Section - 80K

[OMITTED BY THE FINANCE ACT, 1986, W.E.F. 1-4-1987]

Deduction in respect of dividends attributable to profits and gains from new industrial undertakings or ships or hotel business.

42 80K. [ Omitted by the Finance Act, 1986, w.e.f. 1-4-1987. Original section was inserted, in place of section 85 which was deleted, by the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1967, w.e.f. 1-4-1968.]

42. Omitted section 80K was originally inserted from 1-4-1968 by the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1967, and amended from the same date. The section, as substituted by the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 1970, with retrospective effect from 1-4-1968 and amended by the Finance Act, 1975, w.e.f. 1-4-1975, stood as follows :

"80K. Deduction in respect of dividends attributable to profits and gains from new industrial undertakings or ships or hotel business.—Where the gross total income of an assessee,being—

( a) the owner of any share or shares in a company, or

( b) a person who is chargeable to tax under this Act on the income by way of dividends on any share or shares in a company owned by any other person,

includes any income by way of dividends paid or deemed to have been paid by the company in respect of such share or shares, there shall, subject to any rules that may be made by the Board in this behalf, be allowed, in computing his total income, a deduction from such income by way of dividends of an amount equal to such part thereof as is attributable to the profits and gains derived by the company from an industrial undertaking or ship or the business of a hotel, on which no tax is payable by the company under this Act for any assessment year commencing prior to the 1st day of April, 1968, or in respect of which the company is entitled to a deduction under section 80J for the assessment year commencing on the 1st day of April, 1968, or for any subsequent assessment year:

Provided that no deduction under this section shall be allowed in respect of any income by way of dividends which is attributable to the profits and gains derived by the company from an industrial undertaking which begins to manufacture or produce articles or to operate its cold storage plant or plants after the 31st day of March, 1976, or from a ship which is first brought into use after that date or from the business of a hotel which starts functioning after that date."

Section 80K

[OMITTED BY THE FINANCE ACT, 1986, W.E.F. 1-4-1987]

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