Income Tax Act (Cap. 123)
Income Tax Act (Cap. 123), article 60
60. Any tax which a company had deducted or is entitled to
deduct under article 59 from a dividend paid to a shareholder, from
debenture interest payable to a debenture holder or from intere st on
any other loan payable to a cred itor, and any tax applicable to the
share to which any person is entitled in the income of a body o f
persons assessed under this Act, shall, when such dividend or
interest or share is included in the chargeable income of such
shareholder or person, be set off for the purposes of collectio n
against the tax ch arged on that chargeable income:
Provided that, notwithstanding anything in this article or in
the last preceding article but subject to the following proviso ,
where a company has deducted tax, the amount of tax actually
deducted by a company from any dividend paid by the company to
a shareholder shall be set off against the tax due from the recipient
of such dividend, irrespective of whether in paying the dividen d the
company has made an under-deduction or an over-deduction or any
adjustment of a previous under-deduction or over-deduction of tax,
except where a company has recovered the amount of any under-
deduction under the provisions of article 59(2)( b) in which case a
set-off shall be allowed of the amount of tax actually deducted by
the company and of the amount of tax recovered by the company
under those provisions:
Provided further that no set-o ff as aforesaid shall be made
unless the certificate referred to in article 59(5) or (7) is p roduced
to the Commissioner and unless tax has actually been paid:
Provided also that in no case shall any set-off be made in
respect of -
(a) any tax which a company has deducted or is entitled to
deduct from any dividend paid to any person who, in
virtue of any exemption granted by or under any law,
is not chargeable to tax thereon; and
Cap. 372.
(b) any tax charged on any body of persons under article
56(4), or under article 27(3) and (4) of the Income Tax
Management Act .
194 CAP. 123.] INCOME TAX
Definitions.
Added by:
XVII. 1994.26.
Amended by:
XIII. 2004.55;
II. 2007.27;
XII. 2014.26.
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