For the purposes of paragraph 2 of this Article, and subject to paragraph 5 of this Article, the term ‘fees for technical services’ means payments of any kind to any person in consideration for the rendering of any technical or consultancy services (including the provision of services of technical or other personnel) which:

CIT vs. G. R. Shipping (Bombay High Court) :- The assessee, engaged in shipping business, owned a barge which was included in the block of assets. The barge met with an accident and sank on 6.3.2000 (AY 2000-01). As efforts to retrieve the barge were uneconomical, the barge was sold on as-is-where- is in May 2001 (AY 2002-03).

1. Please use Ink Jet /Laser printer to print the ITR-V Form. 2. The ITR-V Form should be printed only in black ink. 3. Do not use any other ink option to print ITR V. 4. Use of Dot Matrix printer should be avoided.

The Central Board of Direct Taxes had, vide circular No.3/2009 dated 21.05.2009, allowed assessees who file their income tax returns in electronic form without digital signature to submit their verified ITR-V form, within a period of 30 days, thereafter. The ITR-V form was required to be sent to Post Bag No.1, Electronic City Post Office, [...]

The government is considering to re-introduce one-pager ‘Saral form for filing income tax return. The form was discontinued in 2007-08 and instead of that ITR-1, ITR-2, ITR-3 and ITR-4 were introduced for individual taxpayers.

Income Tax Department released on yesterday 15/06/2009 software utility for E-Filing of Income tax Return for Partnership firms i.e. ITR-5 and Income Tax Return for E-Filing of Companies i.e. ITR-6. Department already released ITR-1, ITR-2, ITR-3 and ITR-4. We can access the same at given below link:-

To file I-T returns, the choice for salaried individuals will be between the Indian Income Tax Return – 1 (ITR-1) and ITR-2 forms. If your earnings for the year are through salary income and interest earned on bank deposits, then ITR-1 is the form you should fill up. If you are a salaried individual and [...]

New scheme of filing of Income Tax Return for the financial year 2008-09 onward and the general problems which is being faced by the assessee and their consultants are narrated below : 1. Earlier i.e. up to the financial year 2007-08, the Income Tax Returns could also be filed electronically by those assesses (which are [...]

It has been proposed under the IT Circular 3/2009 that if the return is electronically furnished under a digital signature, the tax-payer is not required to furnish the Form ITR-V with the Income-tax Department as a follow up to the electronic transmitting of data in the return. Similarly, any return which is digitally signed by the assessee and filed with an E-Return Intermediary (ERI), who, in turn, submits the return to the Income Tax Department under his digital signature, will also be deemed to have been filed under a digital signature of the assessee and no Form ITR-V is required to be submitted. In such cases, the date of electronic transmission of the data in the return shall be the date of furnishing the return.

It has been directed that ITR-1 to ITR-8 shall require the quoting of the relevant UTN for every TDS or TCS claim made by an assessee and that the credit for any TDS/TCS claim will be allowed only if the assessee quotes the relevant UTN and the said UTN matches with that in the database [...]