{"act":{"id":"finance-act-2023","short_title":"The Finance Act, 2023","long_title":"An Act to give effect to the financial proposals of the Central Government for the financial year 2023-2024.","act_number":"8","act_year":2023,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":"Ministry of Finance","department":"Department of Revenue","jurisdiction":"CENTRAL","unit":"section","section_count":181,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"published","scan_url":null,"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2023/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"56","heading":"Insertion of new section 115BBJ","text":"Insertion of new section 115BBJ. 56.  After section 115BBI of the Income-tax Act, the following section shall be inserted with effect from the 1st day of April, 2024, namely:— '115BBJ. Tax on winnings from online games.— Notwithstanding anything contained in any other provisions of this Act, where the total income of an assessee includes any income by way of winnings from any online game, the income-tax payable shall be the aggregate of— (i) | the amount of income-tax calculated on net winnings from such online games during the previous year, computed in the manner as may be prescribed, at the rate of thirty per cent; and (ii) | the amount of income-tax with which the assessee would have been chargeable had his total income been reduced by the net winnings referred to in clause (i). Explanation.—For the purposes of this section,— (i) | \"computer resource\" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (e) of the Explanation to section 144B; (ii) | \"internet\" means the combination of computer facilities and electromagnetic transmission media, and related equipment and software, comprising the interconnected worldwide network of computer networks that transmits information based on a protocol for controlling such transmission; (iii) | \"online game\" means a game that is offered on the internet and is accessible by a user through a computer resource including any telecommunication device.'.","html":"<p><b>Insertion of new section 115BBJ.</b></p><p><b>56. </b> After section 115BBI of the Income-tax Act, the following section shall be inserted with effect from the 1st day of April, 2024, namely:—</p><p>'115BBJ. <i>Tax on winnings from online games.—</i> Notwithstanding anything contained in any other provisions of this Act, where the total income of an assessee includes any income by way of winnings from any online game, the income-tax payable shall be the aggregate of—</p><div class=\"tablewrap\"><table class=\"dtable\"><tr><td>(<i>i</i>)</td><td></td><td>the amount of income-tax calculated on net winnings from such online games during the previous year, computed in the manner as may be prescribed, at the rate of thirty per cent; and</td></tr><tr><td>(<i>ii</i>)</td><td></td><td>the amount of income-tax with which the assessee would have been chargeable had his total income been reduced by the net winnings referred to in clause (<i>i</i>).</td></tr></table></div><p><i>Explanation</i>.—For the purposes of this section,—</p><div class=\"tablewrap\"><table class=\"dtable\"><tr><td>(<i>i</i>)</td><td></td><td>\"computer resource\" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (<i>e</i>) of the <i>Explanation</i> to section 144B;</td></tr><tr><td>(<i>ii</i>)</td><td></td><td>\"internet\" means the combination of computer facilities and electromagnetic transmission media, and related equipment and software, comprising the interconnected worldwide network of computer networks that transmits information based on a protocol for controlling such transmission;</td></tr><tr><td>(<i>iii</i>)</td><td></td><td>\"online game\" means a game that is offered on the internet and is accessible by a user through a computer resource including any telecommunication device.'.</td></tr></table></div>","words":227,"text_source":"published"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2023/section/56/","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."}