Notification No. 285

S.O. No. 1743 (E). - In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 120 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 ( 43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby authorises every Chief Commissioner

What this is

Notification No. 285 was published on 10 October 2006. Its subject is S.O. No. 1743 (E). - In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 120 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 ( 43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby authorises every Chief Commissioner.

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.120	s.241, s.243
s.143	s.270
s.154	s.287

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 285/2006, dated 10-10-2006

S.O. No. 1743 (E). - In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 120 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 ( 43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby authorises every Chief Commissioner of Income-tax and Director-General of Income-tax to issue orders, in writing, for the exercise of powers and performance of functions concurrently by all the Assessing Officers subordinate to him with any other Assessing Officer or Assessing Officers ( whether subordinate to him or not) in respect of—

(i) issue of intimation and refund under sub-section (1) of section 143 of the Income-tax Act,1961 in cases assessed or assessable with the Assessing Officers subordinate to the Chief Commissioner of Income-tax or, as the case may be, the Director-General of Income-tax ;

(ii) rectification under section 154 of the Income-tax Act,1961 in respect of such intimation.

F.No. 133/38/2006-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. 155/2025 [F. No. CB/362/2025-O/o Addl. DIT 6 CPC Bengaluru-187/10/2024-ITA-I] /SO 4901(E) — [भाग II—खण् ड 3(ii)] भारत का रािपत्र : असाधारण 3 27 October 2025
Notification No. 50/2024 [F. No. 187/6/2024-TPL] / SO 2209(E) — Minstry of Finance 6 June 2024
Notification No. 47/2023 [F. No. 187/3/2020-ITA-I] / SO 2992(E) — Ministry of Finance 6 July 2023
Notification No. 14/2023 [F. No. 279/Misc./66/2014-ITJ(Pt.)] / SO 1329(E) — Ministry of Finance 21 March 2023
Notification No. 10/2023 [F.No. 187/3/2020-ITA-I] / SO 951(E) — 2 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(ii)] 1 March 2023
Notification No.121/2022 [F.No.187/3/2020-ITA-I] / SO 5255(E) — 2 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(ii)] 14 November 2022

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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.