Income Tax Act
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Income Tax Act, 2025
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Income-tax Act, 2025
Full legal text · Act 30 of 2025 · As amended by Finance Act, 2026
Official PDF pages 386–390
SOURCE PDF PAGE 386 Sl. No. Actions Conditions Time A B C D consideration to be the value as so revised in appeal or revision or ref - erence. ( a ) by taking the full value of the consideration received or accruing as a result of the transfer to be the value adopted or assessed by any authority of a State Gov - ernment for the purpose of payment of stamp duty as per section 78(1); and ( b ) subsequently such value is revised in any appeal or re - vision or reference referred to in section 78(2)( b ). 9. The order of as - sessment to be amended to com - pute the capital gain by taking the compensation or consideration as so reduced by the court, Tribunal or any other authority to be the full value of consideration. ( a ) Where in the assessment for any year, a capital gain arising from the transfer of a capital asset being a transfer referred to in clause ( b ) is computed— ( i ) by taking the com - pensation or consid - eration as referred to in section 67(12)( a ) or, as the case may be, the compensa - tion or consideration enhanced or further enhanced as referred to in section 67(12) ( b ), to be the full val - ue of consideration deemed to be re - ceived or accruing as a result of the transfer of the asset; and ( ii ) subsequently such compensation or consideration is re - duced by any court, Tribunal or other authority. From the end of the financial year in which the order re - ducing the compen - sation was passed by the court, Tribunal or other authority. ────────── SOURCE PDF PAGE 387 Sl. No. Actions Conditions Time A B C D ( b ) The transfer and consider - ation referred to in clause ( a ) shall be,— ( i ) transfer by way of compulsory acquisi - tion under any law; ( ii ) consideration that was determined or approved by the Cen - tral Government or the Reserve Bank of India. 10. Recomputation of the total income to disallow the de - duction allowed under section 152. Where a deduction has been allowed to an assessee in any tax year under section 152 in respect of any patent, and subsequently by an order of the Controller or the High Court under the Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970),— ( a ) the patent was revoked, or ( b ) the name of the assessee was excluded from the patents register as patentee in respect of that patent, the deduction from the income by way of royalty attributable to the period during which the patent had been revoked or the period for which name of the as - sessee was excluded as patentee in respect of that patent, shall be deemed to have been wrongly allowed. From the end of the financial year in which the order of the Controller under section 2(1)( b ), or the High Court under section 2(1)( i ), of the Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), was passed. 11. Amendment of the order of assess - ment or any inti - mation to allow credit of such tax deducted at source in the tax year re - ferred to in column C, and the credit of such tax deducted ( a ) Where any income has been included in the return of income furnished by an assessee under section 263 for any tax year, and tax on such income has been deducted at source and paid to the credit of the Central Government as per the provisions of Chapter From the end of the fi - nancial year in which such tax has been deducted. ────────── SOURCE PDF PAGE 388 Sl. No. Actions Conditions Time A B C D at source not to be allowed in any other tax year. XIX-B in a subsequent tax year; and ( b ) an application is made by an assessee in such form, as may be prescribed, within two years from the end of the tax year in which such tax was deducted at source. (2)( a ) Where the arm’s length price is determined in relation to an international transaction or a specified domestic transaction under section 166(6) for any tax year and the Transfer Pricing Officer has declared that an option exercised by the assessee is valid under section 166(9) in respect of such transaction for two consecutive tax years immediately following such tax year, the Assessing Officer shall proceed to recompute the total income of the assessee for the said two consecutive tax years, by amending the order of assessment or any intimation or deemed intimation under section 270(1) 31 , as the case may be,— ( i ) in conformity with the arm’s length price so determined by the Transfer Pricing Officer under section 166(12) in respect of such transaction; and ( ii ) taking into account the directions issued under section 275(5), if any, for such tax year, within three months from the end of the month in which the assessment is com - pleted in the case of the assessee for such tax year, and the provisions of sections 165(7) and (8) shall apply thereto. ( b ) Where the order of assessment or any intimation or deemed intimation under section 270(1) as referred to in sub-section (1), for the said two consecutive tax years is not made within the said three months, such recomputation shall be made within three months from the end of the month in which such order of assessment or any intimation or deemed intimation under section 270(1) 31 , as the case may be, is made. Notice of demand. 289. (1) When any tax, interest, penalty, fine or any other sum is payable in consequence of any order passed under this Act, the Assessing Officer shall serve upon the assessee a notice of demand in such form, as may be prescribed, specifying the sum so payable. (2) Where any sum is determined to be payable by the assessee or the deductor or the collector under section 270 or 399, the intimation under the said sections shall be deemed to be a notice of demand for the purposes of this section. (3) Where the income of the assessee of any tax year includes income of the nature specified in section 17(1)( d ) and such specified security or sweat equity shares re - ferred to in the said section are allotted or transferred directly or indirectly by the current employer, being an eligible start-up referred to in section 140, the tax or interest on such income included in the notice of demand referred to in sub-section (1) shall be payable by the assessee within fourteen days— ────────── SOURCE PDF PAGE 389 ( a ) after the expiry of sixty months from the end of the relevant tax year; or ( b ) from the date of the sale of such specified security or sweat equity share by the assessee; or ( c ) from the date of the assessee ceasing to be the employee of the employer who allotted or transferred him such specified security or sweat equity share, whichever is the earliest. Modification and revision of notice in certain cases. 290. (1) Where,— ( a ) any tax, interest, penalty, fine or any other sum in respect of which a notice of demand has been issued earlier under section 289; and ( b ) such tax, interest, penalty, fine or any other sum is reduced as a result of an order of the Adjudicating Authority as defined in section 5(1) of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (31 of 2016), the Assessing Officer shall serve on the assessee a modified notice of demand spec - ifying the sum payable, if any, and such notice shall be treated as a notice under section 289 and the provisions of this Act shall accordingly apply in relation to such notice. (2) The modified notice of demand as referred to in sub-section (1) shall be revised where the order referred to in sub-section (1)( b ) is modified by the National Com - pany Law Appellate Tribunal or the Supreme Court. Intimation of loss. 291. The Assessing Officer shall notify to the assessee by an order in writing the amount of the loss as computed by him for the purposes of section 111(1) or 112 or 113(2) or 115(1), where— ( a ) in the course of the assessment of the total income of any assessee, it is established that a loss has taken place; and ( b ) the assessee is entitled to have carried forward and set off such loss under the provisions of the said sections. B. — Special procedure for assessment of search cases Assessment of total undisclosed income as a result of search. 292. (1) Irrespective of any other provision of this Act, where on or after the commencement of this Act, in the case of any person, a search is initiated or requisition is made, then, the Assessing Officer shall proceed to assess or reassess the total undisclosed income of the block period as per provisions of this Part. (2)( a ) The assessment or reassessment or recomputation proceedings under the provisions of this Act (other than of this part), if any, pertaining to any tax year falling in the block period, pending on the date of initiation of search, or the date of making of requisition, as the case may be, shall abate and shall be deemed to have been abated on such date. ( b ) Any proceeding for assessment or reassessment or recomputation under any provisions of this Act (other than this Part) pertaining to any tax year falling in the ────────── SOURCE PDF PAGE 390 block period (other than the tax year in which last of the authorisations for a search is executed or requisition is made), for which a notice has been issued during the period commencing on date of initiation of search or the date of making of req - uisition and ending on the date of making of order under section 294(1)( c ), shall abate and shall be deemed to have been abated on the date of issue of such notice. (3) If any reference has been made under section 166(1) or order has been passed under section 166(6), the assessment or reassessment or recomputation proceedings referred to in sub-section (2) together with such reference or order, shall abate and shall be deemed to have abated on the date referred to in sub-section (2). (4) If any assessment under the provisions of this part is required to be made in the case of an assessee, in whose case a search is initiated or a requisition is made subsequently— ( a ) such pending assessment shall be duly completed; ( b ) assessment in respect of such subsequent search or requisition shall be made thereafter under the provisions of this part; and ( c ) if the period available for assessment in clause ( b ) is less than three months, such period shall be extended to three months from the end of the month in which the assessment, as referred to in clause ( a ) was completed. (5) Irrespective of anything contained in this part or section 286, if any proceeding initiated under this part or any order of assessment or reassessment made under section 294(1)( c ) has been annulled in an appeal or any other legal proceeding, then— ( a ) the assessment or reassessment or recomputation or reference or order relating to any tax year which has abated under sub-section (2) or (3), shall revive with effect from the date of receipt of the order of such annulment by the Principal Commissioner or Commissioner; ( b ) the revival, as referred to in clause ( a ) shall cease to have effect, if such order of annulment is set aside. (6) The income (other than undisclosed income) of the tax year in which the last of the authorisations for a search is executed or a requisition is made, shall be assessed separately as per the other provisions of this Act. (7) The total undisclosed income relating to the block period, as referred to in sec - tion 293(7) shall be charged to tax at the rate specified in section 192 as income of the block period, irrespective of the tax year or years to which such income relates. Computation of total undisclosed income of block period. 293. (1) The total undisclosed income of the block period referred to in section 292(1) shall be the aggregate of the following:— ( a ) undisclosed income declared in the return furnished under section 294; ( b ) undisclosed income determined by the Assessing Officer under sub-sec - tion (4). (2) The following income shall not be included in the total undisclosed income of the block period:—
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