Interest-Tax Act, 1974

Section - 12A - Interest for default in payment of interest-tax in advance

Interest for default in payment of interest-tax in advance.
12A.    (1) Subject to the other provisions of this section, where in any financial year, an assessee, who is liable to pay inter­est-tax in advance under section 11 has failed to pay such tax, or where the interest-tax paid in advance by such assessee is less than ninety per cent of the assessed interest-tax, the assessee shall be liable to pay simple interest at the rate of two per cent for every month or part of a month comprised in the period from the 1st day of April next following such financial year to the date of determination of chargeable interest under sub-section (2) or, as the case may be, sub-section (3) of sec­tion 8 on an amount equal to the assessed interest-tax or, as the case may be, on the amount by which the interest-tax payable in advance falls short of the assessed interest-tax.
Explanation 1.—In this section, "assessed interest-tax" means—
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