Lawgist6Scope of chargeable receipts
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the chargeable receipts of any previous year of an assessee shall be the total amount of all charges, by whatever name called, received by, or accruing or arising to, the assessee in connection with the provision of residential accommodation, food, drink and other services or any of them (including such charges from persons not provided with such accommodation 1[but excluding such charges from persons within the purview of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961 or the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 1963]) in the course of carrying on the business of a hotel to which this Act applies and shall also include every amount collected by the assessee by way of tax under this Act, sales tax, entertainment tax and tax on luxuries.
(2) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that where any such charges have been included in the chargeable receipts of any previous year as charges accruing or arising to the assessee during that previous year, such charges shall not be included in the chargeable receipts of any subsequent previous year in which they are received by the assessee.
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1. Ins. by Act 14 of 1982, s. 41 (w.e.f. 1-4-1982).
- 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]
