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6 1967

INCOME TAX ACT, 1967

Chapter IV

Case III

Income chargeable under Case III.

75. —(1) Save as is hereinafter otherwise provided, income or profits chargeable under Case III of Schedule D shall, for all the purposes of ascertaining liability to income tax, be deemed to issue from a single source, and the provisions of section 77 shall apply accordingly.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to the following income or profits and such income or profits shall be deemed to arise from separate sources respectively, that is to say:—

(i) income or profits chargeable under section 215.

(ii) profits chargeable under section 78, and

(iii) income from securities and possessions in any place outside the State tax on which under subsections (2) and (3) of section 76 is required to be computed by reference to the amount of the income received in the State.

Foreign securities and possessions.

76. —(1) Subject to the provisions of this section and section 77, tax chargeable under Case III of Schedule D in respect of income arising from securities and possessions in any place outside the State shall be computed on the full amount thereof arising in the year preceding the year of assessment whether the income has been or will be received in the State or not, subject, in the case of income not received in the State—

(a) to the same deductions and allowances as if it had been so received; and

(b) to the deduction, where such deduction cannot be made under, and is not forbidden by, any other provision of this Act, of any sum which has been paid in respect of income tax in the place where the income has arisen; and

(c) to a deduction on account of any annual interest or any annuity or other annual payment payable out of the income to a person not resident in the State,

and the provisions of this Act (including those relating to the delivery of statements) shall apply accordingly.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply—

(a) to any person who satisfies the Revenue Commissioners that he is not domiciled in the State, or that, being a citizen of Ireland, he is not ordinarily resident in the State, or

(b) to income arising from such securities and possessions as aforesaid which form part of the investments of the foreign life assurance fund of an assurance company.

(3) In the cases mentioned in subsection (2), the tax shall, subject to the provisions of section 77, be computed on the full amount of the actual sums received in the State from remittances payable in the State, or from property imported, or from money or value arising from property not imported, or from money or value so received on credit or on account in respect of such remittances, property, money or value brought into the State in the year preceding the year of assessment without any deduction or abatement.

(4) Where the Revenue Commissioners are satisfied that the application of the provisions of this section would give rise to hardship in the case of income derived from an employment exercised wholly outside the State they may grant such relief as in their opinion is just.

(5) Any person who is aggrieved by the decision of the Revenue Commissioners on any question as to domicile or ordinary residence arising under subsection (2) may, by notice in writing to that effect given to the Revenue Commissioners within two months from the date on which notice of the decision is given to him, make an application to have his claim for relief heard and determined by the Special Commissioners.

(6) Where an application is made under this section, the Special Commissioners shall hear and determine the claim in like manner as an appeal made to them against an assessment and all the provisions of this Act relating to such an appeal (including the provisions relating to the rehearing of an appeal and to the statement of a case for the opinion of the High Court on a point of law) shall apply accordingly with any necessary modifications.

Basis of assessment.

77. —(1) Tax under Case III of Schedule D shall, subject to the provisions of this section, be computed—

(a) as respects the year of assessment in which the profits or income first arise, on the full amount of the profits or income arising within that year; and

(b) as respects subsequent years of assessment, on the full amount of the profits or income arising within the year preceding the year of assessment:

Provided that—

(i) where the profits or income first arose on some day in the year preceding the year of assessment other than the 6th day of April, the computation shall be made on the profits or income of the year of assessment; and

(ii) where the profits or income first arose on the 6th day of April in the year preceding the year of assessment, or on some day in the year next before the year preceding the year of assessment other than the 6th day of April, the person charged shall be entitled, on giving notice in writing to the inspector at any time within twelve months after the end of the year of assessment, to be charged on the amount of the profits or income of that year, and if the tax charged has been paid, any amount overpaid shall be repaid.

(2) Tax shall, subject to the provisions of section 76, be paid on the actual amount computed as aforesaid without any deduction.

(3) If in any year of assessment any person charged or chargeable in respect of income or profits under Case III of Schedule D ceases to possess the whole of such single source of income or profits as is mentioned in section 75 (1) or any of the sources the income of which is directed to be separately computed under subsection (2) of that section, section 58 (5) shall, subject to the necessary modifications, apply in any such case as if the cesser of the possession of such single source or separate sources, as the case may be, were the discontinuance of a trade.

(4) The references in subsection (3) to a person ceasing to possess a source of income or profits shall be construed as referring to a cesser occurring by reason of the person dying while in possession of the source of income or profits as well as to a cesser occurring in the lifetime of such person, and for the purposes of subsection (3) such death shall be deemed to cause a cesser, and such cesser shall be deemed to take place on the day of such death.

(5) The provisions of subsection (1) shall, in cases where income tax is to be computed by reference to the amount of income received in the State, have effect as if references therein to income which arises or which arose were references to income which is or was so received.

Cattle and milk dealers.

78. —If the inspector finds that lands which have been charged under Schedule B on the assessable value, and which are occupied by a dealer in cattle or a dealer in or a seller of milk, are insufficient for the keep of the cattle brought on to the lands, so that the assessable value affords no just estimate of the profits, he may require a statement of the profits to be delivered, and charge such further sum thereon as, together with the charge under Schedule B, will make up the full sum wherewith the dealer or seller ought to be charged in respect of the like amount of profits charged according to section 77.