Assessment and Enforcement against Dissolved Associations : Clause 321 of the Income Tax Bill, 2025 Vs. Section 177 of the Income-tax Act, 1961

Assessment continuity: Dissolution of an AOP does not prevent assessment, penalty imposition, or recovery from members.

Clause 321 permits assessment of an association of persons as if no discontinuance or dissolution had taken place, applying all statutory provisions including penalties and other sums. It empowers original and appellate officers to impose penalties specified in the penalty chapter, imposes joint and several liability on members and their legal representatives, and allows continuation of proceedings already commenced against such persons from the stage they stood at dissolution. A saving clause preserves interaction with specified cross referenced provisions.