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b) Akorfa Vinyo, an equipment hiring company, raises an invoice in the sum of GH¢500,000.00 in respect of hiring of equipment services to a withholding VAT agent (Sir James Enterprise). This supply excludes Value Added Tax (VAT of 12.5%), National Health Insurance Levy (NHIL of 2.5%), and Ghana Education Trust Fund Levy (GETFL of 2.5%).
Assume that this is the only supply of value-added activity done by Akorfa Vinyo in the period and payments are made in the same period.
Required:
i) Calculate the proportion of VAT that should be withheld by the agent in respect of payment of the invoice (the withholding VAT rate is 7%). (3 marks)
ii) Calculate the output VAT to be shown on the face of Akorfa’s monthly VAT Return. (3 marks)
iii) Calculate the VAT payable by Akorfa, if the total input VAT incurred for the period is GH¢25,000. (3 marks)
iv) Show the payment details by the Withholding Agent for the supply. (3 marks)
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According to Act 896, the Commissioner-General shall not allow a deduction in respect of domestic expenditure and excluded expenditure incurred by a person.
Required:
Explain what constitutes domestic expenditure and excluded expenditure in line with the provisions in the Income Tax Act, 2015 (Act 896). (10 marks)
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Where a taxable person does not have a tax invoice that provides evidence of the input tax paid, the Commissioner-General may allow a deductible input tax in the tax period in which the deduction arises to a taxable person under certain conditions.
Required:
State THREE (3) conditions that must be satisfied before a taxable person without a tax invoice may be allowed an input tax deduction. (6 marks)
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b) At a tax seminar organised by The Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana) in December 2016, the issue of tax implications for finance lease arrangement dominated the discussion. The facilitator said that both the lessor and the lessee shall be denied capital allowance under the tax law.
The facilitator intimated that capital allowance is granted to persons who acquire assets and own them and use such to generate business income. Both the lessor and the lessee, consequently do not qualify for capital allowance under the Income Tax Act (Act 896), 2015 and its regulations, he added.
Required:
As a tax advisor, submit a response to the above based on the tax provisions. The response is to be published in the Institute’s Journal. (7 marks)
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a) You have recently been employed to join Kwame Adom Consult as a tax professional. Your partner has tasked you to present a paper on the circumstances under which “Repairs and Improvement” under Act 896 (Act 2015) are capitalised and capital allowance granted.
Required:
Submit a seasoned paper on the tax provision on “Repairs and Improvement” and the conditions under which capital allowance may be granted.
(10 marks)
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b) Akorfa Vinyo, an equipment hiring company, raises an invoice in the sum of GH¢500,000.00 in respect of hiring of equipment services to a withholding VAT agent (Sir James Enterprise). This supply excludes Value Added Tax (VAT of 12.5%), National Health Insurance Levy (NHIL of 2.5%), and Ghana Education Trust Fund Levy (GETFL of 2.5%).
Assume that this is the only supply of value-added activity done by Akorfa Vinyo in the period and payments are made in the same period.
Required:
i) Calculate the proportion of VAT that should be withheld by the agent in respect of payment of the invoice (the withholding VAT rate is 7%). (3 marks)
ii) Calculate the output VAT to be shown on the face of Akorfa’s monthly VAT Return. (3 marks)
iii) Calculate the VAT payable by Akorfa, if the total input VAT incurred for the period is GH¢25,000. (3 marks)
iv) Show the payment details by the Withholding Agent for the supply. (3 marks)
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According to Act 896, the Commissioner-General shall not allow a deduction in respect of domestic expenditure and excluded expenditure incurred by a person.
Required:
Explain what constitutes domestic expenditure and excluded expenditure in line with the provisions in the Income Tax Act, 2015 (Act 896). (10 marks)
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Where a taxable person does not have a tax invoice that provides evidence of the input tax paid, the Commissioner-General may allow a deductible input tax in the tax period in which the deduction arises to a taxable person under certain conditions.
Required:
State THREE (3) conditions that must be satisfied before a taxable person without a tax invoice may be allowed an input tax deduction. (6 marks)
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b) At a tax seminar organised by The Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana) in December 2016, the issue of tax implications for finance lease arrangement dominated the discussion. The facilitator said that both the lessor and the lessee shall be denied capital allowance under the tax law.
The facilitator intimated that capital allowance is granted to persons who acquire assets and own them and use such to generate business income. Both the lessor and the lessee, consequently do not qualify for capital allowance under the Income Tax Act (Act 896), 2015 and its regulations, he added.
Required:
As a tax advisor, submit a response to the above based on the tax provisions. The response is to be published in the Institute’s Journal. (7 marks)
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a) You have recently been employed to join Kwame Adom Consult as a tax professional. Your partner has tasked you to present a paper on the circumstances under which “Repairs and Improvement” under Act 896 (Act 2015) are capitalised and capital allowance granted.
Required:
Submit a seasoned paper on the tax provision on “Repairs and Improvement” and the conditions under which capital allowance may be granted.
(10 marks)
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