Subsection 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of section 25BB of ITA

(2)

(a) There must be deducted from the income for a year of assessment of-

(i) a REIT; or

(ii) a controlled company that is a resident,

the amount of any qualifying distribution made by that REIT or that controlled company in respect of that year of assessment if that company is a REIT or a controlled company on the last day of that year of assessment.

(b) The aggregate amount of the deductions contemplated in paragraph (a) may not exceed the taxable income for that year of assessment of that REIT or that controlled company, before taking into account-

(i) any deduction in terms of this subsection;

(ii) any assessed loss brought forward in terms of section 20; and

(iii) the amount of taxable capital gain included in taxable income in terms of section 26A.

(2A) For the purposes of calculating the taxable income in respect of a year of assessment of a REIT or a controlled company as contemplated in subsection (2)(b)-

(a) where-

(i) a REIT or a controlled company is a beneficiary of a vesting trust that is not a resident; and

(ii) the trust contemplated in subparagraph (i) is liable for or subject to tax on income in the country in which that trust is established or formed,

so much of any amount of tax on income proved to be payable by that trust to the government of a country other than the Republic as is attributable to the interest of that REIT or controlled company in that trust, without any right of recovery of that tax by any person, other than a right of recovery in terms of any entitlement to carry back losses arising during any year of assessment, limited to the amount of taxable income that is attributable to those amounts, must be allowed to be deducted by that REIT or controlled company before taking into account any deduction in terms of subsection (2)(a).

[Words following subparagraph (ii) substituted by section 48 of Act 15 of 2016 and section 49 of Act 23 of 2018 effective on 17 January 2019]

(b) there must be allowed as a deduction from the income of that REIT or that controlled company the sum of any taxes on income proved to be payable, by that REIT or that controlled company in respect of any amount to any sphere of government of any country other than the Republic, without any right of recovery by any person other than a right of recovery in terms of any entitlement to carry back losses arising during any year of assessment, limited to the amount of taxable income that is attributable to those amounts, before taking into account any deduction in terms of paragraph (c) and subsection (2)(a);

[Paragraph (b) substituted by section 48(1)(c) of Act 15 of 2016 and amended by section 29(1)(b) of Act 23 of 2020 effective on 1 January, 2021 and applicable in respect of years of assessment commencing on or after that date]

(c) where during any year of assessment a REIT or controlled company has made a bona fide donation to any organisation as contemplated in section 18A(1)(a) or (b) there must be allowed to be deducted an amount equal to the amount of that donation: Provided that the deduction so allowed may not exceed 10 per cent of the taxable income of that REIT or controlled company after taking into account any deduction in terms of paragraph (a) and (b) but before taking into account any deduction in terms of subsection (2)(a); and

[Paragraph (c) amended by section 29(1)(b) of Act 23 of 2020 effective on 1 January, 2021 and applicable in respect of years of assessment commencing on or after that date]

(d) where a foreign dividend is received by or accrued to a REIT or controlled company, section 10B(2)(a) must not apply.

[Subsection (2A) inserted by section 50(1)(b) of Act 25 of 2015 effective on 1 January, 2016 and applicable in respect of years of assessment commencing on or after that date. Paragraph (d) added by section 29(1)(b) of Act 23 of 2020 effective on 1 January, 2021 and applicable in respect of years of assessment commencing on or after that date]

(3) ……….

[Subsection (3) deleted by section 50 of Act 25 of 2015 effective on 1 April 2013]

(4) A company that is a REIT or a controlled company on the last day of a year of assessment may not deduct by way of an allowance any amount in respect of immovable property in terms of section 11(g), 13, 13bis, 13ter, 13quat, 13quin or 13sex.

(5) In determining the aggregate capital gain or aggregate capital loss of a company that is a REIT or a controlled company on the last day of a year of assessment for purposes of the Eighth Schedule, any capital gain or capital loss determined in respect of the disposal of-

[Words preceding paragraph (a) substituted by section 45 of Act 43 of 2014 effective on 1 April 2013]

(a) immovable property of a company that is a REIT or controlled company at the time of the disposal;

[Paragraph (a) substituted by section 45 of Act 43 of 2014 effective on 20 January 2015]

(b) a share or a linked unit in a company that is a REIT at the time of that disposal; or

must be disregarded.

(6)

(a) Any amount of interest received by or accrued to a person during a year of assessment in respect of a debenture forming part of a linked unit held by that person in a company that is-

(i) a REIT or a controlled company that is a resident must be deemed to be a dividend received by or accrued to that person; or

(ii) a controlled company that is a foreign company must be deemed to be a foreign dividend received by or accrued to that person,

during that year of assessment.

[Paragraph (a) substituted by section 45 of Act 43 of 2014, section 50 of Act 25 of 2015 and section 48 of Act 15 of 2016 effective on 19 January 2017]

(b) Any amount of interest received by or accrued to a company that is a REIT or a controlled company that is a resident during a year of assessment in respect of a debenture forming part of a linked unit held by that company in a property company must if the property company is a resident be deemed to be a dividend, or if the property company is a foreign company be deemed to be a foreign dividend, received by or accrued to that company during that year of assessment if that company is a REIT or a controlled company that is a resident at the time of that receipt or accrual.

[Paragraph (b) substituted by section 45 of Act 43 of 2014 and section 50 of Act 25 of 2015 effective on 1 April 2013]

(i) to be a dividend paid by that REIT or that controlled company that is a resident for the purposes of the dividends tax contemplated in Part VIII of this Chapter; and

[Subparagraph (i) substituted by section 48 of Act 15 of 2016 effective on 1 January 2017, applies in respect of amounts paid on or after that date]

(ii) not to be an amount of interest paid by that REIT or that controlled company for the purposes of the withholding tax on interest contemplated in Part IVB of this Chapter.

(7) If during any year of assessment a company that is a REIT ceases to be a REIT and that company does not qualify as a controlled company or a company that is a controlled company ceases to be a controlled company and that company does not qualify as a REIT-

(a) that year of assessment of that REIT or controlled company is deemed to end on the day preceding the date on which that company ceases to be either a REIT or a controlled company; and

[Paragraph (a) substituted by section 45 of Act 17 of 2017 effective on 18 December 2017]

(b) the following year of assessment of that company is deemed to commence on the day on which that company ceased to be either a REIT or a controlled company.

[Paragraph (b) substituted by section 45 of Act 17 of 2017 effective on 18 December 2017]

(8) If a REIT or a controlled company cancels the debenture part of a linked unit and capitalises the issue price of the debenture to stated capital for the purposes of financial reporting in accordance with IFRS-

(a) the cancellation of the debenture must be disregarded in determining the taxable income of the holder of the debenture and of the REIT or controlled company;

(b) expenditure incurred by the holder of a share in the REIT or controlled company in respect of the shares is deemed to be equal to the amount of the expenditure incurred in respect of the acquisition of that linked unit; and

[Paragraph (b) substituted by section 45 of Act 43 of 2014 effective on 1 April 2013]

(c) the issue price of the cancelled debenture must be added to the contributed tax capital of the class of shares that forms part of the linked unit.