Voluntary Disclosure of Income and Wealth Act, 1976
3. Charge of income-tax on voluntarily disclosed income.-
(1)
Subject to the provisions of this Act, where any person makes, on or after the
date of commencement of this Act but before the 1st day of January, 1976, a
declaration in accordance with the provisions of section 4 in respect of any
income inchargeable to tax under the Indian Income-tax Act, 1922 (11 of 1922)
or the Income-tax Act for any assessment year-
(a) for which he has failed to furnish a return under section 139 of the
Income-tax Act, or
(b) which he has failed to disclose in a return of income furnished by
him under the Income-tax Act before the date of commencement of this Act, or
(c) which has escaped assessment by reason of the omission or failure on
the part of such person to make a return under the Indian Income-tax Act,
1922(11 of 1922) or the Income-tax Act or to disclose fully and truly all
material facts necessary for his assessment or otherwise, then, notwithstanding
anything contained in the Indian Income-tax Act, 1922 (11 of 1922)or the
Income-tax Act or in any Finance Act, income-tax shall be charged in respect of
the income so declared (such income being hereinafter referred to as the
voluntarily disclosed income) at the rate or rates specified in the Schedule.
(2)
Nothing contained in sub-section (1) shall apply in relation to-
(i) the income assessable for any assessment year to which a notice
under section 139 or section 148 of the Income-tax Act has been served upon
such person and the return has not been furnished before the commencement of
this Act;
(ii) where any books of account, other documents, money, bullion,
jewellery or other valuable articles or things belonging to the person making
the declaration under sub-section (1) (hereafter in this section, in sections 4
to 13 and in the Schedule referred to as the declarant) have been seized as a result
of any search under section 132 of the Income-tax Act or under section 37A of
the Wealth-tax Act, the income in respect of the previous year in which such
search was made or any earlier previous year.
(3)
In addition to the amount of income-tax to be paid under sub-section (1), the
declarant shall invest a sum equal to five per cent. of the amount of the
voluntarily disclosed income in such securities as the Central Government may
notify in this behalf in the Official Gazette.