Act Number: 35

Act Name: The Expenditure-tax Act, 1987

Year: 1987

Enactment Date: 1987-09-14

Long Title: An Act to provide for the levy of a tax on expenditure incurred in certain hotels or restaurants and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Finance

Department: Department of Revenue

Section 14: Interest on delayed payment of expenditure-tax.
    Every person responsible for collecting expenditure-tax and paying it to the credit of the Central Government in accordance with the provisions of section 7, who fails to credit the tax to the account of the Central Government within the period specified in that section, shall pay simple interest at the rate of 1 [one per cent.] for every month or part of a month by which such crediting of tax is delayed.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 54 of 2003, s. 22, for "one and one-fourth per cent." (w.e.f. 8-9-2003).
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