{"id":7272,"date":"2016-06-27T11:59:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T06:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itatonline.org\/info\/?p=7272"},"modified":"2016-06-27T12:13:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T06:43:13","slug":"cbdt-amends-rule-on-applicability-of-general-anti-avoidance-rule-gaar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/cbdt-amends-rule-on-applicability-of-general-anti-avoidance-rule-gaar\/","title":{"rendered":"CBDT Amends Rule On Applicability Of General Anti-Avoidance Rule (GAAR)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CBDT has issued Notification dated 22nd June 2016 to clarify the law on the retrospective applicability of the anti-avoidance GAAR rule. The Notification has amended Rule 10U(1)(d) to provide that GAAR will not apply to income earned\/received by any person from transfer of investments made before 1st April 2017. Earlier, this date was 30th August 2010. Rule 10U(2) also has been amended to provide that GAAR will apply to any arrangement, irrespective of the date it has been entered into, if tax benefit is obtained on or after 1st April 2017. Earlier, this date was 1st April 2015.<\/p>\n

Click here to download Notification dated 22nd June 2016 amending Rule 10U(2) relating to the GAAR Rules<\/a><\/div>\n

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[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (ii)]
\nGOVERNMENT OF INDIA
\nMINISTRY OF FINANCE
\nDEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
\n[CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES]<\/p>\n

NOTIFICATION<\/p>\n

New Delhi, the 22nd June, 2016<\/p>\n

INCOME-TAX<\/p>\n

S.O. 2179(E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 101, read with section 295 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Income-tax Rules, 1962, namely:-<\/p>\n

1. (1) These rules may be called the Income-tax (16th Amendment) Rules, 2016.<\/p>\n

(2) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.<\/p>\n

2. In the Income-tax Rules, 1962, in rule 10U,-<\/p>\n

(i) in sub-rule (1), in clause (d), for the figures, letters and words \u201c30th day of August, 2010\u201d, the figures, letters and words \u201c1st day of April, 2017\u201d shall be substituted;<\/p>\n

(ii) in sub-rule (2), for the figures, letters and words \u201c1st day of April, 2015\u201d, the figures, letters and words \u201c1st day of April, 2017\u201d shall be substituted.<\/p>\n

[Notification No. 49\/2016\/ F. No. 370142\/10\/2016-TPL]
\n(Niraj Kumar)<\/p>\n

Under Secretary (Tax Policy and Legislation)<\/p>\n

Note: The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section-3, Sub-section (ii) vide number S.O. 969 (E) dated the 26th March, 1962 and was last amended vide notification number S.O. 2151(E), dated the 20th June, 2016.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The CBDT has issued Notification dated 22nd June 2016 to clarify the law on the retrospective applicability of the anti-avoidance GAAR rule. The Notification has amended Rule 10U(1)(d) to provide that GAAR will not apply to income earned\/received by any person from transfer of investments made before 1st April 2017. Earlier, this date was 30th August 2010. Rule 10U(2) also has been amended to provide that GAAR will apply to any arrangement, irrespective of the date it has been entered into, if tax benefit is obtained on or after 1st April 2017. Earlier, this date was 1st April 2015.<\/p>\n

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