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As enacted

1. Short title and the date of operation

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails.

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Inland Revenue

(Amendment) Act, No. 4 of 2023.

(2)

The provisions of this section and sections 2, 4, 7, 8,

9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19 and 22 of this Act shall come into operation on the date on which the Bill becomes an Act of

Parliament.

(3)

The provisions of this Act specified in Column I of the table below which amend the provisions of the Inland

Revenue Act, No. 24 of 2017 (hereinafter referred to as the

“principal enactment”) specified in Column II of that table, shall come into operation or be deemed to have come into operation, as the case may be, on the respective dates as specified in Column III of that table.

Section

Section of the principal enactment

Date of of this Act which is amended operation 3 37(1)(b) 01.04.2021 5 84A(1B) 01.01.2023 6 85(4) 01.01.2023 10 113(1)(b), 113(1)(bb), 113(1A), 01.04.2023 113(1B) and 113(1C)

12 135(3), 135(3A) and 135(4) 01.04.2023

Table

Column I

Column II

Column III

150(1)(a), 150(1)(b), 150(1)(c) 01.04.2023

and 150(2A)

17 195 01.04.2018 18

subparagraph (1) of paragraph 4, 01.10.2022

item (d)(iii) of subparagraph (1)

of paragraph 10 and paragraph 13 of the First Schedule 20

paragraph (gg) of the Third 01.04.2022

Schedule 20

subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of 01.10.2022

paragraph (ooo) of the

Third Schedule 20

paragraph (tt) and subparagraphs 01.04.2023

(ii)

, (v) and (vi) of paragraph (w)

of the Third Schedule 20

paragraph (x) of the 27.05.2021

Third Schedule 21

01.10.2022

Column I

Column II

Column III

Section

Section of the principal enactment

Date of of this Act which is amended operation