CBDT has further extended certain timelines to ease compliances under the Income Tax Act, 1961, including for PAN-Aadhaar linking, completion of penalty proceedings, benami proceedings, etc.
CBDT Press Release dt. 17/09/2021 : Government extends certain timelines to ease compliances
The Central Government, in continuation of its commitment to address the hardship being faced by various stakeholders on account of the Covid-19 pandemic, has, on consideration of representations received from various stakeholders, decided to extend timelines for compliances under the Income-tax Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) in the following cases, as under:
i) Time limit for intimation of Aadhaar number to the Income tax Department for linking of PAN with Aadhaar has been extended from 30/09/2021 to 31/03/2022.
ii) The due date for completion of penalty proceedings under the Act has also been extended from 30/09/2021 to 31/03/2022.
Further, the time limit for issuance of notice and passing of order by the Adjudicating Authority under the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988 has also been extended to 31/03/2022.
Notification No. 113 of 2021 dated 17/09/2021 has been issued in this regard and can be accessed at www.incometaxindia.gov.in.
CBDT Income Tax Notification 113/2021 dt. 17/09/2021: CBDT further extends certain timelines to ease compliances
S.O. 3814(E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Taxation
and Other Laws (Relaxation and Amendment of Certain Provisions) Act, 2020 (38 of 2020) (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), and in partial modification of the notifications of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance, (Department of Revenue) No. 93/2020 dated 31/12/2020, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii), vide number S.O. 4805(E), dated 31/12/2020 and No. 10/2021 dated 27/02/2021, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii),vide number S.O. 966(E) dated 27/02/2021 and No. 20/2021 dated 31/03/2021, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii), vide number S.O 1432(E) dated 31/03/2021 and No. 74/2021 dated 25/06/2021, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii), vide number S.O. 2580(E) dated 25/06/2021, (hereinafter referred to as the said notifications), the Central Government hereby specifies for the purpose of sub-section (1) of section 3 of the said Act, that,-
(A) where the specified Act is the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) (hereinafter referred to as the
Income-tax Act) and,-
(a) the completion of any action, referred to in clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 3 of the said Act, relates to passing of any order for imposition of penalty under Chapter XXI of the Income-tax Act,-
(i) 30/03/2022 shall be the end date of the period during which the time limit specified in, or prescribed or notified under, the Income-tax Act falls for the completion of such action; and
(ii) 31/03/2022 shall be the end date to which the time-limit for completion of such action shall stand extended;
(b) the compliance of any action, referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 3 of the said Act, relates to intimation of Aadhaar number to the prescribed authority under sub-section (2) of section 139AA of the Income-tax Act, the time-limit for such the compliance of such action shall stand extended to 31/03/2022.
(B) where the specified Act is the Prohibition of Benami Property Transaction Act, 1988, (45 of 1988) (hereinafter referred to as the Benami Act) and the completion of any action, as referred to in clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 3 of the said Act, relates to issue of notice under sub-section (1) or passing of any order under sub-section (3) of section 26 of the Benami Act-
(i) 30/06/2021 shall be the end date of the period during which the time-limit specified in or prescribed or notified under the Benami Act falls, for the completion of such action; and
(ii) 31/03/2022 shall be the end date to which the time-limit for completion of such action shall stand extended.
Note: The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii) vide S.O. 4805(E) dated 31/12/2020 and was last amended vide S.O. 2580(E) dated 25/06/2021.