Rule 237 requires banks, post offices, issuers of bonds, shares and cards, insurers, authorised dealers, the Registrar and others to furnish Form No. 165 by 31 May after the financial year for twelve types of transaction above set values, aggregated per person, and sets pre-filing data returns, designated-director duties and signing.
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Rules 2026 · Rule 237
Furnishing of statement of financial transaction
Rules 201-260
What is reported (sub-rule 2). The reporting person in column 4 furnishes a statement of all transactions of the kind in column 2 at or above the value in column 3 that it has registered or recorded:
Aggregation (sub-rule 3). Except for Nos. 9, 10 and 12, the reporting person counts all accounts of the same nature of that person in the financial year, aggregates all transactions of the same nature, attributes the whole value to every person where an account or transaction is in more than one name, and applies the threshold separately to deposits and withdrawals for item 1(c).
Furnishing (sub-rules 1, 4, 5, 8). In Form No. 165, verified as the form indicates, to the Director or Joint Director of Income-tax (Intelligence and Criminal Investigation) by online transmission to a designated server under the digital signature of the Designated Director (or, for a non-resident reporting person, a person holding a power of attorney from the Designated Director), on or before 31 May after the financial year in which the transaction is registered or recorded. The Post Master General, Registrar or Inspector General may furnish it on computer-readable media with a paper verification.
Pre-filing data (sub-rule 6). For pre-filling the return, recognised stock exchanges, depositories, clearing corporations and registrars and share transfer agents report capital gains on transfer of listed securities or Mutual Fund units; companies report dividends distributed; and banks, post offices and deposit-taking NBFCs report interest paid or credited — in the form, frequency and manner the Director General of Income-tax (Systems) specifies with the Board's approval.
Registration and duties (sub-rules 7 and 9). Every reporting person communicates the name, designation, address and telephone number of its Designated Director and Principal Officer to the Principal Director General of Income-tax (Systems) and obtains a registration number, and observes its regulator's procedure and the obligations in section 508 and rules 159, 160, 161 and 237. The rule defines Designated Director (for example the managing or whole-time director of a company, the managing partner, the proprietor or the managing trustee), Principal Officer, listed securities, Mutual Fund, recognised clearing corporation and Regulator.