Income Tax : The reform consolidates TDS provisions into a structured system and introduces digital compliance mechanisms. It enhances clarity,...
Income Tax : The ruling clarifies that unauthenticated digital chats and screenshots cannot form the sole basis of tax additions without proper...
Income Tax : The framework permits taxpayers to settle offences by paying prescribed compounding charges instead of facing prosecution. It clar...
Income Tax : CBDT amended Income-tax Rules to include crypto-assets and digital financial products in CRS reporting. The move expands disclosur...
Income Tax : The Draft Income-tax Rules, 2026 require salaried taxpayers to disclose their relationship with landlords, enabling enhanced scrut...
Income Tax : A representation has urged CBDT to merge TDS return codes 1023 and 1024, arguing that both apply to the same contract payments wit...
Income Tax : CBDT signed a record number of APAs to provide clarity on transfer pricing and reduce disputes. The framework ensures advance dete...
Income Tax : The Government stated that representations on own merit promotions are examined regularly as per existing rules, with no separate ...
Income Tax : Draft Income-tax Rules and Forms have been released for public feedback before the new law takes effect, with inputs to shape the ...
Income Tax : Following judicial criticism of delayed appeals, officers urged structural reforms to fix institutional gaps rather than penalisin...
Income Tax : The Tribunal observed that CBDT instructions prohibit the AO from examining issues beyond the specific reason for limited scrutiny...
Income Tax : Bombay High Court held that delay in filing Form No. 10 for claiming accumulation under Section 11(2) should be condoned where gen...
Income Tax : Court found that the appellant failed to clearly identify which exceptional clause applied. Since the tax effect was below Rs.2 cr...
Income Tax : The issue was whether jewellery found during search can be taxed despite CBDT limits. ITAT held that jewellery within prescribed l...
Income Tax : The case examined whether scrutiny selection without meeting CBDT conditions was valid. The ITAT held that failure to satisfy mand...
Income Tax : CBDT has instructed tax officers to uniformly apply Sections 68 to 69D and Section 115BBE after a C&AG audit found inconsistencies...
Income Tax : The Income Tax Department increased monetary thresholds for assigning cases between ITOs and D/ACITs in Delhi Region. The revised ...
Income Tax : The notification requires payers to generate UINs and file quarterly details of declarations even where no tax is deducted. It enh...
Income Tax : Explains the CBDT notification granting section 10(46) exemption to a district legal services authority and the categories of inco...
Income Tax : The Central Government notified an urban development authority under section 10(46A) of the Income-tax Act. The exemption applies ...
Introduction of new TDS codes, which have almost doubled from 36 to 65 in last eight years, led to increase in total reported transaction in FY 2021-22 to 144 crore as compared to total reported transaction in FY 2015-16 of 70 crore. This has resulted in increase in number of unique deductees — almost doubled from 4.8 crore (in F.Y. 2015-16) to 9.2 crore (in F.Y. 2021-22).
Release of Direct Tax Statistics The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has been releasing key statistics relating to Direct Tax collections and administration in public domain from time to time. In continuation of its efforts to place more and more information in public domain, the CBDT has further released Time-Series data as updated upto […]
Cost Inflation Index (CII) is an index used in India to measure the rate of inflation in the economy. It is used to adjust the purchase price of an asset, such as property or gold, for inflation when calculating capital gains tax.
CBDT has entered into a record 95 Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs) in FY 2022-23 with Indian taxpayers. This includes 63 Unilateral APAs (UAPAs) and 32 Bilateral APAs (BAPAs). With this, the total number of APAs since inception of the APA programme has gone up to 516, comprising 420 UAPAs and 96 BAPAs.
CBDT directs DGIT (Systems), New Delhi, to furnish the response to TN Govt in the form of flag based on Taxpayers status F. No. 225/169/2022-ITA.II Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes ***** New Delhi, the 16th February, 2023 Order under section 138(1)(a) of the Income-tax Act,1961 Central […]
Urgent appeal to Honble Finance Minister: Cancel or withdraw notices under Section 143(1) creating unnecessary hardship and levying double tax on taxpayers. Request for rectified intimations and clarification to prevent further inconvenience.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Shri Nitin Gupta, IRS (IT:86), Member, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) as Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) from the date of charge of the post.
The e-book Pratidhwani showcases policy initiatives and changes in Income Tax Department and growth of nation through the lens of Department’s outreach programmes during the period 2000 to 2022.
CBDT e-book Aarohan gives an overview of major reforms in Income Tax Department & showcases the contribution of different batches of Indian Revenue Service to tax administration since Independence.
Union of India Vs Mukesh Kumar Meena (Supreme Court) it is observed that the CBDT introduced the grace marks policy with the purpose of enabling the marginally failing candidates to pass in the examination. Once the respondent – original applicant passed in his own category, there was no question of allowing/granting him any further grace […]
