Section 34Central Act

Section 34: Conditions for depreciation allowance and development rebate

The Income-tax Act, 1961

Conditions for depreciation allowance and development rebate.

(1)

[* * *] [ Sub-Sections (1) and (2) omitted by Act 46 of 1986, Section 6 (w.e.f. 1.4.1988).]

(2)

[* * *] [ Sub-Sections (1) and (2) omitted by Act 46 of 1986, Section 6 (w.e.f. 1.4.1988).]

(3)

(a)

The deduction referred to in section 33 shall not be allowed unless an amount equal to seventy-five per cent. of the development rebate to be actually allowed is debited to the profit and loss account of [any previous year in respect of which the deduction is to be allowed under sub-section (2) of that section or any earlier previous year (being a previous year not earlier than the year in which the ship was acquired or the machinery or plant was installed or the ship, machinery or plant was first put to use)] [ Substituted by Act 12 of 1990, Section 11, for certain words (w.e.f. 1.4.1996).] and credited to a reserve account to be utilised by the assessee during the period of eight years next following for the purposes of the business of the undertaking, other than-

(i)for distribution by way of dividends or profits; or

(ii)for remittance outside India as profits or for the creation of any asset outside India:

Provided that this clause shall not apply where the assessee is a company, being a licensee within the meaning of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948 (54 of 1948), or where the ship has been acquired or the machinery or plant has been installed before the 1st day of January, 1958:[Provided further that where a ship has been acquired after the 28th day of February, 1966, this clause shall have effect in respect of such ship as if for the words "seventy-five", the word "fifty" had been substituted.] [ Inserted by Act 13 of 1966, Section 9 (w.e.f. 1.4.1966).][* * *] [ Explanation omitted by Act 12 of 1990, Section 11 (w.r.e.f. 1.4.1962).]

(b)

If any ship, machinery or plant is sold or otherwise transferred by the assessee to any person at any time before the expiry of eight years from the end of the previous year in which it was acquired or installed, any allowance made under section 33 or under the corresponding provisions of the Indian Income-tax Act, 1922 (11 of 1922), in respect of that ship, machinery or plant shall be deemed to have been wrongly made for the purposes of this Act, and the provisions of sub-section (5) of section 155 shall apply accordingly:

Provided that this clause shall not apply,-

(i)

where the ship has been acquired or the machinery or plant has been installed before the 1st day of January, 1958; or

(ii)

where the ship, machinery or plant is sold or otherwise transferred by the assessee to the Government, a local authority, a corporation established by a Central, State or Provincial Act or a Government company as defined in section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956) [ Now section 2(45) of the Companies Act, 2013.] ; or

(iii)

where the sale or transfer of the ship, machinery or plant is made in connection with the amalgamation or succession, referred to in sub-section (3) or sub-section (4) of section 33.

Sec 33B — [ Rehabilitation allowance. [Inserted by Act 20 of 1967, Section 11 (w.e.f. 1.4.1967).]

Sec 34A — Restriction on unabsorbed depreciation and unabsorbed investment allowance for limited period in case of certain domestic companies. [ Inserted by Act 18 of 1992, Section 13 (w.e.f. 1.4.1992).]

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