Provisions of sections 164 and 167B of the Income-tax Act, 1961--Clarification regarding

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...., which generally provide for charging of tax at the maximum marginal rate on the total income of an association of persons where the individual shares of members in the income of such association are indeterminate or unknown, would also apply to income under a trust declared by any person by will where such trust is the only trust declared by him. Such trusts, it would be noticed, are referred to....

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....d by the first proviso to section 164(1) and the first proviso to section 164(3) would also not attract the provisions of section 167B. Accordingly, tax will be payable in such cases at the rate ordinarily applicable to the total income of an association of persons and not at the maximum marginal rate. (Sd.) Sunil Chopra, Director (TPL-III), Central Board of Direct Taxes.   &....