RULES/AMENDMENT RULES

INCOME-TAX (SEVENTH AMENDMENT) RULES, 2010

Income-tax (Seventh Amendment) Rules, 2010 - Amendment in rule 12

NOTIFICATION NO. 49/2010 [F.NO. 142/15/2010-TPL]/S.O. 1638(E), DATED 9-7-2010

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 295 read with section 139 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 (Seventh Amendment) Rules, 2010.

(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 12, in sub-rule (3), in the proviso, for clause (a), the following clauses shall be substituted, namely :—

"(a ) a firm required to furnish the return in Form ITR-5 and to whom provisions of section 44AB are applicable shall furnish the return in the manner specified in clause (ii ) or clause (iii);

(aa) an individual or HUF required to furnish the return in Form ITR-4 and to whom provisions of section 44AB are applicable shall furnish the return for assessment year 2010-11 and subsequent assessment years in the manner specified in clause (ii) or clause (iii);

(ab) a company required to furnish the return in Form ITR-6 shall furnish the return for assessment year 2010-11 and subsequent assessment years in the manner specified in clause (ii);".