{"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":"77","heading":"Amendment of section 263","text":"Amendment of section 263. 77. In section 263 of the Income-tax Act, in the Explanation, occurring after sub-section (3), for the words \"any period during which any proceeding under this section is stayed by an order or injunction of any court\", the words \"the period commencing on the date on which stay on any proceeding under this section was granted by an order or injunction of any court and ending on the date on which certified copy of the order vacating the stay was received by the jurisdictional Principal Commissioner or Commissioner\" shall be substituted.","html":"<p><b>Amendment of section 263.</b></p><p><b>77. </b>In section 263 of the Income-tax Act, in the <i>Explanation</i>, occurring after sub-section (3), for the words \"any period during which any proceeding under this section is stayed by an order or injunction of any court\", the words \"the period commencing on the date on which stay on any proceeding under this section was granted by an order or injunction of any court and ending on the date on which certified copy of the order vacating the stay was received by the jurisdictional Principal Commissioner or Commissioner\" shall be substituted.</p>","words":95,"text_source":"published"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2025/section/77/","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."}