Section 32 - Amendment of section 253 - Finance Act, 1993

32. Amendment of section 253 In section 253 of the Income-tax Act, for sub-section (6), the following sub-section shall be substituted and shall be deemed to have been substituted with effect from the 1st day of June, 1992, namely :- (6) An appeal to the Appellate Tribunal shall be in the prescribed form and shall be verified in the prescribed manner and shall, in the case of an appeal made on or after the 1st day of June, 1992, irrespective of the date of initiation of the assessment proceedings relating thereto, be accompanied by a fee of, - (a) where the total income of the assessee as computed by the Assessing Officer in the case to which the appeal relates is one lakh rupees or less, two hundred and fifty rupees; (b) where the total income of the assessee computed as aforesaid in the case to which the appeal relates is more than one lakh rupees, one thousand and five hundred rupees : Provided that no such fee shall be payable in the case of an appeal referred to in sub-section (2) or a memorandum of cross-objections referred to in sub-section (4).