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Income Tax : New Income Tax Bill 2025, replacing the 1961 act, focuses on simplification and clarity. Learn about the key changes and retained...
Income Tax : Understand key changes in proposed Income Tax Bill 2025. This FAQ covers definitions, tax year, non-profits, exemptions, salary, h...
Income Tax : Learn about the simplification, stakeholder consultation, and structural reforms in the new Income-Tax Bill aimed at reducing redu...
Income Tax : Explore the key takeaways of the New Income Tax Bill 2025, including structural changes, simplified provisions, and updates in tax...
Income Tax : Learn about unexplained cash credits under Section 68, tax implications, key legal cases, and compliance requirements to avoid pen...
Income Tax : Income-Tax Bill 2025 simplifies tax laws by reducing sections, chapters, and words while ensuring no policy or tax rate changes. K...
Income Tax : Explore the section mapping of the New Income-Tax Bill 2025, comparing provisions with the Income-Tax Act, 1961. See key changes, ...
Income Tax : Join our webinar on Faceless Tax Assessments under the Income Tax Act, 1961. Learn concepts, challenges, and solutions from expert...
Income Tax : Analysis of income tax return filings in India over five years, including trends, zero-tax cases, and government initiatives to en...
Income Tax : Government addresses Supreme Court judgment on tax exemptions for clergy and its implications on Hindu Undivided Families (HUFs) u...
Income Tax : Allahabad HC quashes two Section 154 tax orders, citing laconic reasoning and violation of natural justice. Fresh hearing ordered....
Income Tax : Supreme Court dismisses Bihar Police Building Construction Corporation's tax appeal due to significant delay....
Income Tax : Patna High Court rules interest earned on government grants for construction is taxable income, not capital receipt....
Income Tax : Supreme Court dismisses tax case due to delay and lack of merit. Bombay High Court quashes reassessment notice against Teleperfor...
Income Tax : Bombay High Court quashes reassessment notice in Teleperformance case due to lack of application of mind in granting approval unde...
Income Tax : The Central Government notifies Punjab RERA for tax exemption under Section 10(46A) of the Income-tax Act, effective from the 2024...
Income Tax : The Indian government is set to introduce the new Income Tax Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha on February 13, 2025. This comprehensive...
Income Tax : Bhaikaka University, Gujarat, is approved for scientific research under Section 35(1)(ii) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, effective f...
Income Tax : Notification No. 14/2025 updates Form 49C submission rules for liaison offices under the Income-Tax Act. Filing deadline set to 8 ...
Income Tax : CBDT amends Income-Tax Rules, 1962, updating regulations for Infrastructure Debt Funds, including investment criteria, bond issuan...
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) convened a meeting of all cadre-Controlling Chief Commissioners of Income Tax here today to discuss strategies for achieving the revenue collection target budgeted at Rs.3,70,000 crore (Rs.3.7 trillion) and internally reset at Rs.4,00,000 crore (Rs.4 trillion). The meeting was addressed by the Member (Revenue) and the Chairman, CBDT. The Revenue Secretary also attended the meeting.
The migration of the accounting standards for corporate India to the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) platform has created a challenge for the revenue department at the Centre. The Direct Taxes Code written by the finance ministry and expected to become law in 2010-11 is in several instances incongruent with the new global accounting standards.
Chapter XIV- B provides that where a search u/s 132 is conducted, the AO shall determine the undisclosed income for the block period. S. 158 BC(b) provides that in making the block assessment the provisions of s. 143 (2) shall “so far as may be, apply”. The Supreme Court had to consider whether a block assessment order passed without service of notice on the assessee u/s 143(2) within the prescribed period of time was valid. HELD, deciding in favour of the assessee:
The Department of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Law & Justice has invited applications for the posts of Judicial Members and Accountant Members in the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal. There are 22 vacancies for the post of Judicial Member while there are 13 vacancies for the post of Accountant Member.
Most finance ministers in the past gave direct tax reforms a miss, preferring discretion to valour, until P. Chidambaram took the bull by its horns and drafted a new code to replace the Income Tax Act of 1961. The new code is expected to simplify the tax procedures and adopt international best practices. But it could be tough on investors because their overall tax burden is likely to increase.
The long-standing demand of banks that they be allowed to issue tax-free bonds to fund long-term infrastructure projects may not be accepted by the government and included in the Budget. The government has not found any reason to accept the demand, especially at a time when the state of its finances has gone awry.
Sixteen new sporting disciplines have been brought under the ambit of Section 80G of the Income Tax Act– which defines charitable and benevolent purposes and allows tax benefits to donors if donations are made to institutions or funds under its ambit. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has “added” baseball, fencing, handball, ice hockey, karate, kayaking and canoing, netball, sepak takraw, snooker, soft tennis, taekwondo, triathlon, skiing and ice skating (winter games) and wushu, to the list through an amendment notification earlier this month.
The Bombay High Court has recently admitted a writ petition that challenges an Income-Tax rule allowing the taxation of expenditure incurred on earning tax-free income like dividends and long-term capital gains. The writ petition was filed by Technocraft Industries India, a Mumbai-based exporter, along with Indian Exporters’ Grievance Forum, a body under the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO). The final hearing of the matter is slated for February 15.
Authority for advance ruling recently held that payments received by the Applicant from its Indian reseller for supply of software products to end users should not be classified as royalty. The AAR further held that the relationship between the Applicant and the reseller does not create a permanent establishment (PE)
The forthcoming budget may have provisions binding on the third party administrators (TPAs), the entities that network between insurers and hospitals to facilitate cashless treatment for policyholders, to deduct tax at source (TDS) before making payments to hospitals.
