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Chapter XXVI · Recovery of Tax

191. Power of Commissioner-General to obtain information for the recovery of tax

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk

(1)

Notwithstanding anything in the Companies

Act, No. 17 of 1982, where any private company is wound up and where any income tax to which that company is liable cannot be recovered, then, every person who was a director of the company at any time during the year of assessment in respect of which such tax is payable, shall be jointly and severally liable for the payment of such tax, unless he proves that the default in payment of tax cannot be attributed to any gross neglect, misfeasance or breach of duty on his part in relation to the affairs of the company.

Liabiltiy of directors of private company in liquidation.

(2)

In this section the expression “private company” has the same meaning as in the Companies Act, No. 17 of 1982.

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…

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