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Case lawIncome-tax Act 2025 › Chapter X
Act 2025Sections 161–177

Chapter X of the Income-tax Act, 2025 — Special Provisions Relating to Avoidance of Tax

Seventeen sections on transfer pricing and the specific anti-avoidance rules that sit outside GAAR.

What this chapter does

Sections 161 to 173 are the transfer pricing code: arm's length price, associated enterprise, international transaction, specified domestic transaction, the Transfer Pricing Officer, safe harbour rules, advance pricing agreements and secondary adjustment, with the documentation and accountant's report obligations in sections 171 and 172. Sections 174 to 177 then carry the older targeted rules — transfer of income to non-residents, transactions in securities, notified jurisdictional areas, and the limitation on interest deduction that practitioners know as thin capitalisation.

What to watch

The sections in this chapter

17 sections, in the order the Act runs them. 17 have a page of their own.
What this page does not tell you. This page gives the shape of the chapter and the Act's own heading for every section in it. It does not reproduce the text of any section, and a heading is not the provision. Where a section is marked read in full, that page carries the working; everywhere else, read the section itself before relying on anything here.