Lok Sabha passes new Income Tax Bill

12 Aug 2025 Evaluate

The Lok Sabha has passed the revised Income Tax Bill, 2025 without any debate. The new Income Tax Bill will allow individuals to claim TDS refunds even if they fail to file I-T return within due date. The new Income Tax Bill, which from April 1, 2026, will replace the Income Tax Act, 1961.

The bill cuts down wordage and chapters by almost half and writes the clauses in simpler and easy to understand language. It does away with the confusing concepts of assessment year and previous year, replacing them with easier to understand 'tax year'. The new Income Tax Bill provides for 'nil' TCS on Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) remittances for education purposes financed by any financial institutions.

The original Income Tax Bill, 2025, which was introduced in February, was withdrawn by the Finance Minister on Friday August 8, 2025). The Minister on Monday (August 11, 2025) came up with a revised bill incorporating almost all recommendations of the Select Committee which had scrutinised the original bill. The Select Committee had suggested that the government should modify the provisions relating to TDS claims by those who fail to file ITR before the stipulate due date.


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