Finance Act, 1914

Super-tax for 1914–15.

($$$)10 Edw. 7. c. 8.

3.(1) In addition to the income tax charged at the rate of one shilling and threepence under this Act there shall be charged, levied, and paid for the year beginning on the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and fourteen, in respect of the income of any individual, the total of which from all sources exceeds three thousand pounds, an additional duty of income tax (in this Act referred to as super-tax) at the following rates :—

In respect of the first two thousand five hundred pounds of the income - -

nil.

In respect of the excess over two thousand five hundred pounds—

for every pound of the first five hundred pounds of the excess - -

fivepence

for every pound of the next one thousand pounds of the excess - -

sevenpence

for every pound of the next one thousand pounds of the excess - -

ninepence

for every pound of the next one thousand pounds of the excess - -

elevenpence

for every pound of the next one thousand pounds of the excess - -

one shilling and a penny

for every pound of the next one thousand pounds of the excess - -

one shilling and threepence

for every pound of the remainder of the excess - - - - -

one shilling and fourpence.

(2) All such enactments relating to super-tax as were in force with respect to the super-tax granted for the year beginning on the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall have full force and effect with respect to the super-tax granted under this section :

Provided that in estimating total income for the purposes of super-tax for the year beginning the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and fourteen, a deduction may be made (in addition to those authorised in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section sixty-six of the Finance (1909–10) Act, 1910) of any additional sum on which it is shown to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue that duty would have been repayable in respect of maintenance, repairs, insurance, and management if this Act had been in force during the year by reference to which the total income is estimated.