Constitution of India, 1949
270. Taxes levied and collected by the Union
and distributed between the Union and the States. —
(1) Taxes on income other than agricultural income shall be
levied and collected by the Government of India and distributed between the
Union and the States in the manner provided in clause (2).
(2) Such percentage, as may be prescribed3, of the net proceeds
in any financial year of any such tax, except in so far as those proceeds
represent proceeds attributable to Union territories or to taxes payable in
respect of Union emoluments, shall not form part of the Consolidated Fund of
India, but shall be assigned to the States within which that tax is leviable in
that year, and shall be distributed among those States in such manner and from
such time as may be prescribed.
(3) For the purposes of clause (2), in each financial year such
percentage as may be prescribed of so much of the net proceeds of taxes on
income as does not represent the net proceeds of taxes payable in respect of
Union emoluments shall be deemed to represent proceeds attributable to Union
territories.
(4) In this article—
(a) "taxes on income" does not
include a corporation tax;
(b) "prescribed" means—
(i) until a Finance Commission has been
constituted, prescribed by the President by order, and
(ii) after a Finance Commission has been
constituted, prescribed by the President by order after considering the
recommendations of the Finance Commission;
(c) "Union emoluments" includes all
emoluments and pensions payable out of the Consolidated Fund of India in
respect of which income-tax is chargeable.