By now, many of you would have filed several tax returns of your clients or your own companies or even your own returns. It has been brought to our notice that this year, whenever an ITR form is filed electronically without the digital signature, the system shows that the ITR-V has been e-mailed to the e-mail ID registered with the Income-tax Department’s web site. Thereafter, when the ITR-V is tried to be opened, the system asks for a password. This was creating problems as the password that is generally used by the tax payer to log onto the e-filing site does not work while opening the ITR-V.

A new provision relating to tax deduction at source (TDS) under the Income Tax Act 1961 will become applicable with effect from 1st April 2010. Tax at higher of the prescribed rate or 20% will be deducted on all transactions liable to TDS, where the Permanent Account Number (PAN) of the deductee is not available.

The present Circular contains the rates of deduction of income-tax from the payment of income chargeable under the head “Salaries” during the financial year 2009-2010 and explains certain related provisions of the Income-tax Act. The relevant Acts, Rules, Forms and Notifications are available at the website of the Income Tax Department-

ITR-1 return of income for individuals having income from salary/ pension/ family pension and not having any other income except income by way of interest Chargeable to income-tax under the head Income from other sources; (ii) ITR-2 return of income for Individuals and Hindu Undivided Families (HUFs) not having any income under the head Profits or gains of business or profession;

The income tax department website which is used by lakhs of tax payers to file their returns online will soon be revamped along with a new website address or URL. The new online facility will host of several user-friendly features. The department’s Uniform Resource Locator (URL) – www.incometaxindia.gov.in – is undergoing pilot tests and would [...]

The Income Tax Department (ITD) creates Annual Tax Statement of each taxpayer using their Permanent Account Number (PAN) as identifier. The tax statement contains details of tax paid by the taxpayer himself (self assessment/advance tax) and also details of tax deducted/collected from him during the financial year.

As you are kindly aware, the Central Board of Direct taxes came out with the new series of Income-tax return forms. The ICAI constituted a study group to analyze the same. Several suggestions, collected from all over the country and duly analysed were submitted to the CBDT. The CBDT accepted most of the suggestions of [...]