CBDT has issued Notification No. 49/2010 dated 9-07-2010 vide which all assessees who are covered under section 44AB are liable to furnish electronically Income Tax Return. It is mandatory to all even they are doing their business as Individual or H.U.F. This Notification will be implemented w.e.f. Assessment year 2010-11. It means it is implemented from to-day. Read below Notification carefully and act accordinlgy.
Notification No. 49/2010[F.No.142/15/2010-TPL], dated 9-7-2010
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 295 read with section 139 of Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Income-tax Rules, 1962, namely : -
- (1) These rules may be called the Income-tax (7th Amendment) Rules, 2010.
(2) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
- In the Income-tax Rules 1962, in rule 12, in sub-rule (3), in the proviso, for clause (a), the following clauses shall be substituted, namely :-
“(a) a firm required to furnish the return in Form ITR-5 and to whom provisions of section 44AB are applicable shall furnish the return in the manner specified in clause (ii) or clause (iii);
(aa) an individual or HUF required to furnish the return in Form ITR-4 and to whom provisions of section 44AB are applicable shall furnish the return for Assessment Year 2010-11 and subsequent Assessment Years in the manner specified in clause (ii) or clause (iii);
(ab) a company required to furnish the return in Form ITR-6 shall furnish the return for Assessment Year 2010-11 and subsequent Assessment Years in the manner specified in clause (ii)’