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.
