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Presumptive Audit Controversy: Profit Trigger vs Turnover Trigger

Income Tax : The issue concerns whether declaring profits below the presumptive rate automatically triggers tax audit or whether turnover thres...

June 16, 2026 21 Views 0 comment Print

Don’t Blindly Trust Form 16: One Small Error Can Trigger a Huge Tax Demand

Income Tax : The case demonstrates how an incorrect exemption claim based on Form 16 led to scrutiny and penalty proceedings. The Tribunal ulti...

June 15, 2026 1665 Views 0 comment Print

Advance Tax Provisions, Challan, e-payment Utility & Examples

Income Tax : This article explains the advance tax provisions under the Income-tax Act, including liability thresholds, exemptions, and instalm...

June 15, 2026 195402 Views 14 comments Print

Income Tax Offences liable to prosecution

Income Tax : This article outlines major offences under the Income-tax Act that may result in prosecution, including tax evasion, non-payment o...

June 15, 2026 58940 Views 4 comments Print

Power of Commissioner to Reduce or Waive Income Tax Penalty

Income Tax : This article explains the statutory powers of the Principal Commissioner or Commissioner to waive or reduce penalties in genuine c...

June 15, 2026 65197 Views 3 comments 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 6115 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 267 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 1749 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 3816 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 4005 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


ITAT Upholds Section 270A Penalty as Assessee Failed to File Return Despite TDS on Interest Income

Income Tax : The ITAT ruled that deduction of TDS does not excuse failure to file an income tax return. The decision emphasizes that income dis...

June 16, 2026 24 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Condones Appeal Delay as Income Tax Portal Glitches Constituted Sufficient Cause

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that technical glitches on the income tax portal, coupled with grievances raised by the taxpayer, justified cond...

June 16, 2026 57 Views 0 comment Print

PCIT’s 263 Order Quashed: Goodwill Depreciation Allowed in Slump Sale Acquisition

Income Tax : The ITAT upheld depreciation on goodwill arising from a slump sale acquisition after finding that the business was acquired throug...

June 16, 2026 51 Views 0 comment Print

Canara Bank Wins on Multiple Tax Issues; Bangalore ITAT Dismisses Revenue’s 18 Grounds of Appeal

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that the MAT provisions under Section 115JB do not apply to banking companies, following binding precedents in t...

June 16, 2026 54 Views 0 comment Print

No PAN of Farmers? No Problem: ITAT Deletes Ad Hoc Addition on Agricultural Commodity Purchases

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that audited books and quantitative reconciliation supported the genuineness of agricultural commodity purchase...

June 16, 2026 87 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 48363 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 687 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 549 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 204 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 165 Views 0 comment Print


Orissa HC stays section 148 notice issued after 31st March 2021

January 27, 2022 2367 Views 0 comment Print

Rashmi Motors Vs PCIT (Orissa High Court) 1. This matter is taken up by video conferencing mode. 2. It appears that a Division Bench of Allahabad High Court has in its judgment dated 30th September, 2021 in Writ Tax No.524 of 2021 (Ashok Kumar Agarwal v. Union of India) accepted the pleas challenging reassessment notice […]

HC Quashes section 148 notice issued beyond 4 years as same was approved by JCIT instead of CIT

January 27, 2022 3768 Views 0 comment Print

Orissa HC quashes notice under Section 148 of IT Act, citing lack of approval and time bar. Full text of judgment included.

Allowing less than 24 Hours to respond to SCN is Violation of Principles of Natural Justice

January 27, 2022 7638 Views 2 comments Print

Where a response was sought by the Assessing Officer to the show cause notice, giving less than 24 hours, it has been held to be arbitrary resulting in palpable injustice. Thus, without going into merits or demerits of the case, it would be suffice in restoring the proceedins to the Assessing Officer to provide reasonable opportunity of hearing to the petitioner with liberty to file additional reply, annulling the assessment order.

Tenancy Transfer not Amounts to Creation of New Tenancy: Bombay HC

January 27, 2022 6288 Views 0 comment Print

Alice Realties Pvt. Ltd. Vs State of Maharashtra (Bombay High Court) 1. Rule. Respondents waive service. By consent, Rule is made returnable forthwith, and the petition is taken up for hearing and final disposal. 2. There is an Affidavit in Reply dated 31st December 2021 of one Nilesh B Suryawanshi, Resident Executive Engineer of the […]

80(2)(d) cannot be invoked to co-op banks unless they have RBI license

January 27, 2022 2991 Views 0 comment Print

V.K. Natha co-operative Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) Ld. Counsel of the assessee submitted that the issue involved in these appeals related to treatment of interest received by co-operative societies from other co-operative societies including cooperative bank under section 80P(2)(d). He submitted that the issue is squarely covered in favour of the assessee by the decision […]

Section 10(46) exemption to West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission

January 27, 2022 1791 Views 0 comment Print

Vide Notification No. 12/2022 – Income Tax | Dated:  27th January, 2022 CBDT notifies Tax Exemption to ‘West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission’, Kolkata, a Commission constituted by the State Government of West Bengal, in respect of the specified income under section 10(46) of Income Tax Act, 1961. CBDT corrects its mistake in Notification Numbering MINISTRY […]

Beyond a period of 4 years, retrospective amendment to section 115JB cannot be a ground for reassessment

January 27, 2022 1122 Views 0 comment Print

Court has held that beyond a period of 4 years, retrospective amendment u/s 115JB of the Act could not be a ground for reassessment. Such legal proposition requires no authority of law.

Depreciation being a statutory allowance and hence cannot be restricted on the basis of personal use

January 27, 2022 2013 Views 0 comment Print

I.T.O. Vs Bhagchand Jain (ITAT Jaipur) Disallowance of depreciation on vehicles is also not warranted with the facts and merits of the case as depreciation being a statutory allowance and hence cannot be restricted on the basis of personal use as has been held by Coordinate Bench of this Tribunal in ITA no. 373/JP/2002 in […]

CIT cannot direct Assessing Officer to initiate penalty proceedings

January 27, 2022 3099 Views 0 comment Print

Vijay D. Patel Vs CIT (ITAT Ahmedabad) It is clear that post amendment to section 271(1)(c) w.e.f. 1-4-2002 authorizing the commissioner also initiate penalty u/s 271(1)(c), the CIT still cannot direct the Assessing Officer to initiate penalty proceedings while exercising his revisionary power u/s. 263 of the act. The decision of the Jurisdictional High Court […]

Look into TDS deducted from Motor Accident Compensation Awards & lying as Unclaimed: SC directs Govt

January 27, 2022 7356 Views 1 comment Print

Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company Private Ltd. Vs Union of India (Supreme Court of India) Learned ASG has pointed out that insofar as our direction (v) of our order dated 16.11 2021 we had dealt with the aspect of Tax Deduction at Source (TDS) in Motor Accident Claims at two different rates from 10% to […]

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