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15.
—(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, for the purpose of ascertaining the income of any person, no deduction shall be allowed in respect of —
(a)
domestic or private expenses except as provided in section 14(1)(g);
(b)
any disbursements or expenses not being money wholly and exclusively laid out or expended for the purpose of acquiring the income;
(c)
any capital withdrawn or any sum employed or intended to be employed as capital except as provided in section 14(1)(h);
(d)
any capital employed in improvements other than improvements effected in the replanting of a plantation;
(e)
any sum recoverable under an insurance or contract of indemnity;
(f)
rent or cost of repairs to any premises or part of premises not paid or incurred for the purpose of producing the income;
(g)
any amount paid or payable in respect of income tax in Singapore, or in respect of any tax on income (by whatever name called) in any country outside Singapore;
(h)
any amount paid or payable in respect of goods and services tax by the person if he, being required to be registered under the Goods and Services Tax Act (Cap. 117A), has failed to do so, or if he is entitled under that Act to credit that amount of tax as an input tax;
(i)
any payment to any provident, savings, widows’ and orphans’ or other society or fund, including the Supplementary Retirement Scheme, except —
(i)
such payment made by an employer on his employee’s behalf to the Central Provident Fund that are obligatory under the Central Provident Fund Act (Cap. 36);
(ii)
such payment made by an employer on his employee’s behalf to the retirement account or special account of that employee in accordance with section 18 of the Central Provident Fund Act;
(iii)
such payment made by an employer on his employee’s behalf to the SRS account of that employee up to the amount of the SRS contribution cap applicable to that employee as determined in accordance with regulations made under section 10L(11); and
(iv)
such payments as are allowed under section 14(1)(e), (f) and (fa);
[22/2011 wef 01/01/2011]
[34/2008 wef Y/A 2009 & Sub Ys/A]
(j)
any sum referred to in section 12(6) payable by any person outside Singapore to another person outside Singapore except where the sum is exempt from tax, or tax has been deducted and accounted for under section 45;
(k)
any outgoings and expenses, whether directly or in the form of reimbursements, and any claim for the cost of renewal incurred on or after 1st April 1998 in respect of a motor car (whether owned by him or any other person) which is constructed or adapted for the carriage of not more than 7 passengers (exclusive of the driver) and the weight of which unladen does not exceed 3,000 kilograms except —
(i)
a taxi;
(ii)
a motor car registered outside Singapore and used exclusively outside Singapore;
(iii)
a private hire car if the person is carrying on the business of hiring out cars and the private hire car is used by the person principally for hiring;
(iv)
a motor car which was registered before 1st April 1998 as a business service passenger vehicle for the purposes of the Road Traffic Act (Cap. 276); and
(v)
a motor car registered on or after 1st April 1998 which is used principally for instructional purposes if the person is carrying on the business of providing driving instruction and holds a driving school licence or driving instructor’s licence issued under the Road Traffic Act;
(l)
any outgoings and expenses incurred in respect of any unit trust designated under section 35(14) if the person is a unit holder of such trust;
(m)
any amount of output tax paid or payable under the Goods and Services Tax Act (Cap. 117A) which is borne by the person if he is registered as a taxable person under that Act;
(n)
any outgoings and expenses incurred in respect of any approved CPF unit trust as defined in section 35(14) if the person is a unit holder who has purchased any unit in such trust using moneys other than those standing to his credit in the Central Provident Fund;
(o)
any sum of money, other than any compensatory payment, paid by a transferee to a transferor after the transferee has failed to notify such person within such period as the Comptroller may require under section 10N(6)(b), in place of any dividend derived from Singapore from which tax has been deducted under section 44 in respect of transferred securities under a securities lending or repurchase arrangement to which section 10N applies;
(p)
any outgoings and expenses, whether directly or in the form of reimbursements, incurred in respect of any right or benefit granted to any person to acquire shares on or after 1st January 2002 in any company, if the right or benefit is not granted by reason of any office or employment held in Singapore by the person; and
(q)
any outgoings and expenses, whether directly or in the form of reimbursements, incurred by any company in respect of any right or benefit granted to any person, by reason of any office or employment held in Singapore by that person, to acquire shares (other than treasury shares, or shares in respect of which the company is allowed a deduction under section 14PA(7)) of a holding company of that company.
[22/2011 wef Y/A 2012 & Sub Ys/A]
[7/79; 9/80; 15/83; 11/94; 32/95; 31/98; 32/99; 24/2001; 37/2002; 7/2007; 53/2007]
(2) Subsection (1)(b) and (d) shall not apply to any expenditure which qualifies for deduction under section 14A, 14D, 14DA, 14E, 14F, 14H, 14I, 14K, 14M, 14N, 14O, 14P, 14PA, 14Q or 14S.
[22/2011 wef Y/A 2012 & Sub Ys/A]
[34/2008 wef Y/A 2009 & sub Ys/A]
[34/2008 wef 16/12/2008]
[29/2010 wef Y/A 2011 & Sub Ys/A]
[29/2010 wef 01/01/2004]
[9/80; 28/80; 1/82; 20/91; 2/92; 26/93; 32/99; 21/2003]
(3) In this section, “holding company” has the same meaning as in section 5 of the Companies Act (Cap. 50).
[7/2007]







