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Inland Revenue Act (No. 38 of 2000) - Sect 57

Income tax to which any non resident company is liable

57.
(1) The income tax to which a company which is not resident in Sri Lanka m any year of assessment shall be liable for that year of assessment shall consist of"
(a) a sum equal to the amount calculated at the rate specified in the Second Schedule ; and
(b) where there are remittances of such company in that year of assessment a sum equal to"
(i) thirty-three and one-third per centum of the aggregate amount of the remittances of such company, if the amount of such remittances are less than one third of such taxable income : or
(ii) eleven and one-ninth per centum of such taxable income, if the aggregate amount of such remittances are not less than one-third of such taxable income.
(2) In subsection (1) "remittances" with reference to a non-resident company mean"
(a) sums remitted or retained abroad out of the profits of the company, such sums not including any dividends paid by a resident company to such non-resident company ;
(b) such part of the proceeds of the sale abroad of products exported by that company as is retained abroad ; and
(c)in respect of any products exported by that company and not sold in a wholesale market or not sold at all such part of the profits deemed under section 78 to be derived from Sri Lanka as is retained abroad.


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