As Maharashtra braces up for polls and celebrates its golden jubilee year, it tabled a revenue-deficit budget for the year 2009-10 on 4th June 2009 that focuses on infrastructure development and social sector. The major highlights and changes proposed are noted below : Penalty for late returns under MVAT Act reduced to Rs.5,000/- from Rs.10,000/-. Exemption [...]

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 [...]

E-Filing for AY 2009-10 has been enabled.. You can  furnish the Form ITR-V to the Income-tax Department by mailing it to Income Tax Department , CPC, Post Box No – 1, Electronic City Post Office, Bangalore – 560100, Karnataka within thirty days after the date of transmitting the data electronically. No Form ITR-V shall be received [...]

Income Tax Department has introduced a scheme for centralized processing of annual income-tax returns which envisages no interface with the tax payer and processing of returns to be done in an automated jurisdiction-less manner. Implementation of such scheme requires having a robust system for information relating to payment of TDS and TCS so that the credit for TDS and TCS can be granted accurately and the risk of financial fraud is minimized.

Corporatisation of agriculture and vast income potential of commercial crops have attracted the attention of accounting regulator ICAI, which for the first time is evolving accounting norms for the sector. “So far, there are no rules and standards for the agriculture sector. How do you value tea and coffee crops or other commercial crops? We [...]

The I-T department has found over Rs 1,200 crore lying unaccounted in lakhs of frozen demat accounts across the country and has sought a detailed probe on the possibility of their use for illegal transaction and tax evasion. The department has now sent the reports of such accounts to the respective Chief Commissioners of Income [...]

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) would submit a representation to Tamil Nadu Government to make VAT Auditing compulsory in the State. By compulsory auditing of VAT, as in Maharashtra, the Government would have lot of advantages, including identifying the revenue leakage, said Mr G Ramaswamy, General Council member. The institute was now focusing [...]

MUMBAI: Salaried taxpayers who have not received refunds for assessment years 2003-04 to 2006-07 can find out whether their refunds have been returned undelivered from this link: http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/CCIT/refundsearch.asp You can get the information from the menu `undelivered salary refund management system’, using your PAN number. If any refund has been returned undelivered due to a [...]

SUMMARY OF CASE LAW Irrespective of the method followed by an assessee for accounting excise duty, adjustments as specified under section 145A are to be made; when the statute requires a particular methodology of adjustments for tax, duty, cess or fee then it is to be done ditto; neither the Assessing Officer nor the Commissioner [...]