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Amendment of section 153B.
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....) of this sub-section shall have effect, as if for the words "twenty-one months", the words "eighteen months" had been substituted; (ii) the period of limitation for making the assessment or reassessment in case of other person referred to in section 153C, shall be the period of eighteen months from the end of the financial year in which the last of the authorisations for search under section 132 or for requisition under section 132A was executed or twelve months from the end of the financial year in which books of account or documents or assets seized or requisitioned are handed over under section 153C to the Assessing Officer having jurisdiction over such other person, whichever is later: Provided also that in the case w....
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....se of other person referred to in section 153C, a reference under sub-section (1) of section 92CA is made, the period available for making an order of assessment or reassessment in case of such other person shall be extended by twelve months.'; (b) in sub-section (3), the following proviso shall be inserted and shall be deemed to have been inserted with effect from the 1st day of June, 2016, namely:- "Provided that where a notice under section 153A or section 153C has been issued prior to the 1st day of June, 2016 and the assessment has not been completed by such date due to exclusion of time referred to in the Explanation, such assessment shall be completed in accordance with the provisions of this section as it stood immediate....
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....proposed amendment is consequential to the amendment to section 153A of the Income-tax Act. It is further proposed to amend sub-section (1) to provide that for search and seizure cases conducted in the financial year 2018-2019, the time-limit for making an assessment order under section 153A shall be reduced from existing twenty-one months to eighteen months from the end of the financial year in which the last of the authorisations for search under section 132 or for requisition under section 132A was executed. It is further proposed that for search and seizure cases conducted in the financial year 2019-2020 and onwards, the said time-limit shall be further reduced to twelve months from the end of the financial year in which the last of ....
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....this section as it stood immediately before its substitution by the Finance Act, 2016. This amendment will take effect retrospectively from 1st June, 2016. Clause 60 of the Bill seeks to amend section 153B of the Income-tax Act, 1961 relating to time-limit for completion of assessment under section 153A. Clause (a) of sub-section (1) of the said section provides that in respect of each assessment year falling within six assessment years referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 153A, the order of assessment or reassessment shall be made within a period of twenty-one months from the end of the financial year in which the last of the authorisations for search under section 132 or for requisition under section 132A was e....