GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE

[CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES]

NOTIFICATION NO. 24/2016

New Delhi, the 30th day of March, 2016

Income-tax

S.O. 1262(E).– In exercise of the powers conferred by 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 (9th Amendment) Rules, 2016.

     (2) They shall come into force with effect from the 1st day of April, 2016.

2. In the Income-tax rules, 1962,−

(1) in rule 12,−

(a) in sub-rule (1),-

(A) after the word, brackets, figure and letter “sub-section (4E)”, the words, brackets, figure and letter “or sub-section (4F)” shall be inserted;

(B) for the figures “2015”, the figures “2016” shall be substituted;

(C) in clause (ca), after the words “Hindu undivided family”, the words “or a firm, other than a limited liability partnership firm,” shall be inserted;

(D) in clause (g), after the word, brackets, figure and letter “sub-section (4E)”, the words, brackets, figure and letter “or sub-section (4F)” shall be inserted;

(b) in sub-rule (5), for the figures “2014”, the figures “2015” shall be substituted.

(2) in Appendix-II, for “Forms Sahaj (ITR-1), ITR-2, ITR-2A, ITR-3, Sugam (ITR-4S), ITR-4, ITR-5, ITR-6, ITR-7and ITR-V”, the following forms shall respectively be substituted, namely:-

[F.No.370142/2/2016-TPL]

(Ekta Jain)