Finance Act, 1983
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Separated spouses: adaptation of special provisions as to married persons. |
4.—(1) Where a payment to which section 3 applies is made in a year of assessment by a party to a marriage (being a marriage which has not been dissolved or annulled) and both parties to the marriage are resident in the State for that year, section 195 (inserted by the Finance Act, 1980 ) of the Income Tax Act, 1967 , shall have effect in relation to the parties to the marriage for that year of assessment as if— | |
(a) in subsection (1), “, where the wife is living with the husband,” were deleted, and | ||
(b) subsection (4) were deleted. | ||
(2) Where, by virtue of subsection (1), the parties to a marriage elect as provided for in section 195 (1) of the Income Tax Act, 1967 , then, as respects any year of assessment for which the election has effect— | ||
(a) subject to subsection (1) and paragraphs (b) and (c), all the provisions of the Income Tax Acts shall apply in the case of the parties to the marriage as they apply in the case of a husband and wife who have elected under the said section 195 (1) and whose election has effect for that year of assessment, | ||
(b) the total income or incomes of the parties to the marriage shall be computed for all purposes of the Income Tax Acts as if any payments to which section 3 applies made in that year of assessment by one party to the marriage for the benefit of the other party to the marriage had not been made, and | ||
(c) income tax shall be assessed, charged and recovered on the total income or incomes of the parties to the marriage as if an application under section 197 (inserted by the Finance Act, 1980 ) of the Income Tax Act, 1967 , had been made by one of the parties and that application had effect for that year of assessment. |