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Section 10(10C) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 is now
section 19 of the Income-tax Act, 2025
Voluntary retirement (VRS) compensation.
- Was
s.10(10C), Income-tax Act, 1961 (repealed)- Is now
s.19(1), Table: Sl. No. 12, Income-tax Act, 2025- In force from
What changed
Changed shape, not substance. Now serial number 12 of the section 19 table, still capped at ₹5,00,000 and still available once in a lifetime.
Read from the Act The official CBDT section mapping has no row for this provision, or retires the old section without saying where the rule went. The correspondence above is our reading of the enacted Act: we located the provision that now carries the same rule and cite it. It is a documented reading, not a quotation, and it is graded medium for that reason.
Where this comes from
Read from egazette.gov.in on , and re-checked against the enacted Income-tax Act, 2025 (Act No. 30 of 2025, assented 21 August 2025, in force 1 April 2026). This dataset is re-verified quarterly. The whole method is on our methodology page.
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