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Evamar Investments L1mitedvs Commissioner for Domestic Taxes |
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id : 13-202100  cat : Tax Appeals tribunal-Nairobi   | |||||
I) Whether sale of developed real estate property falls under business income for income tax purposes under See. 3(2)(a). ii) Whether interest income is a separate source of income for tax purposes. |
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Asked by : Admin
DOF : 26/09/2014 |
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SubmissionsPDF |
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The respondent treatment of income from sale of property as business income, instead of treating it as business income as specified I Kenya Treating interest income as specific source of income (15)(7) (e) of the income tax act. The appellant pleaded with the committee to find that property sale income was a capital transaction and therefore not subject to income tax |
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Ruling |
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The upshot of the fore., going is that the Sale of the ten (10) units out of the sixteen (16) resulted in business income and was therefore taxable . f under the relevant statutes as highlighted above subject to there being a gain/profit after considering all the applicable underlying costs. The Appeal therefore lacks merit and is hereby dismissed. The Tribunal upholds the tax Assessment of Kshs.12,109,466/= as contained in the Notice of Amended Assessment for the year of Income 2009 to 2012 dated 15th August 2014. The Tribunal directs that each party shall bear its cost |
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posted by : Admin
DOR : 06/12/2016 |
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