Insertion of new section 244A

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....is Act, refund of any amount becomes due to the assessee, he shall, subject to the provisions of this section, be entitled to receive, in addition to the said amount, simple interest thereon calculated in the following manner, namely :- (a) where the refund is out of any tax paid by way of advance tax or treated as paid under section 199, during the financial year immediately preceding th....

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....ate on and from which the amount of tax or penalty specified in the notice of demand issued under section 156 is paid in excess of such demand. (2) If the proceedings resulting in the refund are delayed for reasons attributable to the assessee, whether wholly or in part, the period of the delay so attributable to him shall be excluded from the period for which interest is payable, and whe....