Corporate taxation in Kenya
Income Tax, or the tax on income, is charged on income of a person (individual & or Companies) for each year in accordance with section 3(1) of the Income Tax Act.
S 3(1)’’..... a tax to be known as income tax shall be charged for each year of income upon all the income of a person, whether resident or non-resident, which accrued in or was derived from Kenya.’’
It is important to understand the words and phrases used in the taxation of income for easier interpretation. These include:
Year of income. Year of Income is a period of 12 months commencing 1 January and ending on 31 December in each year. It is the same as calendar year. Income tax is charged for each year of income.
The year of
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The foreign taxes paid are treated as allowable expenses except where a tax treaty applies in which case a tax credit is granted.
The tax incentives to corporate organization include 100% investment deduction on hotel building and on building and machinery used in manufacturing. Manufacturing investment in building and machinery situated within satellite towns adjoining Nairobi, Mombasa or Kisumu attract an investment allowance of 150% .Those enterprises operating under export processing zones enjoys a 10 years tax holiday.
Failing and payment of taxes: The self assessment tax returns must be filled within six months of the end of a company‘s accounting period. Tax installment are due within 20days of the end of each quarter year based on the relevant proportion of the estimated current tax or 110% of the tax for the prior year , less previous installment paid and withholding tax deducted at source with a balance of tax if any due 4 months after the company’s year end. Agricultural corporate organization makes their first installment payment 20 days after the third quarter.
It is worth noting that corporate organization being an employer have the legal responsibility of collecting and submitting Pay As You Earn (PAYE).it is also required to submit quarterly PAYE returns before the 10th of the month
Because the employee’s work is basis on seasonal, the payroll tax during the month must be submitted by the 20th day of the following month.
Section 6-5 of the tax law says that a person assessable income includes all their ordinary income derived during the year. To be said from the view of tax law (s. 6-5 of the ITAA), it hasn’t specified any definitions about Ordinary Income (OI). Section 6-10 then says that a person assessable income also includes other amount that are not ordinary income but which are included in your assessable income by provisions in tax law about assessable income, or the amounts that a person receives as a reward for performing, amounts that a person receives which are a return on the person’s investment, amounts that a person receives which are profits from carrying on a business.
is generally applied to taxpayers. In particular, explain how the Code’s definition of income is different than other potential definitions of income, such as the economic concept of income, and use an example to illustrate the difference between the two systems. Explain how the Code approaches whether or not particular items should be included in income and how
Discuss the internal Revenue Code: The internal revenue code is a main statutory authority that formed in 1986, known as the code. It has the same authoritative weight as tax treaties and supreme court rulings. The internal revenue code is very different than the other authority all administrative and judicial except tax treaties and constitution which seems to clarification of it. in the Internal Revenue code, every year congress tends to pass legislature that changes the code. The Internal revenue code is separated into subtitles, chapters, subchapters, parts, subparts and sections. However, whenever the researcher referring a tax law, they generally are referring to the law that is simply by its code sections, which are numbered from 1 to 9834 with gaps in the section umbers to allow new code sections to be added to the appropriate parts of the code as needed. It is very important that we understand the organization of code section in order for us to cite the respective law correctly. Therefore, if we do not understand the organization of the code, it will be very difficult for us to interpret the code section and to regulate its relevancy to a research
Solution (iii) Happy Star Ltd Tax worksheet for the financial year ended 31 December 2012
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Payroll reporting time seems to come up quickly on a regular basis. Form 941 is the primary payroll report and has delivered at the end of January, April, July and October. However there is a bit more involved in the payroll form.
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Current Tax is recognised when the income tax is payable in the current year to the ATO.
I’ve summed up the introduction of Taxation to these slight words. Taxation is defined as a way that the government able to generate or collect revenue from the citizen of one’s nation through different sources. As what I’ve learned from Taxation course that there are two types of taxation, direct which are paid by the taxpayer directly to the government, and indirect which are collected by an intermediary (like a retail store) from the consumer. The intermediary who will file the tax return later and forward the amount of the money to the government with the return. This tax is applicable to organizations and individuals. In this reflection, I would like to highlight what I learned of business and individual taxation, the experience on working with a group for the project and what challenges I faced and how I was able to get past.