Calculation of direct tax payable by the employer.—
Any direct tax payable by the employer]
for any accounting year shall, subject to the following provisions, be
calculated at the rates applicable to the income of the employer for that year,
namely:-
(a) in calculating such tax no account shall be taken of --
(i) any loss incurred by the
employer in respect of any previous accounting year and carried forward under
any law for the time being in force relating to direct taxes;
(ii) any arrears of
depreciation which the employer is entitled to add to the amount of the
allowance for depreciation for any following accounting year or years under
sub-section (2) of section 32 of the Income-tax Act;
(iii) any exemption conferred on
the employer under section 84 of the Income-tax Act or of any deduction to
which he is entitled under sub-section (1) of section,101 of that Act, as in
force immediately before the commencement of the Finance Act, 1965 (10 of
1965);
(b) where the employer is a
religious or a charitable institution to which the provisions of section 32 do
not apply and the whole or any part of its income is exempt from tax under the
Income-tax Act, then, with respect to the income so exempted, such institution
shall be treated as if it were a company in which the public are substantially
interested within the meaning of that Act;
(c) where the employer is
individual or a Hindu Undivided Family, the tax payable by such employer under
the Income-tax Act shall be calculated on the basis that the income derived by
him from the establishment is his only income;
(d) where the income of any
employer includes any profits and gains derived from the export of any goods or
merchandise out of India and any rebate on such income in allowed under any law
for the time being in force relating to direct taxes, then, no account shall be
taken of such rebate;
(e) no account shall be taken
of any rebate 1[(other than development
rebate or investment allowance or development allowance)] or credit or relief
or deduction (not herein before mentioned in this section) in the payment of
any direct tax allowed under any law for the time being in force relating to
direct taxes or under the relevant annual Finance Act, for the development of
any industry.
