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Notification 25 September 2020

Notification No. 81/2020 [F.No.279/Misc./66/2014-SO-ITJ(Pt.)]/ SO 3309(E)

Income-tax authorities of the Regional Faceless Appeal Centres (hereinafter referred to as the RFAC) specified in column (2) of th directed under section 3

What this is

Notification No. 81/2020 [F.No.279/Misc./66/2014-SO-ITJ(Pt.)]/ SO 3309(E) was published on 25 September 2020. Its subject is Income-tax authorities of the Regional Faceless Appeal Centres (hereinafter referred to as the RFAC) specified in column (2) of th directed under section 3.

What it does

The Central Board of Direct Taxes, under sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 120 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, directs that the income-tax authorities of the Regional Faceless Appeal Centres specified in the Schedule, at the headquarters given there, shall exercise powers and perform functions to facilitate the conduct of faceless appeal proceedings. Their jurisdiction extends to the territorial areas, persons, incomes or cases specified by the Board in paragraph 3 of the Faceless Appeal Scheme, 2020, with respect to appeals filed under section 246A or section 248 pending or instituted on or after 25 September 2020.

Why it was issued

It is issued to give effect to the Faceless Appeal Scheme, 2020 notified under sub-section (6B) of section 250 by S.O. 3296(E) dated 25 September 2020, read with the notification under sub-section (6C) of section 250, S.O. 3297(E) of the same date.

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.120s.241, s.243
s.246As.357
s.250s.359, s.532

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. The reading also stopped short of the end of the document: what is below is the opening, not the whole of it.

NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 25th September, 2020
INCOME TAX
S.O. 3309(E).—In exercise of powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 120 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) (hereinafter referred to as the Act) and to give effect to the Faceless Appeal Scheme, 2020 (hereinafter referred to as the Scheme) made under sub-section (6B) of section 250 of the Act and published vide notification No. 76 of 2020 of Government of India in the Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, number S.O. 3296(E), dated the 25th September, 2020 in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii) read with notification issued under sub-section (6C) of section 250 of the Act and published vide number 77 of 2020 of Government of India in the Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, number S.O. 3297(E), dated the 25th September, 2020 in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii), the Central Board of Direct Taxes (hereinafter referred to as the Board) hereby directs that the Income-tax authorities of the Regional Faceless Appeal Centres (hereinafter referred to as the RFAC) specified in column (2) of the Schedule below, having their headquarters at the places mentioned in column (3) of the said Schedule, shall exercise the powers and perform functions, in order to facilitate the conduct of Faceless Appeal Proceedings, in respect of such territorial areas or persons or class of persons or incomes or class of incomes or cases or class of cases as specified by the Board in para 3 of the Scheme, with respect to appeals filed under section 246A or 248 of the Act, pending or instituted on or after 25.09.2020, namely :-

SCHEDULE

2. This notification shall come into force with effect from the 25th day of September, 2020.

[Notification No. 81/2020/F.No.279/Misc./66/2014-SO-ITJ(Pt.)]
ANJULA JAIN, Director
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

25 September 2020.

What to watch

Where you meet it

In a first appeal under section 246A or section 248 conducted through a Regional Faceless Appeal Centre rather than before a local Commissioner (Appeals).

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. 80/2020 [F.No.279/Misc./66/2014-SO-ITJ(Pt.)]/ SO 3308(E)  ·  Notification No. 75/2020 [F. No. 370142/8/2020-TPL] / GSR 574(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.