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(ix) where any such machinery, plant, implement, utensil or article was used by the taxpayer during any previous year of assessment or years of assessment for the purposes of any trade carried on by such taxpayer, the receipts and accruals of which were not included in the income of such taxpayer during such year or years, the Commissioner shall take into account the period of use of such asset during such previous year or years in determining the amount by which the value of such machinery, plant, implement, utensil or article has been diminished;
Section 20 (1)
20. Set-off of assessed losses.—(1) For the purpose of determining the taxable income derived by any person from carrying on any trade, there shall, subject to section 20A, be set off against the income so derived by such person—
(a) any balance of assessed loss incurred by the taxpayer in any previous year which has been carried forward from the preceding year of assessment;
(b) any assessed loss incurred by the taxpayer during the same year of assessment in carrying on any other trade either alone or in partnership with others, otherwise than as a member of a company the capital whereof is divided into shares:
Provided that there shall not be set off against any amount—
(a) ...
(b) derived by any person from the carrying on within the Republic of any trade, any—
(i) assessed loss incurred by such person during such year; or
(ii) any balance of assessed loss incurred in any previous year of assessment,
in carrying on any trade outside the Republic; or
Section 23A
23A. Limitation of allowances granted to lessors of certain assets.—(1) For the purposes of this section— ‘affected asset’ means—
(a) any machinery, plant or aircraft which has been let and in respect of which the lessor is or was entitled to an
allowance under section 12 or 14bis, whether in the current or a previous year of assessment, other than any such machinery, plant or aircraft let by him under an agreement of lease formally and nally signed by every party to the agreement before 15 March 1984; or
(b) any machinery, plant, implement, utensil, article, aircraft or ship which has been let and in respect of which the lessor is or was entitled to an allowance under section 11 (e), 12B, 12C, 12DA or 37B (2) (a), whether in the current or a previous year of assessment, other than any such machinery, plant, implement, utensil, article, aircraft or ship let by him under an agreement of lease formally and nally signed by every party to the agreement before 19 November 1988,
but excluding any such asset let by the lessor under an operating lease or any such asset which was during the year of assessment mainly used by him in the course of any trade carried on by him, other than the letting of any such asset; ‘operating lease’ means a lease of movable property concluded by a lessor in the ordinary course of a business (not being a banking, nancial services or insurance business) of letting such property, if—
(a) such property may be hired by members of the general public directly from that lessor in terms of such a lease, for a period of less than one month;
(b) the cost of maintaining such property and of carrying out repairs thereto required in consequence of normal wear and tear, is borne by the lessor; and
(c) subject to any claim that the lessor may have against the lessee by reason of the lessee’s failure to take proper care of the property, the risk of destruction or loss of or other disadvantage to such property is not assumed by the lessee;
‘rental income’ means income derived by way of rent from the letting of any affected asset in respect of which an allowance has been granted to the lessor under section 11 (e), 12B, 12C, 12DA or 37B (2) (a), whether in the current or any previous year of assessment, and includes any amount—
(a) which is included in the income of that person in terms of section 8(4) in respect of an amount deducted in any
year of assessment in respect of any affected asset; and
(b) derived from the disposal of any affected asset.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 11 (e) and (o), 12B, 12C, 12DA, 14bis and 37B (2) (a), the sum of the deductions which may be allowed to any taxpayer in any year of assessment under those provisions in respect of any affected assets let by him shall not exceed the taxable income (as determined before making the said deductions) derived by him during such year from rental income.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), where the taxpayer is entitled to any deduction which relates to rental income and other income derived by him, an appropriate portion of such deduction shall be taken into account in the determination of the taxable income derived by him from rental income.
(4) Any deduction which is disallowed under the provisions of subsection (2) shall be carried forward to the succeeding year of assessment and shall, subject to the provisions of this section as applicable in relation to that year, be deemed to be a deduction to which the taxpayer is entitled in that year.
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