Singapore legislation

Clause 5

of Income Tax (Amendment No. 2) Bill

Clause 5

New section 14H

The principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 14G, the following section:“Expenditure on building modifications for benefit of disabled employees14H.—

(1)

Subject to subsections (2) and (3), where any person being the owner or lessee of any premises and carrying on a trade, business or profession at those premises has incurred, on or after 1st January 1989, approved expenditure on any addition or alteration to those premises for the purpose of facilitating the mobility or work of any disabled employee, there shall, in ascertaining the income of that person for the basis period during which the expenditure was incurred, be allowed as a deduction an amount equal to that expenditure.(2) Where any person has been allowed a deduction under subsection (1), no deduction shall be allowed under any other provision of this Act in respect of the expenditure for which the deduction was allowed.(3) Where a person has been allowed a deduction or deductions under this section amounting to $100,000, whether for one or more years of assessment, no further deduction shall be allowed to that person under this section.(4) For the purposes of this section, “approved” means approved by the Minister or such other person as he may appoint.”.