{"act":{"id":"finance-act-1977","short_title":"The Finance Act, 1977","long_title":"An Act to give effect to the financial proposals of the Central Government for the financial year 1977-1978.","act_number":"11","act_year":1977,"enact_date":"1977-08-06","enforcement_date":null,"ministry":"Ministry of Finance","department":"Department of Revenue","jurisdiction":"CENTRAL","unit":"section","section_count":37,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"published","scan_url":null,"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-1977/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"27","heading":"Amendment of section 273","text":"Amendment of section 273 27. In section 273 of the Income-tax Act, with effect from the 1st day of September, 1977 — (a) in clause (a), for the words and figures \"has furnished under section 212\", the words, brackets and figures \"has furnished under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) or sub-section (3) of section 212\" shall be substituted; (b) after clause (a), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:— \"(aa) has furnished under sub-section (3A) of section 212 an estimate of the advance tax payable by him which he knew or had reason to believe to be untrue, or\"; (c) after clause (i), the following clause shall be inserted, namely: — \"(ia) which, in the case referred to in clause (aa,), shall not be less than ten per cent but shall not exceed one and a half times the amount by which the tax actually paid during the financial year immediately preceding the assessment year under the provisions of Chapter XVII-C falls short of seventy-five per cent of the assessed tax as defined in sub-section (5) of section 215;\"; (d) the following Explanation shall be inserted at the end, namely:— \"Explanation.— For the purposes of clause (ia), the amount paid by the assessee on or before the date extended by the Commissioner under the proviso to sub-section (3A) of section 212 shall, where the date so extended falls beyond the financial year immediately preceding the assessment year, also be regarded as tax actually paid during that financial year.\". [Finance (No. 2) Act, 1977] © Copyright. Taxmann Publications Pvt. Ltd.","html":"<p><b>Amendment of section 273</b></p><p><b>27.</b> In section 273 of the Income-tax Act, with effect from the 1st day of September, 1977 —</p><p>(<i>a</i>) in clause (<i>a</i>), for the words and figures \"has furnished under section 212\", the words, brackets and figures \"has furnished under sub-section (<i>1</i>) or sub-section (<i>2</i>) or sub-section (<i>3</i>) of section 212\" shall be substituted;</p><p>(<i>b</i>) after clause (<i>a</i>), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:—</p><p>\"(<i>aa</i>) has furnished under sub-section (<i>3A</i>) of section 212 an estimate of the advance tax payable by him which he knew or had reason to believe to be untrue, or\";</p><p>(<i>c</i>) after clause (<i>i</i>), the following clause shall be inserted, namely: —</p><p>\"(<i>ia</i>) which, in the case referred to in clause (<i>aa,</i>), shall not be less than ten per cent but shall not exceed one and a half times the amount by which the tax actually paid during the financial year immediately preceding the assessment year under the provisions of Chapter XVII-C falls short of seventy-five per cent of the assessed tax as defined in sub-section (<i>5</i>) of section 215;\";</p><p>(<i>d</i>) the following <i>Explanation</i> shall be inserted at the end, namely:—</p><p><i>\"Explanation.—</i> For the purposes of clause (<i>ia</i>), the amount paid by the assessee on or before the date extended by the Commissioner under the proviso to sub-section (<i>3A</i>) of section 212 shall, where the date so extended falls beyond the financial year immediately preceding the assessment year, also be regarded as tax actually paid during that financial year.\".</p><p>[Finance (No. 2) Act, 1977]</p><p>© Copyright. Taxmann Publications Pvt. Ltd.</p>","words":259,"text_source":"published"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-1977/section/27/","note":null,"source_note":"Harvested from the Income Tax Department's own portal at incometaxindia.gov.in, which publishes the Finance Acts section by section. India Code carries none of them: its Central community holds the Acts that stand as general law, and a Finance Act is an amending and rate-fixing instrument.","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}