Section 85 - Substitution of new section for section 285B - Finance Act, 2022

Substitution of new section for section 285B 85 . For section 285B of the Income-tax Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely:- Submission of statements by producers of cinematograph films or persons engaged in specified activitiy. '285B. Any person carrying on the production of a cinematograph film or engaged in any specified activity, or both, during the whole or any part of any financial year shall, in respect of the period during which such production or specified activity is carried on by him in such financial year, furnish within the prescribed period, a statement in the prescribed form to the prescribed income tax authority in the prescribed manner, containing particulars of all payments of over fifty thousand rupees in the aggregate made by him or due from him to each such person as is engaged by him in such production or specified activity. Explanation .- For the purposes of this section, specified activity means any event management, documentary production, production of programmes for telecasting on television or over the top platforms or any other similar platform, sports event management, other performing arts or any other activity as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf.'.