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The accounts of Silver and Gold Mining Company Limited for the year ended 30 th September, 2003 show the following details: GH GH Gross Profit

The accounts of Silver and Gold Mining Company Limited for the year ended 30th September, 2003 show the following details:

GH¢ GH¢

Gross Profit B/F

Rent Receivable

Dividends

Less Expenses:

Directors Fees

Salaries and Wages

Repairs and maintenance

Subscriptions and donations

Utilities

Audit Fees

Legal Expenses

Registration and Licensing

Rent

Depreciation

Traveling and Transport

Net Profit

16,000

640,000

260,800

48,500

1,420

500

1,100

400

6,300

124,000

39,320

2,339,728

3,478,068

3,354,068

80,000

44,000

3,478,068

________

3,478,068

Notes to the Accounts

1. Repairs and Maintenance: This includes,

  1. a. Repairs on a secondhand excavator purchased for use in the business (GH¢3,200).
  2. b. General repairs of all plant and machinery (GH¢130,000).
  3. c. Loss on sale of obsolete plant and machinery (GH¢27,600).
  1. 2. Subscriptions and Donations: 
    1. a. Scholarship awards to needy but brilliant children from the area of operations (GH¢10,000).
    2. b. KVIP facility for townsfolk (GH¢15,000).
    3. c. Donation towards the celebration of Sasako festival of the people of the area (GH¢2,000).
    4. d. Christmas gifts to the chief and his elders (GH¢1,500).

  2. 3. Legal Expenses

This was in defense of a charge of assault levelled against a security officer of the company.

  1. 4. Traveling and Transport 
    1. a. Overseas traveling expenses for Kofi Adjetey, the Chief Accountant and his family while attending a seminar on mining operations in South Africa (GH¢13,800).
    2. b. Passage expenses for John Dean, an expatriate, on termination of his employment. (GH¢5,520)
  2. 5. Capital allowance for the year amounted to GH¢278,928 and unutilized capital allowance brought forward also amounted to GH¢40,000.
  3. 6. Loss brought forward was GH¢210,000.

Required:

Determine the year of assessment and compute the chargeable income

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