Notification No. 56/2023 / SO 3440(E)

What this is

Notification No. 56/2023 [F. No.164/1/2023-ITA-1] / SO 3440(E) was published on 1 August 2023. Its subject is 2 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(ii)].

This notifies a named person, body, fund or instrument for the purpose of a provision. Nothing in it changes the provision itself.

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.2	s.2, s.346, s.355

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.

2 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. 3(ii)]
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue)
(CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 1st August, 2023
(INCOME TAX)
S.O. 3440(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (48) of section 2 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), read with clause (ii), clause (iii) and clause (v) of sub-rule (3) and sub-rule (6) of rule 8B of the Income-tax Rules, 1962, the Central Government hereby specifies the bond with the following particulars as zero coupon bond for the purposes of the said clause (48) of section 2 of the said Act, namely :-

(a) name of the bond - Ten Year Zero Coupon Bond of REC Ltd.
(b) period of life of bond - ten years one months
(c) the time schedule of the issue of bond - to be issued on or before the 31st day of March 2025;
(d) the amount to be paid on maturity or redemption of the bond - 1 lakh rupees for each bond
(e) the discount - Rs. 2517.85 crores
(f) the number of the bonds to be issued - five lakhs

[Notification No. 56/2023/F. No.164/1/2023-ITA-1]
VIKAS SINGH, 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.

What it names

Rules it names. Rule 8B of the Income-tax Rules, 1962. The 1962 Rules were replaced by the Income-tax Rules, 2026, which renumbered nearly everything: a rule number quoted here almost never means the same rule today.

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. 89/2026-CBDT [F. No. 164/1/2026-ITA-1] / SO 3936(E) — Ministry of Finance 17 July 2026
Notification No. 75/2026 [F. No. 275/18/2026-IT(B)] / SO 3610(E) : TDS Exemption on Ship Lease Payments to IFSC Units — 4 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(ii)] 3 July 2026
Notification No. 74/2026 [F. No. 275/16/2026-IT(B)] / SO 3609(E) : TDS Exemption on Aircraft Lease Payments to IFSC Units — 4 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(ii)] 3 July 2026
Notification No. 65/2025 [F. No. 300196/4/2019-ITA-I] / S.O. 2739(E) — Ministry of Finance 19 June 2025
Notification No. 56 /2025 [F.No.300164/4/2024-ITA-1] / SO 2576(E) — 2 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(ii)] 12 June 2025
Notification No. 52/2025 [F. No. 300164/5/2024-ITA-1] / SO 2447(E) — Ministry of Finance 30 May 2025

← Notification No. 58/2023/ F. No. 370142/26/2023-TPL] / GSR 595(E) · Notification No. 57/2023 [F. No. 275/19/2023-IT(B)] / SO 3451(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.