law: The Income-Tax Act, 1961
  25. Amounts not deductible from income from house property.-
  Notwithstanding anything contained in section 24, any 10*** interest chargeable under this Act which is payable outside India (not being interest on a loan issued for public subscription before the 1st day of April, 1938), on which tax has not been paid or deducted under Chapter XVII-B and in respect of which there is no person in India who may be treated as an agent under section 163 shall not be deducted in computing the income chargeable under the head "Income from house property".
  10. The words "annual charge or" omitted by Act 14 of 2001, s. 16 (w.e.f. 1-4-2002).
  1[25A. Special provision for arrears of rent and unrealised rent received subsequently.-
  (1) The amount of arrears of rent received from a tenant or the unrealised rent realised subsequently from a tenant, as the case may be, by an assessee shall be deemed to be the income from house property in respect of the financial year in which such rent is received or realised, and shall be included in the total income of the assessee under the head "Income from house property", whether the assessee is the owner of the property or not in that financial year.
  (2) A sum equal to thirty per cent. of the arrears of rent or the unrealised rent referred to in sub-section (1) shall be allowed as deduction.]
  1. Subs. by Act 28 of 2016, s. 11 for sections 25A, 25AA and 25B (w.e.f. 1-4-2017).