Notification No. 3 of 2021

Format, Procedure and Guidelines for submission of Statement of Financial Transactions (SFT) for Depository Transactions

What this is

Notification No. 3 of 2021 was published on 30 April 2021. Its subject is Format, Procedure and Guidelines for submission of Statement of Financial Transactions (SFT) for Depository Transactions.

The instrument itself

The department publishes this one as a scanned document rather than as text, so there is nothing here for us to reproduce. The signed document is on the department’s own site — this file.

← Notification No. 40/2021 [F.No. 370142/8/2021-TPL] / G.S.R. 301(E) · Notification No. 4 of 2021 →

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.