Applicability of MAT on amount withdrawn from revaluation reserve and credited to P&L account

RELEVANT PARAGRAPH

3        That the relevant provision of Section 115 JB proviso to clause-(i) of Explanation 1 reads as under:-

“115JB.—Special provision for payment of tax by certain companies

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other provision of this Act, where in the case of an assessee, being a company, the income-tax, payable on the total income as computed under this Act in respect of any previous year relevant to the assessment year commencing on or after the 1^st day of April, 2001, is less than seven and one-half per cent of its book profit, such book profit shall be deemed to be the total income of the assessee and the tax payable by the assessee on such total income shall be the amount of income –tax at the rate of seven and one-half per cent.

(2) Every assessee, being a company, shall; for the purposes of this section, prepare its profit and loss account for the relevant previous year in accordance with the provisions of Parts II and III of Schedule VI of the Companies Act; 1956 (1 of 1956): …

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