{"act":{"id":"finance-act-2003","short_title":"The Finance Act, 2003","long_title":"An Act to give effect to the financial proposals of the Central Government for the financial year 2003-2004.","act_number":null,"act_year":2003,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":"Ministry of Finance","department":"Department of Revenue","jurisdiction":"CENTRAL","unit":"section","section_count":108,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"published","scan_url":null,"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2003/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"86","heading":"Amendment of section 206","text":"Amendment of section 206. 86. In section 206 of the Income-tax Act, for sub-sections (2) and (3), the following sub-sections shall be substituted with effect from the 1st day of June, 2003, namely:— \"(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (1), the person responsible for deducting tax under the foregoing provi­sions of this Chapter other than the principal officer in the case of every company may, at his option, deliver or cause to be delivered such return to the prescribed income-tax authority in accordance with such scheme as may be specified by the Board in this behalf, by notification in the Official Gazette, and subject to such conditions as may be specified therein, on or before the prescribed time after the end of each financial year, on a flop­py, diskette, magnetic cartridge tape, CD-ROM or any other com­puter readable media (hereinafter referred to as the computer media) and in the manner as may be specified in that scheme: Provided that the principal officer shall, in the case of every company responsible for deducting tax under the foregoing provisions of this Chapter, deliver or cause to be delivered, within the prescribed time after the end of each financial year, such returns on computer media under the said scheme. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, a return filed on computer media shall be deemed to be a return for the purposes of this section and the rules made thereunder and shall be admissible in any proceedings thereunder, without further proof of production of the original, as evidence of any contents of the original or of any fact stated therein. (4) Where the Assessing Officer considers that the return deliv­ered or caused to be delivered under sub-section (2) is defec­tive, he may intimate the defect to the person responsible for deducting tax or the principal officer in the case of a company, as the case may be, and give him an opportunity of rectifying the defect within a period of fifteen days from the date of such intimation or within such further period which, on an application made in this behalf, the Assessing Officer may, in his discre­tion, allow; and if the defect is not rectified within the said period of fifteen days or, as the case may be, the further period so allowed, then, notwithstanding anything contained in any other provision of this Act, such return shall be treated as an invalid return and the provisions of this Act shall apply as if such person had failed to deliver the return.\". © Copyright. Taxmann Publications Pvt. Ltd.","html":"

Amendment of section 206.

86. In section 206 of the Income-tax Act, for sub-sections (2) and (3), the following sub-sections shall be substituted with effect from the 1st day of June, 2003, namely:—

\"(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (1), the person responsible for deducting tax under the foregoing provi­sions of this Chapter other than the principal officer in the case of every company may, at his option, deliver or cause to be delivered such return to the prescribed income-tax authority in accordance with such scheme as may be specified by the Board in this behalf, by notification in the Official Gazette, and subject to such conditions as may be specified therein, on or before the prescribed time after the end of each financial year, on a flop­py, diskette, magnetic cartridge tape, CD-ROM or any other com­puter readable media (hereinafter referred to as the computer media) and in the manner as may be specified in that scheme:

Provided that the principal officer shall, in the case of every company responsible for deducting tax under the foregoing provisions of this Chapter, deliver or cause to be delivered, within the prescribed time after the end of each financial year, such returns on computer media under the said scheme.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, a return filed on computer media shall be deemed to be a return for the purposes of this section and the rules made thereunder and shall be admissible in any proceedings thereunder, without further proof of production of the original, as evidence of any contents of the original or of any fact stated therein.

(4) Where the Assessing Officer considers that the return deliv­ered or caused to be delivered under sub-section (2) is defec­tive, he may intimate the defect to the person responsible for deducting tax or the principal officer in the case of a company, as the case may be, and give him an opportunity of rectifying the defect within a period of fifteen days from the date of such intimation or within such further period which, on an application made in this behalf, the Assessing Officer may, in his discre­tion, allow; and if the defect is not rectified within the said period of fifteen days or, as the case may be, the further period so allowed, then, notwithstanding anything contained in any other provision of this Act, such return shall be treated as an invalid return and the provisions of this Act shall apply as if such person had failed to deliver the return.\".

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