Economic Expansion Incentives (Relief from Income Tax) (Amendment No. 2) Bill

Bill No. 34/1979

Read the first time on 21st September 1979.

An Act to amend the Economic Expansion Incentives (Relief from Income Tax) Act (Chapter 135 of the Revised Edition).

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows: —

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Economic Expansion Incentives (Relief from Income Tax) (Amendment No. 2) Act, 1979, and shall have effect for the year of assessment 1980 and subsequent years of assessment.

Amendment of section 30

2. Section 30 of the Economic Expansion Incentives (Relief from Income Tax) Act is amended by deleting from subsection (1) thereof the words “without making any deductions which may fall to be made under any of the provisions contained in” and substituting therefor the words “before taking into account the allowances provided for in”.

Repeal and re-enactment of section 32

3. Section 32 of the Economic Expansion Incentives (Relief from Income Tax) Act is repealed and the following substituted therefor: —

“Tax relief on export profits

32.—(1) Where an amount of the export profit of an export enterprise qualifies under sections 30 and 31 for the relief provided by this section (hereinafter referred to as the qualifying export profit), there shall be deducted from that amount such part of the allowances provided for in sections 16, 17, 18, 19, 19A, 20, 21 and 22 of the Income Tax Act (Cap. 141) as may be attributable to the qualifying export profit; and the part of the allowances so attributable to the qualifying export profit shall be deemed to be such amount which bears the same proportion to the total allowances deductible by the export enterprise under sections 16, 17, 18, 19, 19A, 20, 21 and 22 of the Income Tax Act (notwithstanding that no claim for such allowances has been made) as the amount of the qualifying export profit bears to the income of the export enterprise ascertained under subsection (1) of section 30.

(2) For each year of assessment the Comptroller shall issue to the export enterprise a statement for that year of assessment showing the balance of the qualifying export profit after deduction of the allowances under subsection (1) and the provisions of Parts XI and XII of the Income Tax Act (relating to objections and appeals) and of any regulations made thereunder shall apply, mutatis mutandis, as if such a statement were a notice of assessment given under those provisions.

(3) Subject to subsection (6) of section 33, where any statement issued under subsection (2) has become final and conclusive, an amount equal to ninety per cent of the balance of such qualifying export profit shall not form part of the statutory income of the export enterprise for that year of assessment and shall be exempt from tax.”.

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