What is Liability for payment of advance tax? What are Conditions of liability to pay advance tax? Section 207 and 208 of Income Tax Act 1961

Liability for payment of advance tax and Conditions of liability to pay advance tax are defined under section 207 and 208 of Income Tax Act 1961. Provisions under these Sections are :

Section 207 of Income Tax Act "Liability for payment of advance tax"

207. (1) Tax shall be payable in advance during any financial year, in accordance with the provisions of sections 208 to 219 (both inclusive), in respect of the total income of the assessee which would be chargeable to tax for the assessment year immediately following that financial year, such income being hereafter in this Chapter referred to as "current income".

(2) The provisions of sub-section (1) shall not apply to an individual resident in India, who-

(a) does not have any income chargeable under the head "Profits and gains of business or profession"; and

(b) is of the age of sixty years or more at any time during the previous year.

 

Section 208 of Income Tax Act "Conditions of liability to pay advance tax"

208. Advance tax shall be payable during a financial year in every case where the amount of such tax payable by the assessee during that year, as computed in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter, is ten thousand rupees or more.