Custom Act, 1962
28AA.
Interest on Delayed Payment of Duty. –
Subject
to the provisions contained in section 28AB where a person, chargeable with the
duty determined under sub-section (2) of section 28, fails to pay such duty
within three months from the date of such determination, he shall pay, in
addition to the duty, interest at such rate not below ten per cent and not
exceeding thirty per cent per annum, as is for the time being fixed by the
Board, on such duty from the date immediately after the expiry of the said
period of three months till the date of payment of such duty :
Provided
that where a person chargeable with duty
determined under sub-section (2) of section 28 before the date on which the
Finance Bill, 1995 receives the assent of the President, fails to pay such duty
within three months from such date, then, such person shall be liable to pay
interest under this section from the date immediately after three months from
such date, till the date of payment of such duty.
Explanation
1 : Where the duty determined to be payable
is reduced by the Commissioner (Appeals), Appellate Tribunal or, as the case
may be, the court, the date of such determination shall be the date on which an
amount of duty is first determined to be payable.
Explanation
2 : Where the duty determined to be payable
is increased or further increased by the Commissioner (Appeals), Appellate
Tribunal or, as the case may be, the court, the date of such determination
shall be, -
(a)
for the amount of duty first determined to be payable, the date on which the
duty is so determined;
(b)
for the amount of increased duty, the date of order by which the increased
amount of duty is first determined to be payable;
(c)
for the amount of further increase of duty, the date of order on which the duty
is so further increased.