Section 278 of Income Tax Act, 2025 : Taxability of certain income.

(1) The interest received by an assessee on any compensation or on enhanced compensation, shall be deemed to be the income of the tax year in which it is received, irrespective of anything to the contrary contained in section 276.(2) Any claim for escalation of price in a contract or export incentives shall be deemed […]

Section 279 of Income Tax Act, 2025 : BIncome escaping assessment.

(1) If, in the case of an assessee, any income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment for any tax year (hereinafter referred to as “the relevant tax year” in this section and sections 280 to 286, the Assessing Officer may, subject to the provisions of sections 280 to 286, for the relevant tax year,––(a) assess

Section 280 of Income Tax Act, 2025 : Issue of notice.

(1) (a) Before making the assessment, reassessment or recomputation under section 279, the Assessing Officer shall, subject to the provisions of section 281, issue a notice to the assessee, along with a copy of the order passed under section 281(3).(b) the notice referred to in clause (a) shall require the assessee to furnish, within such

Section 285 of Income Tax Act, 2025 : Other provisions.

(1) In an assessment, reassessment or recomputation made under section 279, the tax shall be chargeable at the rate or rates at which it would have been charged had the income not escaped assessment.(2) The Assessing Officer may drop the proceedings initiated under section 279 on a claim made by the assessee to the effect

Section 287 of Income Tax Act, 2025 : Rectification of mistake.

(1) An income-tax authority referred to in section 236, for rectifying any mistake apparent from the record, may amend any—(a) order passed by it under the provisions of this Act;(b) intimation or deemed intimation under section 271(1);(c) intimation under section 399.(2) Irrespective of anything contained in any law in force, the authority concerned may, amend