Tally.ERP 9 – Auditors’ Edition provides you, as a CA, the facility to print Form 3CD with the required Annexure, to file Tax Audit returns under section 44AB. Using Tally.ERP 9 – Auditors’ Edition, you can now directly print Form 3CD. You can print the Form after completing the Tax Audit from within Tally.ERP 9 – Auditors’ Edition or externally. The form is easy to fill and comes with some very useful features:

New MVAT Audit Form 704 Additional responsibilities as an Auditor Additional features to be reported in New Form 704 Issues and Difficulties Welcome Changes and Redundant Sections in Old Form 704

The government is considering a proposal to make tax audit reports mandatory for e-filing of income tax returns. This follows a recommendation by the Income Tax (I-T) department after the Satyam accounting fraud issue broke in January following founder Ramalinga Raju’s confession. I-T officials said since the returns were e-filed, there was no provision to [...]

Accounting regulator ICAI today issued a clarification saying that internal auditors appointed as tax auditors can continue to do their work if their selection for the job took place before December 12 last year.  The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India decided that with effect from December 12 last year internal auditors cannot be appointed [...]

Large companies may, henceforth, not find it easy to escape the taxman’s net with regard to the interest paid or payable to the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) on overdue payments to them. Currently, interest paid or payable to MSMEs is not admissible as a deductible expenditure for income-tax purposes. This has been specified [...]

ITAT, DELHI BENCH `I’ : NEW DELHI DDIT (Int’l Taxation) v Technip Offshore Contracting BV Appeal No. ITA No. 4613/D/07  Dated: January 16, 2009 RELEVANT PARAGRAPHS: 5.6 In the present case, it is not in dispute that the assessee company has realized service tax on account of providing services and facilities in connection with the exploration [...]

The income tax department is bound to accept the authenticity of the accounts certified by the auditor and maintained in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act, the Supreme Court has ruled.

The Central Board of Direct Taxes have extended the last date of filing of income tax returns and obtaining tax audit report under section 44AB of the Income Tax Act, 1961, due by 30th September 2008, to 31st October 2008 in the state of Orissa in view of the disruption caused due to floods in the state.

On consideration of the reports of disruption caused due to floods in the State of Bihar, the Central Board of Direct Taxes, in exercise of powers conferred under section 119 of the Income Tax Act, 1961, hereby extends the due date of obtaining tax audit report u/s 44AB of the I.T. Act as well as for filing of returns of income required to be furnished by 30th September, 2008 to 30th November, 2008, in the cases of income-tax assessees in the State of Bihar.

From 1st April 2008, payment of tax has been made mandatory for all corporate and firms covered under tax audit. During the first month, many practical issues were faced by depositors. Some of these are discussed below: Only few Banks authorised Only 27 banks are authorised to accept online payments. Persons not having account with [...]