Income Tax Act, 1967.

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Allowance for rates paid by landlord.

28.—In assessing tax chargeable under Schedule A on the landlord or immediate lessor—

(a) if the amount or annual value, on which the assessment is made, is not less than the annual rent reserved or payable to him for the property in respect of which the assessment is made, an allowance or abatement shall be made in respect of the amount of the county rate or the proportion applicable to the relief of the poor of the municipal rate paid or borne by him for the same property in the preceding year; and

(b) if the amount or annual value on which the assessment is made is less than the said rent, an allowance or abatement shall be made of the sum by which the amount of the county rate or of the proportion applicable to the relief of the poor of the municipal rate, added to the sum on which the assessment is made, exceeds that rent.