Income Tax Act, 1967.

Exclusion of annual value of property.

65.—(1) The computation of tax shall be made exclusive of the annual value of property occupied for the purpose of the trade or profession and separately assessed and charged under Schedule A.

(2) Where any lands, tenements, hereditaments or other premises of whatsoever description used for the purpose of any trade or profession are situate outside the State, no deduction or set-off shall, in estimating the amount of annual profits or gains arising or accruing from that trade or profession, in any manner be allowed on account or in respect of the annual value of those premises.

(3) Where, in estimating the amount of annual profits or gains arising or accruing from any trade or profession and chargeable to tax under this Schedule, any sum is deducted on account of the annual value of the lands, tenements and hereditaments used for the purpose of such trade or profession, the sum so deducted shall not exceed the amount of the assessment of the lands, tenements and hereditaments for the purpose of tax under Schedule A as reduced for the purpose of collection.

(4) (a) Subsection (3) shall not apply in the case of an industrial building or structure within the meaning of section 255 which is not a building or structure to which section 264 applies.

(b) Where, in the case of premises valued under the Valuation Acts as a unit, a part is, and a part is not, a building or structure to which section 264 applies, the annual value of each part shall be arrived at by apportionment of the rateable valuation of the premises, and section 54 (3) (c) and section 54 (4) shall apply to any such apportionment as they apply to an apportionment required by section 54 (3).