Income Tax Act, 1967.

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Exemption of Commonwealth representatives.

341.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, exemption shall be granted from tax in respect of the emoluments payable by a Government to which this section for the time being applies to any person employed by such Government as a diplomatic or trade representative or other like representative in the State or as a member of the staff in the State of such representative and no account shall be taken of any such emoluments in estimating the amount of the income of such person for the purposes of this Act.

(2) Exemption shall be granted to a person under this section in respect only of a period during which such person is shown to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners to have been resident in the State solely for the purpose of performing the duties in respect of which the said emoluments are payable to him and not to have been exercising in the State any other trade, employment, or vocation.

(3) If any person has paid tax from which he would be entitled to be exempted under this section he shall be entitled to repayment of such tax.

(4) This section applies to every Government of the several countries comprised in the British Commonwealth of Nations in respect of which the Revenue Commissioners are for the time being satisfied that it gives to diplomatic and trade representatives of the Government of Ireland and the members of their staffs a similar exemption to that given by this section to the diplomatic and trade representatives of the first-mentioned Government and the members of their staffs.