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Chapter XVII · Deduction of Income Tax from Specified Fees Paid by Specified Persons

154. Provisions of Chapter XVI to apply in relation to the deduction under this Chapter of income tax from specified fees

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

The provisions of Chapter XVI 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 person, 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 XVI 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.

Chapter XVIII

Chapter XIX

Chapter XX

Deduction of Income Tax from Any Annuity or Royalty Paid or Any Management Fee Paid or Similar Payment Made by Any Person or Partnership

Chapter XXI

Retention of Moneys in Certain Provident Funds

Chapter XXII

Assessments

Chapter XXIII

Appeals A-Appeals to the Commissioner-General

Chapter XXIV

Finality of Assessments and Penalty for Incorrect Returns

Chapter XXV

Tax in Default and Sums Added Thereto

Chapter XXVI

Recovery of Tax

Chapter XXVII

Miscellaneous

Chapter XXVIII

Repayment

Chapter XXIX

Penalties and Offences

Chapter XXX

Administration

Chapter XXXI

General

Chapter XXXII

Interpretation

Chapter XXXIII

Application of the Inland Revenue Act…

Schedules