On 19/05/2013,
you requested for the version in force on 19/05/2013
incorporating all amendments published on or before 19/05/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 01/01/2008.
45D.
—(1) Where any person whose income arising from the disposal of any real property is chargeable to tax under section 10(1)(a) is a non-resident person, any designated person shall, before paying to the non-resident person any money which is the whole or part of the consideration for the disposal of the real property, notwithstanding any other written law, immediately deduct therefrom tax at the rate of 15% on every dollar of such payment.
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(2) Any designated person who has deducted any money under subsection (1) shall immediately give notice of the deduction of tax in writing to the Comptroller and shall, notwithstanding any other written law, pay the amount so deducted to the Comptroller by the 15th day of the month following the month in which the deduction was made and every such amount shall be a debt due from him to the Government and shall be recoverable in the manner provided under section 89.
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(3) Section 45(2) to (8) shall apply, with the necessary modifications, to any designated person as those provisions apply to any person referred to therein.
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(4) For the purpose of payment of any tax due from any income which is chargeable to tax under section 10(1)(a) in respect of any disposal of any real property which is owned by 2 or more persons as joint owners, the designated person deducting the tax shall retain such amount as is presumed under subsection (5) to be owned by any non-resident person and pay over the tax due from such amount to the Comptroller.
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(5) It shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the persons who own any real property as joint owners shall share the proceeds of disposal of the real property in equal shares.
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(6) In this section —
“designated person”, in relation to any disposal of any real property —
(a)
in the case where an advocate and solicitor acts for the buyer of the real property in such disposal, means that advocate and solicitor; and
(b)
in any other case, means the buyer of the real property;
“land” includes land of any tenure wherever situated in Singapore, whether or not held apart from the surface, and buildings or parts thereof (whether completed or otherwise and whether divided horizontally, vertically or in any other manner) and tenements and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, and any estate or interest therein;
“non-resident person” means a person who is not known to be resident in Singapore to the designated person;
“real property”, in relation to a disposal of which the income is chargeable to tax under section 10(1)(a), means any land and any interest, option or other right in or over any land.
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