Ceiling On Income And Compulsory Savings (Amendment) Law
A LAW TO AMEND THE CEILING ON INCOME AND COMPULSORY SAVINGS LAW, NO, 15 OF 1972
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BE it enacted by the National State Assembly of the Republic of Sri Lanka as follows:
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Short title.
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1. This Law may be cited as the Ceiling on Income and Compulsory Savings (Amendment) Law, No. 22 of 1975.
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Replacement of section 10 of Law No. 15 of 1972.
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2. Section 10 of the Ceiling on Income and Compulsory Savings Law, No. 15 of 1.972, hereafter in this Law referred to as the " principal enactment ", is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor:
" Exemption of certain individual from liability to pay contributions under this Law.
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10. An individual who is the head of a family or who is not included in a family shall not be required to pay contributions under this Law-
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(a) for any year of assessment commencing on or before April 1, 1973.
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(i) if the income tax which he would be liable to pay under the principal Act for that year of assessment on a taxable income equal to his contributable income does not exceed eight hundred and forty rupees; or
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(ii) if his total income for that year of assessment does not exceed twelve thousand rupees; and
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(b) for any year of assessment commencing on or after April 1, 1974, if his total income for that year of assessment does not exceed eighteen thousand rupees.".
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Amendment of section 12 of the principal enactment.
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3. Section 12 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows: -
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(a) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) of section, 12:
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(b) in the renumbered subsection (1), by the substitution , for the words for any year of assessment of the following: -
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"for any year of assessment commencing on or before April 1, 1973,"; and
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(b) by the addition, immediately after subsection (1), of the following new subsection: -
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"(2) The normal contribution payable under this Law for any year of assessment commencing on or after April 1, 1974, by an individual who is the head of a family or who is not included in a family shall not be more than eighty per centum of the amount by which his total income for that year of assessment exceeds eighteen thousand rupees.
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