Income Tax Act, 1967.

Non-residents: merchanting profit.

204.—Where a non-resident person is chargeable to income tax in the name of any branch, manager, agent, factor or receiver in respect of any profits or gains arising from the sale of goods or produce manufactured or produced outside the State by the non-resident person, the person in whose name the non-resident person is so chargeable may, if he thinks fit, apply to the inspector or, in case of an appeal, to the Special Commissioners, to have the assessment to income tax in respect of those profits or gains made or amended on the basis of the profits which might reasonably be expected to have been earned by a merchant or, where the goods are retailed by or on behalf of the manufacturer or producer, by a retailer of the goods sold, who had bought from the manufacturer or producer direct, and on proof to the satisfaction of the inspector or, as the case may be, the Special Commissioners of the amount of the profits on the basis aforesaid, the assessment shall be made or amended accordingly.