Income Tax Act, 1967.
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Proceedings against a collector or his sureties. |
495.—(1) On the trial of any action against the sureties of a collector appointed under section 7 of the Finance Act, 1934 , on a bond entered into by him or on the execution of a writ of inquiry of damages in any such action, the production of an account, in the handwriting of such collector or signed by him, of any sum of money collected or received by him for or on account of the tax or moneys, shall be sufficient proof of the receipt by him of every sum of money therein mentioned, on account of the tax given to him in charge for collection. | |
(2) A schedule delivered upon oath by such collector in pursuance of section 175 of the Income Tax Act, 1918, and containing, or purporting to contain, the names of persons who have made default in payment of the tax and the sums remaining in arrear, shall, in any such action and upon all other occasions, be sufficient evidence to charge the collector and his sureties, respectively, with all other sums of money comprised in the duplicate or duplicates given to him in charge to collect, and not included in that schedule or previously accounted for and paid over to the proper officer; and all such sums not so included in the schedule, or previously accounted for and paid over, shall be deemed to have been collected and received by the collector and to remain in his hands unpaid and in arrear. |