Section 43: Provisions relating to income-tax and super-tax.
The State Financial Corporations Act, 1951Central Act · Act 63 of 1951
For the purposes of the [Income-tax Act, 1961(43 of 1961)], the Financial Corporation shall be deemed to be a company within the meaning of that Act and shall be liable to income-tax and super-tax accordingly on its income, profits and gains:
Provided that any sum paid by the State Government under the guarantee given in pursuance of*** [section 7 or section 8] shall not be treated as the income, profits and gains of the Financial Corporation and any interest on debentures, [bonds or deposits] paid by the Financial Corporation out of such sum shall not be treated as expenditure incurred by it:
Provided further that in the case of any shareholder such portion of a dividend as has been paid out of any such sum advanced by the State Government shall be deemed to be [his] income from "interest on securities" [and the income-tax shall be payable thereon as if it were the interest receivable on any security of a State Government issued income-tax free] within the meaning of section 8 of that Act.