{"act":{"id":"finance-act-2026","short_title":"The Finance Act, 2026","long_title":"An Act to give effect to the financial proposals of the Central Government for the financial year 2026-2027.","act_number":"4","act_year":2026,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":"Ministry of Finance","department":"Department of Revenue","jurisdiction":"CENTRAL","unit":"section","section_count":167,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"published","scan_url":null,"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2026/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"10","heading":"Amendment of section 148","text":"Amendment of section 148. 10. In section 148 of the Income-tax Act, in sub-section (1), after the words \"specified in the notice,\", the words \"not being less than thirty days from the date of such notice but\" shall be inserted and shall be deemed to have been inserted with effect from the 30th day of March, 2026.","html":"<p><b>Amendment of section 148.</b></p><p><b>10.</b> In section 148 of the Income-tax Act, in sub-section (1), after the words \"specified in the notice,\", the words \"not being less than thirty days from the date of such notice but\" shall be inserted and shall be deemed to have been inserted with effect from the 30th day of March, 2026.</p>","words":57,"text_source":"published"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2026/section/10/","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."}