257. Proceedings before income-tax authorities to be judicial proceedings. | Knowledge Bank

CHAPTER XIV

TAX ADMINISTRATION

Proceedings before income-tax authorities to be judicial proceedings.

257. (1) Any proceeding under this Act before an income-tax authority shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of sections 229 and 267 and for the purposes of section 233 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

(2) Every income-tax authority shall be deemed to be a Civil Court for the purposes of section 215 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, but not for the purposes of Chapter XXVIII of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023

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