INCOME TAX ACT 1967 (ACT 53)
PART IV - PERSONS CHARGEABLE




Section 73. Trustees.




(1) The income of the trust body of a trust shall be assessable and chargeable to tax on the trust body (which may be given by the Director General a suitable designation for the purpose) and, so long as the trustees for the time being remain members of the trust body they shall (whether or not, in the case of each trustee, he was a member of the trust body when any particular responsibility or obligation under this Act first arose) jointly and severally be subject to all the liabilities to which they would be subject under section 67 if the trust body were the principal within the meaning of that section and each trustee were the representative within that meaning.

(2) A trustee who vacates his office shall cease to have responsibility under subsection (1):

Provided that nothing in this subsection shall relieve any person from responsibility for a criminal or negligent act, whenever committed.



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