Notification No. 179 (2003) — Cost Inflation Index for…

What this is

Notification No. 179 was published on 24 July 2003. Its subject is Cost Inflation Index for the Financial year commencing on the 1st day of April specified under section 48.

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.48	s.2, s.72

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.

Notification No : 179

Section(s) Referred : s. 48

Date of Issue : 24/7/2003

Notification No. 179 of 2003, dt. 24th July 2003.

In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (v) of the Explanation to section 48 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government, having regard to seventy-five per cent of average rise in the Consumer Price Index for the financial year commencing on the 1st day of April, 2002 and on the 31st day of March, 2003 for the urban non-manual employees, hereby specifies the Cost Inflation Index for the Financial year commencing on the 1st day of April, 2003 and ending on the 31st day of March, 2004 and for that purpose makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), Central Board of Direct Taxes Number S.O. 709(E), dated the 20th August, 1998, namely:--

In the notification, in the Table, after serial number 22 and the entries relating thereto, the following serial number and entries shall be inserted, namely:--

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"23 2003-2004 463."

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[F.No. 142/11/2003-TPL]

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. 70/2025 [F. No. 370142/24/2025-TPL)] / S.O. 2954(E) — Ministry of Finance 1 July 2025
Notification No. 44/2024 [F.No.370142/10/2024-TPL] / SO 2103(E) — Ministry of Finance 24 May 2024
Notification No. 39/2023 [F. No.370142/5/2023-TPL] / SO 2571(E) — Ministry of Finance 12 June 2023
Notification No. 21/2023 [F.No.370142/5/2023-TPL] / SO 1692(E) — Ministry of Finance 10 April 2023
Notification No. 62/2022 [F. No. 370142/20/2022-TPL] / SO 2735(E) — Ministry of Finance 14 June 2022
Notification No. 73/2021 [F.No.370142/10/2021-TPL] / SO 2336(E) — Ministry of Finance 15 June 2021

← Notification No. 180 · Notification No. 178 →

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.