Clause 72 - Amendment of section 191. - Finance Bill, 2020

Amendment of section 191. 72. Section 191 of the Income-tax Act shall be renumbered as sub-section (1 ) thereof and after sub-section (1 ) as so renumbered, the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely: (2 ) For the purposes of paying income-tax directly by the assessee under sub-section (1 ), if the income of the assessee in any assessment year, beginning on or after the 1st day of April, 2021, includes income of the nature specified in clause (vi ) of sub-section (2 ) of section 17 and such specified security or sweat equity shares referred to in the said clause are allotted or transferred directly or indirectly by the current employer, being an eligible start-up referred to in section 80-IAC, the income-tax on such income shall be payable by the assessee within fourteen days (i ) after the expiry of forty-eight months from the end of the relevant assessment year; or (ii ) from the date of the sale of such specified security or sweat equity share by the assessee; or (iii ) from the date of the assessee ceasing to be the employee of the employer who allotted or transferred him such specified security or sweat equity share, whichever is the earliest. .