Notification No. 199

A notification under section 120 of the Income-tax Act, 1961

What this is

Notification No. 199 was published on 31 May 2007. Its subject is A notification under section 120 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.120	s.241, s.243

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. 199/2007, DATED 31-5-2007

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) and (2) of section 120 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby:-
(a) directs that the Director of Income-tax specified in column (2) of the Schedule below, having his headquarter at the place specified in the corresponding entry in column (3) of the said schedule, shall exercise the powers conferred upon him under Chapter XIII C of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) and perform the functions relating thereto throughout India ;
(b) authorises the Director of Income-tax specified in column (2) of the Schedule below to issue orders in writing for the exercise of the powers and performance of the functions by any of the Income-tax authorities who are subordinate to him, in respect of the territorial areas as may be specified in such orders.
SCHEDULE

S. No.

Designation of Income-tax authorities

Headquarters

Jurisdiction

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

1.

Director General of Income-tax (Intelligence), Delhi

New Delhi

All India

2. This notification shall come into force from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
[F. NO.187/05/2007-ITA-I]

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

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.