Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill B19-2019

29th November 2019

To —

● amend the Income Tax Act, 1962, so as to subject a certain decision under the Act to objection and appeal; to make technical corrections; to provide a time period for the validity of a declaration and a written undertaking in respect of the withholding of withholding tax on interest, withholding tax on royalties, and dividends tax; to remove a requirement to submit a declaration to a regulated intermediary in respect of tax free investments; to clarify that a penalty may be imposed if an employer submits an incomplete return; and to insert a provision that an executor need not submit a provisional tax return for the provisional period ending on the date of death;

● amend the Customs and Excise Act, 1964, so as to make technical corrections; to insert definitions; to extend a provision providing for information sharing and exclude certain information from the application of the prohibition on disclosure of information; to clarify that an invoice may be amended by the issuing of an amended invoice or by the issuing of a credit or debit note in circumstances where the amount reflected on the invoice is amended; to clarify that tariff determinations, amendments to tariff determinations or new tariff...