Singapore legislation

Clause 3

of Estate Duty (Amendment) Bill

Clause 3

Amendment of section 27

Section 27 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “$1,000 or 5% of the ascertained value of the estate, whichever is the smaller” in the 3rd and 4th lines of subsection (1) and substituting the words “the amount specified in subsection (5)”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (4), the following subsection:“(5) For the purpose of subsection (1), the amount specified —

(a)

in the case of a person dying before 1st January 2005, is $1,000 or 5% of the ascertained value of the estate, whichever is the smaller;

(b)

in the case of a person dying on or after 1st January 2005, is $6,000.”.