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Which Income-Tax Law Applies to Returns Filed After 1st April 2026?

Income Tax : Taxpayers are facing confusion following the introduction of the Income-tax Act, 2025. The key clarification is that income earned...

June 16, 2026 105 Views 0 comment Print

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 1143 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 1749 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 195429 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 58967 Views 4 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 1758 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


Search-Based Addition Cannot Be Made Through Reassessment; ITAT Quashes Entire Assessment

Income Tax : The Mumbai ITAT held that reassessment proceedings under Section 147/148 were invalid where the case was based on search material ...

June 16, 2026 33 Views 0 comment Print

Bangalore ITAT Condones 367-Day Delay and Rejects Challenge to NFAC Jurisdiction in Reassessment Case

Income Tax : The Tribunal condoned the delayed appeal filing after finding sufficient cause and allowed the matter to proceed. It also clarifie...

June 16, 2026 39 Views 0 comment Print

CIT(A) cannot Change Section of Addition from 69C to 69B Without Notice: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : The ITAT Delhi ruled that the CIT(A) cannot reclassify an addition under a different provision of the Income-tax Act without issui...

June 16, 2026 75 Views 0 comment Print

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 78 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 96 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 48405 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


Gift From HUF – Whether Capital Receipt In the Hand of Member?

December 17, 2021 5094 Views 0 comment Print

A member of the ‘HUF’ has a pre-existing right in the family properties. A Coparcener has a pre-existing right and interest in the property and can demand partition also, however, the other members of the ‘HUF’ have right to be maintained out of the ‘HUF’ property. On division, the share in the estate/capital of the ‘HUF’ cannot be treated as income of the recipient, rather, the same will be a capital receipt in his hands.

In Absence of Evidence Showing Meeting of Minds it is not safe to Convict a Person for Criminal Conspiracy: SC

December 17, 2021 6480 Views 2 comments Print

In absence of any evidence to show meeting of minds between the conspirators for the intended object of committing an illegal act, it is not safe to hold a person guilty for offences under Section 120B of IPC Hon’ble Supreme Court in the matter of Parveen vs. State of Haryana in Criminal Appeal No. 1571 […]

Section 263 order not justified when AO has properly enquired the issue

December 17, 2021 1257 Views 0 comment Print

Lovely International Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Kolkata) We find from the discussion at para 5 (supra) of this order and the finding of Ld PCIT given below para 5 corroborates that the AO in fact had issued notice u/s 142(1) and called for all the details of the share subscribers/share premium and pursuant to […]

No Section 68 addition solely on the basis of suspicions

December 17, 2021 1545 Views 0 comment Print

Smt. Tapasi Singh Vs ITO (ITAT Kolkata) It is observed that all the four donors who had given the gifts in question to the assessee during the year under consideration were engaged in the business and in the returns of income filed regularly for the year under consideration, the business income earned by them was […]

Annual Information Statement – Insurance commission

December 17, 2021 2724 Views 0 comment Print

The taxpayer under Income Tax would by now generally be aware of Form 26AS. But now the taxpayer needs to be aware and educate themselves about the newly introduced ‘Annual Information Statement’. Recently, the Income Tax Department came up with the Annual Information Statement. Simply putting up, the Annual Information Statement can be said to […]

ITAT allows section 11 exemption to Indian Youth Centre Trust

December 17, 2021 906 Views 0 comment Print

ITO Vs Indian Youth Centre Trust (ITAT Delhi) The assessee company is a trust registered u/s 12A of the Act and is also registered u/s 80G(5)(vi). The return filed by the assessee trust was subjected to the scrutiny assessment. In the course of the scrutiny assessment the Assessing Officer took a view that the receipts […]

Section 40A(2) disallowances on mere conjectures & surmises not sustainable

December 17, 2021 2889 Views 0 comment Print

Sh. Chander Mohan Lall Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) A plain reading of section 40A(2) of the Act would make it clear that where the payment made to a related party, in the opinion of the Assessing Officer, is excessive or unreasonable having regard to the fair market value of the goods, services or facilities for […]

Severance pay received for loss of job was to be treated as capital receipt

December 17, 2021 23028 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee was paid severance pay due to loss of employment and the receipt of severance pay though the nomenclature was not mentioned as ex-gratia but took the character of a capital receipt and the payment was made voluntary by the employer for loss of employment and such capital receipt was not taxable in the hands of the assessee.

HC quashes Notice for Reopening of Assessment as reason for reopening not state that there was any failure on the part of petitioner

December 17, 2021 1959 Views 0 comment Print

Coca-Cola India Private Limited Vs DCIT (Bombay High Court) Revenue relied upon a Bombay HC judgment in Crompton Greaves Ltd. V/s. ACIT to submit that even if the reason for reopening does not specifically state that there was any failure on the part of petitioner to disclose fully and truly all material facts necessary for […]

Interest on amount borrowed for buying machinery allowable despite non-actual use in business

December 17, 2021 1179 Views 0 comment Print

CIT Vs Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Co. Ltd. (Bombay High Court) The Bombay High Court allowed the deduction on interest paid on the amount borrowed for the purpose of machinery even if machinery is not actually used in business. The revenue has raised the issue Whether on the facts and circumstances of the case and in […]

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