Income Tax Bill, 2025 in the List of Business in the Lok Sabha Today

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As per Today List of Business in the Lok Sabha,  Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman to move for leave to introduce a Bill to consolidate and amend the law relating to income-tax.

The Income-tax Act passed in 1961 has been subjected to numerous amendments since its passage sixty years ago. As a result of these amendments the basic structure of the Income-tax Act has been overburdened and language has become complex, increasing cost of compliance for taxpayers and hampering efficiency of direct-tax administration. Tax administrators, practitioners and taxpayers have also raised concerns about the complicated provisions and structure of the Income-tax Act.

Therefore, the Government in the budget in July 2024 announced that a time bound comprehensive review of the Income-tax Act, 1961 would be undertaken to make the Act concise, lucid, easy to read and understand. Accordingly, the Income-tax Bill, 2025 has been prepared which proposes to repeal and replace the
Income-tax Act, 1961.

 

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