Section 278 — Taxability of certain income

(1) Any interest received by an assessee on any compensation or on enhanced
compensation, shall be deemed to be the income of the tax year in which it is
received, irrespective of anything to the contrary contained in section 276.
(2) Any claim for escalation of price in a contract or export incentives shall be
deemed to be the income of the tax year in which reasonable certainty of its real -
isation is achieved.
(3) The income referred to in section 2(49)(w) shall be treated as the income of the
tax year in which it is received, if not charged to income-tax in any earlier tax year.