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Section 4 Charge of income-tax

Income-tax Act, 1961 · Edition: Historical text from the archived India Code PDF

(1) Where any Central Act enacts that income-tax shall be charged for any assessment year at any rate or rates, income-tax at that rate or those rates shall be charged for that year in accordance with, and 3[subject to the provisions (including provisions for the levy of additional income-tax) of, this Act] in respect of the total income of the previous year 4***of every person:

Provided that where by virtue of any provision of this Act income-tax is to be charged in respect of the income of a period other than the previous year, income-tax shall be charged accordingly.

(2) In respect of income chargeable under sub-section (1), income-tax shall be deducted at the source or paid in advance, where it is so deductible or payable under any provision of this Act.

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Judgments on Section 4

LOK 2003 (10) SC 71 · Supreme Court of India

Union of India v. Azadi Bachao Andolan and A

Equivalent citations: 2003 (132) TAXMAN 373 : 2003 (263) ITR 706 : AIR 2004 SC 1107 : 2003 (S2) JT 205 : 2003 (8) Scale 287 : 2003 (7) Supreme 406 : 2003 (6) SLT 373 : 2003 (1) SCW 5766

Subject–
ActsIncome-tax Act, 1961 (Sections 90 and 119; Sections 4 and 5); Income-tax Act, 1922 (Section 49A); Income Tax Act, 1995 (Section 4); Constitution of India (Articles 73 and 265)

LOK 1999 (7) SC 2711 · Supreme Court of India

Union of India v. M.V. Valliappan

Equivalent citations: 1999 (238) ITR 1027 : 1999 (155) CTR 193 : 1999 (105) TAXMAN 605 : 1999 (2) TLR 799 : AIR 1999 SC 2526 : 1999 (6) SCC 259

Subject–
ActsIncome Tax Act, 1961 (Sections 171(9), 171(2) and 256(2); Sections 4 and 171(9)); Income-tax Act, 1951 (Section 171(9)); Wealth Tax Act, 1957 (Section 20A); Constitution of India (Article 14)