Disclosure of Certain Information For Taxation and Other Purposes Act, 1996
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Amendment of section 19 (chargeability of certain profits or gains) of Finance Act, 1983. |
11.— Section 19 of the Finance Act, 1983 , is hereby amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (2): | |
“(2) Notwithstanding anything in the Tax Acts, any profits or gains which are charged to tax by virtue of subsection (1) or which are charged to tax by virtue of or following any investigation by any body (hereafter in this subsection referred to as ‘the body’) established by or under statute or by the Government, the purpose or one of the principal purposes of which is— | ||
(a) the identification of the assets of persons which derive or are suspected to derive, directly or indirectly, from criminal activity, | ||
(b) the taking of appropriate action under the law to deprive or to deny those persons of the assets or the benefit of such assets, in whole or in part, as may be appropriate, and | ||
(c) the pursuit of any investigation or the doing of any other preparatory work in relation to any proceedings arising from the objectives mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b), | ||
shall be charged under Case IV of Schedule D and shall be described in the assessment to tax concerned as ‘miscellaneous income’, and in respect of such profits and gains so assessed— | ||
(i) the assessment— | ||
(I) may be made solely in the name of the body, | ||
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(II) shall not be discharged by the Appeal Commissioners or by a court by reason only of the fact that the income should, apart from this section, have been described in some other manner or by reason only of the fact that the profits or gains arose wholly or partly from an unknown or unlawful source or activity, | ||
and | ||
(ii) (I) the tax charged in the assessment may be demanded solely in the name of the body, | ||
and | ||
(II) on payment to it of the tax so demanded, the body shall issue a receipt in its name and shall forthwith— | ||
(A) lodge the tax paid to the General Account of the Revenue Commissioners in the Central Bank of Ireland, and | ||
(B) transmit to the Collector-General particulars of the tax assessed and payment received in respect thereof.”. |