Finance Act, 1916

Part II.

Income Tax.

Income tax for 1916–17.

16 & 17 Vict. c. 34.

32 & 33 Vict. c. 67.

24.(1) Income tax for the year beginning on the sixth day of April nineteen hundred and sixteen shall be charged at the rate of five shillings, and super-tax shall be charged, levied, and paid for that year at the same rates as those charged for the year beginning on the sixth day of April nineteen hundred and fifteen.

(2) All such enactments relating to income tax, including super-tax, as were in force with respect to the duties of income tax granted for the year beginning on the sixth day of April nineteen hundred and fifteen shall (with the exception of section twenty of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1915) have full force and effect with respect to any duties of income tax hereby granted.

(3) The annual value of any property which has been adopted for the purpose either of income tax under schedules A. and B. in the Income Tax Act, 1853, or of inhabited house duty, for the year ending on the fifth day of April nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall be taken as the annual value of such property for the same purpose for the next subsequent year; provided that this subsection—

(a) so far as respects the duty on inhabited houses in Scotland, shall be construed with the substitution of the twenty-fourth day of May for the fifth day of April; and

(b) shall not apply to the metropolis as defined by the Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869.