Income Tax Act, 1967.

Payment of interest without deduction of tax.

221.—(1) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, any share interest or loan interest paid by a society shall be paid without deduction of tax and shall be charged under Schedule D, Case III:

Provided that this subsection shall not apply to any share interest or loan interest payable to a person whose usual place of abode is not within the State.

(2) (a) Where, in a case in which section 220 applies, a society claims repayment of tax under section 496 in respect of interest paid by it in any year of assessment, the amount repayable shall be determined on the basis that so much of the interest as exceeds the appropriate proportion thereof was not paid out of profits or gains brought into charge to tax.

(b) Where, in any year of assessment, a society, in a case in which section 220 applies, pays any share interest or loan interest, from which tax is deductible, or makes any other annual payment, so much of the aggregate of the gross amounts of all such payments as exceeds the appropriate proportion thereof shall be treated as not having been paid out of profits or gains brought into charge and section 434 shall apply accordingly.

In this paragraph “annual payment” means any payment from which, apart from any insufficiency of profit or gains of the person making it, tax is deductible under section 433.

(c) Where in any year of assessment a society pays share interest or loan interest (other than loan interest in respect of which a claim such as is mentioned in paragraph (a) is made) without deduction of tax in accordance with subsection (1), it may claim, in a case in which section 220 applies, that the appropriate proportion of the total amount so paid, or, in any other case, that the total amount so paid, be deducted from its total income for that year and, where such a claim is made, any appropriate relief from tax shall be given by repayment or otherwise.

Section 307 (5) (6) shall apply to a claim under this paragraph as those subsections apply to a claim under section 307, except that it shall not be necessary to use a prescribed form.

(d) Where for any year of assessment the amount of share interest and loan interest falling to be deducted from a society's total income under the immediately preceding paragraph exceeds the amount of the said total income, section 316 shall have effect as if the society had been assessed to tax under section 434 in respect of the payment of the excess and had paid tax under that assessment on the amount of such payment.

(e) In this subsection “the appropriate proportion” of any amount of interest or annual payment paid by a society in a year of assessment means the portion of that amount which bears to the whole the same proportion as the amount of the society's total income for the year bears to what would, but for section 220, have been the amount of the society's total income for that year.

(f) For the purposes of this subsection the total income of a society shall be taken to be its total income from all sources for the purposes of income tax computed in the manner in which it would be computed if the society were an individual but without regard to any such interest or annual payment as is mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).

(g) Any reference in the foregoing provisions of this subsection to loan interest or other interest does not include a reference to interest which is allowable as a deduction in the computation of the profits or gains of a trade carried on by the society.

(h) On or before the 1st day of May in each year, every society shall deliver to the inspector a return in such form as the Revenue Commissioners may prescribe, showing—

(i) the name and place of residence of every person to whom share interest or loan interest amounting to the sum of £5 or more has been paid by the society in the year of assessment which ended next before the said 1st day of May, and

(ii) the amount of such share interest or loan interest paid in that year to each of those persons,

and if such a return is not duly made as respects any year of assessment, the society shall not be entitled to any deduction under paragraph (c) in respect of any payments of share interest or loan interest which it was required to include in the return, and the amount of any deduction in respect of any such payments by reference to which relief has been given under paragraph (c) may, if not otherwise made good, be assessed under Case IV of Schedule D and recovered from the society accordingly.