GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES
NEW DELHI
NOTIFICATION NO
19 of 2024; Dated: January 31, 2024
G.S.R. 83(E). - In exercise of the powers conferred by sect ion 139 read with section 295 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Cent ral Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following rules further to amend Income-tax Rules, 1962, namely:-
1. Short title and commencement. - (1) These rules may be called the Income-tax (Amendment ) Rules, 2024.
(2) They shall come into force from the 1st day of April, 2024.
2. In the Income-tax Rules, 1962 (herein after referred to as the principal rules), in rule 12, in sub-rule (3), in the Table, for Sl. No. 1 and entries thereto, the following Sl. No. and entries shall be substituted, namely: -
| “Sl. No. |
Person |
Condition |
Manner of furnishing return of income |
| (i) |
(ii) |
(iii) |
(iv) |
| [1 |
Individual or Hindu Undivided Family |
(a) Accounts are required to be audited under section 44AB of the Act ;
(b) Where total income assessable under the Act during the previous year of a person, being an individual of the age of eighty years or more at any time during the previous year, and who furnishes the return in Form number SAHAJ (ITR-1) or Form number SUGAM (ITR-4).
(c) In any other case
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(A) Electronically under digital signature; or
(B) Transmitting the data electronically in the return under electronic verification code;
(A) Electronically under digital signature; or
(B) Transmitting the data electronically in the return under electronic verification code; or
(C) Transmitting the data in the return electronically and thereafter submit ting the verification of the return in Form ITR-V; or
(D) Paper form;
(A) Electronically under digital signature; or
(B) Transmitting the data electronically in the return under electronic verification code; or
(C) Transmitting the data in the return electronically and thereafter submit ting the verification of the return in Form ITR-V."
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3. In the principal rules, in Appendix II,
(a) for FORM ITR-2, the following FORM shall be substituted, namely: -
F. No. 370142/47/2023-TPL
SURBENDU THAKUR,
Under Secy. Tax Policy and Legislation
Note:-The principal rules were published vide notification S.O. 969 (E), dated the 26th March, 1962 and last amended vide notificat ion GSR 64(E), dated the 24th January 2024. |
