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GAAR in the Caribbean
• Typically such provisions stress the fictitious or artificial nature
of the transaction and allows the Revenue to disregard the
transaction. The full amount of the tax then become payable. A
standard provision from the Income Tax Act of Jamaica, s.16
reads as follows: “Where the Commissioner is of the opinion
that any transaction which reduces the amount of tax
payable by any person is artificial or fictitious, or that full
effect has not been given to the disposition, the
Commissioner may disregard any such transaction or
disposition, and the persons concerned shall be assessed
accordingly.” Similar provisions exist in the Income Tax Act,
Trinidad and Tobago, S.67; the Income Tax Act of Barbados,
S.29; the Income Tax Act of Guyana, S.74 and the Income Tax
Act of St. Lucia, S.87.
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