Extension of power to survey under Income Tax Act

By | March 1, 2018
(Last Updated On: March 1, 2018)

CBDT CIRCULAR NO.2/2018 [F.NO.370142/15/2017-TPL]DATED 15-2-2018

55. Extension of the power to survey.

55.1 Before amendment by the Act, the provisions of section 133A of the Income-tax Act empowered inter alia an income-tax authority to enter any place, at which a business or profession is carried on, or at which any books of account or other documents or any part of cash or stock or other valuable article or thing relating to the business or profession are kept, for the purposes of conducting a survey.

55.2 The scope of the said section has been widened by amending section 133A of the Income-tax Act to include any place, at which an activity for charitable purpose is carried on.

55.3 Applicability: This amendment takes effect from 1st April, 2017.

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