Rates for tax on profits and gains of insurance under Fourth Schedule of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001.
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) issued the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 updated up to June 30, 2021. The Ordinance incorporated amendments brought through Finance Act, 2021.
Following is the text of Fourth Schedule of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001:
Profits on Life Insurance to be Computed Separately
1. The profits and gains of a taxpayer carrying on life insurance business chargeable under the head “Income from Business” shall be computed separately from the taxpayer’s income from other business. Income from other business shall be profit or loss before tax as per profit and loss account prepared under the Insurance Ordinance, 2000 (XXXIX of 2000), excluding any surplus appropriation made during the year.
Computation of Profits and Gains of Life Insurance Business
2. The profits and gains of a life insurance business shall be the current year’s surplus appropriated to profit and loss account prepared under the Insurance Ordinance, 2000 (XXXIX of 2000), as per advice of the Appointed Actuary, net of adjustments under sections 22(8), 23(8) and 23(11) of the Insurance Ordinance, 2000 (XXXIX of 2000) so as to exclude from it any expenditure other than expenditure which is, under the provisions of Part IV of Chapter III, allowed as a deduction in computing profits and gains of a business to the extent of the proportion of surplus not distributed to policy holders.
Computing the Surplus under Rule 2
3. (1) The following provisions shall apply in computing the surplus for the purposes of rule 2, namely:–
(a) the amounts paid to, or reserved for, or expended on behalf of policy-holders shall be allowed as a deduction;
(b) any amount either written off or reserved in the accounts, or through the actuarial valuation balance sheet to meet depreciation, or loss on the realization of investments shall be allowed as a deduction, and any sums taken credit for in the accounts or actuarial valuation balance sheet on account of appreciation, or gains on the realisation of investments shall be included in the surplus; and
(c) profit on debt accrued in the inter-valuation period in respect of any securities of the Federal Government which have been issued or declared to be income tax-free shall not be excluded, but shall be exempt from tax.
(2) For the purposes of clause (a) of sub-rule (1) –
(a) in the first computation of the surplus, no account shall be taken of amounts referred to in the said clause to the extent to which they are paid out, or in respect of any surplus brought forward from a previous inter-valuation period; and
(b) if any amount reserved for policy-holders ceases to be so reserved, and is not paid to, or expended on behalf of policy-holders, the sums previously allowed as a deduction under this Ordinance or the repealed Ordinance shall be treated as part of the respective statutory fund for the tax year in which the amount ceased to be so reserved.
(3) For the purposes of clause (b) of sub-rule (1), if it appears to the Commissioner, after consultation with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, that the rate of profit on debt or other factors employed in determining the liability in respect of outstanding policies is inconsistent with the valuation of investments so as artificially to reduce the surplus, the Commissioner may make such adjustment to the allowance for depreciation, or in respect of appreciation, of such investment as the Commissioner thinks reasonable.
General Insurance
5. The profits and gains of any business of insurance (other than life insurance) shall be taken to be the balance of the profits disclosed by the annual accounts required under the Insurance Ordinance, 2000 (XXXIX of 2000), to be furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan subject to the following adjustments –
(a) any expenditure or allowance, or any reserve or provision for any expenditure, or the amount of any tax deducted at source from dividends or profit on debt received which is not deductible in computing the income chargeable under the head “Income from Business” shall be excluded;
(b) subject to the provisions of rule 6A, any amount of investment written off shall be allowed as a deduction, but any amount taken to reserve to meet depreciation of investments shall not be allowed as a deduction, and any sums taken credit for in the accounts on account of appreciation of investment shall not be treated as part of the profits and gains, unless these have been crystallized as gains or losses on the realization of investments;
(c) no deduction shall be allowed for any expenditure, allowance, reserve, or provision in excess of the limits laid down in the Insurance Ordinance, 2000 (XXXIX of 2000), unless the excess is allowed by the Securities and Exchange Commission and is incurred in deriving income chargeable to tax; and
(d) no deduction shall be allowed for any expenditure incurred on account of insurance premium or re-insurance premium paid to an overseas insurance or re-insurance company or a local agent of an overseas insurance company until tax at the rate of 5% is withheld on the gross amount of insurance or re-insurance premium.
Mutual Insurance Association
6. These rules shall also apply to the assessment of the profits and gains of any business of insurance carried on by a mutual insurance association and such profits and gains shall be chargeable to tax under the head “Income from Business”.
6B.In computing income under this Schedule, there shall be included capital gains on disposal of shares and dividend of listed companies, vouchers of Pakistan Telecommunication corporation, modaraba certificate or instruments of redeemable capital and derivative products and shall be taxed at the rates specified in Division II of Part I of First Schedule.”
6C Notwithstanding anything contained in this Ordinance, where loss on disposal of securities is sustained in a tax year, the loss shall be set off only against the gain from any other securities chargeable to tax under Rule 6B and no loss shall be carried forward to the subsequent tax year.
6D. The provisions of section 4B shall apply to the taxpayers under this schedule and taxed at the rates specified in Division IIA of Part I of the First Schedule.”
6E. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Schedule, the Commissioner shall be authorized to examine and amend the amount of income as disclosed in the financial statement presented to the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan with respect to commission paid and claimed for losses.
Definitions
7. In this Schedule, –
“investments” includes all forms of shares, debentures, bonds, deposits and other securities, derivative instruments, and includes immovable property whether or not occupied by the insurer;
“life insurance business” means life insurance business as defined in section 4 of the Insurance Ordinance, 2000 (XXXIX of 2000); and
“Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan” means the Securities and Exchange Commission established under the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan Act, 1997 (XLII of 1997):
“Securities” for the purposes of Rule 6B means shares of a public company, vouchers of Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation, Modaraba Certificates or instruments of redeemable capital and derivative products.”
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