Clause 11

As soon as any amount of chargeable income of a company which has been granted an investment allowance has become exempt under section 71, that amount shall be credited to a tax exempt account to be kept by the company for the purposes of this Part.(2) Where a tax exempt account is in credit at the date on which any dividends are paid by a company, out of income which has been so exempted, an amount equal to those dividends or to that credit, whichever is the less, shall be debited to the account.(3) So much of the amount of any dividends so debited to the tax exempt account as is received by a shareholder of the company shall, if the Comptroller is satisfied with the entries in the account, be exempt from tax in the hands of the shareholder.(4) Notwithstanding subsections (3) and (7), no dividends paid on any share of a preferential nature shall be exempt from tax under this section in the hands of the shareholder.(5) Any dividends debited to the tax exempt account shall be treated as having been distributed to the shareholders of the company or any particular class of the shareholders in accordance with the proportion of their shareholdings in the company.(6) The company shall deliver to the Comptroller a copy of the account, made up to a date specified by him, whenever called upon to do so by notice in writing sent by him to its registered office, until such time as he is satisfied that there is no further need for maintaining the account.(7) Where an amount has been received by way of dividend from a company by a shareholder and the amount is exempt from tax under this Part, if that shareholder is a company, any dividends paid by that company to its shareholders, to the extent that the Comptroller is satisfied that those dividends are paid out of that amount, shall be exempt from tax in the hands of those shareholders.”.