or fixtures, on the date of such acquisition ; | | (iii) where any capital asset of a business earned on by an individual, either solely or in partnership with others, is transferred, to a company referred to in paragraph (xv) of subsection (1) of section 14, the cost of acquisition of such capital asset by such company shall be deemed to be the cost of acquisition of such capital asset by such individual or partnership reduced by the amount of any allowance for depreciation granted in respect of such asset to such individual or partnership and the date of acquisition of such capital asset shall be deemed to be the date of acquisition of such capital asset by such individual or partnership : | | (iv) where any person is entitled under the Goods and Services Tax Act. No. 34 of 1996, to claim credit for input tax paid in relation to the acquisition or the construction of any capital asset, the cost of acquisition or the cost of construction, as the case may be. of such capital asset shall not include such input tax. | | | | Deductions not allowed in ascertaining profits and income.
| 24. | (1) For the purpose of ascertaining the profits or income of any person from any source, no deduction shall be allowed in respect of" | (a) domestic or private expenses, including the cost of traveling between the residence of such person and his place of business or employment ; | | (b) expenses incurred in connection with his employment other than the expenses referred to in paragraph (g) and paragraph (i) of subsection (1) of section 23 ; | | (c) any expenditure incurred in traveling outside Sri Lanka in connection with any trade, business, not being a business referred to in paragraph (d), profession or vocation carried on or exercised in Sri Lanka by such person, other than the expenses incurred in traveling outside Sri Lanka solely in connection with the" | (i) promotion of the export trade of any article or goods : or | | (ii) provision of any services for payment in foreign currency : or | | (iii) training referred to in paragraph (1) of subsection (1) of section 23. where such expenditure is deductible in accordance with such paragraph : | | | (d) any expenditure incurred in traveling outside Sri Lanka in connection with the business of any undertaking of operating any hotel for tourists, carried on by such person, other than" | (i) the expenditure incurred in traveling outside Sri Lanka solely in carrying out a programme approved by the Ceylon Tourist Board for the promotion of tourism ; | | (ii) the expenditure incurred in traveling outside Sri Lanka for the purposes of any training referred to in paragraph (1) of subsection (1 ) of section 23 where such expenditure is deductible in accordance with the provision of such paragraph : | | | (e) entertainment expense incurred by such person or his employee or on his behalf in connection with any trade, business, profession or vocation carried on or exercised by him : | | (f) entertainment allowances paid by such person to his executive officer; | | (g) any disbursements or expenses of such person, not being money expended for the purpose of producing such profits or income ; | | (h) any expenditure of a capital nature or any loss of capital incurred by such person ; | | (i) the cost of any improvements effected by such person ; | | (j) any sum recoverable under a contract of insurance or indemnity, if the amount received under such contract is not treated as income under section 89 of the Inland Revenue Act, No. 28 of 1979 or under section 96 of this Act : | | (k) rent of. or expenses in connection with, any premises or part of a premises not occupied or used for the purposes of producing such profits and income ; | | (l) any amount paid or payable by such person by way of " | (i) income tax. or super tax or surtax or any other tax of a similar character in any country with which an agreement made by the Government of Sri Lanka for the avoidance of double taxation is in force (other than the excess of any such income tax. or super tax or surtax or any other tax of a similar character over such maximum amount of the credit in respect of Sri Lanka income tax as is allowed by paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 92) ; or | | (ii) Sri Lanka income tax : or | | (iii) any prescribed tax or levy : and | | (iv) input tax under the Goods and Services Tax Act. No. 34 of 1996. for the period for which the profits and income are being ascertained in respect of any taxable activity, within the meaning of that Act. carried on by such person. if such person is entitled under that Act to claim credit for such input tax. | | | Any regulation prescribing a tax or levy for the purpose of this paragraph may be declared to take effect from a date earlier than the date on which such regulation is made : | | (m) any annuity, ground rent, or royalty paid by such person ; | | (n) any payment by such person to any pension. provident. savings, widows' and orphans' pension. or other society or fund, except such payments as are allowed under paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 23 ; | | (o) one-half of the excess of any expenditure incurred by such person in providing any place of residence to any employee of such person or to the spouse, child or parent of such employee over the rental value of such place of residence which is included in the profits from employment of such employee within the meaning of section 4 ; | | (p) such part of the rental paid by him under any agreement entered into by him in any year of assessment in respect of" | (i) any plant, machinery, fixtures or equipment other than plant, machinery or fixtures or equipment referred to in paragraph (b). as is. in excess of an amount equal to one-half of the total rental payable under such agreement : and | | (ii) any motor vehicle, lorry, bus. tractor, trailer and office furniture, as is in excess of an amount equal to one-fourth of the total rental payable under such agreement; | | | (q) any sum transferred to any reserve or provision (other than any annual payment referred to in paragraph (q) of subsection (1 ) of section 23. for the payment of any sum referred to in subsection (2) of section 32. : | | (r) such part of any sum paid or payable by such person, not being any venture capital company, any unit trust or any mutual fund, as consideration for the management of any trade, business, profession or vocation carried on or exercised by him. as exceeds" | (i) one million rupees or one per centum of the turnover of such trade, business, profession invocation during the period in which profits and income are being ascertained whichever is lower;or | | (ii) such amount as may be determined by the Commissioner-General having regard to all the circumstances of the case, as being reasonable and commercially justifiable as such consideration. | | | For the purposes of this paragraph, the term "turnover" in relation to any trade, business, profession or vocation and to any period, means the total amount received or receivable from transactions entered into, or for services performed, in that period, in carrying on or exercising such trade, business, profession or vocation excluding any amount received or receivable from the sale of capital assets. | | | (2) No person carrying on any trade, business, profession or vocation shall be entitled to any sum for depreciation by wear and tear, or for renewal, or to any allowance under paragraph (b) of subsection (i) of section 23 or paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of section 23" | (a) for any year of assessment, in respect of any vehicle used for traveling for the purpose of his trade, business, profession or vocation. except in respect of" | (i) a motor cycle or bicycle used for such purpose by an officer, who is not an executive officer, in the employment of such person : and | | (ii) a motor coach used for transporting employees of such person to. or from their place of work ; and | | | (b) in respect of any plant, machinery, fixtures, equipment or articles provided for the use of any officer or employee of such person in the place of residence of such officer or employee. | | | or for any deduction for any rental or annual payment in respect of any such vehicle, plant, machinery, fixtures. equipment or articles as are referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b). | | (3) In ascertaining the profits or income arising from the annual value or rent of land and improvements thereon, no deduction shall be made for outgoing and expenses except those authorized in section 5 or section 6, as the case may be. except in the case of a company carrying on the business of letting premises for commercial purposes. | | | | ASCERTAINMENT OF TOTAL STATUTORY INCOME | | Basis for computing statutory income.
| 25. | (1) The statutory income of every person for each year of assessment from every source of his profit or income in respect of which tax is chargeable shall be the full amount of the profits or income which was derived by him or arose or accrued to his benefit from such source during that year of assessment notwithstanding that he may have ceased to possess such source or that such source may have ceased to produce income. | | (2) Where the Commissioner-General directs under the provisions of subsection (4) that the accounts in respect of any trade, business, profession or vocation be made up for such periods as may be specified in that direction, he may further direct that the statutory income from that source for any year of assessment be computed on the amount of the profits of the period ending in that year of assessment. Where, however the statutory income of any person from a trade, business, profession or vocation has been computed by reference to an account made up for the certain period and such person fails to make up an account for a corresponding period in the year following, the statutory income from that source both of the year of assessment for which such failure occurs and of the two years of assessment following shall be computed on such basis as the Commissioner-General shall consider just and equitable in the circumstances of the case : | | Provided that the Commissioner-General may at any time vary of revoke a direction given under the preceding provisions of this subsection : | | Provided further that where any such direction is varied or revoked by the Commissioner-General he may order that the statutory income for any year of assessment from the source in respect of which such direction was given be computed as if the accounts were made up to the thirty-first day of March in that year of assessment. | | (3) Every person who carries on or exercises any trade. business, profession or vocation shall, subject to the provisions of subsection (4), make up the accounts of that trade, business, profession or vocation for each successive period of twelve months ending on the thirty-first day of March of each year : | | Provided that where a person" | (a) commences to carry on or exercise a trade, business, profession or vocation in any year of assessment, such person shall make up the accounts of such trade, business, profession or vocation for the period beginning from the date of commencement of such trade, business, profession or vocation and ending on the thirty-first day of March of that year of assessment ; and | | (b) ceases to carry on or exercise a trade business, profession or vocation in any year of assessment, such person shall make up the accounts of such trade, business, profession or vocation for the period beginning from the that day of April of that year of assessment and ending on the date of such cessation. | | | (4) Where any person is unable to comply with the provisions of Subsection (3) in relation to any trade, business, profession or vocation carried on or exercised by him. he shall give notice in writing to the Commissioner-General selling out the reasons for his inability to comply with such provisions. The Commissioner-General may. if satisfied with the reason set out in such notice, direct such person to makeup the accounts of that, trade, business, profession or vocation for .such periods as may be specified in that direction and it shall be the duty of such person to comply with the directions : | | Provided that the Commissioner-General may at any time vary or revoke any direction given by him under the preceding provisions of this subsection. | | Appointment of profits.
| 26. Where in order to ascertain the profits or losses of any trade, business, profession, vocation or employment for any year of assessment or other period, it is necessary to divide and apportion in relation to specific periods the profits or losses for any period for which accounts have been made up. or to aggregate any such profits or losses or any apportioned parts thereof. it shall be lawful to make such division, apportionment or aggregation, as the case may be. | | Any apportionment of the profits or kisses for any period for which accounts have been made up shall be on the basis that such profits or losses accrued evenly ewer that period. | Total statutory income.
| 27. The total statutory income of a person for am year of assessment shall be the aggregate of his statutory income for that year of assessment from every source of his profits or income in respect of which tax is charged. | Aggregation of the total statutory income of a child with that of his parent.
| 28. The total statutory income for any year of assessment of a child of a resident individual shall be aggregated with and deemed to form part, of "the total statutory income of" | (a) his father, if the marriage of his parents subsists in that year of assessment : or | | (b) the parent who maintains him and with whom he lives in that year of assessment, if the marriage of his parents does not subsist in that year of assessment. | | | For the purposes of this section, a marriage shall be deemed not to subsists if the wife in living apart from her husband under the decree of a competent court or duly executed deed of separation or if me husband and wife are in fact separated in such circumstances that the separation is likely to be permanent. | | | ASCERTAINMENT OF ASSESSABLE INCOME. | | Deductions from total statutory income in arriving at assessable income.
| 29. | (1) The assessable income of a person for any year of assessment shall be his total statutory income for that year subject to the deductions specified in this section. | | (2) There shall be deducted from the total statutory income of a person for any year of assessment" | (a) sums payable by such person for that year of assessment by way of annuity, ground rent, royalty or interest not deductible under section 23 ; | | Provided that " | (i) no deduction shall he allowed in respect of any sum payable by way of interest, annuity, ground rent or royalty by a person out of Sri Lanka to another person out of Sri Lanka : | | (ii) where for any year of assessment any such sum payable exceeds the total statutory income for that year, the excess shall be treated for the purposes of this section in the same manner as a loss incurred in a trade during that year; | | (iii) where, at the time of making any assessment, it appears to an Assessor that any sum so payable has not been paid, he may refuse to allow any deduction in respect of that sum ; | | (iv) where it appears to an Assessor that any sum in respect of which a deduction has been refused under paragraph (iii) has subsequently been paid, such person shall, on application made in writing within twelve months of making such payment and supported by such proof as he may require, make an amended assessment allowing such deduction notwithstanding the provisions of section 142 ; and any tax found to have been paid in excess as a result of such amended assessment shall be refunded notwithstanding the provisions of section 169 : and | | (v) where any sum is payable by such person by way of an annuity, no deduction shall be allowed in respect of any such sum payable by him during the year of assessment in which such annuity is created and during any year of assessment succeeding that year of assessment unless such annuity is" | (a) paid under an order of court by way of payment of alimony or maintenance : | | (b) paid to his spouse under a duly executed deed of separation ; or | | (c) in return, for full consideration in money or moneys worth. | | | | 'For the purposes of this paragraph' the term "interest" means any interest paid on a loan the proceeds of which are utilized " | (i) for the construction or purchase of any building, or for the purchase of any site for the construction of any building ; | | (ii) for the purchase of any share in any company : or | | (iii) in any trade, business, profession or vocation, carried on or exercised by him : | | | (b) the amount of a loss (other than such part, if any. of such loss as consists of a capital loss, a loss referred to in subsection (6). a loss referred to in subsection (7), a loss referred to in subsection (8). a loss referred to in paragraph (c) and a loss attributable to any allowance for depreciation or any sum referred to in paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of section (23). incurred by him in any trade, business, profession or vocation during any year of assessment being any year of assessment within the period of six years immediately preceding the first-mentioned year of assessment, or | | (c) the amount of a loss (other than such part, if any. of such loss as is attributable to any allowance for depreciation or any sum referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 23) incurred by him in any agricultural undertaking during any year of assessment being any year of assessment within the period of eleven years immediately preceding the first-mentioned year of assessment. | | which if it had been a profit would have been assessable and which has not been allowed against his total statutory income for any year of assessment within such period of six years or eleven years, as the case may be ; | | (d) such part, if any. of such loss as is attributable to any allowance for depreciation, incurred by him in any trade, business, profession or vocation during any year of assessment and which has not been allowed against his total statutory income of a previous year of assessment ; | | Provided that" | (i) in no circumstances shall the aggregate of the deductions from the total statutory income in respect of any loss exceed the amount of such loss ; | | (ii) a deduction under this paragraph shall be made as far as possible from the total statutory income of the year of assessment in which the loss was incurred and as far as it cannot be so made, then from the total statutory-income of the next year of assessment and so on ; | | (iii) no deduction shall be made under this paragraph or under subparagraph (b) of subsection (3) in respect of a loss incurred by a company in which there had been change of ownership otherwise than by way of testate or intestate succession, except against the .statutory income of such trade or business of the company as that in which the loss was incurred. | | For the purposes of this paragraph, a change of ownership of a company is deemed to have occurred where more than one-third of the issued share capital of the company is held, at any time in the year of assessment for which the claim for deduction is made. either directly or through nominees, by persons who did not hold such share capital, at any time in the year of assessment in which the loss were incurred : | | | | (3) | (a) Where the profits and income of an undertaking were exempt from income tax, under section 17 or section 18 or section 19 or section 20 of this Act. or under section 16c or section 17A or section 17C or section 17D or section 17G; or section 17H or section or section 17J or section 17JJ or section 22A. or section 22B. or section 22C or section 22D or section 22DD or section 22DDD or section 22DDDD of the inland Revenue Act. No. 28 of 1979 or under section 6 of the Inland Revenue Act. No. 4 of 1963. for any period (such period being referred to in this paragraph as the exempt period). there shall be deducted from the total statutory income of the person who carries on that undertaking in the year of assessment in which such exemption ceases to apply, the excess, if any. of" | (i) the total of any losses incurred by such person in such undertaking in any year of assessment during the exempt period, over | | (ii) such profits and income of that undertaking as were exempt from income tax for any year of assessment during the exempt period succeeding the year of" assessment in which such loss in that undertaking was incurred. | | | (b) Where the entirety or any portion of the balance of such losses referred to in paragraph (a) cannot be deducted from the total statutory income of such person for the year of assessment referred to in paragraph (a), the residue, if any. of such entirety or of such portion, after, its deduction from the total statutory income of such person for that year of assessment, shall be deemed to be a loss incurred by such person in that undertaking in the year of assessment immediately succeeding that year of assessment and may accordingly be deducted in the manner provided in paragraph (b)(c) or (d) of subsection (2). | | | (4) Where at any time within the three years of assessment immediately succeeding any year of assessment any person ceases to carry on any trade, business, profession or vocation, he shall on his making an application in that behalf to the Commissioner-General, be entitled to a deduction from the statutory income for that year of assessment of the amount of a loss other than a capital loss or a loss referred to in subsection (6). incurred by him in that trade, business, profession or vocation in any year of the three years which if it had been a profit, would have been assessable under this Act. and which has not been allowed against his statutory income of any year of assessment. For the purpose of allowing that deduction, the assessable income of that person for that year of assessment shall, notwithstanding anything in section 142 be revised : | | Provided that" | (i) in no circumstances shall the aggregate deduction from the Statutory income in respect of any loss exceed the amount of such loss ; and | | (ii) a deduction under this subsection shall be made as far as possible from the statutory income of the first year of assessment preceding that in which the loss was incurred, and so far as it cannot be so made, from the statutory income of the next preceding year of assessment and so on. | | | (5) | (a) There shall be deducted from the total statutory income or a person for any year of assessment, if such income includes capital gains the amount of any capital loss of that person for that year of assessment, which if it had been a profit would have been assessable under this Act ; | | Provided that" | (i) such deduction shall in no case exceed the amount of the capital gain included in such total statutory income ; | | (ii) where the capital loss of any person for any year of assessment exceeds the capital gain of such person for that year of assessment such excess shall be a capital loss of that person for the next succeeding year of assessment; | | (iii) wherein any year of assessment the income of any person includes more than one capital gain, such deduction shall be made from the capital gain taxable at the lowest rate specified in subsection (3) and subsection (4) of section 32, if applicable, and thereafter from the capital gain taxable at the next highest rate, if applicable, and so on ; and | | (iv) no deduction shall be made in respect of any capital loss arising from the disposal of any capital asset used by such person for producing profits or income of am trade, business, profession or vocation carried on or exercised by him. if a deduction for depreciation in respect of such asset has been allowed under section 23 of this Act. or under section 23 of the Inland Revenue Act, No. 28 of 1979 or under section 10 of the Inland Revenue Act. No. 4 of 1963. or under section 11 of the Income Tax Ordinance. | | | (b) ''Capital loss" | (i) with reference to the capital toss of a person arising from a change of ownership of any property means, subject to the provisions of subsection (4) of section 7. the amount by which the value of that property at the time when such change of ownership occurs is less than its value at the time when it was acquired by that person ; | | (ii) with reference to the capital loss of any person arising from the redemption of any shares debentures or other obligations. means, subject to the provisions of subsection (4) of section 7, the amount by which the value of all property received by him in consequence of such redemption is less than the value of that which is redeemed at the time of its acquisition or where that which is redeemed is any property referred to in paragraph (e) or paragraph (f) or paragraph (g) or paragraph (h) of subsection (3) of section 7. is less than such value of that property as is specified in that paragraph : | | (iii) with reference to the capital loss of any person arising from the dissolution of a business or the liquidation of a company. means, subject to the provisions of subsection (4) of section (7), the amount by Which the value of all property received by him in consequence of such dissolution or liquidation is less than the value of his share of the capital of such business or company at the time when such share was acquired by him : and | | (iv) includes the amount of any debt (other than a trade debt) which is proved to be due by documentary evidence and which is proved to be irrecoverable. | | | (c) In computing the amount of a capital loss, any expenditure of the description referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) of subsection (4) of section 7 shall be taken into account. | | (d) | (i) Where a person dies and has any capital loss for the last year of assessment for which he was liable to be assessed for income tax. the amount of such capital loss shall, as far as is practicable, be deducted from his statutory income from all sources for such last year of assessment, and if it cannot be so deducted. from his statutory income from all sources for an)1 of the three years of assessment in order of recession immediately preceding such last year of assessment. | | (ii) Where a deduction is made from the statutory income of any person for any year of assessment under subparagraph (i) the tax for that year of assessment in respect of him shall, notwithstanding am thing in section 142. be revised taking into consideration such deduction and the amount of the difference between the amount of the tax paid by him in respect of that year of assessment and the amount of the revised tax for that year of assessment shall, if there is an executor of the deceased, be refunded to such executor, and if there is no such executor, be refunded to such person or persons as is or are in the opinion of the Commissioner-General, entitled to such refund. | | (iii) Where a company is liquidated and -such company has any capital loss for the last year of assessment for which it was liable to be assessed for income tax. the amount of such capital loss shall, as far as practicable, be deducted from the statutory income from all sources of such company for such last year of assessment, and. if it cannot be so deducted, from the statutory income from all sources of such company for any of the three years of assessment in order of recession immediately preceding such last year of assessment. | | (iv) Where a deduction is made from the statutory income of any company for any year of assessment under subparagraph (iii), the tax for that year of assessment in respect of such company shall, notwithstanding the provisions of section 142. be revised, taking into consideration such deduction, and the difference between the amount of the tax paid by such company in respect of that year of assessment and the amount of the revised tax for that year of assessment shall be refunded. | | | (e) In computing the capital loss of a person under this subsection, the provisions of subsection (3) of section 7 shall apply as though for the expressions "capital gain" and "gain" occurring in that subsection, there were substituted the expressions "capital loss" and "loss". | | | (6) There shall be deducted from the total statutory income of a person for any year of assessment. where such income includes profits and income from the business of racing of horses, any loss for any year of assessment from the business of racing of horses owned by such person, which if it had been a profit would have been assessable under this Act. and which has not been so deducted from his total statutory income of a previous year : | | Provided that such deduction shall in no case exceed the amount of the profits and income of such business included in such total statutory income and shall be made as far as possible from the statutory income of such person for the first year of assessment after that in which the loss was incurred and so far as it cannot be so made, then from such income of the next year of assessment and so on. | | (7) There shall be deducted from the total statutory income of a person for any year of assessment, where such income includes profits and income of any foreign currency banking unit arising from on-shore foreign currency transactions and which are not exempt from income tax under this Act. any loss for any year of assessment incurred by such person from such foreign currency banking unit from on-shore foreign currency transactions which if it had been a profit would have been assessable under this Act. and which has not been so deducted from his total statutory income of a previous year : | | Provided that such deduction shall in no case exceed the amount of the profits and income of such foreign currency banking unit included in such total statutory income and shall be made, as far as possible, from the total statutory income of such person for the first year of assessment after that in which the loss was incurred and so far as it cannot be so made, then from the total statutory income of the next succeeding year of assessment and so on. | | (8) There shall be deducted from the total statutory income of a person for any year of assessment, where such income includes profits and income from any business of leasing, any loss incurred in any year of assessment from the business of leasing which if it had been a profit would have been assessable under this Act, and which has not been so deducted from his total statutory income of a previous year: | | Provided that such deduction shall in no case exceed the amount of the profits and income of such business included in such total statutory income; and shall be made as far as possible, from the total statutory income of such person for the first year of assessment after that in which the loss was incurred and so far as it cannot be so made, then from the total statutory income of the next succeeding year of assessment and so on. | | (9) Where any person has been declared or adjudged insolvent by a competent court, no loss incurred prior to the date of bankruptcy or insolvency shall be deducted from income arising after such date. | | (10) The amount of a loss from any trade, business, profession or vocation shall be ascertained in the manner provided in this Act for ascertainment of profits from a trade, business, profession or vocation. | | (11) Where the total statutory income of any child for any year of assessment is aggregated with, and deemed to be a pan of. the total statutory income of his parent for that year of assessment, any sum which could be deducted from the total statutory income of such child under the provisions of this section shall be deducted from the total statutory income of such parent. | | | | ASCERTAINMENT OF TAXABLE- INCOME | | Taxable income.
| 30. | (1) The taxable income of an individual or a charitable institution who or which is resident in Sri Lanka in any year of assessment shall be the assessable income of that individual or that institution for that year of assessment after deducting therefrom the aggregate of- | (a) an allowance of one hundred and forty four thousand rupees : and | | (b) any allowance to which such individual or institution is entitled under section 31 : | | | Provided that an individual who is a trustee, receiver, executor or liquidator shall not be entitled to deduct the allowance referred in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) as such trustee, receiver, executer or liquidator. | | (2) The taxable income of any person (other than any resident individual or any charitable institution) for any year of assessment, shall be the assessable income for that year of assessment of that individual or institution after deducting therefrom any allowance to which he or such institution is entitled under section 31. | | An allowance in respect of qualifying payments.
| 31. | (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (4) there shall be deducted, for the purposes of section 30. from the assessable income of a person for any year of assessment in respect of every qualifying payment made by him or deemed to have been made by him in that year of assessment, an allowance equal to the amount of such qualifying payment. | | (2) In this section, "qualifying payment" means " | (a) a donation made by any person in money to an approved charity ; | | (b) a donation made in money or otherwise to" | (i) the Government of Sri Lanka : | | (iii) any Higher Educational Institution established or deemed to be established under the Universities Act. No 16 of 1978 : | | (iv) the Buddhist and Pali University or any Higher Educational Institution established by or under the Buddhist and Pali University Act No. 74 of 1981 : | | (v) a fund established by the Government of Sri Lanka. | | (vi) a fund established by a local authority and approved by the Minister; | | (vii) the Sevana Fund created and administered by the National Housing Development authority established by the National Housing Development authority Act. No. 17 of 1979: | | (viii) a kind established by a Provincial Council and approved by the Minister. | | | (c) expenditure incurred by any person on any project included in a development plan of the Government of Sri Lanka, if such expenditure was incurred " | (i) with the prior written approval of the Minister; and | | (ii) in accordance with such terms and conditions as may have been specified by the Minister at the time of granting such approval, such approval being granted, and such terms and conditions being specified, by the Minister, having regard to the development priorities of the Government : | | | (d) any amount paid by an individual as a contribution to a provident fund for self employed persons approved by the Commissioner-General for such purpose ; | | (e) any contribution made by an individual to such provident fund or pension fund as is approved by the Commissioner-General or to a regulated provident fund if the emoluments from which such contributions are made are not exempt from income tax under paragraph (b) of section 9 ; | | (f) a donation made by any person in money to" | (i) the Industrial Technology Institute established by the Science and Technology Development Act, No. 11 of 1994 ; | | (ii) the Sri Lanka Foundation established by the Sri Lanka Foundation Law. No. 31 of 1973 : | | (iii) the Tower Hall Theatre Foundation established by the Tower Hall Theatre Foundation Act. No. 1 of 1978 : | | (iv) the Sri Lanka Inventors Commission established by the Sri Lanka Inventors Incentives Act. No.53 of 1979. | | (v) the S.W.K.D. Bandaranaike National Memorial Foundation established by the S.W.R.D Bandaranaike National Memorial Foundation Law. No. 2 of 1975 | | (vi) the Institute of Fundamental Studies. Sri Lanka. established by the Institute of Fundamental Studies. Sri Lanka. Act. No. 55 of 1981 : | | (vii) the International Winged Bean (Dambala) Institute, established by the International Winged Bean (Dambala) Institute Act. No. 7 of 1982: | | (viii) the Sri Lanka Institute of Printing, established by the Sri Lanka Institute of Printing Act. No. 18 of 1984 : | | (ix) the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies established by the Science and Technology Development Act. No. 11 of 1994 : | | (x) the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka Established by the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka Act. No. 53 of 1988 : | | (xi) the J. R. Jayewardene Centre established by the J. R. Javawardena Centre Act, No. 77 of 1988 : | | | (g) any premia in am year of assessment, being premia which have cured due for payment; | (i) on a life insurance policy (not being a pure endowment policy) the premia in respect of which are payable annually over a period of not less than three years ; | | (ii) on a policy of medical insurance. | | | not being premia paid outside Sri Lanka in respect of any such policy issued outside Sri Lanka ; | | (h) expenditure incurred by any person in the production, at a cost not less than five million rupees, of any film, the production of which commences on or after January 1. 2000 ; | | Provided however that any qualifying payment referred to in this paragraph shall, for the purposes of subsection (1) be deemed to have been made in the year of assessment in which the production of such film is completed. | | For the purposes of this paragraph the expression" | (i) "expenditure" in relation to the production of a film includes any expenditure incurred in the promotion of that film within a period of ninety days from the date of completion of the production of such film : | | (ii) "film" means any audio-visual presentation of the moving image recorded on celluloid and which is intended primarily to be exhibited by projection on a screen in a cinema. | | | | (3) Where the total statutory income of any child for any year of assessment is aggregated with, and deemed to be a part of. the total statutory income of his parent for that year of assessment, any qualifying payment made by that child in that year of assessment shall be deemed to be a qualifying payment made by such parent. | | (4) The deduction from the assessable income of any- | (a) person, other than a company for any year of assessment" | (i) in respect of all qualifying payments other than those referred to in paragraphs (b). (c). (g) and (h) of subsection (2). made by him or deemed to have been made by him in that year of assessment shall not exceed one third of such assessable income or twenty five thousand rupees which ever is less : | | (ii) in respect of all qualifying payments referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (2). made by him or deemed to have been made by him in that year of assessment shall not exceed twenty five thousand rupees ; | | (iii) in respect of all qualifying payments referred to in paragraph (g) of subsection (2). made by him or deemed to have been made by him in that year of assessment shall not exceed one-third of such assessable income or twenty five thousand rupees ; whichever is less ; | | (iv) in respect of any qualifying payment referred to in paragraph (h) subsection (2). deemed to have been made by him in that year of assessment shall not exceed ten minion rupees ; | | (v) in respect of the aggregate of all qualifying payments referred to in paragraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph shall not exceed twenty five thousand rupees. | | | (b) a company for any year of assessment- | (i) in respect of all qualifying payments other than those referred to in paragraphs (b) and (h) of subsection (2) made by that company or deemed to have been made by that company in that year of assessment shall not exceed one-fifth of such assessable income ; | | (ii) in respect of any qualifying payment referred to in paragraph (h) of subsection (2) deemed to have been made by that company in that year of assessment shall not exceed ten million rupees. | | | | (5) The amount of any qualifying payment referred to in paragraph (h) or paragraph (e) of subsection (2). made or deemed to have been made by any person in any year of assessment and which cannot be deducted from his assessable income for that year of assessment shall be deducted from his assessable income for the next succeeding year of assessment, and so on. | | (6) The excess of the allowance in respect of any qualifying payment referred to in paragraph (h) of subsection (2) deemed to have been made in any year of assessment, by any person, shall be deducted, to the extent it can be so deducted, from the assessable income of that person for the year of assessment immediately succeeding that year of assessment (hereinafter referred to as "the first succeeding year of assessment") any residue of such excess shall be deducted from the assessable income of the year of assessment immediately succeeding the first succeeding year of assessment. | | (7) For the purposes of this section " | (a) an "'approved charity" means an approved charity within the meaning of section 16Aof the Inland Revenue Act. No. 4 of 1963. or under paragraph (a) of subsection 9 of section 31 of the Inland Revenue Act No. 28 of 1979 or any such public charitable trust or institution as is declared by the Minister by notice published in the Gazette to be an approved charity for the purposes of this section ; | | (b) the amount of a donation made to the Government otherwise than in money shall be the value of such donation and such value shall " | (i) be the cost incurred during that year of assessment by the donor of the property donated ; or | | (ii) where the cost incurred by the donor during that year of assessment cannot be ascertained or where no cost was incurred in that year of assessment, be the market value of the property donated at the time of such donation. | | | | | | RATES OF INCOME TAX ON PERSONS OTHER THAN COMPANIES | | Rates of income tax on persons other than companies.
| 32. | (1) Subject as hereinafter provided, income tax shall be charged for each year of assessment on the taxable income for that year of assessment of any person " | (a) if he is an individual other than a receiver, trustee. executor or liquidator acting in such capacity in respect of any year of assessment at the appropriate rates specified in Part I of the First Schedule to this Act ; | | (b) if he is an individual who is not a citizen of Sri Lanka and is deemed by subsection (7) of section 73. to be non-resident, at the rate specified in Part II of the First Schedule to this Act; or | | (c) if such person is a person other than a company or an individual to whom paragraph (a) applies, in respect of any year of assessment at the appropriate rates specified in the Third Schedule to this Act : | | | Provided that the income tax payable for any year of assessment by an individual who is deemed to be non-resident under subsection (7) of section 73 shall not be more than the amount by which his assessable income for that year of assessment exceeds the allowance referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 30. | | (2) Where inconsequence of the inclusion in the statutory income of an individual for any year of assessment of" | (a) a sum received in commutation of a pension ; or | | (b) a sum received as a retiring gratuity other than such part of such sum as exceeds" | | one million eight hundred thousand rupees: or | | a sum equivalent to the average monthly salary or wage paid to such individual during the period of three years immediately preceding his retirement from any employment under the employer who pays such gratuity, multiplied by the number of completed years of service | | (c) any sum received as compensation for loss of office or employment: or | | (d) a sum paid to him, at the time of his retirement from any employment, or at any subsequent time, from a provident fund approved by the Commissioner- General other than such part of that sum as represents his contributions to that provident fund; or | | (e) any sum paid from a regulated provident fund to an employee (other than such part of that sum as represents the contributions made by the employer to that fund prior to April 1. 1968. and the interest which accrued on such contributions made by the employer if. in respect of such contributions made by the employer and the interest which accrued on such contributions made by the employer, tax at the rate of fifteen per centum has paid by the employer;: or | | (f) any sum paid to him at the time of his retirement from any employment, from the Employees' Trust Fund, established by the Employees' Trust Fund Act No. 46 of 1980; | | his taxable income for any year of assessment exceeds that which would be his taxable income if no such aforementioned sum were included in his statutory income, the excess. notwithstanding anything contained in any other provision of this Act. shall be chargeable with tax at the appropriate rates specified in Part III of the First Schedule to this Act. if such aforementioned sum has been paid by the employer of such individual, in accordance with a scheme which, in the opinion of the Commissioner-General, is uniformly applicable to all individuals employed by such employer. If any such aforementioned sum has been paid to such individual in accordance with a scheme which, in the opinion of the Commissioner-General, is not uniformly applicable to all individuals employed by such employer, his taxable income (inclusive of such excess) shall be chargeable with tax at the appropriate rates specified in Part I of the First Schedule to this Act : | | Provided, however, that where the taxable income of an individual for any year of assessment includes any sum referred to in paragraph (c) which has been paid to such individual in accordance with a scheme which, in the opinion of the Commissioner-General, is not uniformly applicable to all individuals employed by the employer of that individual such sum shall be treated as a capital gain, within the meaning of this Act, and such individual shall be taxed for that year of assessment, in accordance with provisions of subsection (3 ) | | | (3) Where the taxable income of a person includes any capital gain not being a capital gain from the change of ownership of any property and the rate of income tax payable on such part of such income (hereinafter in this subsection referred to as the "relevant part of the income") exceeds twenty-five per centum, then, in regard to the relevant part of the income, the tax shall be computed as follows :" | (a) if the relevant part of the income exceeds the amount of such capital gains " | (i) the tax payable on such part of the relevant part of the income as is equal to the amount of such capital gain shall be at the rate of twenty-five per centum : and | | (ii) the tax payable on the balance of the relevant part of the income shall be computed according to such of the rates of above twenty per centum as are applicable thereto under this Act: and | | | (b) if the relevant part of the income does not exceed the amount of the net capital gain, the tax payable on the income shall be twenty- five per centum notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act. | | | (4) Where the taxable income of a person includes any capital gain from the change of ownership of any property, more than two years but not more than five years after the date of acquisition of such property by such person, and the rate of income tax payable on a part of such income ( hereinafter in this subsection referred to as the "relevant part of the income") exceeds twenty-five per centum, then, in regard to the relevant part of the income, the tax shall be computed as follows ;" | (a) if the relevant part of the income exceeds the amount of such capital gain " | (i) the tax payable on such part of the relevant part of the income as is equal to the amount of such capital gain shall be at the rate of twenty-five per centum : and | | (ii) the tax payable on the balance of the relevant part of the income shall be computed according to such of the rates above twenty-live per centum as are applicable thereto under this Act: and | | | (b) it the relevant part of the income does not exceed the amount of the net capital gain the tax payable on the entirety of the relevant part of the income shall be twenty-five per centum notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act. | | | (5) Where the taxable income of a person includes any-capital gain, arising from the change of ownership of any property, within such period after the date of acquisition of that property by that person as is referred to in Column I hereto. the provisions of subsection (4) shall apply to the computation of income tax on such capital gain, as if for the reference to "twenty-five per centum" in that subsection, there were substituted the references specified in the corresponding entry in Column II hereto. | | Column I | Column II | | more than five years but not more than fifteen years | 17 1/2 per centum | | more than fifteen years but not more than twenty years | 12 1/2 per centum | | more than twenty years but less than twenty five years | 5 per centum | | (6) Where the taxable income of any person includes am capital gain arising from the change of ownership of am immovable properly acquired by that person by way of gift or inheritance from any other person, the date of acquisition of such property by the first-mentioned person shall, for the purposes of subsection (4) or subsection (5) of this section or of subparagraph (xvi) of paragraph (a) of subsection (1 ) of section 14, be deemed to be the date of acquisition of such property by the second-mentioned person. | | (7) Where any charitable institution provides in any year of assessment institutionalised care for the sick or the needy and where the Commissioner-General is satisfied that the cost of provision of such care is borne by such charitable institution, the Commissioner-General may. subject to such condition as he may specify, reduce or remit the tax payable by such charitable institution in respect of its profits and income for such year of assessment, if it appears to the Commissioner-General that such reduction or remission is just and equitable in all the circumstances of the case. | | | | SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE TAXATION OF CERTAIN-PROFITS AND OF DIVIDENDS OF SUCH PROMTS | | Special provision relating to taxation of interest on compensation payable in respect of property vested in the Government the Land Reform commission or a public corporation or a local authority.
| 33. | (1) The provisions of this section shall apply to the interest payable on the compensation payable in respect of any immovable or movable property vested in the Government or in the Land Reform Commission or in a public corporation or in a local authority, such interest being the accumulated interest payable on such compensation for the period commencing on the date on which such compensation accrues due and ending on the date of payment of such compensation (in this section referred to as the "relevant interest"). | | (2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any law" | (a) the relevant interest received by any person shall be deemed to be income arising to that person in the year of assessment in which he receives such interest and not in the year of assessment to which such interest relates and such interest shall be liable to income tax at the rate often per centum ; | | (b) the Government, the Land Reform Commission, the public corporation or the local authority paying the relevant interest to any person shall deduct from such interest an amount equal to ten per centum of such interest and shall remit the amount so deducted to the Commissioner-General, with a statement in writing showing the particulars of the gross amount of the relevant interest payable, the tax deducted, the net amount paid, the name and address of the person to whom it is paid and the amount so remitted shall be set off against the tax payable by such person under paragraph (a). | | | "Land Reform Commission" means the Land Reform Commission established by the Land Reform law No. 1 of 1972. | | Deductions of income tax from interest payable on certain deposit accounts.
| 34. | (1) The provisions of this section shall apply to the accumulated interest (in this section referred to as "the relevant interest1') paid on a sum of money deposited in a banking institution by" | (b) another person on behalf of any individual. | | under a scheme approved by the Commissioner-General which" | (i) is operated by such banking institution ; and | | (ii) is operated by such banking institution ; and conforms to such conditions as may be specified. from time to time, by the Commissioner-General. | | | The Commissioner-General .shall, in specifying any nuttier which is required by this subsection to be specified by him, have regard to the need to encourage and facilitate savings. | | | (2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act" | (a) the relevant interest paid to any individual shall be deemed to be income arising to such individual in the year of assessment in which such interest is paid to him and not in the year of assessment to which such interest relates and such interest shall be liable to income tax at the rate of fifteen per centum or the maximum rate at which he is liable to pay income tax on his profits and income(exclusive of the relevant interest) for the year of assessment,whichever is the lower rate; | | (b) the banking institution paying the relevant interest to such individual shall, notwithstanding anything in paragraph (a), deduct from such interest an amount equal to fifteen per centum of such interest and shall forthwith remit the sum so deducted to the Commissioner-General ; | | (c) where a banking institution deducts income tax in accordance with paragraph (b) from the relevant interest paid to any individual, it shall issue to such individual, a statement in writing setting out the gross amount of the relevant interest payable, the rate and amount of tax deducted and the net amount actually paid ; | | (d) where" | (i) any amount is deducted in accordance with paragraph (b). from the relevant interest paid to any individual ; and | | (ii) the maximum rate at which such individual is liable to pay income tax for the year of assessment in which such deduction is made, in respect of his profits and income (exclusive of the relevant interest) is less than fifteen per centum, | | | then such individual shall be entitled, on production of the statement referred to in paragraph (c) and subject to the provisions of Chapter XXIV. to a refund of such percentage of the relevant interest as is equal to the difference between fifteen per centum and such maximum rate of tax. | | | (3) Where a banking institution, which is required by subsection (2) to deduct any income tax from the relevant interest paid by it to any individual fails to deduct such income tax. then, the director, general manager or other principal officer of such banking institution shall be personally liable for the tax which such institution was required to deduct under this section and such tax may be recovered from such director, general manager, or principal officer, by all the means provided in this Act. | | (4) Where any money is deposited in a banking institution by an individual under a scheme approved by the Commissioner-General under subsection (1) and such individual withdraws the interest,. on such money, in contravention of the conditions imposed by the Commissioner-General in relation to such scheme, additional assessments may. notwithstanding anything in this Act. be made in respect of every year of assessment to which the interest so withdrawn relates. | | Rate of income tax on gross interest on loans granted by a company, partnership or other body of persons outside Sri Lanka.
| 35. The gross interest (not being interest exempt under any other provision of this Act). payable on a loan granted to any person in Sri Lanka by any company, partnership or other body of persons outside Sri Lanka, being interest which arise-. or is deemed, by section 88. to arise to such company, partnership or other body of persons shall notwithstanding anything in this Act. be chargeable with income tax at the rate of fifteen per centum. | The rate of income tax on royalty payable to any company partnership or other body of persons outside Sri Lanka.
| 36. The gross royalty payable by any person in Sri Lanka to any company, partnership or body of persons outside Sri Lanka, being royalty which arises or is deemed by section 89 to arise in Sri Lanka to such company, partnership or other body of persons shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other provision of this Act. be chargeable with income tax at the rate of fifteen per centum. | The rate of income tax on profits from employment for a specified period of a non citizen employed in Sri Lanka.
| 37. | (1) Where an individual who is deemed, under subsection (7) of section 73 to be non-resident for a period of three years, continues to be employed in Sri Lanka after the expiry of such period, the profits from such employment of such individual for a period of two years commencing from the end of such period of three years shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act. be chargeable with income tax at the rate of fifteen per centum. | | (2) Where an individual who is employed in a company being a flagship company, within the meaning of paragraph (b) of section 11. and which has. on or after November 8, 1995. entered into an agreement with the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka under section 17 of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law No. 4 of 1978. and wins is deemed under the proviso to subsection (7) of section 73 to be non-resident for a period of five years, continues to be employed in such flagship company after the expiry of such period, the profits from employment in such flagship company of such individual for the period commencing from the end of such period of five years and ending on the date on which the exemption of the profits and income of such flagship company, under the terms of such agreement, ceases, shall notwithstanding any thing to the contrary in this Act. be chargeable with income tax at the rate of fifteen per centum. | | Rate of income tax on the profits and income of any foreign currency banking unit.
| 38. The profits and income, of any foreign currency banking unit arising from any on-shore foreign currency transaction, shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other provision of this Act. be liable to income tax at the rate of fifteen per centum. | Rate of income tax on profit from certain undertakings earned on by a person other than a company.
| 39. | (1) Where the taxable income of any person (other than a company) for any year of assessment includes any profits and income [within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3] from any " | (a) agricultural undertaking : | | (b) undertaking for the promotion of tourism ; or | | (c) undertaking for construction work ; | | | (hereinafter in this section referred to as "specified profits") and the rate of income tax payable on a part of such income hereinafter in this section referred to as "relevant part of income" exceeds fifteen per centum, then in regard to the relevant part of income, tux shall be computed as follows :" | (i) if the relevant part of the income exceeds the amount of such "specified profits" | (a) the tax payable on such portion of the relevant part of the income as is equal to the amount of such specified profits, shall be at the rate of fifteen per centum ; and | | (b) the tax payable on the balance of the relevant part of the income shall be computed according to the rates of tax above fifteen per centum as are applicable thereto under this Act : | | | (ii) if the relevant part of the income does not exceed the amount of such specified profits, the tax payable on the entirety of the relevant part of the income shall be at the rate of fifteen per centum. notwithstanding anything to the contrary, to the other provisions of this Chapter or to Chapter VIII. | | | (2) For the purposes of subsection (1 )" | (a) "agricultural undertaking" includes any undertaking for" | (ii) cultivating land with plants of whatever description ; and | | (iii) provision of the services of management to am undertaking for cultivating land with plants of whatever description. | | | (b) "any undertaking for the promotion of tourism" means an undertaking for the operation of" | (i) any hotel or guest house approved by the Ceylon Tourist Board ; or | | (ii) any restaurant graded by the Ceylon Tourist Board as being in "Class A" or "Class B" ; | | (iii) any business of travel agent ; | | (iv) any business of transporting tourists : | | (v) any business approved by the Ceylon Tourist Board for providing facilities for recreation or sports. | | | (c) "profits and income from any agricultural undertaking" means" | (i) in the case of an undertaking referred to in sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (a), the profits and income from fees for providing the services of management; and | | (ii) in any other case, the profits and income from the sale of produce of such undertaking without subjecting such produce to any process of production or manufacture : | | Provided that where any person carries on any undertaking for subjecting the produce of any agricultural undertaking to any process of production or manufacture, the produce of the agricultural undertaking shall for the purpose of this subparagraph be deemed to have been sold to such undertaking for production or manufacture at the open market price prevailing at the time of the deemed sale and the profit from the sale of the produce of such agricultural undertaking shall be the profits arising from such deemed sale. | | | (d) "undertaking for construction work" means an undertaking carried on by a resident person for the construction of any- | (ii) roads or bridges : or | | (iii) water supply, drainage or sewerage systems. | | | | Rate of income tax on profits from certain undertakings carried on by a company.
| 40. | (1) Where the taxable income of any company for any year of assessment includes any profits and income [within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3] from any" | (a) agricultural undertaking : | | (b) undertaking for the promotion of tourism : or | | (c) undertaking for construction work. | | | such part of such taxable income as consists of such profits and income shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other provisions of this Chapter, or Chapter X. be chargeable with income tax at the rate of fifteen per centum. | | (2) For the purposes of subsection (1) the expressions "agricultural undertaking", "any undertaking for the promotion of tourism", "the profits and income from am agricultural undertaking" and "undertaking for construction work" shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in section 39. | | Rate of income tax on dividends paid out of profits taxed in accordance with section 40.
| 41. | (1) Where the taxable income of any person (other than a company) for any year of assessment includes any dividend being a dividend." | (a) out of profits and income referred to in section 40 : or | | (b) paid out of any such dividend as is referred to in paragraph (a) receded by any company directly from a company referred to in section 40 or through one or more intermediary companies, if the first mentioned dividend is paid during the year of assessment in which the profits and income referred to in section 40 arose or accrued or within two years from the end of that year of assessment | | | and the rate of income tax payable on a part of such income (hereinafter in this section referred to as the relevant part of the income) exceeds fifteen per centum, then in regard to the relevant part of the income, tax shall be computed as follows :" | (i) if the relevant part of the income exceeds the amount of such dividends- | (a) the tax payable on such part of the relevant part of the income as is equal to the amount of such dividends, shall be at the rate of fifteen per centum : and | | (b) the tax payable on the balance of the relevant part of the income shall be computed according to such of the rates of the tax above fifteen per centum as are applicable thereto under this Act ; | | | (ii)if the relevant part of the income does not exceed the amount of such dividends, tax payable on the entirety of the relevant part of the income shall be at the rate of fifteen per centum, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the other provisions of this Chapter or of Chapter VIII. | | | (2) Where the taxable income of any company includes any dividend referred to in subsection (1). the rate of income tax applicable to such part of such taxable income as consists of such dividend shall, subject to the provisions of section 58 be fifteen per centum. | | Deduction from tax payable by any quoted public company under certain conditions.
| 42, | (1) Where for any year of assessment the taxable income of any company referred to in subsection (2). includes any profits and income, within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3 there shall be deducted from the tax payable by that company for that year of assessment, an amount equal to five per centum of such part of such taxable income as consists of such profits and income. | | (2) The provisions of subsection (1) shall, apply to any company - | (a) which is a quoted public company for that year of assessment; and | | (b) in respect of which the Assessor is satisfied that, the number of persons registered in the share register of such company as shareholders is. at no time during that year of assessment, less than three hundred. | | | Deduction from tax payable by any company which obtain a quotation of its shares and satisfies certain further conditions.
| 43. | (1) Where for any year of assessment the taxable income of any company referred to in subsection (2) includes any profits and income, within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3. there shall be deducted from the tax payable by that company for that year of assessment, an amount equal to five per centum of such part of such taxable income as consists of such profits and income. | | (2) The provisions of subsection (1) shall, apply to any company" | (a) the shares of which arc. as at March 31 of" that year of assessment, quoted in any official list published by any Stock Exchange licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka consequent to an application made in that year of assessment; and | | (b) in respect of which the Assessor is satisfied that as at March 31 of that year of assessment the number of persons registered in the share register of such company as shareholders is not less than three hundred. | | | Rate of income tax on qualified export profits and income of person not being a company, who commenced to carry on any specified undertaking.
| 44. Where any person (not being a company) commences on or after November 10, 1993, to carry on any specified undertaking and the taxable income of that person for any year of assessment commencing prior to April 1, 2014 includes any qualified export profits and income, and the rate of income tax payable on a part of such income (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "relevant part of income") exceeds fifteen per centum, then, in regard to the relevant pan of the income. the tax shall be computed as follows :" | (a) if the relevant part of the income exceeds the amount of such qualified export profits and income" | (i) the tax payable on such part of the relevant part of the income as is equal to the amount of such qualified export profits and income shall be at the rate of fifteen per centum ; and | | (ii) the tax payable on the balance of relevant part of the income shall be computed according to such of the rates of above fifteen per centum as are applicable thereto under this Act : and | | | (b) if the relevant part of the income does not exceed the amount of the qualified exports profits and income, the tax payable on the entirety of the relevant part of the income shall be at the rate of fifteen per centum notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act. | | Rate of income tax an qualified export profits and income of a company which commenced to carry on any specified undertaking.
| 45. Where any company commences after November 10, 1993, to carry on any specified undertaking and the taxable income of that company for any year of assessment commencing prior to April 1, 2014 includes any qualified export profits and income such part of the taxable income of that company for that year of assessment as consists of such qualified exports profits and income shall notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act, be chargeable with income tax at the rate of fifteen per centum. | Rate of income tax on qualified export profits and income of a person(not being a company )who carries on any specified undertaking.
| 46. Where any person (not being a company) commenced, prior to November 10, 1993, to carry on any specified undertaking and the taxable income of such person for any year of assessment commencing prior to April 1, 2015. includes any qualified export profits and income and the rate of income tax payable on a part of such income (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "relevant part of income") exceeds fifteen per centum, then, in regard to the relevant part of the income, the tax shall be computed as follows : " | (a) if the relevant part of the income exceeds the amount of such qualified export profits and income" | (i) the tax payable on such part of the relevant part of the income as is equal to the amount of such qualified export profits and income shall be at the rate of fifteen per centum ; and | | (ii) the tax payable on the balance of relevant part of the income shall be computed according to such of the rates of above fifteen per centum as are applicable thereto under this Act: and | | | (b) if the relevant part of the income does not exceed the amount of the qualified exports profits and income, the tax payable on the entirety of the relevant part of the income shall be at the rate of fifteen per centum notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act. | | Rate of income tax on qualified export profits and income of a company which carries on any specified undertaking.
| 47. Where any company, commenced prior to November 10, 1993. to carry on any specified undertaking and the taxable income of that, company for any year of assessment commencing prior to April 1,2015. includes any qualified export profits and income from such specified undertaking, such part of such taxable income as consists of such qualified export profits and income, shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act. be chargeable with income tax at the rate of fifteen per centum. | Rate of income tax on dividends out of exports profits and income.
| 48. | (1) Where the taxable income of any person (other than a company) for any year of assessment includes any dividend" | (a) being a dividend out of the" | (i) export profits and income of any company referred to in section 32F of the Inland Revenue Act. No. 28 of 1979 paid, during the period in which such profits and income are taxable at the rate of ten per centum, or within one year thereafter : or | | (ii) profits and income of any company which has entered into an agreement with the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka under section 17 of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law. No. 4 of 1978 being profits and income in respect of which such company has. in lieu of the exemption granted to is under such agreement, opted to be charged with income tax at the rate of ten per centum, paid during the period for which such profits are so chargeable with income tax or within one year thereafter; or | | | (b) being a dividend paid by any company out of such dividend received by that company as is referred to in sub paragraph ( i) or sub paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) if the first mentioned dividend is paid during any year of assessment in which the second mentioned dividend was received by that company, or within one year thereafter ; or | | (c) being dividend out of any such dividend as is referred to in sub paragraph (i) or sub paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) received by any company through one or more intermediary companies during the period for which the profits and income out of which the dividends referred to in subparagraph (i) or subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) are paid are taxable ill the rate of ten per centum or within two years thereafter, if the first-mentioned dividend is paid during the year of assessment in which the second-mentioned dividend was received by that company or within one year thereafter. | | | and the rate of income tax payable on a part of such income (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "relevant pan of income") exceeds fifteen per centum, then, in regard to the relevant pan of the income, the tax shall be computed as follows :" | (A) if the relevant part of the income exceeds the amount of such dividend" | (i) the tax payable on such part of the relevant part of the income as is equal to the amount of such dividend shall be at the rate of fifteen per centum ; and | | (ii) the tax payable on the balance of relevant part of the income shall be computed according to such of the rates of above fifteen per centum as are applicable thereto under this Act; and | | | (B) if the relevant part of the income does not exceed the amount of such dividends, the tax payable on the entirely of the relevant part of the income shall be at the rate of fifteen per centum notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act. | | | (2) Where the taxable income of any person (other than a company) for any year of assessment includes any dividend" | (a) being a dividend out of the qualified export profits and income of a company" | (i) referred to in section 45 or section 47 or the profits and income referred to in section 49 or section 50 paid during the period in which such profits and income are taxable at the rate of fifteen per centum or within one year thereafter; | | (ii) which has entered into an agreement with the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka under section 17 of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law. No. 4 of 1978, being an agreement entered into prior to December 31, 1994. on an application made in that behalf prior to November 11,1993. being profits and income in respect of which such company has paid income tax at the rate of fifteen per centum paid during the period in which such profits and income are chargeable with income tax at the rate of fifteen per centum or within one year thereafter. | | | (b) being a dividend paid by any company out of such dividend received by that company as is referred to in sub paragraph (i) or sub paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) if the first-mentioned dividend is paid during any year of assessment in which the second mentioned dividend was received by that company or within one year thereafter ; or | | (c) being a dividend out of any such dividend as is referred to in sub paragraph (i) or sub paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) received by any company during the period for which the profits and income out of which such dividends are paid are taxable at the rate of fifteen per centum or within two years thereafter, if the first mentioned dividend is paid during the year of assessment in which the second mentioned dividend was received by that company or within one year thereafter. | | | and the rate of income tax payable on a part of such income (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "relevant part of income") exceeds fifteen per centum, then, in regard to the relevant part of the income, the tax shall be computed as follows ;" | (A) if the relevant part of the income exceeds the amount of such dividend :" | (i) the tax payable on such part of the relevant part of the income as is equal to the amount of such dividend shall be at the rate of fifteen per centum : and | | (ii) the tax payable on the balance of relevant part of the income shall be computed according to such of the rates of above fifteen per centum as are applicable thereto under this Act ; and | | | (B) if the relevant part of the income does not exceed the amount of the such dividend, the tax payable on the entirety of the relevant part of the income shall be at the rate of fifteen per centum notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act. | | | (3) Subject to the provisions of section 58 where the taxable income of any company includes any dividend referred to in subsection (1) or subsection (2) the rate of income tax applicable to such part of such taxable income as consists of such dividend shall be fifteen per centum. | | Rate of income tax on deemed exports of any person or partnership.
| 49, | (1) Where any person or partnership who or which carries on any undertaking for the production or manufacture and supply to any specified undertaking referred to in sub- paragraph (i) of paragraph (d) of section 52" | (a) of any commodity other than black tea in bulk, crepe rubber, sheet rubber, scrap rubber, coconut oil. desiccated coconut (other than desiccated coconut manufactured by using continuous scale automated process technology and marketed with a quality. guarantee) copra, fresh coconut, coconut fibre or such other commodity as may be specified by the Minister by notice published in the Gazette for export by such specified undertaking without further production or manufacture by such specified undertaking ; or | | (b) of any goods for the production, manufacture or packaging by such specified undertaking of any commodity for export by such specified undertaking. | | | the profits and income from such supply (being profits and income within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3 other than any profits and income from the sale of capital assets), shall be chargeable with income tax in accordance with the succeeding provisions of this section. | | (2) Where any person referred to in subsection (1) is a company (including a company being a partner of any such partnership) and the taxable income of such company for any year of assessment includes profits and income referred to in such subsection then such company shall be chargeable with income tax at the rate of fifteen per centum in respect of such profits and income. | | (3) Where any person referred to in subsection (1) is an individual (including an individual being a partner of such partnership) and the taxable income of such individual for any year of assessment includes profits and income referred to in such subsection and the rate of income tax payable on a part of such income (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "relevant part of income") exceeds fifteen per centum, then, in regard to the relevant part of the income, the tax shall he computed as follows :" | (a) if the relevant part of the income exceeds the amount of such profits and income :" | (i) the tax payable on such part of the relevant part of the income as is equal to the amount of such profit and income shall he at the rate of fifteen per centum ; and | | (ii) the tax payable on the balance of the relevant part of the income shall be computed according to such of the rates of above fifteen per centum as are applicable thereto under this Act : and | | | (b) if the relevant part of the income does not exceed the amount of such profits and income, the tax payable on the entirety of the relevant part of the income shall be at the rate of fifteen per centum notwithstanding am thing to the contrary in this Act. | | | (4) The provisions of subsections (1) (2) and (3) shall apply if the supply referred to therein- | (a) is made during the period for which" | (i) the taxable income of the person who. or of any partner of a partnership which, carried on the specified undertaking referred to in subsection (1) is chargeable with income tax in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter; or | | (ii) the export profit and income of the specified undertaking referred to in subsection (1) are exempt from income tax. under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 20 of the Inland Revenue Act, No. 28 of 1979 or in terms of an agreement entered into by such specified undertaking with the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka under section 17 of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law. No. 4 of 1978 ; and | | | (b) is a supply in respect of which such documentary evidence as is required to satisfy the Commissioner-General thru the export relating to such supply were in fad made, is adduced. | | | Rate of income tax on profits and income from service rendered out side Sri Lanka by any resident company or partnership.
| 50. | (1) Where any resident company or any partnership in Sri Lanka which, carries on or exercises any trade, business, profession or vocation earns in any year of assessment any profits and income in foreign currency in respect of service. rendered in that year of assessment, by such company or by such partnership outside Sri Lanka in the course of carrying on. exercising or carrying on such profession, vocation or any construction project in the course of carrying on any trade or business, and such profits and income so earned less such amount as the Commissioner-General considers to he reasonable expenses) are remitted to Sri Lanka by such company or by such partnership, such profits and income shall. notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act. be chargeable with income tax in accordance with the succeeding provisions of this section. | | (2) Where the taxable income of any company referred to in subsection (1) for any year of assessment includes profits and income referred to in such subsection then such company shall be chargeable with income tax at the rate of fifteen per centum in respect of such profits and income. | | (3) Where the taxable income for any year of assessment referred to in subsection (1) of any partner of any partnership (not being a company) includes any profits and income referred to in such subsection which accrued to him by way of his share of profits from such partnership, and the rate of income tax payable on a part of such income (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "relevant part of income"; exceeds fifteen per centum, then, in regard to the relevant part of the income, the tax shall be computed as follows. | (a) if the relevant part of the income exceeds the amount of such profits and income ;" | (i) the tax payable on such part of the relevant part of the income as is equal to the amount of such profits and income shall be at the rate of fifteen per centum ; and | | (ii) the tax payable on the balance of the relevant part of the income shall be computed according to such of the rates of above fifteen per centum as are applicable thereto under this Act ; and | | | (b) if the relevant part of the income does not exceed the amount of such profits and income, the tax payable on the entirety of the relevant part of the income shall be at the rate of fifteen per centum notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act. | | | Rate of income tax on employment and fees earned in foreign currency by an individual or by partnership.
| 51. | (1) Where am individual or any partnership in Sri Lanka, earns in any year of assessment any emoluments and ices in foreign currency in respect of services rendered in Sri Lanka by such individual or by such partnership in Sri Lanka to am person or partnership outside Sri Lanka, in the course of any profession, or any vocation in the field of literature or fine arts, carried on or exercised by such individual or by such partnership in Sri Lanka but not in the course of employment under such person or partnership outside Sri Lanka, and such emoluments and fees are remitted to such individual or to such partnership in Sri Lanka through a bank. such emoluments and ices, shall notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act. be chargeable with income tax in accordance with the succeeding provisions of this section. | | (2) Where the taxable income for am year of assessment referred to in subsection (1) of any individual includes any emoluments and fees referred to in such subsection earned by such individual or which accrued to such individual by way of his share of profits from any partnership in Sri Lanka referred to in subsection (1 ) and the rate of income tax payable on a pan of such income (hereinafter in this" section referred to as the "relevant part of income") exceeds fifteen per centum, then, in regard to the relevant part of the income, the tax shall be computed as follows :" | (a) if the relevant part of the income exceeds the amount of such profits and income" | (i) the tax payable on such part of the relevant pan of the income as is equal to the amount of such profits and income shall be at the rate of' fifteen per centum ; and | | (ii) the tax payable on the balance of the relevant part of the income shall be computed according to such of the rales of above fifteen per centum as are applicable thereto under this Act ; and | | | (b) if the relevant part of the income does not exceed the amount of such profits and income, the tax payable on the entirety of the relevant part of the income shall be at the rate of fifteen per centum notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act, | | | Interpretation.
| 52, For the purpose of this Chapter" | (a) "qualified export profits and income" in relation to any person means the sum which bears to the profits and income within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3 after excluding therefrom any profits and income from the sale of gems and jewellery and any profits and income from the sale of capital assets) for that year of assessment from any specified undertaking carried on by such person, ascertained in accordance with the provisions of" this Act. the same proportion as the export turnover of that undertaking for that year of assessment bears to the total turnover of that undertaking for that year of assessment; | | (b) "export turnover" in relation to any specified undertaking means the total amount receivable, whether, received or not. by that undertaking from the export of goods or commodities or from the provision of any service referred to subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (d), but does not include" | (i) any amount receivable, whether received or not. from the export of gems or jewellery or from the sale of any capital assets : | | (ii) any amount receivable, whether received or not, from the export of black lea in bulk, crepe rubber, sheet rubber, scrap rubber, coconut oil. desiccated coconut (other than desiccated coconut manufactured by using continuous scale automated process technology, and marketed with a quality guarantee), copra, fresh coconuts. coconut fibre or such other commodity as may be specified by the Minister by Notice published in the Gazette : or | | (iii) any profits and income not being profits and income within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3 ; | | | (c) "total turnover" in relation to any specified undertaking means the total amount receivable, whether received or not. by that undertaking from any trade or business carried on by that undertaking but does not include any amount receivable, whether received or not. from the sale of capital assets, gems or jewellery or any profits and income not being profits and income within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 3 ; | | (d) "specified undertaking" means any undertaking which is engaged in" | (i) the export of non-traditional goods manufactured, produced or purchased by such undertaking ; or | | (ii) the performance of any service of ship repair, ship breaking, repair and refurbishment of marine cargo containers, provision of computer software. computer programmes, computer systems or recording computer data, or such other services as may be specified by the Minister by Notice published in the Gazette, for payment in foreign currency. | | | For the purposes of this section "non-traditional goods" means goods other than black tea in bulk, crepe rubber, sheet rubber, scrap rubber, coconut oil. desiccated coconut (other than desiccated coconut manufactured by using continuous scale automated procees technology and marketed with a quality guarantee), copra, fresh coconuts coconut fibre or such other commodity as may be specified by the Minister by Notice published in the Gazette. | | | Income tax to which any resident company is liable.
| 53. | (1) The income tax to which any company resident in Sri Lanka in any year of assessment shall be liable for that year of assessment shall consist of an amount" | (a) calculated on the taxable income of" such company for that year of assessment at the appropriate rate specified in the Second Schedule to this Act: and | | (b) equal to fifteen per centum of the aggregate amount of the gross dividends distributed by such company in that year of assessment out of the profits on which the taxable income of such company is computed for any year of assessment. : | | Provided however a quoted public company shall not be liable to pay income tax under paragraph (b) : | | Provided further that any company shall not be liable to pay income tax under paragraph (b) on an amount equal to the amount of any gross dividend distributed by such company in any year of assessment to a company or body of persons who or which is exempt from income tax under paragraph (a) of section 8 ; or | | (c) an amount equal to fifteen per centum of the aggregate amount of the gross dividend distributed to any nonresident person by a quoted public company in that year of assessment out of the profits on which the taxable income of such company is computed for any year of assessment : | | (d) in the case of any public corporation not less than seventy-live per centum, of the capital of which is provided by the Government, other than by way of loan, for any year of assessment, an amount equal to twenty -five per centum of the balance of its profits after deducting therefrom the income tax payable for that year of assessment under paragraph (a) : | | Provided that where the aggregate amount of any gross dividend distributed in that year of assessment out of the profits on which the taxable income of such corporation is computed for any year of assessment | (i) is not less than twenty-five per centum of such balance, the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply ; and | | (ii) is less than twenty-five per centum of such balance, the tax to which such public corporation is liable under this paragraph, for the relevant year of assessment, .shall be an amount equal to the excess of twenty-five per centum of such balance over such amount of such dividend. | | | For the purposes of this paragraph, the profits of the Insurance Corporation Ltd of Sri Lanka shall be deemed not to include its profits from the business of life insurance. | | | (2) Where for any year of assessment the taxable income of a company includes any capital gain arising from the change of ownership of any property, the provisions of subsection (4) and subsection (5) of section 32 shall, mutates mutandis, apply to the taxation of that capital gain. | | (3) For the purposes of subsection (1) "amount of gross dividends" of a company means" | (i) where a deduction under section 61 is made by the company in respect of its dividend, the amount of the dividend before such deduction is made : | | (ii) where no such deduction is made by the company in respect of its dividend. the amount of the dividend increased by seventeen and eleven-seventeenth per centum. | | | Advance company tax on qualifying distribution to which resident companies are liable.
| 54. | (1) Every company resident in Sri Lanka shall be liable to pay for every year of assessment a tax hereinafter referred to as the "advance company tax") calculated at the appropriate rate specified in the Fifth Schedule to this Act as the rate applicable to companies of that class, on an amount equal to the amount of every qualifying distribution made by that company during that year of assessment. | | (2) Every resident company, shall be entitled to deduct from any quarterly instalment, referred to in section 105. of income tax payable by it under" | (a) paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 53 : or. | | (b) section 45, section 47. section 49. or section 50. or | | | for any year of assessment, the advance company tax paid by it in that year of assessment, but prior to the date on which such instalment is required to be paid under section 105. | | (3) The advance company tax paid by a company in any year of assessment which is in excess of the amount deducted for that year of assessment under subsection (2) shall not be refunded to the company but shall be carried forward and deducted, notwithstanding that the company may have ceased to carry on any trade or business. | | Dividend consisting of any qualifying distribution when received by a resident person other than a company.
| 55. | (1) Where a resident person, other than a company receives in any year of assessment, a dividend in relation to which advance company tax under subsection (1) of section 54 has been paid by any resident company, the statutory income of such person from such dividend for that year of assessment shall be deemed to be a sum equal to the aggregate of the gross dividend and the advance company tax which is attributable to that dividend. | | (2) Every resident person, either than a company, whose total statutory income for any year of assessment includes a dividend in relation to which advance company tax under subsection (1) of section 54 has been paid by any resident company, shall be entitled to deduct from the tax payable by such person for that year of assessment a sum equal to the advance company tax which is attributable to that dividend. Where the amount to he so deducted exceeds the tax payable by him for that year of assessment, the excess shall, subject to the provisions of Chapter XXIV. be refunded to such person. | | Resident company to maintain a record of dividends received.
| 56. Every resident company shall maintain for every year of assessment a record indicating" | (a) dividends received in the form of money or of an order to pay money from other resident companies received on or after April 1. 1988. classified under the following categories and sub-categories :" | (ii) dividends in relation to which advance company tax has not been paid : | | (iii) other dividends" | (A) dividends paid out of profits for any period prior to April 1, 1988 ; | | (B) dividends in relation to which advance company tax has been paid at fifty per centum. | | (C) dividends in relation to which advance company tax has been paid at thirty three and one-third per centum ; | | (D) dividends in relation to which advance company tax has been paid at twenty-seven per centum ; | | (E) dividends in relation to which advance company tax has been paid at twenty five per centum ; | | (F) dividends in relation to which advance company tax has been paid at eight per centum : | | (G) dividends in relation to which advance company tax has been paid at five per centum ; and | | | | (b) profits and income, other than dividend income. arising or accruing on or after April 1, 1988, classified under the following categories :" | (i) exempt profits and income ; | | (ii) profits and income taxable" | (A) under section 32F, section 32H, section 32K, section 32M, section 32 and section 32DDDD of the Inland Revenue Act, No. 28 of 1979 ; | | (B) under section 45, section 47, section 49, section 50 and section 54 ; | | (C) at the rates other than those specified in the Second Schedule : and | | | (iii) other profits and income : | | | (c) details of dividends paid out during that year of assessment, out of each of the categories and sub-categories of income set out in the foregoing paragraphs ; | | (d) appropriations made during that year of assessment out of each of the categories and sub-categories of income set out in the foregoing paragraphs, tore payment of taxes and reserves. | | Income tax to which any non resident company is liable.
| 57. | (1) The income tax to which a company which is not resident in Sri Lanka m any year of assessment shall be liable for that year of assessment shall consist of" | (a) a sum equal to the amount calculated at the rate specified in the Second Schedule ; and | | (b) where there are remittances of such company in that year of assessment a sum equal to" | (i) thirty-three and one-third per centum of the aggregate amount of the remittances of such company, if the amount of such remittances are less than one third of such taxable income : or | | (ii) eleven and one-ninth per centum of such taxable income, if the aggregate amount of such remittances are not less than one-third of such taxable income. | | | | (2) In subsection (1) "remittances" with reference to a non-resident company mean" | (a) sums remitted or retained abroad out of the profits of the company, such sums not including any dividends paid by a resident company to such non-resident company ; | | (b) such part of the proceeds of the sale abroad of products exported by that company as is retained abroad ; and | | (c)in respect of any products exported by that company and not sold in a wholesale market or not sold at all such part of the profits deemed under section 78 to be derived from Sri Lanka as is retained abroad. | | | Certain dividends not to form part of the assessable income of the receiving company. company.
| 58. Where a dividend is paid by any resident company to any resident or non-resident company and either" | (a) a deduction has been made under section 61 in respect of that dividend by the first-mentioned resident company : or | | (b) that dividend is exempt from income tax under section 1 ; or | | (c) such dividend consists of any part of the amount of a dividend received by the first-mentioned resident company irons another resident company : or | | (d) such dividend is a dividend declared by a quoted public company , | | | such dividend shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other provision of this Act, be deemed not to form part of the assessable income of the second-mentioned company. | Profits of a company from transactions with its shareholders.
| 59. The profits of a company from transactions with its shareholders which would be assessable if such transactions were with persons other than its shareholders, shall be profits within the meaning of this Act. | Every resident company to deduct income tax from any dividend received from any quoted public company and payable to any non-resident person.
| 60. Every resident company shall deduct from the amount of any dividend (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "relevant dividend") which becomes payable to any non resident person if the relevant, dividend consists, of the whole or any part of the amount of a dividend not being the whole or any part of a dividend which is exempt from income tax under this Act. distributed by any quoted public company and received. either directly or through one or more intermediary companies, by such resident company, income tax equivalent to fifteen per centum of such relevant dividend and the amount of the income tax which a resident company is under this section, required to deduct shall be a debt due from such resident company to the Stale and shall be recoverable forthwith as such or may be assessed and charged upon such resident company in addition to any income tax otherwise payable by it. | | Provided that in determining for the purposes of this section, the amount of the relevant dividend no account shall be taken of such part of such dividend as is distributed out of the profits or income on which the taxable income of such resident company is computed for any year of assessment. | Resident company entitled to deduct tax from any dividend.
| 61. | (1) Every resident company other than a quoted public company, shall be entitled to deduct from the amount of any dividend payable to any shareholder other than any shareholder whose profit and income are exempt from income tax under paragraph (a) of subsection 8, in the form of money or an order to pay money out of the profits on which the taxable income of that company is computed for any year of assessment, income tax equal to fifteen per centum. | | Provided that nothing in the preceding provisions of this subsection shall apply to any dividend declared by a quoted public company to am resident person. | | For the purposes of this section in computing the amount of a dividend payable to any shareholder by a company such part of that dividend as consists of any part of the amount of a dividend received by that company from another resident company shall not be taken into account. | | (2) Every person who issues a warrant, cheque or other order drawn or made in payment of any dividend which becomes payable by a resident company during any year of assessment shall annex thereto a statement in such form as may be specified by the Commissioner-General selling out" | (a) the gross amount which after deduction of income tax thereon corresponds to the net amount actually paid : | | (b) the sum deducted as income tax ; | | (c) the net. amount actually paid ; | | (d) the composition of the gross dividend indicating separately the amount paid out of" | (i) exempt dividends received : | | (ii) dividends received, in relation to which advance company tax has been paid at fifty four per centum ; | | (iii) dividends received, m relation to which advance company tax has been paid at fifty per centum : | | (iv) dividends received, in relation to which advance company tax has been paid at thirty three and one-third per centum ; | | (v) dividends received, in relation to which advance company tax has been paid at twenty seven per centum : | | (vi) dividends received, in relation to which advance company tax has been paid at twenty five per centum ; | | (vii) dividends received, in relation to which advance company tax has been paid at seventeen per centum : | | (viii) dividends received, in relation to which advance company tax has been paid at eleven per centum : | | (ix) dividends received, in relation to which advance company tax has been paid at eight per centum ; | | (x) dividends received, in relation to which advance company tax has been paid at five per centum ; | | (xi) other dividends received ; | | (xii) income exempt from income tax ; | | (xiii) profits and income taxable at rates other than those specified in the Second Schedule to this Act : and | | (xiv) other profits and income . | | | (e) the advance company tax paid in relation to such part of the dividend paid out of the other profits and income referred to in sub-paragraph (xiii) of the foregoing paragraph as consists of a qualifying distribution : | | (f) advance company tax paid by other resident companies in relation to such part of that dividend as is paid out of a dividend referred to in sub-paragraph (ii). sub-paragraph (iii). sub-paragraph (iv), sub-paragraph (v). sub-paragraph (vi). sub-paragraph Mi). sub-paragraph (viii). sub-paragraph (ix) or sub-paragraph (x) of paragraph (d). | | | (3) Every company resident in Sri Lanka shall, for every year of assessment furnish to the Commissioner-General on or before the thirtieth day of November immediately succeeding the end of that year of assessment, a statement in such form as may be specified by the Commissioner-General setting out the particulars of" | (a) advance company tax paid in that year of assessment ; | | (b) any payments made in that year of assessment in respect of tax under paragraph (a) subsection (1) of section 53 for and year of assessment ; | | (c) any payments made in that year of assessment in respect of tax under section 32H or section 32K or section 32M and section 32N of the Inland Revenue Act, No. 28 of 1979 for any year of assessment : and | | (d) any payments made in the year of assessment in respect of tax under section 45. section 47. section 49 and section 50 of this Act. | | | (4) Where the statement referred to in subsection (2) discloses that a share holder of a resident company received a dividend which included the amount of any dividend received the purposes of determining the statutory income of such shareholder for nay year of assessment be increased by seventeen and eleven-seventeenth per centum and be shall be entitled to deduct, from the tax payable by him, an amount equal to the said seventeen and eleven-seventeenth per centum : | | Provided however, that the preceding provisions of this subsection shall not apply to, or in respect of - | (a) a shareholder it such shareholder is a company : or | | (b) the amount of any dividend received from any other company if such dividend is exempt from income tax under this Act. | | | (5) Where the assessable income of a person other than a company includes a dividend from a resident company in the from of money or of an order to pay money, he shall be entitled on production of a statement relating to such dividend made in accordance with subsection (2) to deduct from the tax payable by him the amount of tax shown on such statement ; | | Provided that, where such person is not a resident person, he shall not he entitled to deduct, from the tax payable by him. the advance company tax -.shown on such statement. | | (6) Where for any year of assessment the assessable income of a person other than a company includes a dividend from a resident company in the form of shares or debenture he shall be entitled to deduct from the tax payable by him an amount equal to an amount which the company would have been entitled under subsection (1) to deduct as tax on such dividend had such dividend been paid in the form of money. | | Certain undistributed profits to be treated as distributed.
| 62. | (1) Where, in the case of a company controlled by not more than five persons, the Assessor is satisfied that the company has not distributed to its shareholders a reasonable part of its profits for any year of assessment, the Assessor may subject to the provisions of subsections (2), (3) and (4). treat the whole or a pan of the profits of the company after deducting therefrom any expenditure incurred for the development of the harness of the company (other than the price paid for the purchase of an existing business or an agricultural undertaking.), as distributed in the form dividends to the shareholders of the company on a date specified by the Assessor. | | (2) In determining under subsection (1) whether a company has not distributed so its shareholders a reasonable part of us profits. the Assessor shall have regard to" | (a) the total amount of its profits ; | | (b) the additional assessments, if and made on the company; | | (c) the current requirements of the company's business : and | | (d) such other requirement as may be necessary or advisable for the maintenance and development of the company's business. | | | (3) For the purposes of subsection (1) any of the following sums shall be regarded as profits available for distribution among the shareholders of the company and not as having been applied or being applicable to the requirements of the company's business or to such other requirements as may be necessary or advisable for the maintenance and development of that business " | (a) any sum expended or applied, or intended to he expended or applied, out of the profits of the company, in the redemption or repayment of any share or loan capital or debt (including any premium on such share or loan capital of debt) issued or incurred otherwise than for adequate consideration ; | | (b) any sum lent to a director or shareholder of the company : and | | (c) any sum expended or applied, or intended in be expended or applied, in pursuance or in consequence of any fictitious or artificial transactions. | | | (4) For the purposes of subsection (3). any share or loan capital or debt shall be deemed to be issued or incurred otherwise than for adequate consideration if it is issued or incurred" | (a) for consideration the value of which to the company is substantially less than the amount of the capital or debt (including any premium thereon) ; or | | (b) in or towards, or for the purpose of raising money applied or to he applied in or towards, the redemption or repayment of any share or loan capital or debt which itself was issued or incurred for such consideration as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or which represents directly or indirectly, any share or loan capital or debt which itself was issued or incurred for such consideration. | | | and references in this subsection and in subsection (3) to money applied or to be applied for any purposes shall be deemed to include references to money applied or to be applied in or towards the replacement of that money. | | (5) Where the Assessor under subsection (1) treats the whole or a part of the profits of the company for any year of assessment as distributed in the form of dividends to shareholders of the company such company shall be liable to pay income tax for that year of assessment on the profits treated as so distributed at the highest rate at which income tax is chargeable for that year upon the taxable income of an individual and such tax shall- | (a) be in addition to and not in lieu of any income tax payable by that company under any other provision of this Act ; and | | (b) be assessed and charged upon such company by an Assessor. and the provisions relating to payment and recover) shall apply accordingly. | | | (6) Where a company referred to in subsection (1) is being wound up in pursuance of an order made by a court or a resolution passed on that behalf by the shareholders of the company then the balance of the income alter payment of income tax in the year of assessment in which such winding- up commences and for each subsequent year of assessment until such winding-up is completed shall by regarded as income distributed as dividends to such shareholders. | | (7) In this section, "company controlled by not more than five persons" means a company in which more than half the total shares issued is held by not more man five persons, their wives or children, either directly or through nominees. | | Provisions applicable where the profits and income of a company are appropriated by the director. & c. of that company.
| 63. Where the profits and income of a company for any year of assessment or any part of such profits and income are appropriated by any director, manager, shareholder or executive officer of that company, such profits and income or such part of such profits and income shall form part of the profits and income for that year of assessment of the person by whom such profits or income or part thereof are appropriated and shall be assessable accordingly and. the Commissioner-General may, taking into account all the circumstances of the case, deduct such profits and income or part thereof under subsection (1) of section 23 for the purposes of ascertaining the profits and income of that company for that year of assessment. | | Assessment of child's income.
| 64. | (1) Where during any year of assessment an individual who is a child reaches the age of eighteen or marries, then for that year of assessment" | (a) the total statutory income of that individual shall not be aggregated with and deemed to form part of the total statutory income of his parent : | | (b) any sum which could he deducted from the total statutory income of that individual under section 29 shall not be deducted from the total statutory income of his parent : | | (c) any qualifying payment within the meaning of section 31 made by that individual shall not he deemed to be a qualifying payment made by his parent ; | | | and such child shall be liable to pay income tax for that year of assessment calculated as though he was an individual who is not a child throughout that year of assessment. | | (2) Where during any year of assessment the marriage of the parents of a child ceases to subsist or is deemed not to subsist" | (a) the total statutory income of that child for that year of assessment shall be aggregated with and deemed to be part of the total statutory income of his father; | | (b) any sum which could be deducted for that year of assessment from the total .statutory income of that child under section 29 shall be deducted from the total statutory income of his father; | | (c) any qualifying payment within the meaning of section 31 made by that child in that year of assessment shall be deemed to he a qualifying payment made by his father: | | | (3) For the purposes of subsection (2). a marriage shall not be deemed to subsist if the wife is living apart from her husband under the decree of a competent court or a duly executed deed of reparation, or if the husband and wife are in fact separated in such circumstances that the separation is likely to be permanent. | | | | | B-RECEIVER, TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR &C. | | Returns to be furnished by receiver and trustee and their liability to tax.
| 65. | (1) An Assessor may give nonce in writing to a receiver or trustee requiring him to furnish within the period specified in the notice in the case of a" | (a) receiver a return for the purposes of income tax. of the income from the properties under his control : | | (b) trustee a return for the purposes of income tax, of the income from the properties subject to the trust; | | | and a receiver or trustee shall be chargeable with income tax in the case of a " | (i) receiver, on the income of the properties subject to his control : and | | (ii) trustee, subject to the provisions of subsection (2) on the income of the properties of the trust. | | | (2) Where there are any beneficiaries to a trust the income of which is liable to income tax under subsection (1). then the share of the income to which such beneficiaries are entitled shall be deducted from the amount of the income which is liable to tax under subsection (1) and shall be considered for the purposes of this Act, as the income of such beneficiaries and accordingly each such beneficiary shall be chargeable with income tax in respect of his share of such income. | | (3) Where, for any year of assessment, the entirety or any part of the income of a trust is considered under subsection (2), to be the income of a beneficiary the trustee shall, on or before the thirtieth day respectively of July. October and January of that year of assessment and on or before the thirtieth day of April of the immediately succeeding year of assessment, give to that beneficiary in such form as may be specified by the Commissioner-General a notice stating the amount of such income. | | (4) The income tax with which a receiver or a trustee is chargeable for any year of assessment shall be paid by him in accordance with the provisions of section 105. notwithstanding that no assessment has been made on him. | | (5) For the purposes of this section, the term "trust" shall not include any unit trust, and the term "trustee" shall not include the trustee of any unit trust. | | Chargeability to tax of trustee of an incapacited person.
| 66. The trustee of an incapacitated person shall be chargeable with income tax in like manner and to the like amount as such person would be chargeable under this Act ; | | Provided that nothing in the preceding provisions of this section shall be deemed to prevent such person being assessed directly in his own name. | Liability of executor to tax payable by deceased person.
| 67. An executor of a deceased person shall be liable to do all such acts, matters and things as such deceased person would be liable to do under this Act if he were alive, and shall be chargeable with income tax. with which such deceased person would be chargeable if he were alive in respect of all periods prior to the date of the death of such person : | | Provided that" | (a) no Proceedings shall be instituted against the executor under the provisions of Chapter XXV of this Act. in respect of any act or default of the deceased person ; | | (b) no assessment or additional assessment in respect of a period prior to the date of such person's death shall be made after the expiry of the third year of assessment subsequent to the year of assessment in which probate or letters of administration, as the case may be. was issued to the executor in respect of the estate of such person, except where there has been non-assessment or underassessment by reason of fraud or wilful evasion by such person, or by reason of an incorrect statement by the executor of his estate, in which case an assessment or additional assessment may be made at any time after the expiry of the aforesaid third year of assessment : and | | (c) the liability of an executor under this section shall be limited to the aggregate of" | (i) the deceased person's estate in his possession or control at the date when notice is given to him that liability to tax will arise under this section ; and | | (ii) any part of the estate which may have passed to a heir or other person having any interest in such estate. | | | Return to be furnished by executor and changeability of an executor and beneficiary.
| 68. | (1) An Assessor may give notice in writing to the executor of a deceased person requiring him to furnish within the period specified in such notice a return for the purposes of income tax of the income from the estate administered by him and the name and address of each heir and other person having any interest in the estate of the deceased person (such heir or other person hereinafter referred to as a "beneficiary") and his interest in such estate. | | (2) A beneficiary shall, subject to the provisions of subsection (4), be chargeable with income tax in respect of his share of the income to which he is entitled from the estate of the deceased person. | | (3) Where, for any year of assessment, a beneficiary is chargeable with income tax under subsection (2) in respect of his share of the income to which he is entitled from the estate of a deceased person, the executor of that estate shall. on or before the thirtieth day of July, October and January of that year of assessment and of April of the succeeding year of assessment, give to the beneficiary in such form as may be specified by the Commissioner-General, a notice stating the amount of such income and such notice shall contain the particulars required to be set out in such form. | | (4) Where the income to which a beneficiary is entitled from the estate of a deceased person cannot be ascertained, the executor shall be chargeable with income tax in respect of such income. | | (5) The income tax with which an executor is chargeable under this Act for any year of assessment shall be paid by him in accordance with the provisions of section 105. notwithstanding that no assessment has been made on him. | | Joint trustees and executors.
| 69. Where two or more persons act in the capacity of trustees of a trust not being any unit trust, or executors of a deceased person's estate, they may be charged jointly or severally with the income tax. with which they are chargeable in that capacity under this Act. and shall be jointly and severally liable for payment of such taxes. | Every unit trust deemed to be a company.
| 70. | (1) For the purposes of this Act. every unit trust and every mutual fund shall be deemed to be a company resident in Sri Lanka and accordingly the provisions of this Act. relating to companies resident in Sri Lanka shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to every unit trust and every mutual fund, | | (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of subsection (1)" | (a) a "unit" in any unit trust or a mutual fund shall be deemed to be a "share" in that company ; | | (b) a unit holder in any unit trust or mutual fund shall be deemed to be a shareholder in that company ; | | (c) the profits and income derived by. or arose or accrued to the benefit of. the trustee of any unit trust or the custodian of any mutual fund from any property subject to that unit trust or mutual fund or from any trade or business carried on by such trustee or such custodian for, or on behalf of that unit trust or mutual fund shall be deemed to be the profits and income of that company ; | | (d) any distribution, in any manner whatsoever, of the profits or income of any unit trust or mutual fund to its unit holders shall be deemed to be a dividend distributed to the shareholders of that company : and | | (e) the paid up value of any unit in any unit trust or mutual fund shall be deemed to be the paid up value of any share in that company. | | | (3) Any sum appropriated or paid by way of remuneration to the manager or the trustee of any unit trust or to the manager or custodian of any mutual fund out of the funds of that unit trust or mutual fund shall, for the purposes of section 23 be deemed to be outgoings and expenses incurred by that company in the production of its income, | | Assessment of partnership income.
| 71. | (1) Where a trade, business, profession or vocation is carried on or exercised by two or more persons in partnership, the provisions of the following subsections shall apply. | | (2) The divisible profit or loss of a partnership for any year of assessment shall be the profit or loss of the partnership from any trade, business, profession or vocation carried on or exercised by such partnership during that year of assessment, ascertained in accordance with the provisions of this Act. relating to the ascertainment of profits and income of a person. after deducting from the total of such profit or adding to the total of such loss, as the case may be. the amount of any interest, annuity, ground rent or royally (except where it is payable by a person out of Sri Lanka) payable by the partnership : | | Provided that, in ascertaining the profit or joss of the partnership, nothing shall be deducted for salaries or other remuneration of partners or for interest on partners" capital. out such sums shall be taken into account in apportioning among the partners the divisible profit or loss. | | (3) An Assessor may give notice in writing to the precedent partner of a partnership requiring him to furnish within the time specified in such notice a return showing" | (a) the profits or losses of the partnership from any trade. business, profession or vocation carried on or exercised by such partnership during any year of assessment ascertained in accordance with the provisions of this Act relating to the ascertainment of profits and income of a person, and showing also any interest, annuity, ground rent or royalty payable by such partnership in respect of such trade, business. profession or vocation for that year of assessment ; | | (b) any other income of the partnership for that year of assessment ; and | | (c) the names and addresses of all the partners and the apportionment among them of the whole of the divisible profit or loss and other income in accordance with their shares in the partnership during the period in which such profit or loss or income arose, taking into account in such apportionment the salaries and other remuneration of partners and any interest on partners' capital. Where no active partner is resident in Sri Lanka, the return shall be furnished by the agent in Sri Lanka of the partnership. | | | (4) The precedent partner of a partnership or where no active partner is resident in Sri Lanka the agent in Sri Lanka of such partnership shall, in respect of any year of assessment. issue to each partner of that partnership on or before the thirty- first day of July, October and January of that year of assessment and the thirtieth day of April immediately succeeding the end of that year of assessment, a notice in such form as may be specified by the Commissioner -General specifying the partner's share of the divisible profit or loss and other income of the partnership for that year of assessment, taking into account any salary and other remuneration of that partner and any interest on the partner's capital : | | Provided that the liability of. or duty imposed on. any partner of such partnership by or under any of the provisions of this Act shall not he affected by reason of the fact that no notice under this subsection was issued to him by the precedent partner or the agent of that partnership. | | (5) The statutory income of any partner from a partnership shall be computed in accordance with the provisions of section 25 by treating his share of the divisible profit of the partnership as though it were the profits of a trade, business, profession or vocation carried on or exercised by him and his share of other income as though it accrued to him solely and the share of any partner of a divisible loss shall be treated as a loss incurred by him within the meaning of section 29 : | | Provided that where no return has been made as required by subsection (3) or a return made under that subsection has not been accepted, the Assessor may estimate the statutory income of any partner from, the partnership or the share of any partner of any divisible loss of the partnership to the best of his judgement : | | Provided further that where the Assessor is of the opinion that the whole or a part of the divisible profit of the partnership has been appropriated by a partner, the Assessor may include in that partner's share of the divisible profits of the partnership the amount appropriated by that partner and the statutory income of such partner shall be computed accordingly. | | (6) The income of any non-resident partner or partners from the partnership shall be assessable in the name of the partnership or of any resident partner or of the partnership or of any resident partner or of any agent in Sri Lanka of the non-resident partner or of the partnership and the income tax charged thereon shall be recoverable in the manner provided in Chapter XXII. out of the assets of the partnership, or from any partner, or from any such agent. | | Assessment to be made in the name of the partnership in certain circumstances.
| 72. | (1) Where no return has been made in accordance with subsection (3) of section 71 or the return has not been accepted by the Assessor, either as regards the amount of the profits or income or the apportionment thereof among the partners, it shall be lawful for an assessement to be made in the name of the partnership on the estimated amount of the profits and income of the partnership ascertained in accordance with the provisions of this Act relating to the ascertainment of the assessable income of a person, and income tax thereon shall be charged at such rate or rates as may be specified in that behalf in the Third Schedule to this Act. and shall be recoverable out of the assests of the partnership, or from any partner, or from any agent of the partnership. Any person aggrieved by such assessment may appeal therefrom in, the manner provided in Chapter XIX. The Commissioner-General or the Board of Review, as the case may be, may upon such appeal determine the divisible profits and other income of the partnership and apportion the same among the partners and compute the statutory income of each of the partners from the partnership in accordance with subsection (5) section 71 and the income tax payable in respect thereof. Such income tax may be recovered as tax on the assessment appealed against without any new assessment. | | (2) Where after an assessment has been made in the name of a partnership under subsection (1), a change occurs in such partnership by reason of the retirement or death of. or the dissolution of the partnership in relation to, one or more of the partners, or the admission of a new partner so however, that one or more of the persons who were joint owners of the assets of such partnership prior to .such assessment continues or continued to be owner or joint owners of such assets, the person or partnership becoming owner of such assets, in consequence of such change shall be charged with the income tax or any part of it which remains unpaid on that assessment and the provisions of Chapter XXII shall apply to such persons or partnership accordingly. | | What constitutes residence.
| 73. | (1) Where a company or a body of persons has its registered or principal office in Sri Lanka, or where the control and management of its business are exercised in Sri Lanka. such company or body of persons shall be deemed to be resident in Sri Lanka for the purposes of this Act. | | (2) An individual who is physically present in Sri Lanka for one hundred and eighty three days or more during any year of assessment shall be deemed to be resident in Sri Lanka throughout that year of assessment. | | (3) An individual who has been deemed resident for two or more consecutive years of assessment shall be deemed to be resident until such time as he is continuously absent from Sri Lanka of an unbroken period of three hundred and sixty five days. When such person is so absent, he shall. notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2), be deemed to be non-resident from the commencement of the year of assessment in which such absence commences. | | (4) Where, but for his presence in Sri Lanka for any period or periods not exceeding in the aggregate thirty days, a person would have been deemed under subsection (3) to have been non-resident, such period or periods not exceeding thirty days shall be treated as if it or they had been spent by him outside Sri Lanka, | | (5) An individual who is in the employment of the Government of Sri Lanka and who is resident in any other country during any period for the purposes of such employment and the spouse of such individual shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be resident in Sri Lanka during that period if income tax or any tax of" a similar character is not payable in that country in respect of the official emoluments payable to him for such period : | | Provided that any such individual who is a citizen or subject of any country other than Sri Lanka shall not. by reason of his being so deemed to be resident in Sri Lanka, be liable to income tax as a resident in respect of any income, other than his official emoluments or other income arising in or derived from Sri Lanka. | | (6) An individual who is employed in a Sri Lanka ship. within the meaning of me Merchant Shipping Act. shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be resident in Sri Lanka during the period he is so employed : | | Provided that where any such individual is a citizen or subject of any county other than Sri Lanka he shall not, by reason of his being so deemed to be resident in Sri Lanka, be liable to income tax as a resident in respect of any income other than his income from employment in such ship. | | (7) An individual who is not a citizen of Sri Lanka and who is employed in Sri Lanka shall, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding subsections, be deemed to be non resident for a period of three years calculated from the date on which he commences employment in Sri Lanka. : | | Provided that where such individual is an individual employed in a flagship company within the meaning of paragraph (b) of section 11. such individual shall be deemed to be non-resident for a period of five years calculated from the date on which he commences employment in Sri Lanka. | | | | | F-Liability OF NON-RESIDENT PERSONS | | Chargeability of certain profits of non resident persons.
| 74. Where a person in Sri Lanka, acting on behalf of non-resident person, effects or is instrumental in effecting any insurance or sells or disposes of or is instrumental in selling or disposing of any property, whether such property is in Sri Lanka or is to be brought into Sri Lanka and whether the insurance, sale or disposal is effected by such person in Sri Lanka or by or on behalf of the non-resident person outside Sri Lanka and whether the moneys arising therefrom are paid to or received by the non-resident person directly or other wise, the profits arising from any such insurance, sale, or disposal shall be deemed to be derived by the non-resident person from business transacted by him in Sri Lanka, and the person in Sri Lanka who acts on his behalf shall be deemed to be his agent for all the purposes of this Act : | | Provided that where the property sold or disposed of is produced or manufactured by such non-resident person outside Sri Lanka, the profits from the sale or disposal shall if the sale or disposal was by" | (a) whole sale, be deemed to he not more than the profits which might reasonably he expected to be made by a merchant selling the property by wholesale ; and | | (b) retail, be deemed to be not more than the profits which might reasonably he expected to be made by a merchant selling the property by retail. | | Persons assessable on behalf of a non-resident person.
| 75. A non-resident person shall be assessable either directly or in the name of his agent in respect of all his profits and income arising in or derived from Sri Lanka, whether such agent has the receipt of the profits or income or not. and the income tax so assessed whether directly or in the name of the agent shall be recoverable in the manner provided in this Act. out of the assets of the non-resident person or from the agent. Where there are more agents than one they may be assessed jointly or severally in respect of the profits and income of the non-resident person and shall be jointly and severally liable for income tax thereon. | Liability of certain non-resident persons.
| 76. | (1) For the purposes of this section- | (a) a person is closely connected with another person where the Commissioner-General is satisfied that such persons are substantially identical or that the ultimate controlling interest of each is owned or deemed under this section to be owned by the same person or persons; | | (b) the controlling interest of a company shall be deemed to be owned by the beneficial owners of its shares whether held directly or through nominees, and shares in one company held by or on behalf of another company shall be deemed to be held by the shareholders of the last-mentioned company. | | | (2) Where a non-resident person carries on business with a resident person with whom he is closely connected and the course of such business is so arranged that it produces to the resident person either no profits or less than the ordinary profits which might he expected to arise from such business, the business done by the non-resident person in pursuance of his connection with the resident person shall be deemed to be carried on in Sri Lanka, and such non-resident person shall be assessable and chargeable with income tax in respect of such profits from such business in the name of the resident person as if the resident person where his agent, and all the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly. | | (3) Where income tax is chargeable in respect of the profits arising from the sale of goods or produce manufactured or produced outside Sri Lanka by a non resident person or persons with whom he is closely connected, the profits of such non-resident person for the purposes of this Act from the sale of such goods or produce shall be deemed to be not less than the profits which might reasonably be expected to have been made by a merchant, or, where the goods or produce are retailed by or on behalf of the non-resident person, by a retailer of the goods or produce sold, who had bought the same direct from a manufacturer or producer with whom be was not connected. | | Where import duty levied on an ad valorem basis under the Customs Ordinance has been paid in Sri Lanka on such goods or produce, the sum to be deducted as the cost of such goods or produce on arrival in Sri Lanka shall not, for the purpose of computing the profits arising in Sri Lanka be greater than the value on which such import duty has been so paid. | | Profits of certain business to be computed by a percentage of the turnover.
| 77. Where the Commissioner-General is of the opinion that the correct amount of the profits of a non-resident person arising in or derived from Sri Lanka in respect of a trade of business cannot be readily ascertained, the Commissioner-General may direct an Assessor to compute such profits on a fair percentage of the turnover of that trade or business in Sri Lanka : | | Provided the such percentage may be questioned in an appeal against an assessment in accordance with the provisions of Chapter XIX. | Profits of non resident person from sale of exported produce.
| 78. Where a non-resident person carries on in Sri Lanka any agricultural, manufacturing, or other productive undertaking, and sells any product of such undertaking outside Sri Lanka or for delivery outside Sri Lanka, whether the contract is made within or outside Sri Lanka. the full profit arising from the sale in a wholesale market shall be deemed to be income arising in or derived from Sri Lanka within the meaning of section 2 : | | Provided that, if it is shown that the profit has been increased through treatment other than handling, blending. sorting, packing and disposal, of the product outside Sri Lanka, such increase of profit shall not be deemed to be income arising in or derived from Sri Lanka. | | Where any such product is not sold in a wholesale market. or is not sold at all, such person shall be deemed to derive profits from Sri Lanka within the meaning of section 2 and such profits shall be deemed to be not less than the profits which might have been obtained if such person had sold such product wholesale to the best advantage. | Liability to income tax of certain profits on non-resident person.
| 79. The profits of a non-resident person from employment by a resident person shall be chargeable with income tax in so far as such profits arise from services or past services rendered in Sri Lanka. | Exemption from income tax of non-resident persons in certain cases and liability of certain non-resident persons to income tax at reduced rates.
| 80. | (1) Where the assessable income for any year of assessment of an individual deemed to be non-resident under subsection (7) of section 73. consists solely of income from services rendered in Sri Lanka and does not exceed one hundred and forty four thousand rupees such income shall not be taxable. | | (2) Subject to the provisions of subsection (4), where a non-resident person receives any sum by way of dividend from a non-resident company or by way of interest, annuity, ground rent, or royalty which has been disallowed or excepted under the proviso to paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 29 or under subsection (2) of section 71. such sum shall not be regarded as income of such non-resident person arising in or derived from Sri Lanka, and he shall not be chargeable with income tax or entitled to any repayment of tax in respect thereof. | | (3) Nothing in the provisions of subsections (2) shall operate so as to exclude any sum mentioned in that subsection from She computation of the profits of any trade or business earned on in Sri Lanka where such sum forms part of the receipts of such trade or business. | | (4) Notwithstanding anything in any other provisions Of this Act the rate at which income tax is payable by a non resident person in respect of any royalty received by him from a company with which an agreement has been entered into by the Board of Investment, of Sri Lanka under section 17 of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law. No. 4 of 1978 shall not exceed the rate, if any. specified in that agreement as the rate at which income tax is deductible from that royalty. | | | | | G-SHIPPING AND OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT | | Profits of non-resident ship owners or charterers.
| 81. | (1) Where a non-resident person carries on the business of ship-owner or charterer and any ship owned or chartered by him calls at a port in Sri Lanka, an amount equal to six per centum of the entire sum receivable on account of the carrying of passengers, mails, livestock and goods shipped in Sri Lanka (other than goods brought to Sri Lanka solely for transshipment) shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other provisions of this Act, be deemed to be his full profits arising from the carriage of such passengers. mails, livestock or goods and such profits shall be deemed to arise in Sri Lanka. | | (2) Where the call of a ship owned or chartered by a nonresident person at a port in Sri Lanka is casual and further calls by that ship or others owned or chartered by that person are unlikely, the provisions of this section shall not apply to the profits of such ship and no income tax shall be charged thereon. | | Master of ship to be an agent.
| 82. The master of any ship owned or chartered by a nonresident person who is chargeable under the provisions of section 81 shall (though not to the exclusion of any other agent) be deemed to be the agent of such non-resident person for all the purposes of this Act. | Refusal for clearance for ship where income tax is in arrears.
| 83. | (1) In addition to exercising any other powers of collection and recovery provided in this Act. the Commissioner-General may, where the income tax charged on the income of any person who carried on the business of ship owner or charterer has been in default for more than three months (whether such person is assessed directly or in the name of some other person). issue to the Director- General of Customs or other authority by whom clearance may be granted to that ship, a certificate containing the name of such person and particulars of the income tax in default. On receipt of such certificate, the Director-General of Customs or oilier authority shall be empowered and is hereby required to refuse clearance from any port in Sri Lanka to any ship owned wholly or partly or chartered by such person until the tax in default has been paid. | | (2) No civil or criminal proceedings shall be instituted or maintained against the Director-General of Customs or other authority in respect of a refusal of clearance under this section, nor shall the fact that a ship is detained under this section. affect the liability of the owner, charterer, or agent to pay harbour dues and charges for the period of detention. | | Profit of non-resident owners or characters of aircraft.
| 84. | (1) Where a non-resident person carries on the business as owner or charterer of aircraft, and any aircraft owned or chartered by him calls at any customs aerodrome in Sri Lanka, his full profits arising from the carriage of passengers, mails, livestock, or goods loaded-into that aircraft in Sri Lanka shall be deemed to arise in Sri Lanka : | | Provided that this section shall not apply to goods which are brought to Sri Lanka solely for transfer from one aircraft to another or from an aircraft to a vessel or from a vessel to an aircraft. | | (2) Where for any accounting period any non-resident person carrying on business as owner or charterer of an aircraft produces the certificate referred to in subsection (3). the profits arising in Sri Lanka from his business of carriage of passengers, mails, livestock or goods by aircraft for such period, before deducting any allowance for depreciation, shall be a sum bearing, the same ratio to the sums receivable in respect of carriage of passengers, mails, livestock and goods loaded into an aircraft in Sri Lanka as the ratio for that period shown by that certificate of that total profits to the total sums receivable by him in respect of the carriage of passengers, mails, livestock and goods. | | Provided that where such profits have been computed on a basis which differs materially from that specified in the preceding provisions of this Act. the ratio of profits shall be adjusted so as to correspond as nearly as may be to the ratio which would have been arrived at if the profits had been computed in accordance with such provisions. | | (3) The certificate shall be one issued by or on behalf of any income tax authority which assesses the full profits of the non-resident person from his business as owner or charterer of an aircraft and shall certify for any accounting period as regards such business " | (a) the ratio of the profits, or where there are no profits, of the loss as computed for the purposes of income tax by that authority, without making any allowance by way of depreciation, to the total sums receivable in respect of the carriage of passengers, mails, livestock, or goods ; and | | (b) the ratio of the allowance for depreciation as computed by that authority to the total sums receivable in respect of the carriage of passengers, mails, livestock, and goods. | | | (4) Where at the time of assessment, the provisions of subsection (2) cannot for any reason be satisfactorily applied. the profits arising in Sri Lanka may be computed on a fair percentage of the full sum receivable on account of the carriage of passengers, mails, livestock and goods loaded into an aircraft in Sri Lanka : | | Provided that where any person has been assessed for any year of assessment by reference to such percentage, he shall be entitled to claim at any time within three years of the end of such year of assessment that his liability to income tax for that year be recomputed on the basis provided by subsection(2). | | Application of subsection (2) of section 81,section 82, and section 83 to profits of non-resident owners or charterers of any aircraft.
| 85. | (1) The provisions of subsection (2) of section 81 and of section 82 and section 83 shall apply to every non- resident person who carries on business as the owner or charterer of any aircraft in like manner as they apply in the case of a non-resident person who carries on the business of ship owner or charterer | | (2) In the application of the provisions of subsection (2) of section 83. section 82 and section 83 to any non-resident persons who carries on business as owner or charterer of an aircraft - | (a) "ship" shall be deemed to include aircraft, and "ship owner" shall be construed accordingly ; | | (b) "port" shall be deemed to include a customs aerodrome ; | | (c) any reference to the master of a ship shall he deemed to include a reference to the person having for the time being control, or charge of an aircraft: | | (d) any reference to the granting of clearance to any ship shall be deemed to include reference to the doing of any act which, under the provisions of any written law, is required or authorized to be done in relation to an aircraft in lieu of the granting of a certificate of clearance under section 63 of the Customs Ordinance, and any reference to the refusal of clearance shall be construed accordingly : | | (e) "harbour dues and charges" shall be deemed to include any charges payable to the Government of Sri Lanka or to any person on account of the landing. staying or housing at a customs aerodrome of any aircraft arriving in or departing from Sri Lanka. | | | Ascertainment of profits of insurance companies.
| 86. | (1) The profits of a company, whether mutual or proprietary, from the business of life insurance shall be the investment income of the Life Insurance Fund less the management expenses (including commission) attributable to that business : | | Provided that where such a company which is not resident in Sri Lanka transacts life insurance business in Sri Lanka whether directly or through an agent, the profits therefrom shall be ascertained by reference to such proportion of the total investment income of the Life Insurance Fund of the company as is equal to the proportion which the premiums from life insurance business in Sri Lanka bear to the total life insurance premiums received by the company subject to a deduction of" | (a) agency expenses in Sri Lanka (including commission ); and | | (b) a fair proportion of the expenses of the head office of the company. | | | due account being taken in each case by a set-off against such expenses of any income or profits other than life insurance premiums or investment income. | | (2) The profits of a non-resident company, whether mutual or proprietary, from the business of insurance (other than life insurance) shall he ascertained by taking the gross premiums from insurance business in Sri Lanka (less any premiums returned to the insured and premiums paid on reinsurance) and deducting therefrom a reserve from unexpired risks at the percentage adopted by the company in relation to its operations as a whole for such risks at the end of the period for winch the profits are being ascertained, and adding thereto a reserve similarly calculated for unexpired risks outstanding at the commencement of such period, and from the net amount so arrived at. deducting the actual losses (less the amount recovered m respect thereof under reinsurance), the agency expenses in Sri Lanka and a fair proportion of the expenses of the head office of the company, due account being taken in each ease by set-nil against such expenses, of any income or profits, other man premises. | | (3) Where the Commissioner-General is satisfied that by reason of the limited extent of the business transacted in Sri Lanka by a non-resident insurance company it would be unreasonable to require the company to furnish the particulars necessary for the application of subsections (1) and (2) he may. notwithstanding the provisions of such subsections, permit the profits of the company to be ascertained by reference to such proportion of the total profits and income of the company as is equal to the proportion which its premiums from insurance business in Sri Lanka bears to its total premiums, or on any other basis which appears to him to be equitable in all the circumstances of the case. | | (4) In this section the expression "investment income of the Life Insurance Fund " means in the case " | (a) of a company whose sole business is life insurance, the whole of its income from investment : and | | (b) any other company, such pan of its income from investment as is fairly attributable to its life insurance business. | | | other than the amount of any dividend referred to in subsection (5). | | (5) Where a dividend is paid by any resident company to any company carrying on the business of life insurance and either- | (a) a deduction has been made under subsection (1) of section 61 in respect of the dividend : or | | (b) that dividend consists of any part of the amount of a dividend received by such resident company from another company | | | that dividend shall not from part of the investment income of the Life Insurance Fund of the company carrying on the business of life insurance | | Ascertainment or profits of the Insurance Corporation of Sri Lanka from the business of life insurance.
| 87. | (1) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of section 8 and paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section 53 of profits of the Insurance Corporation of Sri Lanka from the business of life insurance shall be the investment income of the Life Insurance Fund of that Corporation less the management expenses (including commission) attributable that business. | | (2) In this section the expression "investment income of the Life Insurance Fund" means such part of the income of the Insurance Corporation of Sri Lanka from investments as is fairly attributable to the life insurance business of such Corporation, other than the amount, of any dividend referred to in subsection (3). | | (3) Where a dividend is paid by any resident company to the Insurance Corporation of Sri Lanka and either- | (a) a deduction has been made under subsection (1) of section 61 in respect of that dividend by such resident company; or | | (b) that dividend consists of any part of the amount of a dividend received by such resident company from another resident company, | | | that dividend shall not form part of the investment income of the Life Insurance Fund of the Insurance Corporation of Sri Lanka. | | | | | I-INTEREST,&C.,PAYABLE TO PERSONS OUTSIDE SRI LANKA | Interest on certain loans deemed to be profits and income.
| 88. Where interest is payable to a non-resident person on a loan obtained from such person and the interest on such loan is borne" | (a) directly or indirectly by a person resident in Sri Lanka: or | | (b) by a non-resident person where the amount of such loan or part thereof has been brought to or used in Sri Lanka. | | | such interest shall be deemed to be profits and income arising in or derived from Sri Lanka. | Certain royalties deemed to be profits and income.
| 89. Where royalties are - | (a) borne directly or indirectly by a person resident in Sri Lanka : or | | (b) deductible under section 29. | | | such royalties shall be deemed to be profits and income arising in or derived from Sri Lanka. | Deduction of income tax from interest &c. payable to persons outside Sri Lanka.
| 90. | (1) Where any person in Sri Lanka pays or credits to any person or partnership out of Sri Lanka any sum falling due as" | (a) interest on debentures, mortgages, loans, deposits or advances; or | | (b) rent ground rent. royalty or annuity which is payable either in respect of property in Sri Lanka or out of income arising in Sri Lanka. | | | whether such sum is due from him or from another person, or from a partnership, he shall he entitled. notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary, to deduct income tax at the appropriate rate specified in the Fourth Schedule to this Act or where an agreement in force between the Government of any territory in which such person or partnership is resident. for the relief of double taxation, and the appropriate rate specified in such agreement, on such sum and the amount of tax so deductible shall be a debt due from such person to the Republic and shall be recoverable forthwith or max be assessed and charged upon such person in addition to any income tax otherwise payable by him under this Act. | | Provided that" | (a) the Commissioner-General may, having regard to the total tax payable under this Act by any person or partnership out of Sri Lanka, by notice in writing, require any person in Sri Lanka to deduct for any year of assessment, from any sums to be paid or credited by partnership out of Sri Lanka, income tax on such sums at a rate other than the appropriate rate specified in the Fourth Schedule to this Act or the agreement for the relief of double taxation, as the case may he. the tax so deductible shall be recoverable and chargeable as aforesaid; and | | (b) the preceding provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any interest paid out of income not arising in Sri Lanka, or to interest on any loan or advance made by a banker or to any interest paid to any person on moneys lying to his credit in foreign currency with any foreign currency banking unit. | | | (2) Any person who deducts income tax in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1)from any sum paid or credited to a person or partnership out of Sri Lanka shall issue to such person or partnership a statement in writing showing" | (a) the gross amount of such payment or credit | | (b) the rate and amount of the tax so deducted, | | (c) the net amount actually paid or credited | | | (3) Where the assessable income of a person includes ,a sum from which income tax has been deducted in accordance with subsection (1), he shall be entitled, on production of statement relating to such sum issued in accordance with subsection (2) to a set-off against the tax payable by him. of a the amount shown on such statement as the amount of tax deducted | | Deduction of income tax from payment made to any foreign entertainer or artist.
| 91. | (1) Every person who makes a payment to any other person who" | (a) is not a citizen of Sri Lanka ; and | | (b) carries on or exercises the profession or vocation of an entertainer or artist. | | | In respect of services rendered by such other person in Sri Lanka in the course of carrying on or exercising such profession or vocation, shall deduct from such payment, income tax equal to fifteen per centum of the amount of such payment. | | (2) Every person who deducts income tax, in accordance with subsection (1), from any payment made by him to any other person shall issue a statement to such other person setting out the following particulars:" | (a) the gross amount of the payment due; | | (b) the net amount actually paid. | | | (3) Where the assessable income of a person for any year of assessment includes a payment referred to in this section then it such person is" | (a) liable to pay income tax for that year of assessment he shall be entitled, on production of a statement relating to such payment made in accordance with subsection (2) to deduct from the income tax payable by him the amount of tax set out in such statement. | | (b) not liable to pay income tax for that year of assessment, he shall be entitled on production of a statement relating to such payment made in accordance with subsection (2) and subject to the provisions of Chapter XXIV, to a refund of the amount of tax set out in such statement. | | | (4) Where any person who is required by subsection (1) to deduct income tax in accordance with that subsection from any payment made by him fails to deduct such tax. then if such person is :" | (a) an individual, such individual; | | (b) is a company or a body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporated, the secretary, manager or other principal officer of such company or body of persons | | | shall be personally liable to pay the tax he was required to deduct under that subsection and such tax may be recovered from such individual, secretary, manager or other principal officer as the case may be by all the means provided in this Act | | (5) In this section, the expression ''profession or vocation of entertainer or artist" includes the profession or vocation of actor, musician, athlete or acrobat. | | | | | J-RELIEF IN CASES OF DOUBLE TAXATION | | Effect of agreements for double taxation relief.
| 92. | (1) | (a) Where Parliament by resolution approves any agreement entered into between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Government of any other territory, for the purpose of affording relief from double taxation in relation to income tax under Sri Lanka law and any taxes of a similar character imposed by the laws of that territory the agreement shall, notwithstanding anything in any other written law. have the force of law in Sri Lanka in so far as it provides for" | (i) relief from income tax: | | (ii) determining the profits or income to be attributed in Sri Lanka to persons not resident in Sri Lanka, or determining the profits or income to be attributed to such persons and their agencies, branches or establishments in Sri Lanka: or | | (iii) determining the profits or income to be attributed to persons resident in Sri Lanka who have special relationships with persons not so resident. | | | (b) Every agreement which is approved by a resolution under paragraph (a) shall be published in the Gazette together with a notice that it has been so approved, | | (c) In any case where any agreement referred to in paragraph (a) provides that tax payable under the laws of any territory outside Sri Lanka, shall be allowed us a credit against any tax payable in Sri Lanka, the credit to be grained in respect of am Sri Lanka tax upon proms or income arising from any source shall not exceed the amount of the Sri Lanka tax payable in respect of such profits or income. | | | (2) | (a) For the purposes of this section" | (i) "income" shall be calculated as far as may be in accordance with the provisions of this Act relating to the ascertainment of assessable income, but shall not include any sum payable out of such income by way of interest, annuity, ground rent or royalty: | | (ii) "Sri Lanka tax" means the amount of income tax payable under tins Act before deducting any relief's under this section, but does not include tax on any sum payable, by way of interest, annuity, ground rent, or royalty out of the income m respect of which the tax is charged. | | | (b) The Sri Lanka rate of tax shall be ascertained by dividing the Sri Lanka tax by the income on which the tax has been paid or is payable. calculated in accordance with paragraph (a) of this subsection. | | | (3) Every agreement entered into between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Government of any other territory and having, the force of law in Sri Lanka by virtue of the provisions of section 70 of the Inland Revenue Act. No 4 of 1963. and section 82 of Inland Revenue Act No. 28 of 1979 and section 92 of this Act. shall he deemed for all purposes to be an agreement approved by Parliament by resolution under subsection (1) of this section. | | Relief in respect of Sri Lanka income tax.
| 93. | (1) Where any person or any partnership, referred to in subsection (2) proves to the satisfaction of the Commissioner-General that in respect of his or its income referred to in subsection (2) he or it has paid or is liable to pay for any year of assessment, income tax in Sri Lanka and income tax for the corresponding period in an; other country. then, such person shall he entitled to relief from income tax payable by him or it in Sri Lanka of an amount equal to the excess, if any. of the income tax in respect of such income, payable by him or it in Sri Lanka (before granting am relief under this section), over the income tax. in respect of such income, payable by him or it in such other country. | | Where however such person or partnership is not liable to pay income tax. in respect of such profits and income, for such corresponding period in such other country, such person or partnership shall be entitled to relief equal to the amount of income tax payable in Sri Lanka by such person or partnership in respect of such profits and income fur such year of assessment. | | (2) The provisions of subsection (1) shall apply " | (a) | (i) to any non-resident person, or any partnership registered outside Sri Lanka, being a person or partnership who or which provides in Sri Lanka, management consultancy services in areas specified by the Commissioner-General by notice published in the Gazette: or | | (ii) to any non-resident person or to any partnership registered outside Sri Lanka, who or which provides in Sri Lanka, architectural, engineering, quantity surveying or construction management services and such other services as may be ancillary thereto, to any resident company being a company with which an agreement has been entered into by the Board of Investment under section 17 of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law, No. 4 of 1978 and which has in accordance with such agreement invested or agreed to invest in Sri Lanka within the period specified in such agreement, not less than fifty million United States of America dollars or its equivalent in any other foreign currency to meet the cost of | (a) any building purchased or constructed. and of any land, plant, machinery or furniture purchased : and | | (b) the acquisition of any asset not included in paragraph (a) for the use of the undertaking : or | | | (iii) to any non-resident person or to any partnership registered outside Sri Lanka who or which provides in Sri Lanka architectural, engineering. quantity surveying or construction management services and such other services as may be ancillary thereto, to any non-resident person or partnership referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) ; | | | (b) in respect of the profits and income arising in or derived from Sri Lanka from the provision of any service referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) or sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (a) by any person or by any partnership referred to in that sub-paragraph. | | | (3) For the purposes of subsection (1). the income tax in Sri Lanka or in any other country, payable by any person or by any partner of any partnership, referred to in subsection (2). in respect of his profits and income referred to in subsection (2). shall be computed at the rate equivalent to the quotient obtained by dividing the income tax payable by such person or such partner, ("before granting any relief under this section) in Sri Lanka, or in such other country, as the case may be, in respect of his taxable income ascertained for the purposes of income tax in Sri Lanka or. in such other country, as the ease may be, by his taxable income ascertained for the purposes of income tax in Sri Lanka, or. in such other country, as the case may be. | | Applicability of provisions relating to particular sources of profits or income.
| 94. Where any provision of this Act expressly relates to any particular source of profits or income referred to in section 3, such provision shall not be applied in the determination of any profits or income arising from any other source referred to in that section. | How certain receipts of insurance are to be treated.
| 95. Where any sum paid as Insurance premium is allow able as an expense incurred in the production of profits or income from any trade, business, profession or vocation, any sum realized under such contract of insurance shall be deemed to be" | (a) receipts from such trade, business, profession or vocation. if the sum so realized is in respect of stock in trade or loss of profits or any other sum not referred so in subparagraph (h) or subparagraph (c) ; | | (b) an amount realized from the disposal of property, if the sum so realized is in respect of a capital asset on which an allowance for depreciation, within the meaning of subsection (7) of section 23. has been granted and accordingly, the provisions of subsection (3) of that section shall apply to. and in relation to. that amount : | | (c) an amount realized from the change of ownership of property, if the sum so realized is in respect of a capital asset on which an allowance for depreciation within the meaning of subsection (7) of section 23 has not been granted, and accordingly, the provisions of section 7 shall. apply to. and in relation to. that amount ; | | | Provided that the provisions of 'paragraph (b) and paragraph (c) shall not be applicable if the sum realized is in respect of a capital asset which is replaced, and in such event the deduction for depreciation in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 23, shall be computed on the cost of replacement of such capital asset less the amount realized under a contract of insurance. | Ascertainment of income of clubs, trade, associations &c.
| 96. | (1) Where a body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate carries on a club or .similar institution and receives from its members not less that three-fourths of it gross receipts on revenue account (including" entrance fees and subscriptions), it shall not be deemed to carry on business, but where less than three-fourths of its gross receipts are received from members, the whole of the income arising from transactions both with members and others (including entrance fees and subscriptions) shall be deemed to be receipts from a business, and the body of persons shall be liable to income tax in respect of the profits therefrom and in respect of the income which would be assessable if it were not deemed to carry on a business. | | (2) Where a body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporated. carries on a trade association, clumber of commerce or .similar institution in such circumstances that more than half its receipts by way of entrance fees and subscriptions are from persons who claim or would be entitled to claim that such sums were allowable deductions for the purposes of section 23, such body of person shall be deemed to carry on a business, and the whole of its income from transactions both with members and others (including entrance fees arid subscriptions) .-shall be deemed to be receipts from a business, and the body of persons shall be liable to income tax either in respect of the profits therefrom or in respect of the income which would be assessable if it were not deemed to carry on a business, whichever is the greater. | | (3) In this section, "members", in relation to a body of persons, means those persons who are entitled to vote at a general meeting of the body which exercises effective control over its affairs. | | (4) Nothing in this section shall be read and construed as affecting any exemption granted under Chapter III. | | Certain transactions and dispositions to be disregarded.
| 97. Where an Assessor is of opinion that any transaction which reduces or would have the effect of reducing the amount of tax payable by any person is artificial or fictitious or that any disposition is not in fact given effect to be may disregard any such transaction or disposition and the parties to the transaction or disposition shall be assessable accordingly | | In this section "disposition" includes any trust grant. covenant, agreement, or arrangement. | Returns and information to be furnished.
| 98. | (1) Every person who is chargeable with income tax under this Act for any year of assessment shall furnish to an Assessor, on or before the thirtieth day of November immediately succeeding the end of that year of assessment, a return in such from and containing such particulars as may be specified by the Commissioner-General, of his income, and, if he has a child, the income of such child. | | (2) An Assesor may give notice in writing to any person requiring him to furnish within the time specified in such notice a return in such from and containing such particulars as may be specified by the Commissioner-General, of his income and. if he has a child, the income of such child. | | (3) Every person who furnishes a return of income which is not in such form and does not contain such particulars as are specified by the Commissioner-General for the purposes of the foregoing subsections shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act. not to have furnished a return of his income. | | (4) Where any person furnishes a return of income on or before the date specified in subsection (1) for any year of assessment and is deemed, under the provisions of subsection (3) not to have furnished a return of income and the Assessor shall before the expiry of thirty days from the end of the year of assessment immediately succeeding that year of assessment inform such person, in writing, that the return furnished by him is not in such form or does not contain such particulars. as is or are specified by the Commissioner-General. | | (5) Any such particular as is referred to in subjection (1) or subsection (2) or subsection (3). if it relates to the amount of income from any source, shall" | (a) if regular accounts are maintained in relation to such source of income, be the amount computed on such accounts ; and | | (b) if no regular accounts are maintained in relation to such source of income, be the amount which the person furnishing the return believes in good faith to be the amount of income derived from that source. | | | (6) An Assessor may give notice in writing to any person when and as often as he thinks necessary requiring him to furnish within the time specified in such notice : " | (a) fuller and further returns; or | | (b) fuller and further information relating to any matter as is in the opinion of the Assessor, necessary or relevant for the assessment of the income tax. payable by such person. | | | (7) For the purpose of obtaining full information in respect of any person's income, an Assessor may give notice in writing to such person requiring him :- | (a) to produce for examination, or transmit to the Assessor, within the period specified in such notice. any such deeds, plans, instruments, books, account, trade lists, stock lists, registers, cheques, paying-in-slips. auditor's report or other documents in his possession as may be specified in such notice ; | | (b) to attend in person or by an authorized representative at such place and on such date and at such time as may be specified in the notice, for the purpose of being examined regarding his income. | | | (8) For the purposes of this Act a Deputy Commissioner may give notice in writing to any person requiring him :" | (a) to attend in person or by an authorized representative at such place and on such date and at such time as may be specified in such notice so that he may be examined on any such matter as may be specified in the notice : | | (b) to produce before, or transmit to, such Deputy Commissioner within the period specified in such notice any such deed, plans, instruments, books. accounts, trade lists, registers, cheques, paying-in-slips. auditors' reports, or other documents in his possession as may be specified in such notice ; | | (c) furnish within the period specified in such notice such informations as may he called for in that notice in relation to any transactions between such person and any other person or class of persons. | | | Where a notice has been given to any person under this subsection requiring him to furnish any information, such person shall comply with the requirements of such notice notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other law prohibiting the furnishing of such information. | | For the avoidance of doubts, it is hereby declared that any reference in this subsection to "any person" include a reference to a banker. | | (9) A person who attends in compliance with a notice given under subsection (8) may be allowed by the Commissioner-General, such expenses as are reasonably incurred by him in so attending. | | (10) A Deputy Commissioner or an Assessor with the approval of a Deputy Commissioner, may retain in his custody as long as such retention is necessary for any purposes of this Act. any deeds, plans, instruments, books, registers, accounts, trade lists, cheques, paying-in-slips. auditors' reports or other documents which are or have been produced before him or transmitted to him under subsection (8) or produced before an Assessor or transmitted to an Assessor under subsection (7) or which otherwise come or have come into his possession. | | (11) A return, statement or form purporting to be furnished under this Act by or on behalf of any person shall be deemed for all purposes to have been furnished by that person or by his authority, as the ease may be unless the contrary is proved, and any person signing any such return, statement, or form shall be deemed to be cognizant of all matters contained therein. | | (12) For the purpose of this section the expression 'document' includes any diskette, tape, compact disc or any other thing in which any computer programme or data is stored or recorded in codified form or electronic, magnetic or other medium. | | Audit reports to be furnished by partners & c.
| 99. | (1) An Assessor may give notice in writing to a partner of a partnership, or to any other person, who carries on or exercises any trade, business, profession or vocation, requiring such person to furnish within the period specified in such notice, in respect of any year of assessment a statement of accounts and any schedules containing such particulars as may be specified in the notice of such trade, business, profession or vocation, for that year of assessment or for any period in respect of which the statutory income for that year of assessment is computed : | | Provided that" | (a) where such trade, business, profession or vocation is carried on or exercised by any company, such company shall, notwithstanding that a notice under this section has not been given to it. furnish for every year of assessment or for any other period in respect of which the statutory income for that year of assessment is computed, such statements and such schedules as may be specified by the Commissioner-General by notice published in the Gazette ; and | | (b) where such trade, business, profession or vocation is carried on or exercised by any partnership, or by any person other than any company and the turnover of such trade business profession or vocation, for any year of assessment or for any other period in respect of which the statutory income for any year of assessment is computed, exceeds five million rupees such partner or such person shall, notwithstanding that a notice under this section has not been given to him, furnish for such year of assessment or for such period, as the case may be, such statements and such schedules as may be specified by the Commissioner-General by notice published in the Gazette. | | | (2) Where a statement of accounts in support of a return of income furnished by any person for the purposes of this Act is prepared by an approved accountant, such statement shall be accompanied by" | (a) a certificate of an approved accountant in such form and containing such particulars as may be specified by the Commissioner-General ; and | | (b) schedules containing such particulars relating to the statement of accounts as may be specified by the Commissioner-General : | | | Provided that a statement of accounts in support of a return of income for any year of assessment or for any other period in respect of which the statutory income for that year of assessment is computed" | (i) furnished by any company in respect of any trade, business, profession or vocation carried on or exercised by such company ; or | | (ii) furnished by any partner of any partnership or by any person other than a company, in respect of any trade, business, profession or vocation carried on or exercised by such partnership or by such person where the turnover of such trade. business, profession or vocation for that) ear of assessment or that period, exceeds, five million rupees. | | | shall be prepared on the basis of an audit carried out by an approved accountant. | | (3) For the purposes of this section" | (a) "approved accountant" means" | (i) an accountant who is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka : | | (ii) an accountant who is approved by the Commissioner-General for the purpose of the definition of authorized representative : or | | (iii) any individual who is registered as an auditor under the Companies (Auditors) Regulations and approved by the Commissioner-General for the purpose of the definition of "authorised representative'' ; and | | | (b) "turnover" in relation to any trade, business. profession or vocation and to any period, means the total amount received or receivable from transactions entered into, or, for services performed, during that period in carrying on or exercising such trade, business, profession or vocation (excluding any amount received or receivable from the sale of capital assets). | | | Returns and other documents to contain the national identity card number or passport number.
| 100. | (1) Every individual who is chargeable with income tax. under this Act. for any year of assessment shall, for the purposes of this Act," | (a) indicate in his return of income, for such year of assessment" | (i) his identity card number if he is a person liable for registration under the Registration of Persons Act. No. 32 of 1968 ; or | | (ii) the number in his current passport if he is not liable to registration under the aforesaid Act ; | | | (b) indicate in the documents relating to any transaction specified by the Minister by notice published in the Gazette, having regard to the need to ensure the equitable administration of the provisions of this Act" | (i) his identity card number if he is a person liable to registration under the aforesaid Act; or | | (ii) the number in his current passport if he is not liable to registration under the aforesaid Act. | | | | (2) Every company or partnership or body of persons which is chargeable with income tax under this Act. for any year of assessment shall for the purposes of this Act. indicate its registration number under the Business Names Act or the Companies Act. No, 17 of 1982. as the case may be | (a) its return of income for that year of assessment; and | | (b) all such documents relating to all such transactions as are specified by the Minister under paragraph (b) of subsection (1). | | | Returns to be furnished of income received on account of or paid to other persons
| 101. Where any person in any capacity whatever" | (a) receives any profit or income liable to tax within the meaning of this Act and which have accrued or arisen to some other person ; or | | (b) pays to some other person, or to his order, any such profits or income. | | | An Assessor may give notice to such first-named person requiring him to furnish within the period specified in such notice a return containing" | (i) a true and correct statement of all such profits and income ; and | | (ii) the name and address of every person to whom such profits and income have accrued or arisen. | | Occupiers to furnish returns of rent payable.
| 102. An Assessor may give notice in writing to any person who is the occupier of any land or building requiring him to furnish within the period specified in such notice, a return containing" | (a) the name and address of the owner of such land or building ; | | (b) any improvements effected to such land or building : | | (c) a true and correct statement of the rent payable and any other consideration passing in relation thereto. | | Return of lodgers and inmates.
| 103. An Assessor may give notice in writing to any person requiring him within the period specified in such notice. to furnish a return containing the name of every lodger or inmate who is at the date of the notice resident in his house. hotel or institution and has been so resident, except for temporary absences, throughout the period of three months preceding that date. | Power of Commissioner-General to impose penalty for furnish return.
| 104. | (1) Where" | (a) any person fails to comply with a notice in writing given to him by an Assessor under section 98 (i). requiring him to furnish, within the time specified in such notice, a return of his income, and if he has a child, the income of such child ; or | | (b) any person fails to furnish within the time specified in section 98(2), a return which he is required to furnish under that section ; or | | (c) any employer fails to comply with any requirement of the provisions of section iii ; the Commissioner-General may" | (i) impose on such person or on such employer a penalty of a sum not exceeding fifty thousand rupees, and give notice in writing, to such person or employer, of the imposition of such penalty ; and | | (ii) by notice in writing require such person or such employer" | (a) to pay such penalty : and | | (b) to furnish such return where such return has not furnished, or to comply with such requirement where such requirement has been complied with | | | within such period as may be specified in such notice. | | | | (2) The Commissioner-General may reduce or waive any penalty imposed on any person or on any employer under this section if such person or such employer, as the case may be, proves to the satisfaction that the failure to furnish such return or to comply with such requirement, as the case may be, was due to circumstances beyond his control and that he has furnished such return or has complied with such requirement, as the case may be. | | (3) Where a penalty is imposed on any person or on any employer under subsection (1), such person or such employer shall not be liable to prosecution for any offence under paragraph (a) or paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section 171 or under paragraph (ii) of subsection (2) of section 171 relating to that notice or requirement. | | | | PAYMENT OR TAX BY SELF-ASSESSMENT | | Payment of tax by self-assessment.
| 105. | (1) Any income tax, which any person is liable to pay under this act for any year of assessment shall be paid by such person to the Commissioner-General in four instalments on or before the fifteenth day respectively of August. November and February in that year of assessment and the fifteenth day of May of the next succeeding year of assessment, notwithstanding that the assessment has been made on him by an Assessor. Each such instalment is hereinafter referred to as a "quarterly instalment". | | (2) The quarterly instalment of a tax payable by any person for any year of assessment shall be one-quarter of the tax payable by him for that year of assessment. | | (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) and subsection (2) of this section, the entirety of the tax payable by any company resident in Sri Lanka under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 53 or under section 60 in respect of dividends distributed by such company, shall be paid on or before the thirtieth day succeeding the date of distribution of such dividends. | | (4) Notwithstanding the provisions of any of the foregoing subsections, the entirety of the advance company tax payable by any company resident in Sri Lanka, under section 54(1) on an amount equal to the amount of every qualifying distribution made by such company in any year of assessment. shall be remitted to the Commissioner-General at the time at which the dividend consisting of each such qualifying distribution is distributed. The remittance shall be accompanied by a declaration in such form and containing such particulars as may be specified by the Commissioner- General to ensure the orderly collection of such tax. | | For the purposes of this subsection the expression "the time at which the dividend consisting of each such qualifying distribution is distributed" means the date on which the dividend is declared or where the dividend is declared to be paid on a future date, such future date. | | | | DEDUCTION OR INCOME TAX FROM REMUNERATION OF EMPLOYFES BY EMPLOYERS | | Employees to deduct income tax.
| 106. | (1) Every employer .shall deduct income tax in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter from the remuneration of his employees for each pay period at the time of payment of such remuneration. | | (2) Income tax deducted under subsection (1) from the remuneration of an employee shall be deemed to have been paid by such employee to the Commissioner-General on the date on which such deduction was made. | | Employers to give notice to Commissioner-General.
| 107. | (1) Every employer who employs" | (a) an individual who receives remuneration in excess of twelve thousand rupees per month or one hundred and forty four thousand rupees per annum: or | | (b) any non-resident individual : | | | who has not given notice to the Commissioner-General under sub-section (1) of section 107c the Inland Revenue Act, No. 4 of 1963 or under section 99 of the Inland Revenue Act. No. 28 of 1979 or under this Act, shall give notice to the Commissioner-General not later than July 01, 2000, that he has in his employ such individual (hereinafter in this Chapter referred to as a "specified employee"). | | (2) Where an employer commences to employ any specified employee or to pay remuneration to any specified employee, such employer shall within seven days of commencement of such employment, as the case may be. give notice to the Commissioner-General that he has in his employment such employee. | | Provided that the preceding provisions of this subsection shall not apply to an employer who has given notice under subsection (1). | | (3) Any notice given by an employer under subsection (1) or subsection (2) shall be in such form and contain such particulars as may be specified by the Commissioner-General. | | (4) Notwithstanding that an employer has failed so give notice under subsection (1) or subsection (2). such employer shall deduct income tax from the remuneration of each of his specified employees in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter. | | Application of income tax tables.
| 108. | (1) The amount of income tax to be deducted by an employer for any year of assessment in terms of section 106 shall be in accordance with the income tax tables specified by the Commissioner-General and applicable to that year of assessment. | | (2) Income tax shall be deducted in respect of a pay period in accordance with the income tax table applicable to regular profits from employment from the remuneration for such pay period of every employee in respect of regular profits from employment, and all such profits in respect of a pay period shall aggregated and be deemed to be one payment for the purposes of the application of the income tax table. | | Regular profits from employment in respect of any pay period shall include" | (a) wages, salary allowances or pension payable in respect of such pay period or such other profits from employment which arise or accrue regularly and are payable in respect of such pay period : | | (b) such profits from employment as are referred to in paragraph (d) of section 4 and such profits from employment in the form of perquisites or benefits other than those referred to in subsections (3) and (4), as have arisen or accrued in respect of such pay period ; and | | (c) such profits from employment as are not included in paragraph (a) or paragraph (6)or in paragraph (c) of section 4 if the total of such profits fur such pay period does not exceed five hundred rupees. | | | (3) Income tax shall be deducted in respect of such profits from employment as are referred to in paragraph (c) of section 4 in accordance with the income tax table applicable to such profits. | | (4) Income tax shall be deducted in respect of such profits from employment as are received by the employee by way of bonus, commission or any other benefits of a similar character, in accordance with the income tax table applicable to such profits. | | (5) Where the income tax table are altered, the income tax tables as altered shall be applied from the pay period following the date on which the altered income tax tables take effect. | | (6) Where any profits from employment are not paid but are credited or applied to the account or benefit of an employee or to the account or benefit or any other person on behalf of an employee, such profits shall be deemed to be paid to such employee when they are so credited or applied. | | (7) Where the remuneration of an employee is not paid monthly, the aggregate of the payments made in each calendar month shall be deemed to be a monthly payment and such employee .shall be deemed to be an employee to whom remuneration is paid monthly and the deduction of income tax appropriate to such monthly payment may be made from any one or more of the payments made during the month : | | Provided that the Commissioner-General may. on application made by an employer or employee, specify some other method in which such deduction shall be made. | | (8) For the purposes of this Chapter, the amount of any commission paid to any employee shall be deemed to be profits from employment arising on the date of such payment. | | (9) Where the Commissioner-General is satisfied on application made by an employer to make payments for work done overtime by an employee during any pay period at the same time as the other regular remuneration for such pay period is paid, payments for such work done over lime may. for the purpose of determining the amount of income tax deduction, be aggregated with the employee's regular remuneration for a succeeding pay period. | | (10) If any remuneration is paid by the employer after date of death of an employee in respect of his employment with such employer, the employer shall on making such payment deduct income tax as if the deceased employee were still in his employment. | | Directions to employers.
| 109. | (1) Any employee from whose renumeration income tax is deducted by his employer in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter may. if the mount of income tax payable by him for any year of assessment is less than the income tax deductible under this chapter, or if income tax has been deducted from his remuneration in excess of the amount that should have been deducted, make an application to the Commissioner-General in such form and containing such particulars as may be specified by the Commissioner-General, that a direction be issued to his employer to make the necessary adjustments in the deduction of income tax for that year of assessment. | | (2) The Commissioner-General or any officer authorized by the Commissioner-General may, on an application made by an employee under subsection (1), issue to the employer of such employee the necessary direction in writing (a copy of which shall be issued to the employee), and such employer shall deduct income tax from the remuneration of such employee in accordance with such direction : | | Provided that any such direction issued may at any time be varied. | | (3) The Commissioner-General, or any officer authorized by the Commissioner-General, may in respect of any employee chargeable with income tax under this Act. issue so the person who is the employer of that employee, a direction in writing (a copy of which shall be issued to that employee) requiring such person to deduct in accordance with such direction, the income tax payable under this Act. from the remuneration of such employee, and such person shall deduct income tax from such remuneration in accordance with such direction : | | Provided that any such direction may at any time be varied. | | For the purposes of this Chapter, a person in respect of whom a direction has been issued under this section .shall be deemed to be a "specified employee". | | (4) Any employee who is dissatisfied with a direction issued under subsection (2) or under subsection (3) in respect of any year of assessment may, within a period of thirty days after the date of issue of such direction, appeal to the Commissioner-General in writing setting out precisely the grounds of such appeal. The decision of the Commissioner- General on any such appeal shall be final and conclusive : | | Provided that the Commissioner-General shall, on a request made in writing by such employee, cause an assessment to be made under section 134 on such employee for that year of assessment for the purpose of enabling such employee to prefer an appeal under section 136 against such assessment. | | Employers to maintain proper records.
| 110. Every employer who makes any payment of remuneration to any specified employee shall" | (a) keep a proper record of payment of such remuneration in such pay sheet and in such manner as may be specified by the Commissioner-General ; | | (b) take all reasonable precautions for the safe custody of alI employees' declarations, pay sheets, receipts for payment of remuneration to employees and aIl other accounting records pertaining to the-remuneration of the employees and to the income tax deducted and paid to the Commissioner-General. and shall retain all such records for a period of not less than five years after the end of the year of assessment to which such records relate ; and | | (c) permit any officer authorized in writing by the Commissioner-General to inspect any record maintained by him and referred to in paragraph (a) or (b). | | Duties of employee following deductions from Income Tax.
| 111. Every employer who is required to make income tax deductions from the remuneration paid to his employees under the provisions of this Chapter, shall" | (a) not later than the fifteenth day of the month following the month in which he made any such deductions, pay to the Commissioner-General the amount of such deductions and at the same time furnish to the Commissioner-General, a monthly declaration in such form and in such manner as may be specified by the Commissioner-General ; | | (b) not later than the thirtieth day of April in such year give to each employee from whose remuneration income tax has been deducted under the provisions of this Chapter, a certificate in such form and containing such particulars as may be specified by the Commissioner-General, in respect of the deductions so made in the preceding year of assessment; | | (c) within thirty days after the cessation of employment of any employee give to such employee a certificate, in such form as may be specified by the Commissioner-General, specifying the amount of income tax deducted in respect of the period commencing from the first day of the year of assessment during which the cessation of employment took place and ending on the date of such cessation ; | | (d) not later than the thirtieth day of April in each year furnish to the Commissioner General in respect of the preceding year of assessment in annual declaration in such from and containing such particulars as may be specified by the Commissioner-General together with in income tax deduction card in such from as be specified by the Commissioner General in respect of each employee from whose remuneration income tax was deducted under the provisions of this Chapter during the year of assessment to which the annual declaration relates : and | | (e) not later than the last day of the month following the month in any year of assessment in which the employer ceased to carry on or exercise an) trade, business profession or vocation comply with the provisions of paragraph (d) in respect of the trade business profession of vacation which he ceases to carry on or exercise, as if the period from the first day of that year of assessment to the date of such cessation were the preceding year of assessment referred to in that paragraph | | Adjustments of amount of income tax not paid or paid in excess.
| 112. | (1) Where an employer fails to deduct the amount of income tax required to be deducted under the provisions of this Chapter or part thereof from the remuneration paid to any employee such employer shall on becoming cognizant of such failure furnish to the Commissioner - General a declaration in the form specified under section 111 and remit such amount of income tax as was not deducted to the Commissioner- General together with such amounts as may be due under section 118. | | (2) Where during any year of assessment an employer has remitted to the Commissioner-General in respect of any pay period any sum in excess of the amount deducted, the employer may deduct such excess payment from the remittance in respect of any subsequent pay period in that year of assessment, and notify the Commissioner-General accordingly. | | Employee to give notice when necessary deductions are not made.
| 113. | (1) Where for any reason a deduction of income tax is not made in Full at the lime of making payment of remuneration to an employee such employee shall, if such remuneration is liable to income tax, give notice in writing to the Commissioner-General within fifteen days of receipt of such remuneration that he has received such remuneration without such deduction having been made. | | (2) A notice under subsection (1) shall contain the full name and address of the person giving such notice, the full name and address of his employer, and full particulars relating to his remuneration. | | income tax deducted not to form part of assets of employers.
| 114. Notwithstanding anything in any other law, the amount of every tax deduction made under the provisions of this Chapter and held by the employer for remittance to the Commissioner General shall not be such property of such employer as is liable to execution or administration in the event of the bankruptcy, liquidation dissolution or death of such employer or to assignment for the benefit of creditors, and such amount shall remain apart from, and form no part of, the estate in bankruptcy, liquidation assignment of such employer or the estate of the deceased employer | Defaults in the deduction or payments of income tax.
| 115. | (1) Where any employer fails to deduct income tax in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter from the remuneration of any employee; or where any employer has deducted income tax for any pay period from remuneration of an employee and has not remitted the full amount of such deduction to the Commissioner-General on or before the fifteenth day of the following month, such employer shall be personally liable for the entire amount of the tax he was required to deduct under the provisions of this Chapter but has not so deducted, or as the case may be, for the entire amount or pan of the amount of the tax deducted which was not remitted to the Commissioner-General and such amount not deducted or deducted and not remitted, shall be deemed to be in default from the day following the day on or before which such amount should have been remitted to the Commissioner-General, and such employer shall be deemed to be a defaulter, and such amount may be recovered from such employer in the manner provided in this Act. | | (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), the Commissioner-General may recover from the employee the amount of the income tax or any part thereof which the employer had failed to deduct from the remuneration of the employee. | | (3) Nothing in this section shall be read and construed as preventing the Commissioner-General from taking such steps as he thinks fit to recover the amount of income tax referred to in subsection (2) wholly from the employer or wholly from the employee or partly from the employer and partly from the employee, | | Issue of Assessments on employers.
| 116. | (1) Where an employer who is required under the provisions of this Chapter to deduct income tax from the remuneration paid to his employees" on | (a) fails to deduct the whole or any part of the income tax for any pay period ; | | (b) fails to remit to the Commissioner-General the whole or any part of the income tax, deducted for any pay period ; or | | (c) fails to furnish any monthly or annual declaration under section 111. | | | an Assessor may at any time during the year of assessment within which that pay period fails or within three years from the end of that year of assessment, assess the amount of income tax or the additional amount of income tax which such employer in the opinion of the Assessor should have deducted and paid to the Commissioner-General for such pay period, and shall, by notice in writing, require such employer to pay such amount forthwith together with such amount as may he due under section 118. | | (2) Where it appears to an Assessor that for any pay period in any year of assessment an employer has been assessed under subsection (1) at less than the proper amount of income tax which he should have deducted and paid to the Commissioner-General, the Assessor may at any time during that year of assessment or within three years from the end of that year of assessment, assess such employer at the additional amount of income tax at which such employer in the opinion of the Assessor should have been assessed and shall, by notice in writing, require such employer to pay such amount forthwith together with such amount as may be due under section 118: | | Provided that where in the opinion of the Assessor any fraud, evasion or wilful default has been committed by or on behalf of nay employer in relation to any income tax deductible by such employer in any year of assessment, it shall be lawful for the Assessor to make an assessment or an additional assessment on such employer at any time after the end of that year of assessment. | | Appeals.
| 117. | (1) Any employer aggrieved by the amount of any assessment made under the provisions of this Chapter may appeal in writing against such assessment to the Commissioner-General within a period of thirty days after the date of the notice of such assessment: | | Provided that the Commissioner-General upon being satisfied that owing to absence from Sri Lanka, sickness or other reasonable cause, the appellant was prevented from appealing within such period, shall grant an extension of time for preferring the appeal. | | (2) Where the assessment appealed against under subsection (1) has been made in the absence of a monthly declaration, or an annual declaration, as the case may be, required to be furnished under section 111, the petition of appeal shall be preferred together with such declaration. | | (3) Every employer preferring an appeal under subsection (1) against the amount of in assessment for any pay pound falling within any year of assessment shall (unless such employer has already done so ) remit to the Commissioner-Genera] the whole or any part of the income tax which such employer was required, under the provisions of this Chapter to deduct from the remuneration paid to his employees m respect of such pay period and to remit to the Commissioner-General but which has not been remitted together with any penalty under section 118 which accrued thereon up to the date of the notice of such assessment and shall attach to the petition of appeal a receipt in proof of such remittance | | (4) A petition of appeal which does not conform to the provisions of subsections (2) and (3) shall not be valid. | | (5) The amount of income tax charged by an assessment made under section 116 shall be paid by the employer notwithstanding that an appeal against such assessment has been preferred under subsection (1). | | (6) The provisions of sections 136(6) to 141 shall mutatis mutandis, apply to any appeal preferred under subsection (1). | | (7) Where no valid appeal has been preferred within the period specified in subsection (1) against an assessment made in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter, or where agreement is reached under section 136(6) as regards an assessment, or where an assessment had been determined on appeal the assessment as made or agreed or determined on appeal, as the case may be, shall be final and conclusive (or all purposes of this Act: | | Provided that nothing in this subsection shall be read and construed as preventing an Assessor from making, subject to the provisions of section 116, an assessment or additional assessment, for any pay period in any year of assessment which does not involve re-opening any matter which has been determined on appeal. | | Penalty for default.
| 118. Where any income tax for any pay period payable by any employer under the provisions of this Chapter is in default, such employer shall pay in addition to such tax- | (a) a penalty of a sum equivalent to ten per centum of such tax ; and | | (b) where such tax is not paid before the expiry of thirty days after it has begun to be in default, a further penalty of a sum equivalent to two per centum of the tax in default in respect of each further period of thirty days or part thereof during, which it remains in default: | | | Provided that" | (i) the Commissioner-General may waive or reduce the amount of any such penalty payable by any employer, if such employer proves to the satisfaction of the Commissioner-General that the failure to pay was sue to circumstances beyond his control and that he has paid the amount of the tax in default and has furnished the declaration required to be furnished at the time of such payment; | | (ii) the total amount payable as penalty under the preceding provisions of this section, shall, in respect of the tax in default for any pay period not exceed fifty per centum of the tax in default, | | Credit for tax paid.
| 119. Where the assessable income of an employee for any year of assessment includes any remuneration in respect of which income tax has been deducted in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, such employee shall be entitled on production of a certificate of deduction of tax relating to such remuneration issued in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of section 103 to a set-off against the tax payable by him for that year of assessment, of the amount of tax shown in such certificate to have been deducted. | Compliance with the provisions of this Chapter relating to forms.
| 120. Where under the provisions of this Chapter an employer is required to record or furnish particulars in such form and in such manner as may be specified by the Commissioner-General, it shall be sufficient compliance with those provisions if the particulars are recorded or furnished by the employer in such form and in such manner as may be approved in writing by the Commissioner-General upon an application in that behalf made by the employer. | Interpretation.
| 121. In this Chapter unless the context otherwise requires" | | "employee" includes" | (a) any director of a company or corporation ; | | (b) any working partner of a partnership ; | | (c) any person receiving remuneration for past services performed by him or performed by any other person . | | | "employer" means any person, partnership, body of persons of any organization" | (a) for whom an individual performs services as an employee ; | | (b) paying any profits from employment within the meaning of section 4 : or | | (c) paying any pension or other remuneration to a former employee or to any other person, for the past services of such employee. | | | and includes in the case of a body, institution or person specified in Column I hereunder. the person specified in the corresponding entry in Column II ., | Column I | Column II | | (1) A company or a body of persons whether corporate or unicorporate. | Director, secretary, manager or other principal officer of such company or body of persons. | | (2) A partnership | The precedent partner or any active partner resident in Sri Lanka and in the case of a partnership of which no active partner is resident in Sri Lanka the agent of such partnership in Sri Lanka; | | (3) The Estate of a deceated person | The executor or administrar or of the estate; | | (4) A trust | The trustee or trustee of the trust; | | (5) A non -residend person | The agent or attorney of such person in Sri Lanka; | | | "pay period" means a month, week or such other period in respect of which remuneration is calculated and paid by an employer to an employee : | | "principal officer' in relation to any company of body of persons means any person to whom a notice has been given under any provisions of this Chapter or of Chapter XXII on behalf of that company or body of persons unless he proves that he has no connection with that company or body of person of that some other person resident in Sri Lanka is the principal officer thereof | | "remuneration"' means profits from employment within the meaning of section 4. | | | DEDUCTION OF INCOME TAX FROM INTEREST PAID BY BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS | | Bank and financial institution to deduct income tax.
| 122. | (1) Every bank or financial institution shall, subject to the other provisions of this Chapter, deduct from the interest payable by it in any year of assessment, on any sum of money deposited with it by a person in his own name or in the name of some other person being in either case a person chargeable with income tax under this Act, income tax at the rate of ten per centum. | | 'For the purposes of a deduction under this section "interest" means such part of" | (a) the interest received by a person chargeable with income tax. from a bank or financial institution : and | | (b) any sum of money received by such person as interest or discount in respect of a bond issued by a bank or financial institution not being a sum of money received as interest or discount on" | (i) a government security held by any person ; | | (ii) a treasury bill held by any person ; or | | (iii) a bond, note, debenture, loan stock or other security held by such person and which is quoted in any official list published by any stock exchange licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka ; | | | in any year of assessment, as is not exempt from income tax or in respect of which no deduction has been made under section 90. | | | (2) Every bank or financial institution which deducts income tax in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) from any interest paid by it in any year of assessment, to a person chargeable with income tax under this Act. shall issue to such person a statement setting out the following particulars :" | (a) the gross amount of the interest due in such year of assessment; | | (b) the rate and amount of tax deducted, and the period for which it is deducted : and | | (c) the net amount of interest actually paid. | | | Credit for tax deduction.
| 123. Where the assessable income of a person for any years of assessment includes a payment referred to in section 122. then" | (a) if the income tax payable by him for that year of assessment exceeds the total of the deductions made under section 122. he shall be entitled, on production of a statement relating to such payment made in accordance with that section, to deduct from the income tax payable by him for that year of assessment- the amount of tax set out in such statement; | | (b) if the income tax payable by him for that year of assessment is less than the total of the deductions made under section 123, he shall be entitled, on production of a statement relating to such payment made in accordance with that section and subject to the provisions of Chapter XXIV, to a refund of the amount of the difference between the income tax payable by him for that year of assessment and the amount set out in such statement. | | Issue of direction.
| 124. | (1) Any person from whose interest, income tax is deductible by a bank or financial institution, in accordance with the provisions of section 122, may, if the amount of income tax payable by him for any year of assessment is less than the income tax deductible for that year of assessment under section 122. make an application to the Commissioner-General in such form, and containing such particulars, as may be specified by the Commissioner-General that a direction be issued to that bank or financial institution to make the necessary adjustments in the deduction of income tax for that year of assessment. | | (2) The Commissioner-General or any officer authorized by the Commissioner-General may. on an application, made by any person under subsection (1) issue to the bank or financial institution specified in such application, the necessary direction in writing (a copy of which shall be issued to the applicant) and such bank or financial institution shall deduct income tax from the interest payable to such person in accordance with such direction : | | Provided that any such direction issued may at anytime be varied. | | (3) Any person who is dissatisfied with a direction issued under this section in respect of any year of assessment may. within a period of thirty days after the date of such direction. appeal to the Commissioner-General in writing setting out precisely the grounds of such appeal. The Decision of the Commissioner-General on any such appeal shall be final and conclusive : | | Provided that the Commissioner-General shall on a request made in writing by such person, cause an assessment to be made under section 134 on such person for that year of assessment for the purpose of enabling such person to prefer an appeal under section 136 against such assessment. | | (4) Every bank or financial institution shall | (a) Keep a proper record of the interest paid to any person in any year of assessment and the date or dates on which such interest is paid in such manner as may be specified by the Commissioner - General and | | (b) permit any officer authorized in Writing by the Commissioner-General to inspect any record maintained by it and referred to in paragraph (a). | | | Duties of bank and financial institution following deductions of income tax.
| 125 . Every bank or financial institution which required to deduct income tax from the interest paid by it in any year of assessment to any person chargeable with income tax with income tax under this Act, shall deduct such income tax at the time when such interest is paid to such person in accordance with any agreement entered into between such bank or financial institutions and such person with respect to such payment and shall remit the amount to deducted to the Commissioner -General before the fifteenth day of the month following the month in which the deduction was made and at the same time furnish to the Commissioner - General declaration in such from and in such manner as may he specified by the Commissioner-General. | Default in the deduction of income tax.
| 126. | (1) Where any bank or financial institution fails to income tax from the interest paid by it in any year of in a person chargeable with income tax under this Act, in .accordance . with section 125 or where the bank or financial institution fails to remit to the Commissioner -General any amount so deducted such bank or financial institution shall be liable for the. entire amount of the tax it was required to deduct under the provisions of this section but has not deducted or as the case may be for the entire amount or part of the amount of the tax deducted and not remitted to the Commissioner-General and the amount not deducted or deducted and not remitted, as the case muted as the case may be deemed in be in default horn the day following the before which such amount should have been remitted Commissioner -General and such bank or financial institution shall be deemed to be a defaulter, and such amount recovered from such bank or financial l institution in manner provided in this Act. | | (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subset turn (1), the Commissioner-General may recover from the person from whom such deduction should have been made the amount of the income tax or any part thereof which the bank or financial institution has tailed to deduct from the interest paid to such person | | (3) Nothing in this section shall be read and construed as preventing the Commissioner General from taking such steps as he thinks fit to recover the amount of income tax referred to in subsection (2) wholly from the bank or financial institution of wholly from the person from whom such deduction should have been made or partly from the bark or financial institution and partly from that person | | Issue of assessment on bank and financial institution.
| 127. Where any bank or financial institution which is required to deduct income tax from the interest paid in any year of assessment to any person chargeable with income tax under this Act fails to - | (a) deduct the whole or any, part of the income tax which it is required to deduct under this Chapter | | (b) remit to the Commissioner-General the whole or any part of the income tax so deducted, or | | (c) furnish any declaration under section 125 | | | an Assessor may at any time within three years from the end of that year of assessment, assess the amount of income tax or the additional amount of income tax which in the opinion of the Assessor such bank or financial institution should have deducted and paid to the Commissioner General for such year of assessment and shall by notice in writing require such bank or financial institution to pay such amount forthwith together with such amount as may be due under section 129- | | Provided that, where in the opinion of the Assessor any fraud s evasion or willful default, has been committed by or on behalf of any such bank or financial institution, in relation to any such income tax deductible by such bank or financial institution, ii shall be lawful for the Assessor to make an assessment or an additional assessment on such bank or financial institution at any time after the end of such year of assessment. | Appeals.
| 128. | (1) Any Bank or financial institution aggrieved by the amount of any assessment made under the provisions of section 127 may appeal in writing against such assessment to the Commissioner-General within a period of thirty days after the date of the notice of such assessment: | | Provided that, the Commissioner-General upon being satisfied that owing to absence from Sri Lanka, sickness or other reasonable cause, the appellant was prevented from appealing within such period, shall grant an extension of time for preferring the appeal. | | (2) Where the assessment appealed against under subsection (1) has been made in the absence of a declaration required to be furnished under section 125, the petition of appeal shall be preferred together with such declaration. | | (3) Every bank or financial institution preferring an appeal under subsection (1) against the amount of an assessment, shall, (unless such bank or financial institution has already done so), remit to the Commissioner-General the whole or any part of the income tax (which such bank or financial institution was required, under the provisions of this Chapter, to deduct from the interest paid by such bank or financial institution in respect of that year of assessment, and to remit to the Commissioner-General but which has not been remitted) together with any penalty under section 129 which has accrued thereon up to the date of the notice of such assessment, and shall attach, to the petition of appeal, a receipt in proof of such remittance. | | (4) A petition of appeal which does not conform to the provisions of subsection (2) and (3) shall not be valid. | | (5) The amount of income tax charged by an assessment made under section 127 shall be paid by the bank or financial institution notwithstanding that an appeal against such assessment has been preferred under subsection (1). | | (6) The provisions of subsection (6) of sections 136 to 141 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to any appeal preferred under subsection (1). | | (7) Where no valid appeal has been preferred within the period specified in subsection (1) against an assessment made in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter, or where an agreement is reached under subsection (6) of section 136 as regards the assessment, or where an assessment has been determined on appeal, the assessment as made or agreed or determined on appeal, as the case may be, shall be final and conclusive for all purposes of this Act. | | Penalty for default.
| 129. Where any income tax for any year of assessment payable by a bank or financial institution under the provisions of this Chapter is in default, such bank or financial institution shall pay in addition to such tax" | (a) a penalty of a sum equivalent to ten per centum of such tax; and | | (b) where such tax is not paid before the expiry of thirty days after it has begun to be in default, a further penalty of a sum equivalent to two per centum of the tax in default in respect of each further period of thirty days or part thereof during which it remains in default: | | | Provided that" | (a) the Commissioner-General may waive or reduce the amount of any such penalty payable by such bank or financial institution, if such bank or financial institution proves to the satisfaction of the Commissioner-General that the failure to pay was due to circumstances beyond its control and that it has paid the tax in default and has furnished the declaration required to be furnished at the time of such payment; and | | (b) the total amount payable as penalty under the preceding provisions of this section shall, in respect of the tax in default for any year of assessment, not exceeding fifty per centum of the tax in default | | Interpretation.
| 130. In this Chapter , 'financial institution ' means any person or body of persons, corporate or unincorporate . whose business or part of whose business consists in the acceptance of money by way of deposit, or loan in the from of debenture or bond or in any other form, and the payment of interest thereon whether such acceptance is on Us own behalf or on behalf of any other person | | | DEDUCTION OF INCOME TAX FROM SPECIFIED FEES PAID BY SPECIFIED PERSONS | | Specified persons to deduct income from specified fees.
| 131. | (1) Every specified person shall, subject to the provisions of this Chapter, deduct from any specified fee tax payable to any person or to any partnership, at the time such specified fee is paid, income tax at the rate of five per centum of such specified fee. | | (2) For the purposes of subsection (1)" | (a) "specified person" in relation to any year of assessment means any person, partnership or body of persons, who or which either on his or its own behalf or on behalf of any other person or persons or partnership or partnerships is likely to pay or to credit in that year of assessment or has paid or credited in the year of assessment immediately preceding that year of assessment" | (i) a specified fee of or specified fees aggregating to not less than thirty thousand rupees to any other person on to any other partnership; or | | (ii) specified fees aggregating to not less than two hundred and fifty thousand rupees : and | | | (b) "specified fee" means any sum payable by any specified person as consideration for services rendered by any person or by any partnership, as the case may be. in the course of any business, profession or vocation or other activities of an independent character carried on or exercised by such person or any partner of such partnership, as the case may be and includes any commission, brokerage or other sums of a like nature payable by such specified person but does not include any sum payable by such specified person to any employee of such specified person in the course of employment under such specified person. | | | Provisions of Chapter XV to apply in relation to the deduction under this Chapter of income tax from specified fees.
| 132. The provisions of Chapter XV relating to the deduction of income tax from interest paid by banks and financial institutions, credit for income tax so deducted, issue of directions, duties of banks and financial institutions, default in the deduction of income tax. issue of assessments on banks and financial institutions, appeals and penalty for default shall mutatis mutandis, apply to the deduction of income tax from specified fees by specified persons, credit for income tax so deducted, issue of directions, duties of specified persons. default in the deduction of income tax. issue of assessments on specified persons, appeals and penalty for default under this Chapter as if there were substituted in Chapter XV for the words "banks and financial institutions", of the words "specified persons" and for the word "interest", of the words "specified fee" wherever they appear in that Chapter, subject. however, to the modification that credit for income tax deducted under the provisions of this Chapter by any specified person from any specified fee paid to any partnership shall, unless the partners of such partnership by mutual agreement determine otherwise, be distributed among such partners in the ratio in which such partners share the profits or losses of such partnership. | | | RETENTION OF MONEYS IN CERTAIN PROVIDENT FUNDS | | Retention of fifteen per centum of moneys lying to the credit of a contributor to a specified provident fund to meet any tax payable.
| 133. The person having custody of the moneys lying in any provident fund to the credit of a contributor to such fund who is liable to income tax on any part of such moneys, shall, when he makes payment of these moneys to that contributor, retain in his custody an amount equal to fifteen per centum of those moneys other than such part thereof as represents the contributions made by that contributor. The person who retains in his custody such amount shall notify the Commissioner- General of the amount so retained and deduct therefrom the sum which the Commissioner-General by notice in writing directs him to deduct in respect of any tax payable under any law administered by the Commissioner-General and the sum so deducted shall be paid to the Commissioner-General. Any balance left after such deduction shall be paid to such contributor. | | Assessment and additional assessments.
| 134. | (1) Where any person, who in the opinion of an Assessor is liable to any income tax for any year of assessment has not paid such tax or has paid an amount less than the proper amount which he ought to have paid as such tax for such year of assessment, an Assessor may. subject to the provisions of subsection (3) and (5) and after the fifteenth day of November immediately succeeding that year of assessment assess the amount which in the judgment of the Assessor ought to have been paid by such person, and shall by notice in writing require such person to pay forthwith - | (a) the amount of tax so assessed, if such person has not paid any tax for that year of assessment ; or | | (b) the difference between the amount of tax so assessed and the amount of tax paid by such person for that year of assessment, if such person has paid any amount as tax for that year of assessment: | | | Provided that an assessor may. subject to the provisions of subsections (3) and (5), assess any person for any year of assessment at any time prior to the fifteenth day of November immediately succeeding that year of assessment if he is of opinion that such person is about to leave Sri Lanka or that it is expedient to do so for the protection of revenue and require such person to pay such tax to the Commissioner-General earlier than as required under subsection (1) of section 105 | | (2) Where it appears to an Assessor that any person liable to income tax. for any year of assessment, has been assessed at less than the proper amount, the Assessor may. subject to the provisions of subsection (3) and subsection (5), assess such person at the additional amount at which according to his opinion such person ought to have been assessed and the provisions of this Act as to notice of assessment, appeal and other proceedings shall apply to such additional assessment and to the tax charged thereunder. | | (3) Where a person has furnished a return of income, the Assessor may in making an assessment on such person under subsection (1) or under subsection (2), either" | (a) accept the return made by such person ; or | | (b) if he does not accept the return made by that person estimate the amount of the assessable income, of such person and assess him accordingly : | | | Provided that where an Assessor does not accept a return made by any person for any year of assessment and make an assessment, or additional assessment on such person for that year of assessment, he shall communicate to such person in writing, his reasons for not accepting the return. | | (4) Where a person has not furnished a return of income, and the Assessor is of the opinion that such person is liable to pay income tax. the Assessor may, in making an assessment on such person under subsection (1) or subsection (2), estimate the amount of the assessable income of such person and assess him accordingly, but such assessment shall not affect the liability of such person to a penalty under this Act for failure or neglect to furnish a return. | | (5) Subject to the provisions of section 67. no assessment shall be made, of the income tax payable under this Act. for any year of assessment by any person who has made a return of his income, | (a) on or before the thirtieth day of November of the year of assessment immediately succeeding that year of assessment, after the expiry of three years from the end of that year of assessment: | | (b) after the thirtieth days of November but on or before the thirty first day of March, after the expiry of six years from the end of that year of assessment: | | | Provided, that nothing in this subsection shall apply to the assessment of income tax payable by any person in respect of any year of assessment, consequent to the receipt by such person, of any arrears relating to the profits from employment of that person for that year of assessment : | | Provided further that. where in the opinion of the Assessor. any fraud, evasion or willful default has been committed by, or on behalf of, any person, in relation to any income tax, payable by such person for any year of assessment, it shall be lawful for the Assessor to make an assessment or an additional assessment on such person at any time after the end of that year of assessment. | | (6) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (5). where the Court annuls any assessment, on the grounds that the provisions of the proviso to subsection (3) have not been complied with, it shall he lawful for an Assessor to make. where necessary, a further assessment in place of the assessment so annulled. | | (7) An assessment under subsection (1) or an additional assessment under subsection (2) on any person for any year of assessment shall not affect the liability of such person to the penalty specified in subsection (2) of section 144 (2) and for the purposes of that section, the amount so assessed shall be deemed to be the income tax which such person ought to have paid for that year of assessment. | | Notice of assessment
| 135. An Assessor shall give notice of assessment to each person who has been assessed stating the amount of income. assessed and the amount of tax charge: | | Provided that where such notice is given to an employer under the provisions of Chapter XIV it shall be sufficient to state therein the amount of the tax charged. | | | | | A - APPEALS TO THE COMMISSIONER - GENERAL | Appeals to the Commissioner - General.
| 136. | (1) Any person who is aggrieved by the amount of an assessment made under this Act or by the amount of any valuation for the purpose of this Act may. within a period of thirty days after the date of the notice of assessment, appeal to the Commissioner-General against such assessment or valuation : | | Provided that the Commissioner-General, upon being satisfied that owing to absence from Sri Lanka, sickness or other reasonable cause, the appellant was prevented from appealing within such period, shall grant an extension of time for preferring the appeal. | | (2) Every appeal shall be preferred by a petition in writing addressed to the Commissioner-General and shall state precisely the grounds of such appeal. | | (3) Where the assessment appealed against has been made in the absence of a return, the petition of appeal shall be sent together with a return duly made | | (4) Every person preferring an appeal under subsection (1) against the amount of an assessment for any year of assessment shall, (unless such person has done so already), pay to the Commissioner-General the amount of tax payable by such person on the basis of the return furnished by him for that year of assessment together with any penalty thereon accrued up to the date of such notice of assessment and shall attach, to the petition of appeal, a receipt in proof of such payment : | | Provided that the Commissioner-General, upon being satisfied that owning to serious financial hardship suffered by the appellant at or about the time of such notice of assessment or. owning to other reasonable cause, the appellant was prevented from paying such tax and such penalty, may gram an extension of time for the payment of such tax and penalty thereon accrued up to the date of payment, and accordingly a receipt in proof of payment of such tax and penalty thereon accrued up to the date of payment, furnished within such extended lime shall, for the purposes of this subsection, be deemed to have been attached to the petition of appeal. | | (5) Every petition of appeal which does not conform to the provisions of subsections (2). (3) and (4) shall not be valid. | | (6) On receipt of a valid petition of appeal, the Commissioner-General may cause further inquiry to be made by an Assessor, and if in the course of such inquiry an agreement is reached as to the matters specified in the petition of appeal, the necessary adjustment of the assessment shall be made. | | (7) Where no agreement is reached between the appellant and the Assessor in the manner provided in subsection (6). the Commissioner-General shall, subject to the provisions of section 139. fix a time and place for the hearing of the appeal. | | (8) Every appellant shall attend before the Commissioner-General at the time and place fixed for the hearing of the appeal. The appellant may attend the hearing of the appeal in person or by an authorized representative. The Commissioner-General may, if he thinks fit. from time to time adjourn the hearing of an appeal for such time and place as he may fix for the purpose. In any case in which an authorized representative attends on behalf of the appellant, the Commissioner-General may adjourn the hearing of the appeal and may. if he considers that the personal attendance of the appellant is necessary for the determination of the appeal, require that the appellant shall attend in person at the time and place fixed for the adjourned hearing of the appeal. If the appellant or his authorized representative fails to attend at the time and place fixed for the hearing or any adjourned hearing of the appeal, or if the appellant fails to attend in person when required so to attend by the Commissioner-General, the Commissioner-General may dismiss the appeal : | | Provided that if the appellant shall within a reasonable time after the dismissal of an appeal satisfy the Commissioner-General that he or his authorized representative was prevented from due attendance at the hearing or at any adjourned hearing of such appeal by reason of absence from Sri Lanka, sickness, or other unavoidable cause, the Commissioner-General may. vacate she order of dismissal and fix a time and place for the hearing of the appeal. | | (9) The Commissioner-General shall have power to summon any person whom he may consider able to give evidence respecting the appeal to attend before him and may examine such person on oath or otherwise. Any person so attending may be allowed by the Commissioner-General any reasonable expenses necessarily incurred by such person in so attending. | | (10) Before making his determination on any appeal, the Commissioner-General may, if he considers it necessary so to do, by notice given in writing to any person require that person to produce for examination, or to transmit to the Commissioner-General within the period specified in such notice, any such deeds, plans, instruments, books, accounts, trade lists, stock lists, registers, cheques, paying-in slips auditors' reports or other documents in his possession as may be specified in such notice. | | (11) Where the Commissioner-General hears the evidence of the appellant or of any other person in respect of the appeal, he shall maintain or cause to be maintained a record of such evidence. | | (12) In determining an appeal under this section the Commissioner-General may confirm, reduce, increase or annul the assessment appealed against and shall give notice in writing to the appellant of his determination on the appeal. | | (13) Every petition of appeal preferred, under this section. shall be agreed to, or determined by the Commissioner- General, within three years from the date on which such petition of appeal is received by the Commissioner-General. unless the agreement or determination or such appeal depends on" | (a) the decision of a competent court on am matter relating to., or connected with, or arising from such appeal and referred to it by the Commissioner- General or the appellant: or | | (b) the furnishing of any document or the taking of any action" | (i) by the appellant upon being required to do so by an Assessor or the Commissioner-General by notice given in writing to such appellant (such notice being given not later than six months prior to the expiry of three years from the date on which the petition of appeal is received by the Commissioner-General), or | | (ii) by any other person, other than the Commissioner-General or an Assessor. | | | Where such appeal is not agreed to or determined within such period, the appeal shall be deemed to have been allowed and tax charged accordingly. The receipt or every appeal received under this section shall be acknowledged and the date of the letter of acknowledgement shall for the purposes of this section be deemed to be the date of receipt of such appeal. | | | (14) For the purposes of thus Chapter there shall be a panel of adjudicators appointed by the Minister. The remuneration of the members of the panel of adjudicators shall be determined by the Minister. The Commissioner-General may authorize any such adjudicator to exercise any of the powers vested in him under this Chapter as he may specify in such authorization. | | | | | B-APPEALS TO THE BOARD OF REVIEW | | Constitution of the Board of Review.
| 137. | (1) For the purpose of hearing appeals in the manner hereinafter provided, there shall he a Board of Review (hereinafter referred to as "the Board") consisting of not more than twenty members who shall be appointed by the Minister. Every member of the Board so appointed shall hold office for a term not exceeding three years but shall be eligible for reappointment. | | (2) There shall be a Secretary to the Board who shall be appointed by the Minister. | | (3) There shall be a panel of not more than three Legal Advisors to the Board who shall be appointed by the Board. | | (4) Three or more members of the Board shall he nominated by the Minister and summoned by the Secretary to attend meetings at which appeals are to be heard. At such a meeting the quorum shall consist of two members. | | (5) At the request of the Commissioner-General, the Secretary to the Board shall summon a meeting of the whole Board. At such a meeting the quorum shall consist of five members. | | (6) The remuneration of the members of the Board, the Secretary and the Legal Advisors shall be fixed by the Minister. | | Appeals to the Board of Review.
| 138. | (1) Any appellant, or the authorized representative of any appellant, who is dissatisfied with the determination of the Commissioner-General on an appeal under section 136. may communicate in writing to the Commissioner-General his dissatisfaction with such determination. Every such communication shall be made within one week from the date of the determination. | | (2) Where the appellant has communicated In accordance with subsection (1) his dissatisfaction with the determination of the Commissioner-General- the Commissioner-General shall within one month of the date of that determination. transmit in writing to the appellant or his authorized representative his reasons for that determination. | | (3) The appellant, or his authorized representative may within one month of the transmission, by the Commissioner-General under subsection (2). of the reasons for the determination by petition in writing addressed to the Board. appeal from that determination. Every such petition shall- | (a) be accompanied by a copy of the Commissioner-General's determination and reasons against which the appeal is made : | | (b) set out precisely the grounds of appeal therefrom : | | (c) be delivered to the Secretary to the Board. | | | Commissioner General may refer appeals to the Board of Review.
| 139. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 136. the Commissioner-General may refer, any valid appeal made to him, to the Board of Review, and the Board shall hear and determine such appeal, and accordingly, the provisions of section 140 shall apply to the hearing and determination of any appeal so referred. | Hearing and determination of appeals by the Board of Review.
| 140. | (1) As soon as may be after the receipt of a petition of appeal, the Secretary to the Board shall fix a date and time and place for the hearing of the appeal, and shall give fourteen day's notice thereof both to the appellant and to the Commissioner-General. | | (2) The Commissioner-General shall on receipt of a notice under subsection (1), transmit to the Board a copy of the record of evidence maintained under subsection (11) of section 136. | | (3) Every appellant shall attend in person or by an authorized representative, at the meeting of the Board at which the appeal is heard : | | Provided that where an authorized representative of the appellant is present at the hearing of an appeal the Board may postpone the hearing for such time as if thinks necessary to enable the attendance in person, of the appellant. | | (4) The Assesor who made the assessment appealed against or some other person authorized by the Commissioner- General shall attend the meeting of the Board at which such appeal is heard in support of the assessment as determined by the Commissioner-General. | | (5) The onus of proving that the assessment as determined by the Commissioner-General on appeal, or as referred by him under section 139, as the case may be. is excessive or erroneous shall be on the appellant. | | (6) All appeals shall be heard in Camera. | | (7) The Board shall have power to summon to attend at the hearing any person whom it may consider able to give evidence respecting the appeal and may examine him as a witness, either on oath or otherwise. Any person so attending may be allowed by the Board any reasonable expenses necessarily incurred by him in so attending. | | (8) Except with the consent of the Board and on such terms as the Board may determine, the appellant shall not, at the hearing by the Board, be allowed to produce any document which was not produced before the Commissioner-General. or to adduce the evidence of any witness whose evidence was not led before the Commissioner-General or whose evidence has already been recorded at the hearing before the Commissioner-General. | | (9) At the hearing of the appeal the Board may, subject to the provisions of subsection (8). admit or reject any evidence adduced whether oral or documentary, and the provisions of the Evidence Ordinance relating to the admissibility of evidence shall not apply. | | (10) After hearing the appeal, the Board .shall confirm. reduce, increase or annul the assessment as determined by the Commissioner-General on appeal, or as referred by him under section 139, as the case may be. or max remit the case to the Commissioner-General with the opinion of the Board. thereon. Where a case is so remitted by the board, the Commissioner-General shall revise the assessment as the opinion of the Board may require. The decision of the Board shall be notified to the appellant and the Commissioner- General in writing. | | (11) Where under subsection (10) the Board does not reduce or annual such assessment, the Board may order the appellant to pay as costs of the Board, a sum not exceeding five hundred rupees, which shall be added to the tax charged by the assessment and recovered therewith. | | | | | C-APPEALS TO THE COURT OF APPEAL | | Appeal on a question of law to the Court of Appeal.
| 141. | (1) The decision of the Board shall be final : | | Provided that either the appellant or the Commissioner- General may make an application requiring the Board to state a case on a question of law for the opinion of the Court of Appeal- Such application shall not be entertained unless it is made in writing and delivered to the Secretary to the Board, together with a fee of one thousand and five hundred rupees, within one month of the date on which the decision of the Board was notified in writing, to the Commissioner-General or the appellant, as the case may be. | | (2) The case stated by the Board shall set out the facts the decision of the Board and the amount of the tax in dispute where such amount exceeds five thousand rupees and the party requiring the Board to state such case shall transmit the case when stated and signed to the Court of Appeal, within fourteen days after receiving the same | | (3) For the purposes of the application of the provisions of the stamp duty Act No. 43 of 1982- | (a) all proceeding before the Court of Appeal on any case stated under this section or incidental to the hearing determination or disposal of any such case, shall be deemed to be civil proceedings before the Court of Appeal of the value of five thousand rupees or of such greater amount as is set out by the Board in the stated case as the amount of the tax in dispute , | | (b) every such case stated shall, together with all books documents and papers annexed thereto by the Board be deemed to be a single exhibit in civil proceedings before the Court of Appeal , and | | (c) the Commissioner General if be is the appellant, shall be deemed to he a Government officer suing or it he is the respondent to the appeal, a Government officer being sued, in a suit virtue office | | | (4) At or before the time when he transmits stated to the to the Court of Appeal the party requiring it shall send to the other party notice in writing informing him that a case his been stated on his application and shall supply him with a copy of the stated case | | (5) Any two or more Judges of the Court of Appeal may cause a stated ease to be sent back to the Board for amendment, and the Board shall amend the ease accordingly. | | (6) Any two or more Judges to the Court of Appeal may hear and determine any question of law arising on the stated ease and may in accordance with the decision of Court upon such question, confirm, reduce, increase or annual the assessment determined by the Board, or may remit the case to the Board with the opinion of the Court thereon. Where a case is so remitted by the Court the Board shall revise the assessment in accordance with the opinion of the Court. | | (7) In any proceedings before the Court of Appeal under this section, the Court may make such order in regard to costs in the Court of Appeal and in regard to the sum paid under subsection (1), as the Court may deem fit | | (8) For the purposes of enabling the Commissioner- General or any other patty to appeal to the Supreme Court against any order of the Court of Appeal under subsection (6) and for the purpose of the application of the provisions of any written law relating to appeals to the Supreme Court from the decisions of the Court of Appeal- | (a) an order made by the Court of Appeal under subsection (6) shall together with any order of that Court under subsection (7) be deemed to be a final judgment of the Court of Appeal m a civil action between the Commissioner General and such other party ; | | (b) the value of the matter in dispute in such civil action shall be deemed to be five thousand rupees : | | | Provided that where the Board has in the stated case set out an amount higher than five thousand rupees as the amount of the tax in dispute, the value of the matter in dispute in such civil action shall be deemed to be that higher amount; and | (c) the Commissioner-General shall not be required in respect of any such appeal, to make any deposit or pay any fee or furnish any security prescribed by such written law. | | | | | FINALITY OF ASSESSMENTS AND PENALTY FOR INCORRECT RETURNS | | Assessment or amended assessments to be final.
| 142. Where no valid appeal has been lodged within the time specified in subsection (1) of section 136 against an assessment as regards the amount of the assessable income assessed thereby or where an appeal preferred against such an assessment is dismissed under subsection (8) of section 136, or where agreement is reached under subsection (6) of section 136 as to the amount of such assessable income, or where the amount of such assessable income, has been determined on appeal, the assessment as made or agreed to or determined on appeal, as the case may be, shall be final and conclusive for all purposes of this Act as regards the amount of such assessable income : | | Provided that nothing in this section shall be read and construed as preventing as Assessor from making, subject to the provisions of section 134, an assessment, or additional assessment for any year of assessment, which does not involve reopening any matter which has been determined on appeal for that year. | Penalty for incorrect return.
| 143. | (1) Where in an assessment made in respect of any person the amount of the assessable income or taxable income exceeds the amount specified as his assessable income or taxable income in the return furnished by him under subsection (1) of section 98 or subsection (2) of section 98 and the assessment is final and conclusive under section 142, the Commissioner-General may, unless that person proves to the satisfaction of the Commissioner-General that there is no fraud or wilful neglect involved in the disclosure of income or any claim for any deduction or relief made by that person in such return, in writing order that person to pay on or before a specified date a sum not exceeding the aggregate of two thousand rupees and a sum equal to twice the tax on the amount of the excess as penalty for making an incorrect return. | | (2) Any person in respect of whom an order is made under subsection (1) may within twenty-one days after the notification of the order to him appeal therefrom in writing to the Board of Review the appeal shall state precisely the grounds of objection to the order | | (3) The provisions of section 140 shall as far as possible apply to the hearing and disposal of any appeal under the preceding provisions of this section The Board of Review may confirm. reduce, increase or annual the penalty imposed by the order of the Commissioner-General from which the appeal is made, hut any me tease of such penalty shall not be in excess of the maximum amount which the Commissions General may impose under subsection (1) as such penalty | | (4) Where in respect of any person's return of income, a penalty is imposed on that poison under this section, he shall not be liable to prosecution for an offence relating to that return under paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section 171 or under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 173 | | | | TAX IN DEFAULT AND SUMS ADDED THERETO | | Tax in default and sums added thereto.
| 144. | (1) Where a quarterly installment of a tax or a part of such installment for ,any year of assessment is not paid on or before the date specified m subsection (1) section 105 for the payment of that installment such installment of tax or part thereof , or where any tax or part thereof assessed by an Assessor for am year of assessment and required to be paid on or before the date specified in the notice of assessment (such date in the ease of any tax which is required to be paid under subsection (1) of section 105 being a date earlier than the date before which such tax or part thereof is required to be paid under that section is not so paid such tax of part thereof shall be deemed to be in default and" | (a) where such tax is payable by one person, such person, and | | (b) where such tax is payable by more than one person or by a partnership each of such persons, or each partner in each such partnership | | | shall he deemed to he a defaulter for the purposes of this Act | | (2) Where the entirety of the tax of part of such tax payable by a company on of before the date specified lot the payment of that tax in subsection (3)of section 105 or subsection (4) of section 101, is not so paid, such tax or past thereof shall be deemed to be in default and such company shall be deemed to be a defaulter for the put poses of this Act | | (3) Where any tax payable by any person for any year of assessment is in default, the defaulter shall in addition to the tax in default,, pay- | (a) A penalty or a sum equivalent to ten per centum of such tax , and | | (b) where such tax is not paid before the expiry of thirty days after it has begun to be in default a further penalty of a sum equivalent to two per centum of the text in default in respect of each further period of thirty days or part thereof during which it remains in default | | | Provided that" | (i) the total amount payable as a penalty under the preceding provision of this section shall in no case exceed fifty per centum of the tax in default; | | (ii) where any person has paid as quarterly installment of tax for any year of assessment a sum which is not less than one-quarter of the income tax payable by such person for the year immediately preceding that year of assessment, such person shall not be liable to any penalty in respect of such quarterly installment of tax under the preceding provisions of this section until the thirtieth day of September, immediately succeeding the end of the year of assessment in respect of which such quarterly installment of tax became due. | | | For the purposes of this paragraph "income tax"- | (A) in relation to a company for any year of assessment shall not include tax payable by that company, under paragraph (b) or paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section 53, for that year of assessment; | | (B) in relation to any person, for any year of assessment means, the income tax which would have been payable by such person for the year preceding that year of assessment (hereinafter referred to as the preceding year) had any profits and income [other than the net annual value of a residence and any subsidy exempt from income tax under this Act] which were exempt from income tax, under this Act, or any other law and in respect of which such exemption ceased in such preceding year, been taken into account in computing the assessable income of that person for that year of assessment; | | (C) the Commissioner-General any reduce or waive any penalty payable under this section if it appears to the Commissioner- General that such reduction or waiver is just and equitable in all the circumstances of the case ; | | (D) any excess of advance company tax paid by a company and carried forward in accordance with the provisions of subsection (3) of section 54, from the year immediately preceding that year of assessment may be deducted, to the extent it can be deducted, first from the quarterly installment payable on or before the fifteenth day of August in that year of assessment and the balance, if any, of such excess, from the next quarterly installment payable on or before the fifteenth day of November in that year of assessment and so on, and the amount so deducted shall, for the purposes of this paragraph, be deemed to have been paid on the fifteenth day of August, or the fifteenth day of November and so on as the case may be. | | | (4) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 96B of the Inland Revenue Act, No. 4 of 1963, where any tax payable by any person for any year of assessment preceding the year of assessment commencing on April 1, 1979, is in default on or after April 1, 1981, the defaulter shall, in addition on the tax in default, pay as a penalty any sum payable as penalty in terms of subsection (6) of section 96B of the Inland Revenue Act, No. 4 of 1963 and a further sum equivalent to twenty- five per centum of the amount in default on or after April 1. 1981. | | (5) Where any assessment has been made on any person for any year of assessment by an Assessor, the amount of the tax as specified in the notice of assessment shall, for the purposes of subsection (2), be deemed to be the tax payable by that person for that year of assessment. | | (6) Tax shall be paid notwithstanding any appeal against the assessment, unless the Commissioner-General orders that payment of tax or any part thereof be held over pending the determination of such appeal, and the amount of the tax or part thereof so held over shall not be deemed to be in default. | | (7) Where the Commissioner - General is of opinion either that the tax or any part thereof held over under subsection (6) is likely to become irrecoverable of that the appellant is unreasonably delaying the prosecution of his appeal, he may revoke any order made under that subsection and make such fresh as the case may appeal to him to require and the amount of any tax not paid on or before such date as may be specified m the fresh order shall be deemed to be in default | | (8) Where upon the final determination of an appeal under Chapter XIX or upon any order made by she Commissioner-General, any tax which has been held over under subsection (6) becomes payable or tax charged by the original assessment is increased, the Commissioner-General shall give to the appellant a notice in writing fixing a date on or before which any tax or balance tax shall be paid Any tax not so paid shall be deemed to be in default | | (9) Notwithstanding anything in this section where there is an appeal against an assessment and where the payment of any tax specified in the notice of assessment is held over on the order of the Commissioner-General, the Commissioner-General may, if the appellant agrees during the course of the inquiring into, or hearing of that appeal that a certain sum is due or is likely to be due as tax in respect of that assessment, by notice in writing given to the appellant, direct the apellant to pay such sum on or before such date as is specified in the notice. Any sum not so paid shall be deemed to be in default. | | (10) Where upon the final determination of an appeal under Chapter XIX, any tax in default to which any sum or sums has or have been added under subsection (3) is reduced then such sum or sums shall be calculated on the tax as so reduced. | | (11) Where any person liable to pay any tax satisfies the Commissioner-General on or before the date he is required to pay such tax or any installment thereof, that lie has made arrangements for the payments of such tax or installments from any sum to be paid to him by the Government or from moneys lying to his credit in the National Savings Bank or from moneys to be paid to him from any person or provident fund approved by the Commissioner-General, the Commissioner-General may grant such person an extension of time for the payment of such tax or installment, and such tax or installment thereof shall not be deemed to be in default until the expiration of such extended time. | | (12) Where any tax is due from the estate of a deceased person, and the executor of such deceased person satisfies the Commissioner-General, on or before the date he is required to pay such tax or any installment thereof, that such tax or installment cannot be paid on or before that date owing to probate or letters of administration not having been granted to him such sum or installment shall not be deemed to be in default if it is paid within a period of two months after the date of the grant of probate or letters of administration. | | In this subsection, the expression, "executor" does not include any person who takes possession of, or intermeddles with, the property of a deceased person, | | (13) in this section, "tax" means income tax, which is payable in respect of the profits and income of any person for any year of assessment and the advance company tax payable for any year of assessment by a company in relation to any qualifying distribution. | | | Tax to include fines &c.
| 145. In this Chapter, "tax" includes" | (a) income tax, charged and levied under this Act ; | | (b) any income tax wealth tax or gifts tax charged and levied under the Inland Revenue Act, No. 28 of 1979 and which was in default or goes into default on or after April 1,2000. | | (c) any income tax, wealth tax and gifts tax charged and levied under the inland Revenue Act, No. 4 of 1963, and which was in default or goes into default on or after April 1. 2000; or | | (d) any income tax which an employer is required to pay under the provisions of Chapter XIV ; | | (e) the whole or any part of any quarterly installment of income tax referred to in section 97 of the Inland Revenue Act, No. 28 of 1979 or in section 105 of this Act and which any person is liable to pay for any year of assessment ; | | (f) any advance company tax which a company is required to pay under this Act, or under the Inland Revenue Act, No. 28 of 1979 ; | | | and any sum or sums added to any such tax by reason of default, any sum or sums added to such income tax, under section 144 of this Act, or to income tax wealth tax or gifts tax under subsection (2) or (2A) of section 125 of Inland Revenue Act, No. 28 of 1979 or under subsection (6) of section 96B of the Inland Revenue Act, No. 4 of 1963, and any fines, penalties, fees or costs whatsoever incurred under this Act or Inland Revenue Act, No. 28 of 1979 or the Inland Revenue Act, No. 4 of 1963. | Tax to be a first charge.
| 146. | (1) Save as provided in subsection (2), tax in default shall be a first charge upon all the assets of the defaulter : | | Provided that" | (a) such charge shall not extend to or affect any assets sold by the defaulter to a bona fide purchaser for value prior to the seizure of the same in accordance with the provisions of section 148 ; | | (b) as regards immovable property, the tax shall not rank in priority to any lease or encumbrance created bona fide for value and registered prior to the date of seizure of the property under section 148 ; and | | (c) as regards movable property, where tax for more than one year of assessment is in default, the tax for one year only, to be selected by the Commissioner-General shall rank in priority to any lien or encumbrance created bona fide for value prior to the date of default | | | (2) A receiver shall pay out of the assets under his control the tax charged or chargeable for one complete year of assessment prior to the date of the insolvency, bankruptcy, or liquidation to he selected by the Commissioner-General as a first charge on such assets and any other tax charged or chargeable for periods prior to such date shall be an unsecured debt | | Provided that where the receiver proves to the satisfaction of the Commissioner-General that any tax in default which he is liable to pay is excessive, the Commissioner-General may, notwithstanding the provisions of section 142, review the assessment in respect of which the tax is charged and make such adjustments as may appeal to him to be |just and equitable in all the circumstances of the case | | Notice to defaulter.
| 147. | (1) Before taking proceedings to recover any tax in default in any manner hereinafter provided, the Commissioner-General shall, subject to the provisions of subsection (2) issue notice in writing to the dafaulter stating" | (a) the particulars of such tax, and | | (b) that action is being contemplated to recover such tax | | | (2) Where the Commissioner General is satisfied that compliance with the procedure set out in subsection (1) for the recovery of any tax in default is inexpedient and that immediate action is necessary for the recovery of such tax, he may take proceeding to recover such tax without issuing a notice to the defaulter as required by that subsection Where the Commissioner General takes proceedings under this subsection, to recover any tax in default, he shall, within fourteen days of the date on which he takes such proceedings, issue a notice to the defaulter stating the particulars of the tax in respect of which such proceedings have been taken, and the nature of such proceedings. | | (3) If such defaulter has not appealed within the proper time against the assessment or assessments in respect of which such tax is charged, he may, within thirty days of the notice issued under subsection (1) or subsection (2), make any objection to the tax so charged and the Commissioner-General shall, notwithstanding the provisions of section 142, consider such objection and give his decision thereon which shall be final ; | | Provided that where the Commissioner-General is satisfied that owing to illness, absence from Sri Lanka or other reasonable cause, the defaulter was prevented from objecting with in thirty days of the notice issued under subjection (1) or subsection (2), he shall grant an extension of time for preferring such objections. | | (4) Where the tax recovered as a result of any proceedings taken under subsection (2) is in excess of the amount of tax determined, under subsection (3) to be payable by the defaulter in respect of any year of assessment, such excess shall, notwithstanding anything in section 169, be refunded to the defaulter: | | Provided that no refund under this subsection shall exceed the tax recovered as a result of proceedings taken under subsection (2). | | Recovery of tax by seizure and sale.
| 148. | (1) The Commissioner-General may appoint persons to be tax collectors. | | (2) | (a) Where any tax is in default, the Commissioner-General may issue a certificate to a Government Agent, Assistant Government agent, Fiscal, Deputy Fiscal or tax collector containing particulars of such tax and the name of the defaulter and the officer to whom such certificate is issued shall he empowered and is hereby required to cause the tax to be recovered from the defaulter named in the certificate by seizure and sale of his movable property. | | (b) A seizure of movable property shall be effected in such manner as such officer shall deem most expedient in that behalf, and as soon as any movable property is seized by such officer a list of such property shall forthwith be made and signed by him and shall be given to the defaulter and a copy thereof furnished to the Commissioner General | | (c) Where the property so seized is" | (i) cash in Sri Lanka currency, such cash shall be first applied in the payment of the cost and charges of seizing and any balance applied in satisfaction of the tax in default | | (ii) cash in foreign currency such cash shall be deposited in the Central Bank or any commercial bank and the proceeds therefrom applied in the payment of the costs and charges of seizing and any balance applied in satisfaction of the tax in default and | | (iii) property other than cash, such property shall be kept for five days at the cost and charges of the defaulter If the defaulter does not pay the tax in default together with the costs and charges within the five days the Government Agent, Assistant Government Agent, Fiscal, Deputy Fiscal or tax collector shall cause such property. to be sold by public auction or where such property is a negotiable instrument or a share in any corporation or public company, to be sold through a broker at the market rate of the day. | | | (d) The sum realized by a sale referred in sub paragraph (iii) of paragraph (c ) shall be applied" | (i) firstly in payment of the costs and charges of seizing keeping and selling the property and | | (ii) secondly in satisfaction of the tax in default, and any balance shall be paid to the owner of the property seized | | | (e) it shall be lawful for any officer to recover, horn any defaulter reasonable expenses incurred by him m proceeding against such defaulter under this section, notwithstanding that no seizure of property was effected | | (f) In this subsection the expression "movable property" includes any plant or machinery affixed to the ground of a factory | | | (3) Where any tax is in default and the Commissioned General is of opinion the recovery by the means provided in subsection (2) is impracticable or inexpedient, he may issue a certificate to a District Court having jurisdiction in any district where the defaulter resides or in which any property movable or immovable, owned by the defaulter is situate containing particulars of such tax and the name or names of the person of persons by whom the tax is payable, and the court shall thereupon direct a writ of execution to issue to the Fiscal authorizing and requiring him to seize and sell all and any of the property movable or immovable, of the defaulter or such part thereof as he may deem necessarily for recovery of the tax, and the provisions of sections 226 to 297 of the Civil Procedure Code shall, mutatis mutandis apply to such seizure and sale | | (4) Whenever the Commissioner-General issues a certificate under this section, he shall at the same time issue to the defaulter, whether resident of non resident, a notification thereof by personal service, registered letter sent through the post or telegraph , but the non receipt of such notification by the defaulter shall not invalidate proceedings under this section. | | Proceedings for recovery before Magistrate.
| 149. | (1) Where the Commissions General is of opinion in any case that recovery of tax in default by seizure and sale and sale is impracticable or inexpedient, or where the full amount of the Tax has not been recovered by seizure and sale, he may issue a certificate containing particulars of such tax and the name and last known plate of business or residence of the defaulter to a Magistrate having jurisdiction in the division in which such place is situate The Magistrate shall thereupon summon such defaulter before him to show cause why further Proceedings for the recovery of the tax should not be taken against him, and in default of sufficient cause being shown the tax in default shall be deemed to be a fine imposed by a sentence of the Magistrate on such defaulter for an offence punishable with line only or not punishable with imprisonment, and the provisions of subjection (1) of section 291 (except paragraph (a), (d) and (i) thereof) of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No 15 of 1979 relating to default of payment of a fine imposed for such an offence shall thereupon apply and the Magistrate may make any direction which, by the provisions of that subjection, he could have made at the time of imposing such sentence | | (2) The correctness of any statement in a certificate issued by the Commissioner General for the purposes of subsection (1) shall not be called in question or examined by the Magistrate in any proceeding under this section and accordingly nothing in that subsection shall be lead and construed as authorizing a Magistrate to consider, or decide the correctness of any statement in such certificate or to postpone or deter such proceeding for period exceeding thirty days by reason only of the fact that an appeal is pending against the assessment in respect of which the tax in default is charged | | (3) Nothing in subsections (2) to (5) of section 291 of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No 15 or 1979, shall apply in any case referred to in subsection (1) of this section | | (4) In any case referred to in subsection (1) in which the defaulter is sentenced to imprisonment in default of payment of the fine deemed by that subsection to have been imposed on him the Magistrate may allow time for the payment of the amount of that fine or direct payment of that amount to be made in installments | | (5) The Court may require bail to be given as a condition precedent to allowing time under subsection (1) for showing cause as therein provided or under subsection (4) for the payment of the fine , and the provisions of Chapter XXXIV of the code of Criminal Procedure Act. No 15 of 1979 shall apply where the defaulter is so required to give bail | | (6) Where a Magistrate directs under subsection (4), that a payment be made in installments and default is made in the payment of any one installment, proceedings may he taken as if default had been made in payment of all the installments then remaining unpaid | | (7) In any proceeding under subsection (1). the Commissioner-General certificate shall be sufficient evidence that the tax has been duly assessed and is in default and plea that the tax is excessive, incorrect, or under appeal shall not be entertained. | | Recovery of tax out of debts &c.
| 150. | (1) Where tax payable by any person is in default and it appears to the Commissioner-General to be probable that any other person- | (a) owes or is about to pay money to the defaulter or his agent; or | | (b) holds money for or on account of" the defaulter or his agent; or | | (c) holds money on account of some other person for payment to the defaulter or his agent; or | | (d) has authority from some other person to pay money to the defaulter or his agent, | | | the Commissioner-General may give to such other person notice in writing (a copy of which shall be sent by post to the defaulter) requiring him to pay any such moneys not exceeding the amount of the tax in default to the officer named in such notice The notice shall apply to all such money which are in his hands or due from him at the date of receipt of such notice or come into his hands or become due from him or are about to be paid by him at any time within a period of there months after the date of such notice | | (2) Where a person holds money for or on account of the defaulter and any other person or poisons jointly On this section referred to as the joint account holder or holder ) the Commissioner-General may give a notice under subsection (1) to such person requiring him to pay the amount of the tax in default or part thereof to the officer named m such notice out of the moneys or such part of such moneys in the joint account which the Commissioner General is satisfied is attributable to the contributions made by the defaulter and is so certified by the Commissioner- General | | Provided that" | (a) every person remitting money in compliance with a notice issued under subsection (1), shall intimate such fact to every other joint account holder , | | (b) every joint account holder other than the defaulter may, within two weeks of the date on which he receives an intimation under paragraph (a), make a claim to the Commissioner-General in respect of any part of such remittance which represents his net contribution to the balance in such joint account as at the date of notice issued by the Commissioner General and the Commissioner General shall consider such claim and make his order thereon , | | (c) every joint account holder who is aggrieved by the order of the Commissioner-General made under paragraph (b) may institute an action in the District Court seeking an order for the recovery of such money or part of money which he claims to be attributable to the contributions made by him. | | Notwithstanding any provision in the Proscription Ordinance (Chapter 68), no action shall be instituted tot the recovery of such money or part of such money after the expiration of three months from the date of notice issued by the Commissioner General | | | (3) Any person who has made any payment in pursuance of this section shall be deemed to have acted under the authority of the defaulter and of all other persons concerned, and is hereby indemnified in respect of such payment against all proceedings, civil or criminal, notwithstanding the provisions of any written law, contract or agreement | | (4) And poison to whom a notice has been given under subsection (1) who is unable to comply therewith owing to the fact that the moneys referred to in that subsection do not come into his hands or that no such moneys become due from him within the period referred to in that subsection, shall within fourteen days of the expiration thereof give notice in wilting to the Commissioner General apprising him of the facts. | | (5) Where any person to whom a notice has been given under subsection (1) is unable to comply therewith and has failed to give notice to the Commissioner-General as provided in subsection (4), or where such person has deducted or could have deducted the tax to which the notice relates or any part thereof and has not paid over as required by the Commissioner- General the amount of such tax or part thereof within fourteen days after the expiration of the period referred to in subsection (1), such person shall, if he is an individual be liable, or where such person is a company or body of persons whether corporate or unincorporate , the secretary, manager or other principal officer of such company or body shall be personally liable, for the whole of the tax which such person has been required to deduct, and such tax may be recovered from such individual, secretary, manager or other principal officer, as the case may be, by all means provided in this Act. | | (6) For the purposes of this section, the expression "defaulter" shall he deemed to include the agent of a person who is in default and the provisions of this section shall apply in any case where the tax which would have been payable by any person if he were alive is in default; and for the purposes of the application of those provisions in any such case, the expression "defaulter" in subsection (1) means" | (a) the executor or administrator of a deceased person; or | | (b) any person who takes possession of, or intermeddles with, the property of a deceased person ; or | | (c) any person who has applied or is entitled to apply to a District Court for the grant or resealing of a probate or letters of administration respect of the estate of a deceased person | | | Transfer of immovable property to Government in lieu of payment of tax in cash
| 151. | (1) Any person liable to pay any tax under the provisions of this Act or of the Inland Revenue Act, No 28 of 1979 or of the Inland Revenue Act, No 4 of 1963 may apply to the Commissioner-General to transfer any immovable property owned by such person to the Government in lieu of payment of such tax m cash at such value as is placed on such property by agreement between such person and the Commissioner-General and the Commissioner- General may allow such application having regard to the feasibility of managing such . property after it is transferred to the Government | | (2) Where the Commissioner-General allows an application made under subsection(1) and the amount agreed to in accordance with the provisions of that subsection, as the value of the property in respect of which the application is made exceeds the amount of the tax payable by the applicant, the excess shall be deemed to be a donation within the meaning of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 31, made to the Government Sri Lanka by the applicant. | | Tax in default to be recovered from renumeration of employee.
| 152. | (1) The Commissioner -General may by notice in writing given to any employer of in employee or to the person responsible for the payment of remuneration of employee direct such employer or person to deduct during such period as may employer or person to deduct during such period is may be specified in such notice from the remuneration of such employee the amount of any tax which is payable by such employee and which is in default, in such number of monthly instalments as may be specified in such notice The amount so deducted each month from the remuneration of in employee shall be paid to the Commissioner-General by such employer or such person as the ease may be | | (2) Where any tax is deducted under subsection (1) from the remuneration of in employee by his employer or by the person responsible for the payment of remuneration, such employee shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to have paid such tax or put thereof on the date on which the deduction is made | | (3) The Commissioner General may at any time after has made a direction under subsection (1) withdraw such direction wholly or partly by notice given in writing to the employer or the person responsible for the payment of the remuneration of the employee if the employee his made arrangements to the satisfaction of the Commissioner General for the payment of his tax in default | | (4) Where any employee horn whose remuneration any tax is to be deducted under the preceding provisions of this section by his employer or the person responsible for the payment of such remuneration is about to leave or leaves his employment the employer or such person shall deduct the whole amount of such tax or an) balance thereof which he has been directed to deduct by the notice given to him by the Commissioner-General from all or any payments payable by him to such employee after he becomes aware that such employee is leaving, or has left, his employment. | | (5) Where a direction lot the deduction of any tax from the . remuneration of an employee is given under subsection (1) to his employer of to the person responsible for the payment of such remuneration and such employer or person is unable to deduct the whole or any part of such tax for the reason that such employee has Set his employment or for any other reason, such employer or person shall forthwith give notice in writing to the Commissioner-General apprising him of the facts of the matter , and any tax which such employer or person has not deducted or cannot deduct shall immediately become payable by the employee | | (6) Where the employer or the person responsible for the payment of remuneration to an employee has tailed to deduct horn from such remuneration any tax which he has been directed to deduct under subsection (1) and such employer or person has Sailed to give notice to the Commissioner-General as required by subsection (5) within fourteen days of the date on which such deduction should have been made or where such employer or person has deducted or could have deducted tax in any month from such remuneration in accordance with a direction under subsection (1) but has not paid the amount of such tax to the Commissioner General by the fifteenth day of the following month, such employer or person, if he is an individual shall be liable, or where such employer or person is a company or a body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, the secretary, manager or other principal officer of such company or body shall be personally liable, tot the whole of the tax which such employer or such person has been directed to deduct under this section and such tax may be recovered from such individual , secretary, manager or other principal officer by all means provided in this Act, and such tax shall be deemed to be in default | | (7)Every employer or other person who deducts tax from the remuneration of any employee in accordance with a direction under subsection (1) shall on request made by such employee, issue to him a certificate in such form as is specified by the issue to him a certificate in such form as is specified by the Commissioner-General, of the amount of tax deducted. | | Tax in default of partner to be recovered from the assets of a partnership.
| 153. Where for any year of assessment the statutory income of any person who is partner in a partnership includes his share of the divisible profits of a partnership and the tax payable by that person is in default, such part of the tax in default as is, in the opinion of the Commissioner-General attributable to his share of such divisible profits may be recovered out of the assets of the partnership and accordingly, lot the purposes of section 148 the assets of the partnership shall be deemed to be the assets of the partner | | Provided that the amount so recovered shall not exceed the interest of the partner in the partnership | Recovery of income tax from the income of a child.
| 154. Where the total statutory income of a child is aggregated with and deemed to form part of the total statutory income of a parent of such child, and where any tax cannot be collected from that parent, such portion of such tax as appears to the Commissioner General to be attributable to the income of such child may he recovered from such child notwithstanding that no assessment has been made upon such child and the provisions of this Act as to collection and recovery of tax shall apply accordingly. | Recovery of income tax payable by a beneficiary from the trustee.
| 155. The income tax or any part thereof with which a beneficiary to a trust, not being any unit trust, is chargeable in respect of his income to which he is entitled from the trust, may be recovered from the trustee of the trust, notwithstanding that no assessments have been made upon the trustee, and the provisions of this Act relating to collection and recovery of tax shall apply to such trustee. Such trustee shall be entitled to deduct the amount of such tax or part thereof from the income which will be payable to such beneficiary from the trust. | Recovery of income tax payable by a beneficiary from the executor.
| 156. The income tax or any part thereof with which a beneficiary is chargeable in respect of his income to which he is entitled from the estate of a deceased person, may, notwithstanding that no assessment has been made upon the executor of the deceased person, be recovered from such executor, and accordingly, the provisions of this Act as to collection and recovery of tax shall apply to such executor. Such executor shall he entitled to deduct the amount of such tax or part thereof from the income which will he payable to such beneficiary from the estate of such deceased person. | Gift tax to be recovered from the donee in certain circumstances.
| 157. Where the gifts tax charged under Chapter XI of the Inland Revenue Act No. 28 of 1979 cannot be recovered from the donor, it may be recovered from the done notwithstanding that no assessment has been made upon the done, and the provisions of this Act as to collection and recovery of tax shall apply accordingly: | | Provided that the amount which may be recovered from the donee shall not exceed that portion of such tax which appears to the Commissioner-General to be attributable to the value of the gift made to the donee by the donor as at the date of the gift. | Recovery of tax from persons leaving Sri Lanka.
| 158. | (1) Where the Commissioner-General is of opinion that any person is about to or likely to leave Sri Lanka without paying all income tax, wealth tax or gift tax assessed upon him, he may issue a certificate containing particulars of such tax and the name of such person to a Magistrate, who shall on receipt thereof issue a direction to the Inspector-General of Police to take such measures as may be necessary to prevent such person from leaving Sri Lanka without paying the tax or furnishing security to the satisfaction of the Commissioner- General, for payment thereof. | | (2) At the time of issue of his certificate to the Magistrate, the Commissioner-General shall issue to such person a notification thereof by personal service, registered letter sent through the post or telegraph, hut the non-receipt of any such notification by such person shall not invalidate proceedings under this section. | | (3) The production of a certificate signed by the Commissioner-General or a Deputy Commissioner, stating that the tax has been paid or that security has been furnished to the payment of the tax, or payment of the tax to a police officer in charge of a police station, shall be sufficient authority for allowing such person to leave Sri Lanka. Any police officer to whom the amount of any tax has been paid shall forthwith pay .such amount to the Commissioner-General. | | Use of more than one means of recovery.
| 159. Where the Commissioner-General is of opinion that the application of any of the provisions of this Chapter has failed or is likely to fail to secure payment of the whole of any tax due under this Act from any person, it shall be lawful for him to proceed to recover any sum remaining unpaid by any other means of recovery provided in this Chapter, Notwithstanding that an order has been made by a Magistrate under section 149 in respect of that person and carried into effect. | Power of Commissioner-General to obtain information for the recovery of tax.
| 160. The Commissioner-General may, by notice given in writing to any person, require that person within the period specified in such notice to furnish any information which the Commissioner-General may require for the purposes of recovering any tax, due from such person or any other person. | Liabilities of directors of private company in liquidation.
| 161. | (1) Notwithstanding anything in the Companies Act No. 17 of 1982 where any private, company is wound up and where any income tax to which that company is liable cannot be recovered, then, every person who was a director of the company at any time during the year of assessment in respect of which such tax is payable shall be jointly and severally liable for the payment of such tax, unless he proves that the default in payment of tax cannot be attributed to any gross neglect, misfeasance or breach of duly on his part in relation to the affairs of the company. | | (2) in this section the expression "'private company" has the same meaning as in the Companies Act No. 17 of 1982. | | Delegation of Commissioner-General's powers and functions.
| 162. | (1) The Commissioner-General may, by writing under his hand delegate to any Assessor any of the powers or function conferred on or assigned to the Commissioner- General by this Chapter. | | (2) Every Assessor to whom any power or function has been delegated under subsection (1) shall exercise or discharge that power or function subject to the general or special directions of the Commissioner-General | | | Signature and service of notice.
| 163. | (1) Every notice to be given by the Commissioner- General, a Deputy Commissioner, or an Assessor under this Act shall bear the name of the Commissioner-General or Deputy Commissioner or Assessor, as the ease may be, and every such notice shall be valid if the name of the Commissioner-General, Deputy Commissioner, or Assessor is duly printed or signed thereon. | | (2) Every notice given by virtue of this Act may be served on a person either personally or by being delivered at, or sent by post to, his last known place of abode or any place at which he is, or was during the year to which the notice relates, carrying on business ; | | Provided that a notice of assessment under section 134 shall be served personally or by registered letter sent through the post to any such place as aforesaid, | | (3) Any notice sent by post shall be deemed to have been served on the day succeeding the day on which it would have been received in the ordinary course by post. | | (4) In proving service by post it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter containing the notice was duly addressed and posted. | | (5) Every name printed or signed on any notice or signed on any certificate given or issued for the purposes of this Act, which purports to be the name of the person authorized to give or issue the same, shall be judicially noticed. | | Validity of notice assessment &c.
| 164. | (1) No notice, assessment certificate, or other proceeding purporting to be in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall be quashed, or deemed to be void or voidable for want of form of be affected by reason of a mistake, defect or omission therein , if the same is in substance and effect in conformity with, or according to, the intent and meaning of this Act, and if the person assessed or intended to be assessed or affected thereby is designated therein according to common intent and understanding | | (2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), an assessment shall not be affected or impugned by reason of" | (a) a mistake therein as to the name or surname of the person chargeable, the amount of income, assessed, or the amount of tax charged; or | | (b) any variance between the assessment and the notice thereof, | | | if the notice of such assessment is duly served on the person intended to be charged and contains in substance and effect the particulars mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection. | | Precedent partner to act on behalf of a partnership.
| 165. | (1) Wherever two or more persons in partnership act in the capacity of trustees or executors, or as agents, or are employers, or are persons in receipt of money, value or profits to whom section 101 applies, or act in any other capacity, whatever, either on behalf of themselves or of any other person, the precedent partner of such partnership shall be liable to do all such acts, matters and things as are required to be done under the provisions of this Act by an individual acting in any such capacity: | | Provided that any person to whom a notice has been given under the provisions of this Act as precedent partner of a partnership, shall be deemed to be the precedent partner thereof unless he proves that he is not a partner in such partnership, or that some other person resident in Sri Lanka is the precedent partner thereof. | | (2) Where two or more persons who are not in partnership are jointly in any capacity mentioned in subsection (1) they shall be jointly and severally liable to do all such acts, matters and things as are required to be done under the provisions of this Act by an individual acting in any such capacity | | Principal officer to act on behalf of company or body of persons.
| 166. | (1) The secretary, manager, director or other principal officer of every company or body of persons, corporate or unincorporate shall be liable to do all such acts, matters or things as are required to he done under the provisions of this Act by such company or body of persons | | Provided that any person to whom a notice has been given under the provisions of this Act on behalf of a company or body of persons shall be deemed to he the principal officer thereof unless he proves that he has no connection with that company or body of persons or that some other person resident in Sri Lanka as the principal officer thereof, | | (2) Where an offence under this Act is committed by a company or body of persons corporate or unincorporate , every person who at the time of the commission of that offence was the secretary manager, director or other principal officer of that company or body of persons shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge and that he exercised all such diligence to proem the commission of that offence as he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions in such capacity and to all the other circumstances | | Who may act for incapacitated or non-resident person.
| 167. Any act or thing required by or under this Act to be done by any person shall if such person is an incapacitated or non-resident person, be deemed to he required to be done by the trustees of such incapacitated person or by the agent of such non- resident person as the case may be . | Indemnification of representative.
| 168. | (1) Every person chargeable with tax under this Act as trustee executor or agent or from whom such tax is recoverable in respect of the income or wealth of another person may retain out of any assets coming into his possession or control on behalf of such other person or in his capacity as trustee, executor, or agent, such portion of such assets as shall be sufficient to pay the amount of such tax and he shall be and is hereby indemnified against any person whomsoever in respect of his retention of such assets and payment of such amount. | | (2) Where any person acting as trustee or executor has paid tax, and no assets of the trust or estate- come into his possession or control out of which he could retain the tax so paid, such tax shall be a debt due from the beneficiaries of the trust or estate to the trustee or executor | | (3) Where a person chargeable with tax or from whom tax is recoverable in respect of the income of another person pays such tax, and no assets of such other person come into his possession or control out of which he could retain the amount of the tax so paid such tax shall be a debt due to him from such other person | | | Tax paid in excess to be refunded.
| 169. | (1) If it is proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioner-General by any claim duly made in writing within three years of the end of a year of assessment that any person has paid any income tax, by deduction or otherwise, in excess of the amount which he was liable to pay for that year, such person shall be entitled to a refund of the amount paid in excess; | | Provided that" | (a) nothing in this section shall operate to extend or reduce any time limit for appeal or repayment specified in any other section or to validate any objection or appeal which is otherwise invalid, or to authorize the revision of any assessment or other matter which has become final and conclusive ; | | (b) where any person has paid income tax by deduction in respect of a dividend in accordance with section 61 in respect of interest, rent, ground ,royalty, or other annual payment in accordance with section 90 he shall not be entitled by virtue of this section to any relief greater than that he would be entitled to under subsection (4), (5) or under subsection (6) of section 61 or subsection (3) of section 90 , and | | (c) where the Commissioner-General is satisfied that a person who has paid any income tax, by deduction could not have made a claim within the aforesaid three years, such person shall be entitled to a refund of the amount paid in excess if such claim is made within one year horn the end of the year of assessment in which such deduction was made | | | (2) Where through death incapacity, bankruptcy, liquidation or other cause a person who, would but for such cause have been entitled to make a claim under subsection (1), is unable to do so, his executor, trustee or receiver, as the case may be, shall be entitled to a refund of any tax paid in excess within the meaning of subsection (1) by such person for the benefit of such person or his estate | | (3) Where it is proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioner-General by claim made in writing within three years of the end of a year of assessment that any person has paid income tax, m excess of the amount which he was liable to pay for that year of assessment and that the excess is due to any error in the assessment or the return of the income, of that person (other than an error in the application or construction of any provision of this Act in the making or revision of the assessment), such person shall be entitled to a refund of the amount paid in excess | | (4) Where it is proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioner General by claim made in writing that any person has paid the amount of any penalty referred to in subsection (3) of section 144 which is in excess of the sum which he should have paid if such sum were calculated in accordance with the [provisions of subsection (8) of section 144, such person shall he entitled to a refund of the amount paid in excess it such claim is made within three years of the end of the year of assessment in which the amount of the penalty referred to in the aforesaid subsection (3) of section 144 was paid | | (5) Where it is proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioner-General by a claim made in writing by any employer within three years or the end of a year of assessment that he has paid to the Commissioner General under the provisions of Chapter XIV for that year of assessment a sum in excess of the amount which he should have paid for that year of assessment, such employer shall he entitled to a refund of the amount paid in excess | | Provided that the preceding provisions of this subsection shall not apply where payment of income tax has been made on an assessment made on an employer under section 116. | | (6) Notwithstanding anything to the country in section 58 and section 61, any tax deducted in accordance with section 61 in respect of a dividend paid by a resident company to a non-resident shareholder, in excess of the late of tax on dividends specified in an agreement referred to in subsection (1) of section 92 between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Government of the country in which such shareholder is resident, shall be refunded to such shareholder , on a claim duly made in writing within three years of the end of the year in which such tax was deducted or within one year of the date on which such agreement comes into force whichever is later. | | (7) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 58, any tax deducted in accordance with section 61 in respect of a dividend distributed and paid by a resident company to any person whose profits and income are exempt horn income tax under paragraph (a) of section 8 shall be refunded to such person on a claim duly made by him in writing within there years of the end of the year of assessment in which such tax was deducted. | | Interest payable on the amount of a refund in certain circumstances.
| 170. Where, for any year of assessment any person is entitled to a refund of the amount of any income tax, paid by him by deduction or otherwise, and where such amount has not been refunded to him by the Commissioner-General" | (a) if such refund arises in consequence of the reduction of the amount of an assessment on agreement with an Assessor under subsection (6) of section 136 or on the determination of an appeal in respect of such assessment, within a period of six months from the date of such agreement or from the date on which such determination was communicated to such person, or | | (b) in any other case, within a period of six months from the date on which a claim in writing was made by such person to the Commissioner-General for such refund or from the thirty-first day of March, of that year of assessment, whichever is the later date, | | | such person shall be entitled to interest on the amount of the refund which remains unpaid calculated at the rate of one per centum for each complete period of one month for which such amount remains unpaid after the period of six months referred to in paragraph (a) or (b). | | Penalties for failure to make returns making incorrect returns &c.
| 171. | (1) Every person who fails to" | (a) comply with the requirements of a notice given to returns making him under subsection (1) of section 65 or subsection (1) of section 68 or subsection (4) of section 71 or subsection (1) of section 90 or subsection (2) of section 98 or subsection (6) of section 98 or subsection (7) of section 98 of subsection (K) of section 98 or subsection (l) of section 99 of section 101 of section 102 of section 103 of section 160 ; | | (b) comply with a requirement imposed on him by the Commissioner-General under sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 104 ; | | (c) attend in response to a notice given to him under subsection (7) of section 98 or subsection (8) of section 98 or subsection (9) of section 136 or subsection (7) of section 140 or having attended in response to any such notice, fails without sufficient cause to answer any questions lawfully put to him ; or | | (d) comply with the requirements of section 56 or subsection (3) of section 65 or subsection (3) of section 68 or subsection (4) of section 71 or subsection (1) of section 98 or subsection (1) of section 99 or section 100 or subsection (2) of section 146 or subsection (7) of section 152. | | | shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, in the case of a failure to comply with subsection (1) of section 98 or with the requirement of a notice given under subsection (2) of section 98, to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees and in any other case, to a fine not exceeding seven thousand five hundred rupees. | | (2) Every person who, being an employer for the purpose of Chapter XIV fails to " | (a) give notice to the Commissioner-General in terms of subsection (1) of section 107 or subsection (2) of section 107 ; | | (b) deduct the whole or any part of the income tax required to be deducted under the provisions of subsection (1) of section 106; or | | (c) comply with the requirements of subsection (1) of section 104 or subsection (2) of section 109 or paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) of section 110 or paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) of section 111 or subsection (2) of section 122. | | | shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, to a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees or to imprisonment of cither description for a term not exceeding six months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. | | (3) Every person who, being an employee for the purposes of Chapter XIV, fails to comply with the requirements of subsection (1) of section 113 shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding seven thousand five hundred rupees. | | (4) Every person who without reasonable excuse" | (a) makes or furnishes an incorrect return by omitting or understating any income, of which he is required by this Act to make or furnish a return, either on his own behalf or on behalf of another person or a partnership ; | | (b) makes an incorrect statement in connection with a claim for a deduction or allowance under Chapter VII; or | | (c) gives an incorrect information in relation to any matter or thing affecting his own liability to tax or the liability of any other person or of a partnership, | | | shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, to a fine consisting of" | (i) a sum equal to the amount of tax which had been undercharged in consequence of such incorrect return, statement, or information or would have been so undercharged if such return, statement, or information had been accepted as correct, and | | (ii) a sum not exceeding ten thousand rupees, | | | or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months, on to both such fine and imprisonment. | | (5) Every person who being an employer for the put poses of Chapter XIV, without reasonable cause makes an incorrect declaration by omitting or understating the amount of remuneration of any employee in his employer or omits or under slates the amount of income tax deducted from the remuneration of any employee shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees of to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months, or to both such hue and imprisonment | | (6) Every person who, being an employee for the purposes of Chapter XIV, makes an incorrect statement in any notice given by him under subsection (1) of section 13 to the Commissioner General shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable on conviction alter summary trial before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months or to both such line and imprisonment | | (7) No person shall be liable to any penalty under this section unless the complaint concerning such offence was made in the year of assessment in respect of or during which, the offence was committed or within five years after the expiration thereof. | | (8) The Commissioner-General may compound any offence under this section and may before judgment, slay or compound any proceedings thereunder. | | Breach of secrecy and other matters to be offences.
| 172. Every person who" | (a) being a person required to take an oath of secrecy under subsection (2) of section 178, acts under this Act without taking such oath ; | | (b) acts in contravention of the provisions of subsection (1) of section 178 or an oath taken under subsection (2) of section 178 ; or | | (c) aids, abets, or incites an other person to act in contravention of any of the provisions of this Act, | | | shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, to a One not exceeding two thousand rupees, or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment. | Penal provisions relating to fraud, &c.
| 173. | (1) Any person who" | (a) omits from a return made or furnished under this Act any income, which he should have included in such return ; | | (b) makes any false statement or entry in any return made or furnished under this act; | | (c) makes a false statement in connection with a claim for a deduction or allowance under Chapter VII; | | (d) signs any statement or return made or furnished under this Act without reasonable grounds for believing the same to be true ; | | (e) gives any false answer whether verbally or in writing to any question or request for information asked or made in accordance with the provisions of this Act; | | (f) prepares or maintains, or authorizes the preparation or maintenance of, any false books of account or other records or falsifies or authorizes the falsification of, any books of account or records ; or | | (g) makes use of any fraud, art or contrivance whatsoever, or authorizes the use of any such fraud, art or contrivance, | | | and thereby evades or attempts to evade income tax, assists any other person to evade or to attempt to evade such tax shall be guilty of any offence under this Act, and shall be liable on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate to fine consisting of" | (i) a sum equal to the amount of tax so evaded or attempted to be evaded for which he us as the. case may be the other person so assisted is liable under this Act for the year of assessment in respect of or during which the offence was committed and | | (ii) a sum not exceeding ten thousand rupees, | | | or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. | | (2) Every person who, being an employer for the purposes of Chapter XIV" | (a) omits from a declaration made under paragraph (a) or paragraph (d) or paragraph (c) of section 111 any remuneration or omits or understates in such declaration the amount of income tax deducted from such remuneration ; or | | (b) gives a false certificate of income tax deduction under paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of section 111, | | | and thereby evades or attempts to evade income tax or assists any other person to evade or to attempt to evade such tax, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate to fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment. | | (3) The Commissioner-General may compound any offence under this section and may before judgment slay or compound any proceedings thereunder. | | Tax to be payable notwithstanding any prosecution or conviction for an offence under this Act.
| 174. The institution of a prosecution is respect of an offence under this Act or the imposition of a penalty, Fine or term of imprisonment in respect of any such offence shall not relieve any person from liability to assessment, or payment, of any tax for which he is or may be liable. | Prosecutions to be with the sanction of the Commissioner-General.
| 175. No prosecution in respect of an offence under section 171 or section 173 may be commenced except at the instance of or with the sanction of, the Commissioner- General. | Admissibility of statement and documents in evidence.
| 176. Where any statement is made, or documents is produced, in relation to any matter arising under this Act, by any person who is chargeable with tax under this Act or by his authorized representative, to the Commissioner-General or a Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner, or an Assessor, then notwithstanding anything in any other law, such statement or document shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings against such person in respect of any offence referred to in section 171 or .section 172 or section 173 of this Act. | | Officers.
| 177. | (1) For the purposes of this Act, there shall be appointed a Commissioner-General of Inland Revenue, and such number of Commissioners of Inland Revenue, Deputy Commissioners of Inland Revenue, Senior Assessors of Inland Revenue, Assessors of Inland Revenue and Tax Officers of Inland Revenue as may be necessary. | | (2) A Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner exercising or performing or discharging any power, duty or function conferred or imposed on, or assigned to, the Commissioner-General by any provision of this act shall be deemed for all purposes to be authorized to exercise, perform or discharge that power, duty or function until the contrary is proved. | | (3) A Deputy Commissioner may exercise any power conferred on any Assessor of Inland Revenue by any provisions of this Act | | (4) Every person who holds office, on the date of commencement of this Act, as the Commissioner-General of Inland Revenue or as a Commissioner of Inland Revenue or as a Deputy Commissioner of Inland Revenue or as a Senior Assessor of Inland Revenue or as an Assessor of Inland Revenue shall be deemed for all purposes, to have been appointed under subsection (1) | | Official secrecy.
| 178. | (1) Except in the performance of his duties under this Act, every person who has been appointed or is deemed to be appointed under or who has been employed in carrying out or in assisting any person in carrying out the provisions of this Act, shall preserve, and aid in preserving, secrecy with regard to all matters relating to the affairs of any person that may come to his knowledge in the performance of his duties under this Act and shall not communicate any such matter to any person other than the person to whom such matter relates or his authorized representative or to the Minister or the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister in charge of the subject of Finance nor suffer or permit any person to have access to any records in the possession, custody or control of the Commissioner General | | (2) Every person appointed or deemed to be appointed under or employed in carrying out the provisions of this Act shall before acting under this Act, and the Minister and the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister in charge of the subject of Finance may before acting under this Act, take and subscribe an oath of secrecy in the prescribed form before a Justice of the Peace. | | (3) No person appointed or deemed to be appointed under or employed in carrying out the provisions of this Act shall be required to produce in any court any return, document, or assessment, or to divulge or communicate to any court any matter or thing corning to his notice in the performance of his duties under this Act except as may be necessary for the purposes of giving effect to the provisions of this Act or of any other written law administered by the Commissioner-General. | | (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, any officer of the Department of Inland Revenue may communicate any mailer which comes to his knowledge in the performance of his duties under this Act or under any other written law administered by the Commissioner-General to - | (a) any other officer of that Department, if the communication of such matter is necessary for the performance of any duty under this Act or such other written law; | | (b) the Commissioner of Revenue of any Provincial Council, being a matter which relates to the turnover, for any period commencing on or after January 1, 1991, of any wholesale or retail trade or business carried on by any person or partnership within the Province for which such Provincial Council is established to such an extent as the Commissioner- General may deem necessary to enable such Commissioner to ascertain such turnover; | | For the purposes of this paragraph, the expression, "turnover" has the meaning assigned to it by paragraph (v) of subsection (1) of section 24. | | (c) the Income Tax Authority of any territory of the Commonwealth of Nations to such an extent as the Commissioner-General may deem necessary to enable such Authority to grant relief from income tax paid in Sri Lanka ; and | | (d) the Income Tax Authority of any country with which an agreement has been entered into for affording relief from double taxation, | | | and the Commissioner-General may produce or cause to be produced in arty court in any proceedings under this Act a copy of any particulars contained in any return or document furnished to him under this Act or under any other written law administered by him or which is otherwise in his possession, certified by him or on his behalf to be a correct copy of such particulars and such copy shall, notwithstanding anything in the Evidence Ordinance relating to the proof of documents, be admissible in evidence : | | Provided that the Commissioner-General may produce or cause to be produced the original of any such return or document in any ease where it is necessary to prove the handwriting or the signature of the person who wrote, made, signed or furnished such return or document, but only for the purpose of such proof: | | Provided further that the Commissioner-General shall not in any case be compelled to produce in any court either the original of such document or return or a copy of any particulars contained in such document or return. | | (5) Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding provisions of this section the Commissioner-General shall" | (a) if required by a commission established under the Special Presidential Commissions of Inquiry Law, No 7 of 1978, furnish as specified in a notice issued by such commission, all information available to him relating to the affairs of any person, whose conduct is being inquired into by the commission or of the spouse or a son or daughter of such person, or of any other person specified by the commission and to produce or furnish as so specified in the notice any document relating to such person, spouse, son or daughter or other person as the ease may be, which is in the possession or under the control of the Commissioner-General ; | | (b) if required by the Attorney-General, in the course of an investigation of an allegation of bribery against any person or after the commencement of prosecution or an arrangement of any person for bribery, furnish, as specified in the notice issued to him, all information available to him relating to the affair, of such person or of the spouse or a son or daughter of such person, and produce or furnish, as specified in the notice, any document of a certified copy of any document relating to such person, spouse, son or daughter which is in the possession or under the control of the Commissioner-General ; | | (c) if required by a commission appointed under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, furnish as specified in a notice issued to him, all information available to him relating to the affairs of any person whose conduct is being inquired into by the commission or of the spouse or a son or daughter of such person and produce or furnish as specified in such notice, any document or a certified copy of any document relating to such person, spouse, son or daughter which is in the possession or under the control of the Commissioner General. | | (d) report to the Attorney-General for investigation any case which he suspects from information available to him that any person is guilty of bribery | | | (6) Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding provisions of this section, any officer of the Department of Inland Revenue shall at the request of the Land Reform Commission established under the Land Reform Law, No 1 of 1972, disclose to such Commission such particulars relating to the affairs of any person that may come to his Knowledge in the performance of this duties under this Act, as may be required by such Commission for the exercise of its powers and the discharge of its functions under that Law | | (7) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section The Commissioner-General may permit the Auditor-General or any officer of the Department of the Auditor- General duly authorised by him in that behalf to have access to any hooks. records , returns or other documents as may be necessary for the performance of his official duties | | The Auditor-General or any officer authorised by him under this subsection shall for the purposes of subsection (2), be deemed to be a person employed in carrying out the provisions of this Act | | (8) Notwithstanding anything in the preceding provisions of this section the Commissioner General or any person authorized in that behalf by the Commissioner -General may, from time to time, cause to be published in such manner as the Commissioner-General may consider expedient," | (a) a list containing the names and addresses of all the taxpayers and the total income declared in the returns of such taxpayers in respect of any year of assessment and, where the Commissioner- General consider it necessary, then principal sources of income, and | | (b) particulars relating to any person who has been convicted in any court of law for any offence under this Act or on whom a penalty has been imposed by the Commissions General under section 104 or under section 143 | | | (9) Where lot the purposes of prosecuting any director , manager. or other officer or employee of an insurance business who has acted in a manner prejudicial to the interest of the holder of policies issued in respect of that business, the Attorney-General by written notice requires the Commissioner General to furnish such information relating to the assets of such director, manager, other officer or employee as is in the possession of the Commissioner- General. the Commissioner-General shall, notwithstanding anything in the preceding provisions of this section, furnish such information to the Attorney General | | (10) Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding provisions of this section, where it appeals to the Commissions General from any matter which comes to his knowledge in the pet performance of his duties under this Act, that any person has committed an offence under the Exchange Control Act, or the Customs Ordinance, he may communicate or deliver to the Controller of Exchange or the Director - General of Customs, as the case may be, any inhumation relating to the commission of the offence or any articles, books of account or the documents necessary or useful for the purpose of proving the commission of such offence | | (11) Where the Commissioner-General has under subsection (10) communicated or delivered to the Controller of Exchange or the Director-General of Customs any information relating to the commission, or any articles, books of account or other documents necessarily or useful lot the purpose of proving the commission, by any person of an offence under the Exchange Control Act, or the Customs Ordinance as the case may be, the Commissioner-General or any other officer of the Department of Inland Revenue may notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding provisions of this section, in any proceeding against such person lot that offence give evidence relating to such information articles, books of account of other documents and produce or cause to be produced any returns, books of account, other documents or articles he may be required to produce in such proceedings The Commissioner General or such other officer may produce or cause to be produced in court for the purpose of such proceedings a copy of any particulars contained in any return, books of account or other document and such copy shall, notwithstanding anything in the Evidence Ordinance relating to the proof of documents be admissible in evidence . | | Provided that the Commissioner-General or other officer" | (a) may produce or cause to be produced the original of such return, books of account or other document in any case where it is necessary to prove the handwriting, or the signature of the person who wrote, made, signed or furnished such return, books of account or other document, but only for the purpose of such proof. | | (b) shall not in any ease be compelled to produce in court either the original of such return, books or account or other document or a copy of the particulars contained in such return, books of account or other document. | | | (12) Nothing in the preceding provisions of this section shall be read or construed as empowering the Minister or the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister to have access to or to examine, any records or documents relating to the affairs of any person, in the possession, custody or control of the Commissioner-General. | | (13) Nothing in the preceding provisions of this section shall be read or construed as requiring the Commissioner- General to disclose such particulars relating to the affairs of any person as may come to his knowledge through the exchange of information in pursuance of any agreement entered into between the Government of Sri Lanka and Government of any other territory and referred to in section 92 of this Act, to any person or authority other than any person or authority involved in the assessment or collection of, or the enforcement of, or the prosecution in respect of any offence relating to, the taxes which are the subject of that agreement. | | Inland Revenue Incentive Fund.
| 179. | (1) There shall be established a Fund called the Inland Revenue Incentive Fund (hereinafter in this section referred to as " the Fund") | | (2) There shall be paid into the Fund in respect of each year such sums as may be appropriated annually by Parliament for the purpose of the Fund. | | (3) There shall be paid out of the Fund" | (a) all sums required for the welfare officers of the Department of Inland Revenue in accordance with any scheme approved by the Minister; and | | (b) group incentive allowances to any class or category of officers of the Department of Inland Revenue in accordance with such scheme as may be approved by the Minister to ensure efficiency in the administration of any Act administered by the Commissioner-General. | | | (4) The Commissioner General or any officer of the Department of Inland Revenue specially authorized by him in that behalf shall administer the Fund in accordance with the prescribed procedure. | | Commissioner-General may pay rewards to information.
| 180. The Commissioner- General may pay, horn sums appropriated for that purpose by Parliament, such sums of money as he considers reasonable in the circumstances of the case to any individual who provides information which result in the assessment of any income not disclosed by any other person and the collection of tax from such person | | Regulation.
| 181. | (1) The Minister may make regulations for the purpose of carrying out of giving effect to the principal and provisions of this act | | (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1) the Minister may make regulations in respect of the following matters | (a) the methods by which an estimate of the income liable to tax may be made in cases where the amount of such income cannot be definitely ascertained , | | (b) the procedure to be followed in respect of applications for refunds of any tax paid under this Act and for any allowance or deduction which may be claimed under this Act; | | (c) any matter which is required or authorized by this Act to be prescribed ; | | (d) penalties for the contravention of any regulations made under this section or for failure to comply therewith, such penalty not exceeding in each case a sum of five hundred rupees. | | | (3) A regulation made under this section, other than a regulation" | (a) prescribing a penalty for or | | (b) enhancing a penalty prescribed for , | | | the contravention of or failure to comply with, regulation made under this section may be declared to take effect from a date earlier than the date of its publication in the Gazette | | (4) A regulation prescribing a penalty for the contravention of or failure to comply with a regulation shall not come into operation until it is approved by parliament and notice of such approval is published in the Gazette | | (5) Every regulation made by the Minister other than a regulation referred to in subsection (4) shall come info operation on the date of its publication in the Gazelle or on such date as may be specified in the regulation. | | (6) Every regulation referred to in subsection (5) shall as soon as convenient after its publication in the Gazette, be brought before Parliament for approval. Any such regulation which is not so approved shall be deemed to be rescinded as from the date of disapproval but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder. Notification of the date on which a regulation is deemed to be rescinded shall be published in the Gazette. | | Forms.
| 182. The Commissioner-General may from time to time specify the forms to be used for all CM any of the purposes of this Act and any form so specified may from time to time be amended or varied by the Commissioner- General or some other form may be substituted by the Commissioner- General in place of any form so specified Any form so specified by the Commissioner General may be published in the Gazette | Power to search buildings or places.
| 183. | (1) Any officer appointed for the purposes of this Act who is specially authorized by the Commissioner General in that behalf may accompanied by a peace officer do all or any of the following " | (a) enter and search any building or place where he has reason to believe that any articles, books of account or other documents which in his opinion will be useful for or relevant to any proceedings under this Act may be found and examine any such articles, books of account or other document if found , | | (b) seize and deliver to the Commissioner General any such articles books of account or other documents or place marks of identification thereon or make extracts or copies therefrom | | (c) for the purpose of effecting such delivery, guard or cause to be guarded, any such articles, books of account or other documents , | | (d) question any person whom he finds in that building or place with respect to any matter arising under this Act or the ownership of any such articles, books of accounts or other documents ; | | (e) make a note or an inventory of any other thing found in the course of any search under this section which in his opinion will be useful for, or relevant to any proceedings under this Act, | | | and the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No, 15 of 1979, relating to searches shall apply, so far as may be to searches under this section. | | (2) Before authorizing any officer to exercise any powers under subsection (1) the Commissioner-General shall record the circumstances which necessitate the exercise of those powers by that officer. | | (3) | (a) Any article shall he seized and delivered to the Commissioner-General by the officers tanking out a search under this section only if - | (i) any tax payable by the owner of such article under any written law, administered by the Commissioner-General is in default. | | (ii) such officer is satisfied, after such investigation as he may deem necessary, that such article had been purchased by the owner thereof out of, or is, profits and income in respect of which income tax is payable by such owner but has not been paid by him | | | (b) Where any article is seized under this section by an officer calling out a search the owner of such article shall be entitled to a receipt from such officer for the article so seized | | | (4) Where any article is seized and delivered to the Commissioner-General under this section the Commissioner General may" | (a) if such article is cash and it such cash is less than or is equivalent to, the amount of the tax in default or the tax payable according to the Commissioner-General in respect of such article, set off such cash in partial or full satisfaction of tax , or | | (b) if such cash is more than the amount of such tax set off so much of the cash as is equivalent to the amount of such tax in full satisfaction of such tax and return the balance to the owner of such article | | | Provided that where such cash is foreign currency such balance shall be credited in a Bank to the account of the owner of such article, or | (c) if such article is not cash, retain, subject to the provisions of subsection (5), such article in his custody until" | (i) the tax in default, or the tax payable according to the Commissioner-General on the profits and income out of which such article had been purchased, as the case may be, is paid; or | | (ii) arrangements are made to the satisfaction or the Commissioner-General for the payment of such tax. | | | | (5) Where the tax is not paid or where arrangements are not made by the owner of the article as specified in paragraph (c) of subsection (4) within six months after the date of the seizure of such article, then the Commissioner-General shall cause such article to be sold by public auction. | | (6) The sum realized by the sale of any article under this section shall be applied" | (a) firstly, in payment of the costs and charges of seizing, keeping and selling the article; and | | (b) secondly, in satisfaction of the tax payable by the owner of that article, | | | and the balance, if any, shall be paid to the owner of that article. | | "article" includes cash, whether or not in Sri Lanka currency, a postal order, a money order, a traveller's cheque, a letter of credit, a bill of exchange, a promissory note, gold, jewellery, a precious stone, and any stock-in-hand ; | | "document" includes any diskette, tape, compact disc or any other thing in which any computer programme or data is stored or recorded in codified form or in electronic, magnetic or other medium ; | | "peace officer" has the same meaning as in the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979. | | Power to search business premises.
| 184. | (1) The Commissioner-General or any other officer of the Department of inland Revenue who is specially authorized in that behalf by the Commissioner-General in writing, may do all or any of the following acts:" | (a) enter and inspect for the purposes of this Act any place or building where any trade, business, profession or vocation is carried on or exercised by any person or partnership ; | | (b) open and examine any receptacle where any book of account, register, record or any other document may be found and make an inventory of the articles found therein ; | | (c) examine and take copies of, or make extracts from, any book of account, register, record or other document found in such place or building ; | | (d) operate any computer found in any such building and take print outs of the whole or part of any entries recorded or stored therein ; | | (e) take possession of any such book of account, register, record or other document, or place marks of identification thereon ; | | (f) count and make a record immediately of the cash found in such place or building ; | | (g) require any person whom he finds in such place or building to give such information as is in his power to give with respect to any matter under this Act , | | (h) examine either alone or in the presence of any other person, as he thinks fit with respect to any matter under this Act, any person whom he finds in such place of building | | | (2) Where an officer authorized by the Commissioner- General under subsection (1), lakes into his possession any book of account, register, record or other documents from any person or partnership. such officer shall issue to that prison or partnership, as the case may be a memorandum specifying the book, register , record or document he has taken into his possession | | (3)Any book of account, register, record or other document taken into his possession under subsection (1) by any officer may retained in the possession of such officer as long as may be necessary for the examination of such book, register, record or document or for the institution of legal proceedings against the person to whom such book, register, record or other document belongs | | (4) For the purposes of this section- | | "article" and "documents" shall have the same meaning assigned to it by section 183 | | | Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency.
| 185. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act. the Singhala text shall prevail. | Interpretation.
| 186. In this Act unless the context otherwise requires" | | "acquired" with reference to property, means acquired by purchase, gift, inheritance, or exchange, or in any other manner, and the expression "acquisition" shall be construed accordingly , | | "active partner", in relation to a partnership, means a partner who takes an active part in the control, management, or conduct of the trade or business of such partnership ; | | "agent", in relation to a non-resident person or to a partnership in which any partner is a non-resident person, includes" | (a) the agent, attorney, factor, receiver or manager in Sri Lanka of such person or partnership ; and | | (b) any person in Sri Lanka through whom such person or partnership is in receipt of any profits or income, arising in or derived from Sri Lanka. | | | "agricultural undertaking" means an undertaking for the purpose of the production of any agricultural, horticultural or any animal produce and includes any undertaking for the purpose of rearing livestock or poultry ; | | "approved by the Commissioner-General" when used in relation to a provident or pension fund means approved by the Commissioner-General as conforming to such conditions as are specified by him by notice published in the Gazette, having regard to the protection of the interests of the contributors to such funds and the protection of revenue ; | | "approved by the Minister" when used in relation to an undertaking or a company or a public corporation or an institution or any fund means approved by the Minister is being essential for the economic progress of Sri Lanka; | | "assessable income" means the residue of the total statutory income of any person after deducting the aggregate amount of the deduction to which such person is entitled to under section 29 ; | | "Assessor" means an Assessor of Inland Revenue appointed or deemed to be appointed under this Act, and includes a Senior Assessor of Inland Revenue ; | | "authorized representative" means any individual who is authorized in writing" | (1) by a person to act on his behalf for the purposes of this Act and who is" | (a) in any case" | (i) a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka; | | (ii) an accountant approved by the Commissioner-General ; | | (iii) an Attorney-at-Law ; or | | (iv) an employee regularly employed by that person. | | | (b) in the case of an individual, a relative, | | (c) in the case of a company, a director or the secretary till that company, | | (d) in the ease of a partnership, a partner of that partnership, | | (e) in the case of a body of persons, a member of such body or body, or | | | (2) from time to time to act on his behalf for the purposes of this Act in respect of matters relating to such year of assessment as is specified in the authorization and who" a | (a) being an individual registered as an auditor under the Companies (Auditors) Regulations, is approved by the Commissioner General, or | | (b) is an individual approved by the Commissioner-General under regulations made in that behalf, | | | | "banker" means any company or body of persons carrying on the business of banking ; | | "body of persons" includes any local or public authority any body corporate or collegiate, any fraternity, fellowship, association or society of persons whether corporate or unincorporate, and any Hindu undivided family, but does not include a company or a partnership; | | "Board of Investment" means the Board of investment of Sri Lanka, established under Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law No. 4 of 1978; | | "business" includes an agricultural undertaking, the racing of horses and the letting of premises for commercial purposes by a company; | | "Ceylon Tourist Board" means the Ceylon Tourist Board established by the Ceylon Tourist Board Act, No. 10 of 1966; | | "Ceylon Chamber of Commerce" means the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce incorporated by the Chamber of Commerce Ordinance; | | "charitable institution" means the trustee or trustees of a trust, or corporation or an unincorporate body of persons established for a charitable purpose only or engage solely in carrying out a charitable purpose ; | | "charitable purpose" means a purpose for the benefit of the public or any section of the public in or outside Sri Lanka of any of the following categories :" | (a) the relief of poverty; | | (b) the advancement of education or knowledge; | | (c) the advancement of religion or the maintenance of religious rites and practices or the administration of a place of public worship; | | (d) any other purpose beneficial or of interest to mankind not falling within any of the preceding categories; | | | "child in relation to an individual to whom this Act applies means a child under eighteen years of age and includes a child adopted under the Adoption of Children Ordinance by that individual and where that individual is not citizen of Sri Lanka, a child adopted by that individual in accordance with the law of the country of which he is a subject or citizen, but does not include" | (a) any child adopted under any other law , | | (c) an illegitimate child, | | | "commercial bank' has the same meaning as in the Monetary Law Act, | | "Commissioner-General" means the Commissioner-General of Inland Revenue appointed or deemed to Iax appointed under this Act , and | (a) in relation to any provision of this Act, includes a Commissioner and a Deputy Commissioner who is specially authorized by the Commissioner General either generally or for some specific purpose to act on behalf of the Commissions General, | | (b) in relation to Chapter XIX, includes an adjudicator appointed by the Minister and authorized by the Commissioner-General under that Chapter , | | | "company" means any company incorporated registered under any law in force in Sri Lanka or elsewhere and includes a public corporation, | | "Controller of Exchange" means the officer designated as the head of the Department of Exchange Control of the Central Bank | | "Deputy Commissioner ' means a Deputy Commissioner of Inland Revenue appointed or deemed to be appointed under this Act, | | "dividend" includes" | (a) any distribution of profit by a company to its shareholders in the form of" | (i) money or of an order to pay money; | | (ii) shares in any other company, or | | (iii) debentures in that company or in any other company, and | | | (b) the amount of any capital returned or distributed to the extent of the paid up value of any shares distributed by the company to its shareholders within six years preceding the date of such return or, distribution of capital such paid up value representing the capitalization of the whole or any part of the profits of its of the company, | | | "donee' means any person who acquires any property under a gift and where a gift is made to a trustee for the benefit of another person includes both the trustee and the beneficiary | | "donor" means any person who makes a gift , | | "executive officer means a director of a company or corporation or an employee in any trade, business profession or vocation whose monthly emoluments (including all allowances) are not less than five thousand rupees, | | "executor" means an executor or administrator of a deceased person and includes" | (a) any person who takes possession of or intermeddles with the property of a deceased person; | | (b) any person who has applied or is entitled to apply to a District Court for the grant or resealing of probate or letters of administration in respect of the estate of a deceased person; or | | (c) a trustee acting under a trust created by the last will of the author of the trust, | | | "foreign currency" has the same meaning as in the exchange Control Act. | | "foreign currency banking unit" means a unit or department of commercial hank authorized by the Central bank of Sri Lanka to operate as a foreign currency banking unit, | | "gem" has the same meaning as m the National Gem and Jewellery Authority Act, No 50 of 1993, | | "gift " means a gift within the meaning of section 52 of the Inland Revenue Act No 28 of 1979, | | "Government institution" means any Department or under taking of the Government of Sri Lanka , | | "incapacitated person" means any minor, lunatic idiot or person of unsound mind, | | "local authority" means any Municipal Council, Urban Council. Pradeshiya Sabha and includes any Authority established by or under any law to exercise, perform and discharge powers duties and functions corresponding or similar to the powers, duties and functions exercised, performed and discharged by any such Council or Sabha, | | "market value" with reference to any property and any date, means the price which, in the opinion of an Assessor, that property would have fetched on that date in an open market; | | "mutual fund" means any mutual Fund licensed as a mutual fund by the Securities and Exchange Commission, | | "non-resident" or "not resident" means nut resident in Sri Lanka within the meaning of section 73 , | | "owner ", in relation to land and improvements there on includes a person who holds such land and improvements subject to aground rent of other annual | | "partnership " shall not include any disposition. trust grant covenant , agreement , assignment, settlement other arrangement by which the share of the divisible profits or the divisible loss, of partner of any partnership is shared with any other person or partnership, | | "person" includes a company or body of persons or any government | | "precedent partner" means the partner who, of the active partners resident in Sri Lanka" | (a) is first named in the agreement of partnership, | | (b) if there is no such agreement, is specified by name or initials singly or with precedence to the other partners in the usual name of the partnership or | | (c) is first named in the statement made under section 4 of the Business Names Act, | | | "prescribed " means prescribed by regulation made under this Act, | | "profits" or "income" means the net profits or income from any source for any period calculated in accordance with the provisions of this Act, | | "property" includes any interest in any movable or immovable property, | | "Provincial Council" means any Provincial Council established for Province, under Article 154A of the Constitution, | | "public corporation " means any corporation, board or other body which was, or is, established by or under any written law, other than the Companies Act No 17 of 1982 with capital wholly or partly provided by the Government, by way of grant, loan or other form; | | "qualifying' distribution" means the whole or part of any gross dividend distributed by a resident company to a shareholder in the form of money or of an order to any money, out of such profits of the company being profits which" | (a) if taxable for that year of assessment, would he taxed at the appropriate rate specified in " | (i) the Second Schedule to this Act, or | | (ii) any regulation made by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka under the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Law, No 4 of 1978, and published in the Gazette as being applicable to any company which has entered into an agreement with such Board under section 17 of such Law being a rate which is either ten per centum or fifteen per centum or thirty five per centum, or | | | (b) are taxed accordance with the provisions or section 32F of the Inland Revenue Act, No 28 of 1979 or of section 40 or of section 45 or of section 47 or of section 49 or of section 50, | | | but does not include any dividend" | (i) distributed out of" | (a) profits or income which accrued of arose to such company prior to April 1. 1988; | | (b) its exempt profits or income, | | (c) any income from dividend received by such company, | | (d) profits and income which arose or accrued to or was derived by such company from any territory outside Sri Lanka, if such company under any agreement referred to in section 92, is entitled to credit against any income tax in respect of such profits and income payable by such company under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 53 for any income tax payable in such other territory in respect of such profits and income; | | (e) profits and income of a company referred to in paragraph (e) of section 11 during the period in which dividends paid out of such profits and income are exempt from tax; | | | (ii) paid to any person whose profits and income are exempt from tax under paragraph (a) of section 8; or | | (iii) paid to any person who is a non-resident; | | | "quoted public company" means any company which is resident in Sri Lanka and in respect of which, the Assessor is satisfied that in relation to any year of assessment, it is a company the shares of which are quoted throughout that year of assessment or where such company is incorporated during that year of assessment, from the date of incorporation to the end of that year of assessment, in any official list published by any stock exchange licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission; | | "rates" means any taxation imposed by a local authority in respect of property; | | "receiver" includes any liquidator, and any assignee, trustee or other person having the possession or control of the property of any person by reason of insolvency or bankruptcy; | | "regulated provident fund" means any provident fund " | (a) which is established by a body corporate whose profits and income are exempt from income tax under any written law ; and | | (b) which is regulated and maintained under the written law by which such body corporate is constituted; | | | "resident or resident in Sri Lanka" means resident in Sri Lanka within the meaning of section 73, | | "Securities and Exchange Commission" means the Seetnities and Exchange Commission established by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka Act No 36 of 1987, | | "shareholder "includes any member of a company having a share or interest in the capital or profits or income thereof whether the capital of such company is divided into shares or not, | | "share" includes and interest in the capital or profits or income of a company | | "statutary income" means income from any source computed in accordance with section 25. | | "taxable income ' means the residue of assessable income of a person after deducting the aggregate amount of the allowances to which such person is entitled to under section 30, | | "trade" includes every trade and manufacture and every adventure and concern in the nature of trade; | | "transfer of property" means any disposition, conveyance, assignment, settlement, delivery, payment or other alienation of property and includes" | (a) the creation of a trust in property ; and | | (b) the grant or creation of any interest in any property; | | | "trustee includes any trustee, guardian, curator, manager or other person having the direction, control, or management of any property on behalf of any person and in relation to any unit trust, the person appointed as the trustee of that unit trust by the instrument creating such unit trust, but does not include an executor; | | "unit trust" means any unit trust licensed as a unit trust by the Securities and Exchange Commission; | | "with the approval of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka" when used in relation to the opening of an account or the making of an investment, means with the approval of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka as being essential for the economic progress of Sri Lanka; | | "year of assessment" means the period of twelve months commencing on the first day of April of any year and ending on the thirty-first day of March in the immediately succeeding year; | | "year preceding a year of assessment" means the period of twelve months ending on the thirty-first day of March immediately prior to a year of assessment. | | | APPLICATION OF THE INLAND REVENUE ACT, NO. 28 OF 1979 | | Application of the Inland Revenue Act No. 28 of 1979.
| 187. | (1) The Inland Revenue Act, No. 28 of 1979, shall not apply to any income tax. for any year of assessment commencing on or after April 1,2000, | | (2) Where the whole or any part of the profits and income of a person are exempt from income tax,, under any provision of the Inland Revenue Act, No. 28 of 1979, for a period specified in that provision, and there remains on March 31, 2000, in relation to any person, an unexpired part of any such period, the whole or part, as the case may be, of the profits and income for which would, but for the provisions of subsection (1), have been exempt from income tax, the whole or part, as the case may be, of the profits and income of that person for that part of that period shall, notwithstanding anything in subsection (1), continue to be exempt from income tax as if such provision continued to have application : | | Provided however that where a company approved by the Minister for the purposes of section 22DDD of the Inland Revenue Act No 28 of 1974, gives notice in writing to the Commissioner General before December 31,2000, that such company elects not to conform to the conditions, subject to which approval was granted, the profits and income from any undertaking of such company as is referred to in subsection (2) of that section, for any year of assessment commencing on or after April 1, 2000, shall, notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of that section, he liable to income tax | | (3) Where any provision of the Inland Revenue Act. No 28 of 1979 provides for the deduction or" | (a) any loss in ascertaining the assessable income, | | (b) any allowance in ascertaining the taxable income, | | | of any person for any year of assessment and there remains outstanding on March 31, 2000, any balance of such loss or allowance, as the case may he, which but tot the provisions of subsection (1),would have been deductible from the assessable income or taxable income, as the case may be, of that person, in any year assessment commencing after April 1, 2000, such balance shall, notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) but subject to any conditions specified in the provision enabling such deduction, be deductible from the assessable or taxable income , as the case may be, of that person in any year of assessment commencing on or after April 1, 2000, as if such provision continued to have application | | (4) The allowance lot depreciation, in respect of any capital asset acquired prior to April 1, 2000 or any qualified building constructed prior to April 1, 2000 shall, notwithstanding the non application referred to in subsection (1), be computed in accordance with the respective provisions of the Inland Revenue Act. No 28 of 1979. | | (5) Any undertaking company, public corporation, institution or any fund approved by the Minister or any accountant or any individual (for the purposes of definition of authorized representative ) or any provident or pension fund approved by the Commissioned General under any provision of the Inland Revenue Act, No 28, of 1979 shall be deemed to have been and to be approved by the Minister or by the Commissioner-General as the case may be, under the respective provisions of this Act | | | | |
