Notification: S.O.4427 This notification contains Amendment to Income-tax Rules carried out on 29-10-1969 not reproduced here as it is already contained in the body of the Income-tax Rules itself.
Circular No. 32-Income Tax Reference is invited to Departmental Circular No. 30-D of 1966 [printed here as Annex III] issued by the Board on November 7,1966.
Circular No. 31-Income Tax Section 80RR was inserted through the Finance Act, 1969, and will have effect from April 1, 1970. Under this section, a resident individual, being an author, playwright, artist, musician or actor who derives income, in exercise of his profession, from foreign sources and receives such income in India and brings it into the country in foreign exchange in accordance with the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947, is entitled to deduct 25 per cent of the income so received or brought, in the computation of his total income.
Circular No. 30-Income Tax Attention is invited to Board’s Circular No. 4 (XI-3) D, dated 9-4-1959 [Clarification 4] on the above subject. The film producers have represented to the Board that a cinema film no longer has an effective life of about 3 years as was presumed by the Income-tax Department when devising the formula for the amortisation of the cost
