Section 4 — Charge of Income-tax
(1) Where any Central Act enacts that income-tax shall be charged for any
tax year at any rate or rates, income-tax for such tax year shall be charged at
that rate or those rates in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this Act.
(2) The charge of income-tax under sub-section (1) shall be on the total income of
the tax year of every person as per the provisions of this Act.
(3) Income-tax shall also include any additional income-tax, by whatever name
called, levied under this Act.
(4) If this Act provides that income-tax is to be charged in respect of income of a
period other than the tax year, it shall be charged accordingly.
(5) For the income chargeable under this section, income-tax shall be deducted or
collected at source or paid in advance as provided under this Act.
Related sections
- Section 5 — Scope of total income
- Section 6 — Residence in India
- Section 7 — Income deemed to be received and dividend deemed to be income in a tax year
- Section 8 — Income on receipt of capital asset or stock-in-trade by specified person from specified entity
- Section 9 — Income deemed to accrue or arise in India
- Section 10 — Apportionment of income between spouses governed by Portuguese Civil Code