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Part I

81. Calculation of foreign tax credit

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(1)

Foreign tax credits claimed under section 80 –

(a)

shall be calculated separately for each year of assessment and separately for assessable foreign income from each employment, business, investment or other source and further separately for each gain from the realisation of an investment asset; and

(b)

with respect to each calculation, shall not exceed the average rate of Sri Lankan income tax of the person for the year applied to the person’s assessable foreign income.

(2)

A foreign tax credit shall be allowed under this section only if the foreign income tax is paid within two years after the end of the year in which the foreign income to which the tax relates was derived by the resident person or within such further time as the Commissioner-General may allow.

(3)

Any foreign tax credit or part of a foreign tax credit allowed under this section for a year that is not credited under paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section 2 shall not be refunded, carried back to the preceding year or carried forward to the following year and, in the case of the realisation of an investment asset, shall not be credited in relation to the realisation of another investment asset.

(4)

For the purposes of this section –

“average rate of Sri Lankan income tax” of a resident person for a year of assessment means the percentage that tax payable by the person under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 2

(calculated under subsection (3) of section 2

without any deduction for any foreign tax credit)

is of the taxable income of the person for the year; and

“assessable foreign income” means foreign source income included in the assessable income of a resident person for a year of assessment from an employment, business, investment or other source as the case requires.

Read on from s 82

Part II

Read on from Part II

Schedules