Circular: No. 216 -Income Tax I am directed to invite a reference to this Department’s Circular No. 199 [F. No. 275/62/76-ITJ], dated 25-6-1976 on the subject of deduction of income-tax from payments of income “by way of insurance commission” during the year 1976-77.
Circular : No. 215 -Income Tax I am to invite your attention to this Office Letter………..regarding deduction of income-tax and surcharge from interest on Government securities during the financial year 1976-77 According to the Finance (No. 2) Bill, 1977, except in the case of interest on securities payable to Life Insurance Corporation of India which is exempt from deduction of income-tax with effect from June 1, 1976,
Circular : No. 217 -Income Tax I am directed to invite a reference to this Department’s Circular No. 198 [F. No. 275/61/76-ITJ], dated 25-6-1976 on the subject of deduction of income-tax from lottery and crossword puzzle prizes during the financial year 1976-77. The Finance Bill, 1977, as introduced in the Parliament, prescribes the same rates for deduction of tax from lottery and crossword puzzle prizes during the
Circular No. 214-Income Tax In the case of every individual or Hindu undivided family or unregistered firm or other association of persons or body of individuals, whether incorporated or not, or every artificial juridical person referred to in sub-clause (vii ) of clause (31) of section 2 of the Income-tax Act, not being a case to which Sub-Paragraph II of this Paragraph or any other Paragraph of this Part applies
Circular : No. 213 -Income Tax Section 32A, introduced by the Finance Act, 1976, provides for a deduction at a specified rate by way of investment allowance in respect, inter alia, of machinery or plant installed after 31st March, 1976, for the purposes of business of construction, manufacture or production of any one or more of the articles or things specified in the list in the Ninth Schedule to the Income-tax Act. Item No. 21 of
Circular : No. 211 -Income Tax Section 10(5 ) provides that in the case of an individual being a citizen of India, travel concession or assistance received by or due to an individual from the employer for himself, his spouse and children in connection with his proceeding on leave or on retirement or on termination of service to his “home district” is exempt from income-tax, subject to fulfilment of the conditions laid down in the said
Circular : No. 212 -Income Tax Section 32(1)(iii ) provides for deduction, in the case of any building, machinery, plant or furniture which is sold, discarded, demolished or destroyed in the previous year (other than the previous year in which it is first brought into use), of the amount by which the monies payable in respect of such building, machinery, plant or furniture, together with the amount of scrap value, if any
Circular : No. 210 -Income Tax Section 5A(2) of the Companies (Temporary Restrictions on Dividends) Amendment Act, 1975 effective from March 1, 1975 permits the companies to declare dividends in excess of the distributable profits. However, the dividends in excess of the distributable profits are to be paid after the expiry of two years in two equal annual instalments together with interest due thereon at the rate of 8 per cent per annum
Circular : No. 209 -Income Tax Section 244(1) provides that where a refund is due to the assessee as a result of any order passed in appeal, or other proceedings under the Act and the refund is not granted within a period of three months from the end of the month in which such order is passed, the assessee will be entitled to receive simple interest at 12 per cent per annum on the amount of the refund due from the
Circular : No. 208 -Income Tax The Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 1975 has added a new section 69D with effect from April 1, 1977, which provides that if any amount is borrowed from any person on a hundi or any amount due on it is repaid to any person, otherwise than through an account payee cheque drawn on a bank, the amount so borrowed or repaid shall