Income Tax Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · Returns
55A. Power to call for statements of bank etc.
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The Collector may give notice to any person requiring him to furnish within the time specified in the notice or such further time as the
Collector
“Collector” means the Collector of Income Tax appointed under section 3 and includes for all purposes of this Act, except the powers conferred on the Collector by sections 76, 79, 80 and 83, a Deputy Collector so appointed;
Collector may allow a statement containing particulars of —
all banking accounts, whether current or deposit, business or private, in that person’s own name or in the name or names of his wife or wives, or in any other name, in which he is or has been
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interested, or on which he has or has had the power to operate, jointly or solely, and which are in existence or which have existed at any time during the period stated in the notice;
all savings and loan accounts, deposits, building society and co-operative society accounts, in regard to which he has, or has had any interest or power to operate, jointly or solely, during the period stated in the notice;
all assets, other than those referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), which he and his wife or wives possess, jointly or solely, or have possessed during the period stated in the notice;
all sources of income not referred to in paragraph (a), (b)
or (c) and the income derived therefrom during the period stated in the notice;
all facts bearing upon his liability to income tax to which he is, or has been, liable.
Terms defined in s 2
Collector
Defined · s 2“Collector” means the Collector of Income Tax appointed under section 3 and includes for all purposes of this Act, except the powers conferred on the Collector by sections 76, 79, 80 and 83, a Deputy Collector so appointed;
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