Report of the Departmental Committee on Income Tax ...

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H.M. Stationery Office, 1905 - 216 pages

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Page 9 - In charging the profits or gains of a trade . . . such deduction may be allowed as the Commissioners . . . may consider just and reasonable as representing the diminished value by reason of wear and tear during the year...
Page 62 - A registered society shall not be chargeable under Schedules C. and D. of the Income Tax Acts unless it sells to persons not members thereof, and the number of shares of the society is limited either by its rules or its practice.
Page 42 - Schedule (D), or the profits of any concern chargeable by reference to the rules of that schedule, allow such deduction as they may think just and reasonable as representing the diminished value by reason of wear and tear during the year...
Page xiii - ... the diminished value by reason of wear and tear during the year of any machinery or plant used for the purposes of the concern...
Page 20 - Viet. cap. 35, sec. 133) ; no such reduction, however, shall be made unless the profits of the said year of assessment are proved to be less than the profits for one year on the average of the last three years, including the...
Page 20 - The duty to be charged in respect thereof shall be computed on a sum not less than the full amount of the balance of the profits or gains of such trade, manufacture, adventure, or concern, upon a fair and just average of three years ending THB on such day of the year immediately preceding the year of MERCHISTON assessment on which the accounts of the said trade, mauut'ac- cot "LTD.
Page 20 - ... the duties contained in Schedule (D.), whether he shall have computed his profits or gains arising as last aforesaid on the amount thereof in the preceding or current year, or on an average of years, shall find, and shall prove to the satisfaction of the Commissioners by whom the assessment was made, that his profits and gains during such year for which the computation was made fell short of the sum so computed in respect of the same source of profit on which the computation was made...
Page xxiv - dividend " is clearly not profit, but merely a return to members of sums which they have paid for their own goods in excess of the cost price.
Page 20 - Provided always, that in cases where the trade, manufacture, adventure or concern shall have been set up and commenced within the said period of three years, the computation shall be made for one year on the average of the balance of the profits and gains from the period of first setting up the same...
Page 20 - ... according to an average of such period greater or less than one year, as the case may require, and as shall be directed by the said commissioners ; and such statement and computation shall be made to the best of the knowledge and belief of the person in receipt of the same, or entitled thereto.