Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 — Section 32: Method of accounting

32. Method of accounting.—1[(1) Subject to this Ordinance, a person’s income chargeable to tax shall be computed in accordance with the method of accounting regularly employed by such person.]

(2)Subject to sub-section (3), a company shall account for income chargeable to tax under the head “Income from Business” on an accrual basis, while other persons may account for such income on a cash or accrual basis.

(3)The 2[Board] may prescribe that any class of persons shall account for income chargeable to tax under the head “Income from Business” on a cash or accrual basis.

(4)A person may apply, in writing, for a change in the person’s method of accounting and the Commissioner may, by 3[order] in writing, approve such an application but only if satisfied that the change is necessary to clearly reflect the person’s income chargeable to tax under the head “Income from Business”.

(5)If a person’s method of accounting has changed, the person shall make adjustments to items of income, deduction, or credit, or to any other items affected by the change so that no item is omitted and no item is taken into account more than once.