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Circulars and notifications on section 6

15 circulars and 14 notifications on what is now Residence in India. Every one of them was issued under the Income-tax Act, 1961. They appear here because the department’s own concordance carries the provision each one names to section 6 of the Income-tax Act, 2025 — which is an inference about where the ground is now covered, not a holding that the instrument still bites.

Circulars

All 15 of them, newest first.
NumberDateWhat it deals with
Circular No. 2/20213 March 2021Residential status of certain individuals under income tax act 1961
Circular No. Cirular No. 11/20208 May 2020Clarification in respect of residency under section 6 of the income tax act 1961
Circular No. 27/201926 September 2019Conduct of assessment proceedings through "e-Proceeding" facility during financial year 2019-20
Circular No. 6/201724 January 2017Circular No. 06 of 2017
Circular 12/20152 July 2015Circular No. 12 of 2015
Circular 15/201417 October 2014(Central Board of Direct Taxes)
Circular No. 07/201221 September 20127/2012 dated 21 9 2012
Circular No. 58628 November 1990952. Clarification regarding liability to income-tax in India and deduction of tax at source of members of the crew of foreign going Indian ship
Circular No. 41726 April 1985Section 6 l Valuation of Gifts
Circular No. 41125 February 19851374. Whether deposits held by a person of Indian origin or citizen in NRE Account during his residence in the foreign coun­try will also be exempt under clause (xxxiii)
Circular No. 39224 August 1984Section 6 l Exclusion of Assets/debts Outside INDIA
Circular No. 35126 November 1982Section 197A l No Deduction of TAX at Source to BE Made in Cer­tain Cases
Circular No. 3306 March 1982Section 6 l Property Within Disposing Capacity
Circular No. 21025 February 1977457. Deferred dividends declared in terms of Companies (Temporary Restrictions on Dividends) Amendment Act, 1975 - Whether taxable in the year of declaration or in the ye
Circular No. 4320 June 19701159. Whether non-deduction of tax is only in respect of interest credited to Non-resident (External) Account and not to all types of non-resident accounts

Notifications

All 14 of them, newest first.
NumberDateWhat it deals with
Notification No. 87/2026 [F.No. 300196/75/2024-ITA-I] / SO 3920(E)16 July 2026Ministry of Finance
Notification No. 86/2026 [F. No. 300196/75/2024-ITA-I] / SO 3919(E)16 July 2026[भाग II—खण् ड 3(ii)] भारत का रािपत्र : असाधारण 3
Notification No. 99/2022 [F. No. 370142/9/2022-TPL Part (2)] / SO 3878(E)17 August 20222 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(ii)]
Notification No. 20/2022 [F. No.370142/9/2022-TPL] / S.O. 1494(E)30 March 2022The Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(ii)]
Notification No. 125 /2021 [F. No. 300196/35/2018-ITA-I] / S.O. 4523(E)29 October 2021Ministry of Finance
Notification No. 104/2019 [F.No.370142/28/2019-TPL)] /GSR 937(E)18 December 20194 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(i)]
Notification No. 77/2018 [F. No. 370149/194/2017-TPL] / SO 5608(E)1 November 2018Ministry of Finance
Notification No. SO 5602 [F.No. 370149/194/2017-TPL]31 October 2018Ministry of Finance
Notification No. 29/2018 [F.No. 370142/19/2017-TPL] SO 3039(E)22 June 2018Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue
Notification No. 80/2017 [F. No. 133/23/2015-TPL] / GSR 1028(E)18 August 2017[Central Board of Direct Taxes]
Notification No. 72/2017 [F. No. 187/13/2015-(ITA.I)]/ SO 2321(E)25 July 2017Ministry of Finance
Notification No. 97/2016 [ F. No. 149/144/2015-TPL (Part-II)] / S.O. 3288(E)25 October 2016[To BE Published in the Gazette of INDIA, Extraordinary, Part–ii, section 3, Sub-section (ii)]
Notification No. 73/2015 [F. No. 187/13/2015 (ITA.I)] / SO 2299(E)24 August 2015Additional Commissioners of Income-tax or the Joint Commissioners of Income-tax directed under section 6
Notification No. 18211 July 2005Rules/amendment Rules
What this page does not tell you. It does not tell you which of these is still operative. A circular can be withdrawn by a later one without either saying so on its face, and a notification can be superseded by the amendment of the provision it was made under. Read the latest one first, then work backwards.

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