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50.
—(1) This section shall have effect where, under arrangements having effect under section 49, tax payable in respect of any income in the territory with the government of which the arrangements are made is to be allowed as a credit against tax payable in respect of that income in Singapore.
(2) The amount of the income tax chargeable in respect of the income shall be reduced by the amount of the credit; except that credit shall not be allowed against income tax for any year of assessment unless the person entitled to the income is resident in Singapore during that year.
(3) The credit shall not exceed the amount which would be produced by computing the amount of the income in accordance with the provisions of this Act and then charging it to income tax at a rate ascertained by dividing the income tax chargeable (before allowance of credit under any arrangements having effect under section 49) on the assessable income of the person entitled to the income by the amount of his assessable income.
[7/79; 31/86; 26/93; 28/96; 34/2005]
(4) Without prejudice to subsection (3), the total credit to be allowed to a person for any year of assessment for foreign tax under all arrangements having effect under section 49 shall not exceed the total income tax payable by him for that year of assessment, excluding any tax payable by him under section 45.
(5) In computing the amount of the income —
(a)
no deduction shall be allowed in respect of foreign tax (whether in respect of the same or any other income);
(b)
where the income tax chargeable depends on the amount received in Singapore, that amount shall be increased by the appropriate amount of the foreign tax in respect of the income;
14(c)
where the income includes a dividend and under the arrangements foreign tax not chargeable directly or by deduction in respect of the dividend is to be taken into account in considering whether any, and if so what, credit is to be given against income tax in respect of the dividend, the amount of the income shall be increased by the amount of the foreign tax not so chargeable which falls to be taken into account in computing the amount of the credit.
[53/2007]
14 The words in italics in paragraph (c) will be deleted from the year of assessment 2009.
(6) Subsection (5)(a) and (b) shall apply to the computation of assessable income for the purposes of determining the rate mentioned in subsection (3), and shall apply thereto in relation to all income in the case of which credit falls to be given for foreign tax under arrangements for the time being in force under section 49.
(7) Where —
(a)
the arrangements provide, in relation to dividends of some classes, but not in relation to dividends of other classes, that foreign tax not chargeable directly or by deduction in respect of dividends is to be taken into account in considering whether any, and if so what, credit is to be given against income tax in respect of the dividends; and
(b)
a dividend is paid which is not of a class in relation to which the arrangements so provide,
then, if the dividend is paid to a company which controls, directly or indirectly, not less than one-half of the voting power in the company paying the dividend, credit shall be allowed as if the dividend were a dividend of a class in relation to which the arrangements so provide.
(8) Credit shall not be allowed under the arrangements against income tax chargeable in respect of the income of any person for any year of assessment if he elects that credit shall not be allowed in the case of his income for that year.
(9) Any claim for an allowance by way of credit shall be made not later than 2 years after the end of the year of assessment, and in the event of any dispute as to the amount allowable the claim shall be subject to objection and appeal in like manner as an assessment.
(10) Where the amount of any credit given under the arrangements is rendered excessive or insufficient by reason of any adjustment of the amount of any tax payable either in Singapore or elsewhere, nothing in this Act limiting the time for the making of assessments or claims for relief shall apply to any assessment or claim to which the adjustment gives rise, being an assessment or claim made not later than 2 years from the time when all such assessments, adjustments and other determinations have been made, whether in Singapore or elsewhere, as are material in determining whether any, and if so what, credit falls to be given.
(11) Nothing in this section shall authorise the reduction of any tax payable on income accruing in or derived from Singapore by virtue of the allowance of any credit under this section.
[5/77]
(12) In this section —
“foreign tax” means any tax payable in that territory which under the arrangements is to be so allowed;
“income tax” means tax chargeable under this Act.