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(ii) by the deletion in subparagraph (o) of “one hundred and forty-four thousand
dollars” and the substitution of “one million three hundred and forty-four
thousand dollars”.
(2) If a bonus is paid in each of the years of assessment ending on the 31st August and 31st
December, 2006, and the sum of the bonuses exceeds one hundred thousand dollars in the period
of twelve months ending on the 31st December, 2006, the excess amount shall not be exempt
from income tax in terms of paragraph 4(o) of the Third Schedule.
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Amendment of Fourth Schedule to Cap. 23:06
With effect from the year of assessment beginning on the 1st January, 2007, the Fourth
Schedule (“Deductions to be Allowed in Respect of Buildings, Improvements, Machinery and
Equipment Used for Commercial, Industrial and Farming Purposes, and Other Provisions
Relating Thereto”) to the Income Tax Act [Chapter 23:06] is amended—
(a) in paragraph 1 (“Interpretation”) in the definition of “staff housing” in subparagraph
(1)—
(i) in subparagraph (m) by the insertion after “1st January, 2006,” of “but before the
1st January, 2007,”;
(ii) by the insertion after paragraph (m) of the following paragraph—
“(n) in the case of any such building the erection of which was commenced on
or after the 1st January, 2007, any building comprising or incorporating
any residential unit the cost of which exceeds sixteen million dollars;”;
(b) in paragraph 9 (“Rates of special initial allowance”) by the insertion after paragraph (f)
of the following paragraph—
“(g) on the 1st January, 2007, or on any subsequent year of assessment, be a sum
equal to one hundred and fifty per centum in the case of a taxpayer which is a
“small or medium enterprise” as defined in paragraph 1 of the Twenty-Ninth
Schedule:
Provided that one hundred per centum shall be allowed in the first year of
assessment in which the taxpayer claims the special initial allowance in terms of
this subparagraph, and twenty-five per centum in each of the next two years of
assessment following that year;”;
(c) in paragraph 14 (“Limitation on cost of passenger motor vehicle”)⎯
(i) in subparagraph (1)—
A. in subparagraph (k) by the insertion after “1st January, 2006” of “, but
before the 1st January, 2007”;
B. by the insertion after subparagraph (k) of the following subparagraph—
“(l) ten million dollars shall be disregarded, where the vehicle was
purchased on or after the 1st January, 2007.”.
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