Notification No. 164E

Time limit of 3 years for sale of attached immovable property under rule 68B of Schedule II to the Income-tax Act specified under section 119

What this is

Notification No. 164E was published on 1 March 1996. Its subject is Time limit of 3 years for sale of attached immovable property under rule 68B of Schedule II to the Income-tax Act specified under section 119.

This notifies a named person, body, fund or instrument for the purpose of a provision. Nothing in it changes the provision itself.

The provisions it speaks to

Left, the provision of the Income-tax Act, 1961 as the instrument itself names it. Right, the section of the Income-tax Act, 2025 that the department’s own concordance maps it to — which is where the same ground is now covered.

Under the 1961 Act	Now
s.119	s.239

The instrument, as the Board published it

The words below are the department’s own, reproduced from its published text. Where the department’s copy carried a publisher’s notes after the instrument, those are not reproduced.

In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 119 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), read with rule 111B of the Income-tax Rules, 1962, the Central Government hereby specifies that the time limit of 3 years for sale of attached immovable property under rule 68B of Schedule II to the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), is to be extended to 4 years from the end of the financial year in which the order giving rise to a demand of any tax, interest, fine, penalty or any other sum for the recovery of which immovable property has been attached, has become conclusive under the provisions of section 245-I or, as the case may be, final in terms of provisions of Chapter XX. The rule 68B stands amended to that extent.

(Sd.) S. N. Shende, Member (R & A) and Additional Secretary to the Government of India.

[No. 9995/F. No. 275/138/95-IT(B)

What it names

Rules it names. Rule 111B, 68B of the Income-tax Rules, 1962. The 1962 Rules were replaced by the Income-tax Rules, 2026, which renumbered nearly everything: a rule number quoted here almost never means the same rule today.

On the same provision

Other instruments in this library that name the same provision of the 1961 Act. They are not necessarily still operative, and a later one may have replaced an earlier one without saying so.

Circular No. 6/2026 — Condonation of delay in filing Form No. 10AB electronically for approval under clause(ii) of the first proviso to sectio 2 July 2026
Circular No. 2/2026 — Order under section 119 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 for extension of timeline for issuance of tax deducted at source (TD 25 March 2026
Circular No.15/2025 — Extension of timelines for filing of various reports of audit and income tax returns ITRS for the assessment year 2025 2 29 October 2025
Circular No. 10/2025 — Relaxation of time limit for processing of returns of income filed electronically which were incorrectly invalidated by 28 July 2025
Circular No. 7/2025 — Relaxation of time limit for processing of valid returns of income filed electronically pursuant to order u/s 119(2)(b) 25 June 2025
Circular No. 6/2025 — Extension of due date for furnishing return of income for the Assessment Year 2025-26 27 May 2025

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What a notification is. A notification is made under a power the Act itself gives, and within that power it is law — unlike a circular, which only binds the department. Its reach is the reach of the enabling provision and no wider, and the date it carries decides from when it works.

Source: the Income Tax Department’s own published text — its page for this instrument.