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Section 1

Short title, extent and commencement.

Section

Section Number

1

Chapter

CHAPTER I - PRELIMINARY

Act

Income-tax Act, 2025

Year

2026

Short title, extent and commencement.

INCOME-TAX ACT, 2025

[30 OF 2025]*

[AS AMENDED BY FINANCE ACT, 2026]

An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to income-tax

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

CHAPTER I

PRELIMINARY

Short title, extent and commencement.

1. (1) This Act may be called the Income-tax Act, 2025.

(2) It extends to the whole of India.

(3) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, it shall come into force on the 1st April, 2026.


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