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(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), for the assessment year commencing on the 1st day of April, 1988, income-tax shall be charged at the rates specified in Part I of the First Schedule and shall be increased, -
(a) in the cases to which Paragraphs A, B, C and D of that Part apply, by a surcharge for purposes of the Union; and (b) in the cases to which Paragraph E of that Part applies, by a surcharge, calculated in each case in the manner provided therein.
(2) In the cases to which Sub-Paragraph I or Sub-Paragraph II of Paragraph A of Part I of the First Schedule applies, where the assessee has, in the previous year, any net agricultural income exceeding six hundred rupees, in addition to total income, and the total income exceeds, -
(i) in a case to which the said Sub-Paragraph I applies, eighteen thousand rupees, and (ii) in a case to which the said Sub-Paragraph II applies, twelve thousand rupees,then, -
(a) the net agricultural income shall be taken into account, in the manner provided in clause (b) [that is to say, as if the net agricultural income were comprised in the total income after, -
(i) in a case to which the said Sub-Paragraph I applies, the first eighteen thousand rupees, and (ii) in a case to which the said Sub-Paragraph II applies, the first twelve thousand rupees, of the total income but without being liable to tax], only for the purpose of charging income-tax in respect of the total income; and (b) the income-tax chargeable shall be calculated as follows :-
(i) the total income and the net agricultural income shall be aggregated and the amount of income-tax shall be determined in respect of the aggregate income at the rates specified in the Sub-Paragraph I or, as the case may be, Sub-Paragraph II of the said Paragraph A, as if such aggregate income were the total income;
(ii) the net agricultural income shall be increased, -
(A) in a case to which the said Sub-Paragraph I applies, by a sum of eighteen thousand rupees; and (B) in a case to which the said Sub-Paragraph II applies, by a sum of twelve thousand rupees, and the amount of income-tax shall be determined in respect of the net agricultural income as so increased at the rates specified in Sub-Paragraph I or, as the case may be, Sub-Paragraph II of the said Paragraph A, as if the net agricultural income as so increased were the total income;
(iii) the amount of income-tax determined in accordance with sub-clause (i) shall be reduced by the amount of income-tax determined in accordance with sub-clause (ii) and the sum so arrived at shall be the income-tax in respect of the total income :
Provided that the amount of income-tax so arrived at shall, in the case of every person having a total income exceeding fifty thousand rupees, be increased by a surcharge for purposes of the Union calculated at the rate of five per cent. of such income-tax and the sum so arrived at shall be the income-tax in respect of the total income.
(3) In cases to which the provisions of Chapter XII or Chapter XII-A or sub-section (1A) of