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Section 60: Penal tax for understating provisional tax estimates
Tax Procedures Code Act · 343
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(1) A provisional taxpayer, whose estimate or revised estimate of chargeable income for a year of
income is less than ninety percent of the taxpayer's actual chargeable income assessed for that year, is liable to penal tax equal to twenty percent of the difference between the tax calculated in respect of the taxpayer's estimate, or as revised, of chargeable income and the tax calculated in respect of ninety percent of the taxpayer's actual chargeable income for the year of income.
(2) A provisional taxpayer whose estimate or revised estimate of gross turnover for a year of income is
less than ninety percent of the taxpayer's actual gross turnover for that year is liable to penal tax equal to twenty percent of the difference between the tax calculated in respect of the taxpayer's estimate, or as revised, of gross turnover and the tax calculated in respect of ninety percent of the taxpayer's actual gross turnover for the year of income.
(3) This section does not apply to a taxpayer who is in the business of agricultural, plantation, or
horticultural farming.
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