Section 39:
Provisions relating to income-tax and super-tax.
For the purposes of the Income-tax Act,
1961 (43 of 1961), a Warehousing Corporation shall be deemed to be a company within the meaning
of that Act and shall be liable to income-tax and super-tax accordingly on its income, profits and
gains:
Provided that, in the case of the Central Warehousing Corporation, any sum paid by the Central
Government under the guarantee given in pursuance of sub-section (1) of section 5 or, in the case of a
Warehousing Corporation, any sum paid by the Central or a State Government under any guarantee
given in pursuance of sub-section (4) of section 27 shall not be treated as income, profits and gains of
a Warehousing Corporation, and any interest on the debentures or bonds issued by that Corporation
out of such sums shall not be treated as expenditure incurred by it:
Provided further that in the case of any shareholder or debenture-holder, such portion of a
dividend or interest as has been paid out of any such sum advanced by the Central Government shall
be deemed to be his income from interest on securities declared to be income-tax-free within the
meaning of section 86 of that Act.