Representative assessee liability: treated as beneficial owner for assessment, with revenue able to reach beneficiaries directly.
Section 304 treats a representative assessee as if the income were beneficially his for duties, liabilities and assessment; it places assessment liability on the representative in his own name, contains an exclusivity rule preventing assessment of the same income under other provisions, preserves the Assessing Officer's power to assess or recover tax directly from the beneficial owner, prescribes a pro rata formula for beneficiaries' share of a chargeable trust income, and grants the revenue equivalent remedies against property under the representative's control.