Hotel-Receipts Tax Act,1980
Act No : 54
Section :
Advance payment of hotel receipts tax.
14. Advance payment of hotel receipts tax. (1) Hotel-receipts tax shall be payable in advance during the financial year in respect of the chargeable receipts of the period which would be the previous year for the immediately following assessment year in accordance with the provisions of this section. (2) Hotel-receipts tax shall be payable in advance in two instalments on the following dates during the financial year, namely:- - (i) the 15th day of September in respect of the chargeable receipts attributable to the first half of the previous year; and (ii) the 15th day of March in respect of the chargeable receipts attributable to the second half of the previous year: Provided that the hotel-receipts tax payable in advance during the financial year commencing on the 1st day of April, 1980 shall be payable in one sum on the 15th day of March, 1981. (3) Every assessee shall, in each financial year, on or before such of the dates on which an instalment of hotel-receipts tax is payable in advance, send to the Income-tax Officer, an estimate of the chargeable receipts attributable to the relevant part of the previous year and the hotel-receipts tax payable in advance on such chargeable receipts and shall pay such amount of hotel-receipts tax as accords with his estimate on or before the relevant date specified in sub- section (2): Provided that in respect of the hotel-receipts tax payable in advance during the financial year commencing on the 1st day of April, 1980, the assessee shall send to the Income-tax Officer an estimate of the chargeable receipts attributable to the period which would be the previous year for the assessment year commencing on the 1st day of April, 1981 and the hotel-receipts tax payable in advance on such chargeable receipts and shall pay such amount of hotel-receipts tax as accords with his estimate on or before the 15th day of March, 1981. 354 (4) Every estimate under this section shall be sent in the prescribed form and verified in the prescribed manner. (5) If any assessee does not pay on or before the specified date any instalment of hotel-receipts tax payable in advance, he shall be deemed to be an assessee in default in respect of such instalment.
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