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| (1) The provisions of this section shall apply to the interest payable on the compensation payable in respect of any immovable or movable property vested in the Government or in the Land Reform Commission or in a public corporation or in a local authority, such interest being the accumulated interest payable on such compensation for the period commencing on the date on which such compensation accrues due and ending on the date of payment of such compensation (in this section referred to as the "relevant interest"). |
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| (2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any law"
| | (a) the relevant interest received by any person shall be deemed to be income arising to that person in the year of assessment in which he receives such interest and not in the year of assessment to which such interest relates and such interest shall be liable to income tax at the rate often per centum ; | | |
| | (b) the Government, the Land Reform Commission, the public corporation or the local authority paying the relevant interest to any person shall deduct from such interest an amount equal to ten per centum of such interest and shall remit the amount so deducted to the Commissioner-General, with a statement in writing showing the particulars of the gross amount of the relevant interest payable, the tax deducted, the net amount paid, the name and address of the person to whom it is paid and the amount so remitted shall be set off against the tax payable by such person under paragraph (a). | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts