(a) the annexures, statements and columns in the return of income relating to computation of income chargeable under each head of income, computation of gross total income and total income have been duly filled in;
(b) the return is accompanied by a statement showing the computation of the tax payable on the basis of the return;
87[(bb) the return is accompanied by the report of the audit referred to in section 44AB, or, where the report has been furnished prior to the furnishing of the return, by a copy of such report together with proof of furnishing the report;]
(c) the return is accompanied by proof of
(i) the tax, if any, claimed to have been deducted 87a[or collected] at source 88[before the 1st day of April, 89[2008]] and the advance tax and tax on self-assessment, if any, claimed to have been paid :
90[Provided that where the return is not accompanied by proof of the tax, if any, claimed to have been deducted 90a[or collected] at source, the return of income shall not be regarded as defective if
(a) a certificate for tax deducted was not furnished under section 203 to the person furnishing his return of income;
The following clause (a) shall be substituted for the existing clause (a) of proviso to sub-clause (i) of clause (c) in the Explanation to sub-section (9) of section 139 by the Finance Act, 2006, w.e.f. 1-4-2007 :
(a) a certificate for tax deducted or collected was not furnished under section 203 or section 206C to the person furnishing his return of income;
(b) such certificate is produced within a period of two years specified under sub-section (14) of section 155;]
(ii) the amount of compulsory deposit, if any, claimed to have been made under the Compulsory Deposit Scheme (Income-tax Payers) Act, 1974 (38 of 1974);
(d) where regular books of account are maintained by the assessee, the return is accompanied by copies of
(i) manufacturing account, trading account, profit and loss account or, as the case may be, income and expenditure account or any other similar account and balance sheet;
(ii) in the case of a proprietary business or profession, the personal account of the proprietor; in the case of a firm, association of persons or body of individuals, personal accounts of the partners or members; and in the case of a partner or member of a firm, association of persons or body of individuals, also his personal account in the firm, association of persons or body of individuals;
(e) where the accounts of the assessee have been audited, the return is accompanied by copies of the audited profit and loss account and balance sheet and the auditors report 91[and, where an audit of cost accounts of the assessee has been conducted, under section 233B92 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), also the report under that section];
(f) where regular books of account are not maintained by the assessee, the return is accompanied by a statement indicating the amounts of turnover or, as the case may be, gross receipts, gross profit, expenses and net profit of the business or profession and the basis on which such amounts have been computed, and also disclosing the amounts of total sundry debtors, sundry creditors, stock-in-trade and cash balance as at the end of the previous year :]
