Notification No. 731(E)

A notification under section 138 of the Income-tax Act, 1961

What this is

Notification No. 731(E) was published on 28 July 2000. Its subject is A notification under section 138 of the Income-tax Act, 1961.

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.138	s.258

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 (1) of section 138 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby specify the following income-tax authorities for the purpose of the said clause :

(a) Chief Commissioner of Income-tax ;

(b) Director-General of Income-tax ;

(c) Commissioner of Income-tax ;

(d) Director of Income-tax ;

(e) Additional Commissioner of Income-tax ;

(f) Additional Director of Income-tax ;

(g) joint Commissioner of Income-tax ; and

(h) joint Director of Income-tax.

[Notification No. 11454/F. No. 225/170/2000/ITA-II]

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.

Notification No. 54/2025 [F. No. 225/213/2024/ITA-II] / SO 2479(E) — Secretary to the Government of Maharashtra specified under section 138 3 June 2025
Notification No. 20/2025 [F.No. 225/33/2025/ITA-II] / SO 1241(E) — 2 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(ii)] 18 March 2025
Notification No. 12/2025 [F. No. 225/235/2024/ITA-II] / SO 524(E) — 2 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(ii)] 30 January 2025
Notification No. 106/2024 [F. No. 225/181/2024/ITA-II] / SO 4276(E) — Principal Secretary to Government & Chairman specified under section 138 1 October 2024
Notification No. 52/2024 [F. No. 225/106/2024/ITA-II] / SO 2661(E) — [To BE Published in the Gazette of INDIA, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, Sub-section (ii)] 9 July 2024
Notification No. 35/2024 [F. No. 225/196/2023/ITA-II] / SO 1538(E) — 2 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(ii)] 22 March 2024

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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.