{"act":{"id":"finance-act-2021","short_title":"The Finance Act, 2021","long_title":"An Act to give effect to the financial proposals of the Central Government for the financial year 2021-2022.","act_number":null,"act_year":2021,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":"Ministry of Finance","department":"Department of Revenue","jurisdiction":"CENTRAL","unit":"section","section_count":180,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"published","scan_url":null,"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2021/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"20","heading":"Amendment of section 50","text":"Amendment of section 50. 20. In section 50 of the Income-tax Act, in clause (2), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:— \"Provided that in a case where goodwill of a business or profession forms part of a block of asset for the assessment year beginning on the 1st day of April, 2020 and depreciation thereon has been obtained by the assessee under the Act, the written down value of that block of asset and short term capital gain, if any, shall be determined in such manner as may be prescribed.\".","html":"<p><b>Amendment of section 50.</b></p><p><b>20.</b> In section 50 of the Income-tax Act, in clause (<i>2</i>), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:—</p><p>\"<b>Provided</b> that in a case where goodwill of a business or profession forms part of a block of asset for the assessment year beginning on the 1st day of April, 2020 and depreciation thereon has been obtained by the assessee under the Act, the written down value of that block of asset and short term capital gain, if any, shall be determined in such manner as may be prescribed.\".</p>","words":91,"text_source":"published"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2021/section/20/","note":null,"source_note":"Harvested from the Income Tax Department's own portal at incometaxindia.gov.in, which publishes the Finance Acts section by section. India Code carries none of them: its Central community holds the Acts that stand as general law, and a Finance Act is an amending and rate-fixing instrument.","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}