1. (1) This Act may be called the Income-tax Act, 2025.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, it shall come into force on the 1st April, 2026.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(1)“accountant” shall have the meaning assigned to it in section 515(3)(b);
(2) “Additional Commissioner” means a person appointed to be an Additional Commissioner of Income-tax under section 237(1);
(3) “Additional Director” means a person appointed to be an Additional Director of Income-tax under section 237(1);
(4) “advance tax” means the advance tax payable as per Chapter XIX-C;
(5) “agricultural income” means—
(a) any rent or revenue derived from a land which is situated in India and is used for agricultural purposes;
(b) any income derived from such land by—
(i) agriculture; or
(ii) the performance by a cultivator or receiver of rent-in-kind of any process ordinarily employed by a cultivator or receiver of rent-in-kind to render the produce raised or received by him fit to be taken to market; or
(iii) the sale by a cultivator or receiver of rent-in-kind of the produce raised or received by him, in respect of which no process has been performed other than a process of the nature described in item (ii);
(c) any income derived from any building owned and occupied by the receiver of the rent or revenue of any such land, or occupied by the cultivator or the receiver of rent-in-kind, of any such land with respect to which, or the produce of which, any process mentioned in sub-clause (b)(ii) and (iii) is carried on, where such building––
(i) is on or in the immediate vicinity of such land and that land is assessed to land revenue in India, or is subject to a local rate assessed and collected by officers of the Government as such, or where the land is not so assessed to land revenue or subject to a local rate it is not situated in any area as specified in clause (22)(iii)(A) or (B); and
(ii) is required as a dwelling house, or as a store-house, or other out-building, by the receiver of the rent or revenue or the cultivator, or the receiver of rent-in-kind, by reason of his connection with the land;
(d) any income derived from saplings or seedlings grown in a nursery, but shall not include––
(i) the income derived from any building or land referred to in sub-clause (c) arising from the use of such building or land for any purpose (including letting for residential purpose or for the purpose of any business or profession) other than agriculture falling under sub-clause (a) or (b); or
(ii) any income arising from the transfer of any land referred to in clause (22)(iii)(A) or (B);
