Inland Revenue Act 1880

PART IV

Income Tax

50 Grant of additional duties of income tax

In addition to the duties of income tax granted by the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1880, there shall be charged, collected, and paid for the year which commenced on the sixth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighty, in respect of all property, profits, and gains mentioned or described as chargeable in the Act of the sixteenth and seventeenth years of Her Majesty's reign, chapter thirty-four, the following duties of income tax; (that is to say,)

For every twenty shillings of the annual value or amount of property, profits, and gains chargeable under Schedules (A), (C), (D), or (E) of the last-mentioned Act, the duty of one penny ;

And for every twenty shillings of the annual value of the occupation of lands, tenements, hereditaments, and heritages chargeable under Schedule (B) of the last-mentioned Act, the duty of one halfpenny;

and such duties shall, in any assessments made or to be made for the said year, be added to, and charged, collected, and paid with the duties granted by the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1880, and shall in all respects be levied under and be subject to the same provisions as the duties so granted.

51 Provisions for securing additional duties on dividends, &c., and as to right of deduction

(1) Provided that, in the case of dividends, interest, or other annual profits or gains, due or payable half-yearly or quarterly in the course of the said year which commenced on the sixth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighty, where a half-yearly payment or quarterly payment shall have become due or payable prior to the passing of this Act, and duty at the rate of fivepence only shall have been paid thereon, such half-yearly payment or the two first quarterly payments shall be deemed to have been, or be, chargeable only with the duty of fivepence granted by the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1880, and the other half-yearly payment or the two other quarterly payments shall be chargeable and assessed and charged with the duty of sevenpence ;

(2) Provided also, that for determining the amount which may be deducted by any person liable to pay any rent, interest, annuity, or other annual payment in the course of the said year, on making the payment, where any such payment shall have been made prior to the passing of this Act, and duty at the rate of five-pence only shall have been deducted therefrom, the duty shall be deemed to be payable at the rate of fivepence for the first half of the said year, and at the rate of sevenpence for the other half of the said year.

(3) Provided also, that the charge or deduction of duty at the rate of sixpence in the case of any payment made in the course of the said year prior to the passing of this Act shall be deemed to have been a legal charge or deduction.

52 Relief to owner-occupiers of land

The relief given by section three of the Act of the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty's reign, chapter twelve, and referred to in section forty-six of the said Act of the sixteenth and seventeenth years of Her Majesty's reign, chapter thirty-four, shall be extended and granted to every person occupying lands for the purposes of husbandry only, being the owner thereof, although he may not obtain his livelihood principally from husbandry.