Levy of an extra amount of tax on the amount of dividends on equity capital declared or distributed during the previous year by certain companies

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....lopment and growth, Finance Act, 1964 for the first time provided for fiscal discincentives by levy of an extra amount of tax on the amount of dividends on equity capital declared or distributed during the previous year by certain companies. This was continued by the Finance Acts, 1965 to 1968, though not in the same form. 2. The mode of computing the amount on which this extra levy is to be made....

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....r preference shares capital for the first during the previous year relevant to the A.Y.1964-65, or any one of the four previous years immediately preceding such previous year. In such cases the extra amount of super-tax at 7.5% was payable only on that amount of super-tax at 7.5% was payable only on that amount of the equity dividends which was in excess of 10% of the paid up equity capital of the....

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....e amount of: i)that part of the amount of equity dividends declared or distributed of the companies during the previous years relevant to the A.Y's 1964-65 & 1965-66 w.r.t. which it was chargeable to tax at the rate of 7.5% thereof by reduction of t he rebate of tax admissible to it, respectively, under the provisions of the Finance Acts, 1964 & 1965, but could not be charged because of the insuf....