Income-tax (16th Amendment) Rules, 2016

[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (ii)]

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE

[CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES]

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 22nd June, 2016

INCOME-TAX

S.O. 2179(E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 101, read with section 295 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Income-tax Rules, 1962, namely:-

1. (1) These rules may be called the Income-tax (16th Amendment) Rules, 2016.

(2) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Income-tax Rules, 1962, in rule 10U,-

(i) in sub-rule (1), in clause (d), for the figures, letters and words “30th day of August, 2010”, the figures, letters and words “1st day of April, 2017” shall be substituted;

(ii) in sub-rule (2), for the figures, letters and words “1st day of April, 2015”, the figures, letters and words “1st day of April, 2017” shall be substituted.

[Notification No. 49/2016/ F. No. 370142/10/2016-TPL]

(Niraj Kumar)

Under Secretary

(Tax Policy and Legislation)

Note: The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section-3, Sub-section (ii) vide number S.O. 969 (E) dated the 26th March, 1962 and was last amended vide notification number S.O. 2151(E), dated the 20th June, 2016.