INCOME TAX ACT 1967 (ACT 53)
PART X - SUPPLEMENTAL
Chapter 3- Miscellaneous




Section 143. Errors and defects in assessments, notices and other documents.


(1) No assessment, notice or other document purporting to be made or issued for the purposes of this Act shall be quashed or deemed to be void or voidable for want of form, or be affected by any mistake, defect or omission therein, if it is in substance and effect in conformity with this Act or in accordance with the intent and meaning of this Act and-

(2) An assessment purporting to be made or issued for the purposes of this Act shall not be impeached or affected by reason of, a mistake therein as to-

and a notice of assessment purporting to be so made or issued shall not be impeached or affected by any such mistake if it is served on the person in respect of whom the assessment was made or intended to be made (or served in accordance sub
section 67 (5)) served in accordance with section 67 (5)) and contains in substance and effect the particulars contained in the assessment.

(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), if the amount of tax charged by an assessment has been incorrectly calculated by the reference to the amount of the chargeable income and appropriate rate of tax applicable thereto, the amount of tax charged as shown in the assessment and the notice of assessment may, if the Director General so directs, be taken to be the amount of tax which ought to have been charged if it had been correctly calculated.

(4) A notice of tax payable purporting to be issued for the purposes of this Act shall not be impeached by reason of a mistake therein as to the name of the person liable to pay the tax if the notice is served on that person.



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