{"act":{"id":"finance-act-2025","short_title":"The Finance Act, 2025","long_title":"An Act to give effect to the financial proposals of the Central Government for the financial year 2025-2026.","act_number":"7","act_year":2025,"enact_date":"2025-08-16","enforcement_date":null,"ministry":"Ministry of Finance","department":"Department of Revenue","jurisdiction":"CENTRAL","unit":"section","section_count":153,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"published","scan_url":null,"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2025/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"38","heading":"Amendment of section 132","text":"Amendment of section 132. 38.  In section 132 of the Income-tax Act,— (a) | in sub-section (8), for the words \"thirty days from the date of the order of assessment or reassessment or re-computation\", the words \"one month from the end of the quarter in which the order of assessment or reassessment or re-computation is made\" shall be substituted; (b) | in Explanation 1, in the opening portion, for the word \"authorisation\", the word \"authorisations\" shall be substituted.","html":"<p><b>Amendment of section 132.</b></p><p><b>38. </b> In section 132 of the Income-tax Act,—</p><div class=\"tablewrap\"><table class=\"dtable\"><tr><td>(<i>a</i>)</td><td></td><td>in sub-section (8), for the words \"thirty days from the date of the order of assessment or reassessment or re-computation\", the words \"one month from the end of the quarter in which the order of assessment or reassessment or re-computation is made\" shall be substituted;</td></tr><tr><td>(<i>b</i>)</td><td></td><td>in <i>Explanation 1</i>, in the opening portion, for the word \"authorisation\", the word \"authorisations\" shall be substituted.</td></tr></table></div>","words":78,"text_source":"published"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2025/section/38/","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."}