Section 20 - Amendment of section 80DD - Finance Act, 2015

Amendment of section 80DD 20. In section 80DD of the Income-tax Act, with effect from the 1st day of April, 2016, for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:- (1) Where an assessee, being an individual or a Hindu undivided family, who is a resident in India, has, during the previous year,- (a) incurred any expenditure for the medical treatment (including nursing), training and rehabilitation of a dependant, being a person with disability; or (b) paid or deposited any amount under a scheme framed in this behalf by the Life Insurance Corporation or any other insurer or the Administrator or the specified company subject to the conditions specified in sub-section (2) and approved by the Board in this behalf for the maintenance of a dependant, being a person with disability, the assessee shall, in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this section, be allowed a deduction of a sum of seventy-five thousand rupees from his gross total income in respect of the previous year Provided that where such dependant is a person with severe disability, the provisions of this sub-section shall have effect as if for the words seventy-five thousand rupees , the words one hundred and twenty-five thousand rupees had been substituted. .