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TDS on Residential Rent paid by companies : 2% vs 10% rule

Income Tax : Companies renting residential properties often struggle with choosing between 2% and 10% TDS. The key takeaway is that the correct...

June 12, 2026 342 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Allows Final Section 35D Deduction and ESOP Recharge Expense

Income Tax : Bangalore ITAT held that the Revenue cannot deny the fifth-year deduction under Section 35D after consistently allowing the claim ...

June 12, 2026 168 Views 1 comment Print

Section 62(4) of Income-tax Act 2025: Closed List of Specified Professions Remains Unreformed

Income Tax : The Income-tax Act, 2025 continues the old specified professions framework without addressing longstanding classification issues. ...

June 11, 2026 288 Views 0 comment Print

SC Order Settled the issue of Taxability of International Software Supply Transactions?

Income Tax : The Supreme Court dismissed the Revenue's review petitions and reiterated that payments for off-the-shelf software do not constitu...

June 11, 2026 426 Views 0 comment Print

Period of limitation prescribed under Income-tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : A detailed overview of limitation periods prescribed under the Income-tax Act reveals how missing statutory deadlines can lead to ...

June 11, 2026 5742 Views 1 comment Print


Latest News


Income Tax Superintendent Caught by CBI in Bribery Case Linked to PAN Deletion

Income Tax : The CBI apprehended an Income Tax Office Superintendent in Odisha after he was allegedly caught accepting a bribe for deleting a d...

June 6, 2026 6088 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Prioritizes Old Appeals as Rising Pendency Requires Urgent Disposal Measures

Income Tax : The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal has proposed a priority disposal mechanism for appeals filed up to and including 2022 in respons...

June 5, 2026 246 Views 0 comment Print

Request for Rationalisation and Merger of TDS Return Codes 1023 & 1024

Income Tax : A representation has urged CBDT to merge TDS return codes 1023 and 1024, arguing that both apply to the same contract payments wit...

June 4, 2026 1671 Views 0 comment Print

Reduce CASS 2026 Scrutiny Cases Due to New Income Tax Act Transition Challenges: ITGOA

Income Tax : Association requested CBDT to rationalize CASS 2026 case selection considering the administrative burden caused by implementation ...

May 21, 2026 3771 Views 1 comment Print

Representation for timely release of e-filing utilities for ITR for AY 2026-27

Income Tax : KSCAA requested the CBDT to release e-filing utilities and schemas for AY 2026-27 without delay, stating that pending utilities ar...

May 13, 2026 3975 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


ITAT Upholds Section 154 Rectification as Payments from Accumulated Funds to Registered Trusts Escaped Assessment

Income Tax : Mumbai ITAT held that payments from accumulated income to institutions registered under Section 12AA attracted Section 11(3)(d). T...

June 12, 2026 78 Views 0 comment Print

Mumbai ITAT Rejects Excess PE Attribution: Revenue Sharing with UK Office Upheld in Cross-Border M&A Deals

Income Tax : Mumbai ITAT held that the Revenue could not attribute the entire execution revenue from cross-border deals to the Indian PE withou...

June 12, 2026 66 Views 0 comment Print

Mumbai ITAT Reiterates: Surplus from Members’ Contributions Not Taxable Under Doctrine of Mutuality

Income Tax : Mumbai ITAT held that maintenance charges and other collections received exclusively from members of a co-operative society are ex...

June 12, 2026 54 Views 0 comment Print

Suspicion Cannot Replace Evidence When Property Investment Is Fully Explained: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai ruled that additions under Section 69 cannot be sustained merely on suspicion when the entire property investment is s...

June 12, 2026 69 Views 0 comment Print

Mumbai ITAT Deletes Entire Bogus Purchase Addition: General Hawala Statements Cannot Override Site-Level Evidence

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that information from the Sales Tax Department and generic statements of alleged hawala dealers are insufficien...

June 12, 2026 45 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


CBDT Issues Complete Income Tax Scrutiny Guidelines for FY 2026-27

Income Tax : The CBDT has identified specific categories of taxpayers whose returns will be compulsorily selected for complete scrutiny during ...

June 7, 2026 46362 Views 1 comment Print

Income-Tax (Amendment) Commencement Ordinance, 2026

Income Tax : The Ordinance exempts interest income and capital gains arising from Government securities for Foreign Institutional Investors and...

June 6, 2026 603 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT Notifies Infrastructure Sub-Sectors as Eligible Businesses Under Income Tax Act 2025

Income Tax : The Central Government has specified infrastructure sub-sectors from the Updated Harmonised Master List as eligible businesses und...

June 2, 2026 513 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT Approves National Institute of Advanced Studies as Scientific Research Institution  

Income Tax : CBDT has granted scientific research approval under the Income-tax Act, 2025, enabling eligible donations to qualify for tax benef...

May 30, 2026 186 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT Approves S. Nijalingappa Sugar Institute for Scientific Research Tax Benefit Eligibility 

Income Tax : CBDT has granted scientific research approval under the Income-tax Act, 2025, allowing eligible donations to qualify for tax benef...

May 30, 2026 159 Views 0 comment Print


Advance payment for acquisition of property – Indexation from year of payment or year of registration of purchase deed?

April 21, 2023 15693 Views 2 comments Print

The issue  involved in this case is whether the benefit of indexation is available on ‘advance payment’ made for acquisition of property or whether the benefit of indexation is available from the year of registration of purchase deed.

FTS service not taxable in India in absence of PE as FTS clause doesn’t exist in India-UAE tax treaty

April 21, 2023 7395 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Ahmedabad held that in absence of FTS (Fees for Technical Service) clause in the India UAE Tax Treaty, payment for the FTS services cannot be taxed in India, unless it is established that the overseas company i.e. Oilstone UAE has a permanent establishment (PE) in India.

Prior period expenses allowable as liability crystallized in the year under consideration

April 21, 2023 4377 Views 0 comment Print

PCIT Vs Balmer Lawrie And Company Limited (Calcutta High Court) The Division bench of Calcutta High Court in this case was considering department’s appeal whether any substantial question of law arose when the assessee had claimed Rs 4.08 crore as prior period expenditure on account of same having crystallised during the year though it related […]

Professional fee Payment to Doctors cannot be disallowed by treating as Referral Fee

April 21, 2023 1710 Views 0 comment Print

ITO Vs Dipen M. Desai (ITAT Ahmedabad) It is an undisputed fact that the assessee has made payment of Rs.4,98,225/-to the Doctors as their professional fees and the same cannot be termed as referral fees. In fact, the ld AR at the time of argument submitted that the terminology of referral fees was wrongly interpreted […]

Section 271(1)(c) Penalty cannot be levied without issuing proper SCN

April 21, 2023 4074 Views 0 comment Print

If initiation of penalty is one limb & levy of penalty is on other limb, then in absence of proper SCN, there is no merit in levy of penalty

Job Termination due to Misconduct – Section 10(12) exemption not alllowed

April 21, 2023 1368 Views 0 comment Print

Vineet Sethi Vs ITO (ITAT Bangalore) The assessee has been terminated vide letter issued by TBM Consultants India Pvt. Ltd. dated 23.2.2016 due to misconduct of the assessee, wherein it was alleged that assessee has been indulging in activities, which are prejudicial to the interest of the employer company and assessee was promoting and carrying […]

Technical glitches on Portal- CBDT should extend due to file returns/tax audit reports

April 21, 2023 17016 Views 1 comment Print

All Odisha Tax Advocates Association Vs Union of India (Orissa High Court) HC held that Considering that the Department has itself acknowledge that there have been technical glitches which have prevented many Assesses from filing their returns and tax audit reports within time, and taking a cue from the aforementioned judgment of the Gujarat High […]

Non compliance of E-notices due to closure of Companies operations is reasonable cause

April 21, 2023 663 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee however submitted that its operations were closed and being no regular employee looking after the matter, the notices issued by the Learned CIT(A) could not be complied.

Interest/Salary received by Partner from partnership Firm Assessable as Business Income

April 21, 2023 15429 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT held that as per specific provision of Section 28(v) of the Income Tax any interest, salary etc. earned by a partner from a partnership firm is taxable under the head profit and gains of business or profession and there is no question of categorizing it under the head income from other sources.

Final Assessment Order passed beyond limitation Period is Null & Void

April 21, 2023 2193 Views 0 comment Print

Final order passed by AO is beyond limitation period provided u/s 144C of Income Tax Act, hence, same is liable to be declared as null & void

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