Notification No. 74

Section 120(1) and (2) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 - Jurisdiction of Income-tax Authorities

What this is

Notification No. 74 was published on 30 September 2009. Its subject is Section 120(1) and (2) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 - Jurisdiction of Income-tax Authorities.

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.

SECTION 120(1) AND (2) OF THE INCOME-TAX ACT, 1961 - JURISDICTION OF INCOME-TAX AUTHORITIES

NOTIFICATION NO. 74/2009, DATED 30-9-2009

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 120 of the Income-tax Act, 196I (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby directs that Chief Commissioner specified in column (2) of the Schedule below, having his headquarters at the place specified in the corresponding entries in column (3) of the said Schedule, shall exercise the powers and perform the functions in respect of such territorial area or of such persons or classes of persons or of such incomes or classes of income or of such cases or classes of cases, in respect of which the Commissioner of Income-tax specified in the corresponding entries in column (4) of the said Schedule has jurisdiction vested in him.

SCHEDULE

Sl.No.

Designation of Income tax Authority

Headquarters

Jurisdiction

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

1.

Chief Commissioner (Centralised Processing Centre) Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Commissioner of Income- tax, (Centralised Processing Centre) Bengaluru, Karrnatka

2- This notification shall come into force from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

[F.No. 142/18/2009-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

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.