Finance Act, 1916

Relief in respect of Colonial income tax.

43. If any person who has paid, by deduction or otherwise, United Kingdom income tax for the current income tax year on any part of his income at a rate exceeding three shillings and sixpence proves to the satisfaction of the Special Commissioners that he has also paid any Colonial Income tax in respect of the same part of his income, he shall be entitled to repayment of a part of the United Kingdom income tax paid by him equal to the difference between the amount so paid and the amount he would have paid if the tax had been charged at the rate of three shillings and sixpence, or, ir that difference exceeds the amount of tax on that part of his income at the rate of the Colonial income tax, equal to that amount.

In this section the expression “United Kingdom income tax” means income tax charged under the Income Tax Acts; and the expression “Colonial income tax” means income tax charged under any law in force in any British possession or any tax so charged which appears to the Special Commissioners to correspond to United Kingdom income tax.