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Friday, December 29, 1972
When the income for the year ending March 31, 1974 was returned
a year later, he said, the final tax assessment would be made and the
provisional payment set off against the tax assessed, The provisional tax
for the current year will then be added to the amount payable.
Should any amount of provisional tax be then left over it will
be refunded to the taxpayer, the spokesman said.
In the second and subsequent years, a new feature of the taxpayer's
annual notice of assessment would be the adjustment required when tax
assessed for a year was more or less than the provisional tax paid.
Notice
The spokesman said that, except possibly in the case of permanent
cessation of employment, a taxpayer would receive only one salaries tax
assessment notice each year, and all amendments due to changing relief
circumstances in a year of assessment would be taken up and adjusted in the
annual notice of final assessment for the preceding year and, the notice for
payment of provisional tax for the current year, combined in one notice.
The Bill provides that if a taxpayer's actual income from a source
for the year ending March 31, 1973 exceeds his assessed income for that year
based on the year ending March 31, 1972 by more than 15 per cent, an additional
assessment will be made on the excess over that fifteen per cent.
The Bill also provides that the excess amount will not be taxable
if it is 15 per cent or less.
"This is to safeguard against the risk of avoidance of tax on any
large scale by persons able to control their own scale of emoluments," the
spokesman said.
Where a taxpayer