As per Hon’ble Delhi High Court’s Order dated 14-3-2013, the Department requires to follow the procedure prescribed u/s 245 before making any adjustment of refund payable by the CFC, Bengaluru. Accordingly, the assessee must be given an opportunity to file response or reply and the reply will be considered and examined by the Assessing Officer before any direction for adjustment is made.

Slew of Administrative Measures for Optimum Efficiency of the Tax Regime The Finance Minister has proposed to continue the series of administrative measures for improving the overall efficiency of the tax regime. Presenting the Union Budget in the Lok Sabha today, Shri P.Chidambaram said that he proposed to expand the slew of administrative measures as [...]

It is important to know some of the reasons that may have caused the delay in Income Tax Refund. If your bank account details or your PAN number is entered incorrectly in the form or you end up filing your tax in the wrong ward/circle, then the chances for delay are high.Tax authorities have especially been known to cause delays in cases where the amount to be refunded exceeds Rs 5 lakh, citing additional approvals as the reason. Delay could also be caused if litigation is pending against the refund claimed or against any other issues with higher level of authority. For instance, if an individual is in appeal with Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) against an order passed by the assessing officer (AO) level, in our experience, the refund is generally not issued by the AO even though there is nothing in the law to this effect.

Assessees having income from salary have to file return of income before July 31 of the assessment year. This is the `due date’ prescribed in section 139(1) of the Income Tax Act, 1961. Self-employed businessmen and professionals, and those deriving income from let-out property too have to file their returns by this date.

In continuation of previous articles, elaborating the difficulties in getting the refund claim under different conditions, we in this article are unveiling the problems existing in the Service tax refund mechanism under Conditions relating to Courier

The Income Tax department will process more than 40 lakh refund cases before April this year. The department has streamlined the process as the statutory time limit to process the return and issue refund in the financial year 2009-10 is March 31 an

Upset over sharp reduction in the rates of duty drawback, or tax refund, exporters today said the move will have adverse impact on employment in sectors like apparel, leather, handicraft and metal.

The recent circular no. 120/01/2010-ST dated January 19, 2010 has been issued by the Board for claiming the refund of unutilized Cenvat credit under Rule 5 of Cenvat credit Rules by the service exporters. The above circular has tried to address all the problems faced by the service tax exporters in claiming such exemption. They have tried to give clarification on all the issues. But the famous Hindi proverb “lohe ke chane chabana” (Hard nut to crack) is apt for refund claim for the exporters under Notification 41/2007 or refund under Rule 5.

The I-T department has asked tax payers not to give out personal details like PAN card number and information about their credit cards on the internet in the wake of mushrooming fake e-mails hitting users’ inboxes. Viewing with concern the spurt in fictitious and unauthorised e-mails landing in personal internet addresses of many people, the department is adding a word of ‘caution’ at the end of each mail sent by them.

In the context of refund of service tax paid on foreign agency commission, Notification 18/2009 dated 07/07/2009 (in the table, sl.no.2 , condition no. 2) says “exemption shall be limited to one percent of the free on board value of export goods for which the said service has been used”. This means that amount of service tax paid, which can be refunded to the exporter, is restricted to one percent of the FOB value of export goods in relation to which the taxable service of the foreign agent was used.