{"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":"6","heading":"Amendment of section 140B","text":"Amendment of section 140B. 6. In section 140B of the Income-tax Act, after sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be inserted and shall be deemed to have been inserted with effect from the 1st day of March, 2026, namely:— \"(3A) | Where an updated return is filed in pursuance of a notice issued under section 148 within the period specified in the said notice, the additional income-tax payable under sub-section (3) shall be increased by a further sum of ten per cent. of the aggregate of tax and interest payable, as determined in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), as the case may be.\".","html":"<p><b>Amendment of section 140B.</b></p><p><b>6.</b> In section 140B of the Income-tax Act, after sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be inserted and shall be deemed to have been inserted with effect from the 1st day of March, 2026, namely:—</p><div class=\"tablewrap\"><table class=\"dtable\"><tr><td>\"(3A)</td><td></td><td>Where an updated return is filed in pursuance of a notice issued under section 148 within the period specified in the said notice, the additional income-tax payable under sub-section (3) shall be increased by a further sum of ten per cent. of the aggregate of tax and interest payable, as determined in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), as the case may be.\".</td></tr></table></div>","words":103,"text_source":"published"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2026/section/6/","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."}