GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
[CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES]
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 11th day of June, 2013
Income-tax
S.O.1513(E).─ In exercise of the powers conferred by section 295 of the Income-
tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following
rules further to amend the Income-tax Rules, 1962, namely:-
1. (1) These rules may be called the Income-tax (Seventh Amendment) Rules, 2013.
(2) They shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from the 1st day of April,
2013.
2. In the Income-tax Rules, 1962 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), in rule 12,─
(a) in sub-rule (2),-
(A) after the words, letters and figure “Form No. ITR-6” the words,
letters and figure “or Form No. ITR-7” shall be inserted;
(B) for the proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted,
namely:--
“Provided that where an assessee is required to furnish a report of
audit specified under sub-clauses (iv), (v), (vi) or (via) of clause
(23C) of section 10, section 10A, clause (b) of sub-section (1) of
section 12A, section 44AB, section 80-IA, section 80-IB, section 80-
IC, section 80-ID, section 80JJAA, section 80LA, section 92E or
section
115JB
of
the
Act,
he
shall
furnish
the
same
electronically.”;
(b) in sub-rule (3),-
(A) in the proviso, for clause (aab), the following clause shall be
substituted, namely:-
“(aab) a person claiming any relief of tax under section 90 or 90A
or deduction of tax under section 91 of the Act, other than a
person to whom clause (aaa) or clause (ab) is applicable, shall
furnish the return for assessment year 2013-14 and subsequent
assessment years in the manner specified in clause (ii) or clause
(iii);”.
(B) after the proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-
“Provided further that a person who is required to furnish any
report of audit referred to in proviso to sub-rule (2) electronically,
other than a person to whom clause (aaa) or clause (ab) of the
first proviso is applicable, shall furnish the return, in Form as
applicable to him, in the manner specified in clause (ii) or clause
(iii).”.
3. In the said rules, in Appendix-II, for “Forms ITR-2, ITR-3, ITR-4, ITR-5, ITR-6 and
ITR-7”, the “Forms ITR-2, ITR-3, ITR-4, ITR-5, ITR-6 and ITR-7” shall be substituted.
[Notification No. 42/2013/ F.No.142/5/2013-TPL]
(Gaurav Kanaujia)
Director to the Government of India
Note.- The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-
II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii) vide notification number S.O.969(E), dated the 26th
March, 1962 and last amended by Income-tax (Sixth Amendment) Rules, 2013 vide
notification S.O. No. 1491(E) dated 10th June, 2013.
