law: Voluntary Disclosure of Income and Wealth Act, 1976
  
  3. Charge of income-tax on voluntarily disclosed income.-
  (1)
  
  Subject to the provisions of this Act, where any person makes, on or after the
  
  date of commencement of this Act but before the 1st day of January, 1976, a
  
  declaration in accordance with the provisions of section 4 in respect of any
  
  income inchargeable to tax under the Indian Income-tax Act, 1922 (11 of 1922)
  
  or the Income-tax Act for any assessment year-
  (a) for which he has failed to furnish a return under section 139 of the
  
  Income-tax Act, or
  (b) which he has failed to disclose in a return of income furnished by
  
  him under the Income-tax Act before the date of commencement of this Act, or
  (c) which has escaped assessment by reason of the omission or failure on
  
  the part of such person to make a return under the Indian Income-tax Act,
  
  1922(11 of 1922) or the Income-tax Act or to disclose fully and truly all
  
  material facts necessary for his assessment or otherwise, then, notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in the Indian Income-tax Act, 1922 (11 of 1922)or the
  
  Income-tax Act or in any Finance Act, income-tax shall be charged in respect of
  
  the income so declared (such income being hereinafter referred to as the
  
  voluntarily disclosed income) at the rate or rates specified in the Schedule.
  (2)
  
  Nothing contained in sub-section (1) shall apply in relation to-
  (i) the income assessable for any assessment year to which a notice
  
  under section 139 or section 148 of the Income-tax Act has been served upon
  
  such person and the return has not been furnished before the commencement of
  
  this Act;
  (ii) where any books of account, other documents, money, bullion,
  
  jewellery or other valuable articles or things belonging to the person making
  
  the declaration under sub-section (1) (hereafter in this section, in sections 4
  
  to 13 and in the Schedule referred to as the declarant) have been seized as a result
  
  of any search under section 132 of the Income-tax Act or under section 37A of
  
  the Wealth-tax Act, the income in respect of the previous year in which such
  
  search was made or any earlier previous year.
  (3)
  
  In addition to the amount of income-tax to be paid under sub-section (1), the
  
  declarant shall invest a sum equal to five per cent. of the amount of the
  
  voluntarily disclosed income in such securities as the Central Government may
  
  notify in this behalf in the Official Gazette.