*[115 BBDA Tax on certain dividends received from domestic companies.
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, where the total income of an assessee, being an individual, Hindu undivided family or a firm, resident in India, includes any income exceeding ten lakh rupees, by way of dividends declared, distributed or paid by a domestic company, the income-tax payable shall be the aggregate of—
(a) the amount of income-tax calculated on the income by way of such dividends, at the rate of ten per cent.; and
(b) the amount of income-tax with which the assessee would have been chargeable had the total income of the assessee been reduced by the amount of income by way of dividends.
(2) No deduction in respect of any expenditure or allowance or set off of loss shall be allowed to the assessee under any provision of this Act in computing the income by way of dividends referred to in clause (a) of sub-section (1).
(3) In this section, “dividends” shall have the same meaning as is given to “dividend” in clause (22) of section 2 but shall not include sub-clause (e) thereof.]
*Inserted w.e.f. 1st April, 2017 |