VittSphere ONE Calculators Blog CA Prabhakar Kumar · FCA · ICAI 560762
Case lawNotifications2020 › Notification No. 56/2020 [F. No. 370142/23/2020-TPL] / SO 2512(E)
Notification 29 July 2020

Notification No. 56/2020 [F. No. 370142/23/2020-TPL] / SO 2512(E)

Ministry of Finance

What this is

Notification No. 56/2020 [F. No. 370142/23/2020-TPL] / SO 2512(E) was published on 29 July 2020. Its subject is Ministry of Finance.

What it does

Under sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Taxation and Other Laws (Relaxation of Certain Provisions) Ordinance, 2020, the Central Government amends its notification No. 35/2020, S.O. 2033(E), dated 24 June 2020. In the first proviso, in clause (i), in sub-clause (a), '31st day of July, 2020' is substituted by '30th day of September, 2020'. After the second proviso a new proviso is inserted providing that, for the purposes of the second proviso, in the case of an individual resident in India referred to in sub-section (2) of section 207 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, the tax paid by him under section 140A of that Act within the due date provided in that Act before extension shall be deemed to be advance tax. The notification comes into force from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

Who it reaches

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 ActNow
s.3s.3
s.140As.266
s.207s.403

The instrument, as the Board published it

The department publishes this one only as a PDF, so the words below were read out of that PDF by machine. That reading can carry its own mistakes — a misread number, a broken line. Check the signed document before you rely on a figure in it.

MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue)
(CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 29th July, 2020
TAXATION AND OTHER LAWS
S.O. 2512(E).– In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Taxation and Other Laws (Relaxation of Certain Provisions) Ordinance, 2020 (2 of 2020), the Central Government hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, Central Board of Direct Taxes, number 35/2020, dated the 24th June, 2020, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii), vide number S.O. 2033(E), dated the 24th June, 2020, namely:-
(i) in the first proviso, in clause (i), in sub-clause (a), for the words, figures and letters "the 31st day of July, 2020" the words, figures and letters "the 30th day of September, 2020" shall be substituted;
(ii) after the second proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely: -
"Provided also that for the purposes of the second proviso, in case of an individual resident in India referred to in sub-section (2) of section 207 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the tax paid by him under section 140A of that Act within the due date (before extension) provided in that Act, shall be deemed to be the advance tax:".
2. This notification shall come into force from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
[Notification No. 56/2020/ F. No. 370142/23/2020-TPL]
NIRAJ KUMAR, Dy. Secy. (Tax Policy and Legislation Division)
Note:- The principal notification number S.O. 2033(E), dated the 24th June, 2020 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii), dated 24th June, 2020.
Uploaded by Dte. of Printing at Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi-110064
and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054.

From when

the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

What to watch

Where you meet it

In computing interest and the timing of self-assessment tax for the pandemic period, particularly for a resident senior citizen with no business income relying on the relaxation.

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. 57/2020 [ F. No.225/98/2019-ITA-II/GSR 469(E)  ·  Notification No. 55/2020 [ F. No.142/22/2015-TPL]/GSR 469(E) →

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.