3. Persons subject to tax

A person is-

(a)     a taxpayer for the purposes of this Act; and

(b)     liable to pay an amount of carbon tax calculated as contemplated in section 6 in respect of a tax period as specified in section 16,

if that person conducts an activity in the Republic, resulting in greenhouse gas emissions, equal to or above the threshold determined by matching the activity listed in the column “Activity/Sector” in Schedule 2 with the number in the corresponding line of the column “Threshold” of that table.

[Section 3 amended by section 90(1) of Act 34 of 2019 deemed effective on 1 June, 2019]