Taxes/ Electricity bill etc payment with Rs 500/1000 Notes – Notification by Govt

By | November 11, 2016
(Last Updated On: November 11, 2016)

As the Government of India has declared that currency notes of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 denominations will not be valid from midnight of November 8, 2016, citizens will have to surrender the old notes at any branch of a bank or post office to get the new notes.

However govt notified two more items for which old notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 would be valid till November 11, 2016 :-

(o) for making payments towards any fees, charges, taxes or penalties, payable to the Central or State Governments including Municipal and local bodies;

(p) for making payments towards utility charges including water and electricity.

Read Notification :-

THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. 3(ii)]

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

(Department of Economic Affairs)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 10th November, 2016

S.O. 3429(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 26 of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934), the Central Government hereby further amends the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs number S.O. 3408(E) dated the 8th November, 2016 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii) dated the 8th November, 2016:-

1. In the said notification, in paragraph 1, after clause (n), the following clauses shall be inserted, namely :-

“(o) for making payments towards any fees, charges, taxes or penalties, payable to the Central or State Governments including Municipal and local bodies;

(p) for making payments towards utility charges including water and electricity.”

[F. No. 10/03/2016-Cy.I]

Dr. SAURABH GARG, Jt. Secy

Note : The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii) vide notification under S.O. 3408(E) dated the 8th November, 2016 and subsequently amended vide notification under S.O. 3416(E) dated the 9th November, 2016.

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