Income Tax Act (Cap. 123)
Income Tax Act (Cap. 123), article 71
71. Where any individual dies dur ing the year preceding the
year of assessment and such individual would but for his death
have been chargeable to tax for the year of assessment or where any
individual dies during the year o f assessment or within five ye ars
after the expiration thereof and he has not been assessed or ha s
been assessed at a lesser amount than that which ought to have been
charged for the year of assessment, the heirs or the legal
representative of such individual shall be liable to and charge d with
the payment of the tax with which such individual would have be en
chargeable and shall jointly and severally be answerable for do ing
all such acts, matters and things as such individual if he were alive
would be liable to do under this Act. In the case of any indivi dual
dying during the year preceding the year of assessment, if his estate
is distributed before the commencement of the year of assessmen t,
the heirs or such legal representative shall pay the tax at the rate or
rates in force at the time of his death.
Joint trustees.
Renumbered by:
XVII. 1994.2.
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