4Tax authorities
(1) Every Director of Inspection, Commissioner of Income-Tax, Commissioner of Income-tax (Appeals), Inspecting Assistant Commissioner of Income-tax, Income-tax Officer and Inspector of Income-tax shall have the like powers and perform the like functions under this Act as he has and performs under the Income-tax Act, and for the exercise of his powers and the performance of his functions, his jurisdiction under this Act shall be the same as he has under the Income-tax Act.
(2) All officers and persons employed in the execution of this Act shall observe and follow the orders, instructions and directions of the Board:
Provided that no such orders, instructions or directions shall be issued--
(a) so as to require any tax authority to make a particular assessment or to dispose of a particular case in a particular manner; or
(b) so as to interfere with the discretion of the Commissioner (Appeals) in the exercise of his appellate functions.
(3) Every Income-tax Officer employed in the execution of this Act shall observe and follow the orders, instructions and directions issued for his guidance by the Director of Inspection or by the Commissioner or by the Inspecting Assistant Commissioner within whose jurisdiction he performs his functions.
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- 1 Short title and extent
- 2 Definitions
- 3 Application of the Act
- 4 Tax authorities
- 5 Charge of tax
- 6 Scope of chargeable receipts
- 7 Computation of chargeable receipts
- 8 Return of chargeable receipts
- 9 Self-assessment
- 10 Assessment
- 11 Best judgment assessment
- 12 Re-opening of assessment at the instance of the assessee
- 13 Receipts escaping assessment
- 14 Advance payment of hotel receipts tax
- 15 Penalty for failure to furnish returns, comply with notices, concealment of receipts, etc
- 16 Penality for false estimate of, or failure to pay, hotel-receipts tax payable in advance
- 17 Opportunity of being heard
- 18 Appeals to the Commissioner (Appeals)
- 19 Appeals to Appellate Tribunal
- 20 Rectification of mistakes
- 21 Hotel-receipts tax deductible in computing total income under Income-tax Act
- 22 Revision of order prejudicial to revenue
- 23 Revision of orders by Commissioner
- 24 Application of provisions of Income-tax Act
- 25 Income-tax papers to be available for the purposes of this Act
- 26 Wilful attempt to evade tax, etc
- 27 Failure to furnish returns of chargeable receipts
- 28 Failure to produce accounts and documents
- 29 False statement in verification, etc
- 30 Abetment of false return, etc
- 31 Punishment for second and subsequent offences
- 32 Certain offences to be non-cognizable
- 33 Institution of proceedings and composition of offences
- 34 Power to make rules
- 35 Power to exempt
- 36 Power to remove difficulties
- 37 [Repealed]