- 8 Marks
AT – May 2021 – L3 – Q1c – International Taxation | Business Income – Corporate Income Tax
Compute the tax payable by Kaeka Ltd considering both foreign and domestic income.
Question
Kaeka Ltd is a resident company providing cleaning services in Ghana. For the first time in the history of the entity, it launched operations as an external company in January 2020 in Lusaka, Zambia. It came to light that the entity earned the equivalent of GH¢2,500,000, which was evenly made for the 2020 year of assessment. On the home front, it earned GH¢16,000,000 in the 2020 year of assessment as income in Ghana. Assume that allowable costs of GH¢12,000,000 were incurred. It received a dividend net of tax from a company in Israel it acquired shares from, amounting to GH¢20,000 in December 2020. Tax of GH¢5,000 was paid on the dividend received.
Required:
i) Compute the tax payable by Kaeka Ltd.
ii) Explain the tax implication if the company made the income from Zambia in the last quarter of 2020.
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- Tags: Corporate Tax, Domestic Income, Foreign income, Tax computation
- Level: Level 3
- Topic: Business income - Corporate income tax, International taxation
- Series: MAY 2021