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Why RERA & Income Tax Reconciliation Is Crucial for Real Estate Developers

Income Tax : Increasing use of RERA data by tax authorities makes alignment between project disclosures and income tax reporting essential to a...

June 16, 2026 186 Views 0 comment Print

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 807 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 3027 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 1923 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 195558 Views 14 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 6118 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 1767 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 3822 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


Madras HC Upholds Section 80IA Deduction as Audit Report Filed Before Assessment Completion

Income Tax : The Court held that, for assessment year 2009-10, filing the audit report along with the return was directory and not mandatory. D...

June 16, 2026 99 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Cancels Section 263 Revision as Issue Was Already Pending Before CIT(A)

Income Tax : The Chennai ITAT held that the Pr. CIT could not invoke Section 263 on matters already under consideration before the appellate au...

June 16, 2026 93 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Section 69B Addition as Excess Stock Was Recorded as Business Income

Income Tax : The Chennai ITAT held that excess stock found during a survey could not be taxed as unexplained investment when it had been accoun...

June 16, 2026 111 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Denies Section 80GGC Deduction as Political Party Denied Reciept of Donation

Income Tax : The Tribunal upheld the disallowance of a ₹10 lakh deduction after the recipient political party informed the tax authorities th...

June 16, 2026 87 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Sustains Section 80GGC Political Donation Addition as Donation Was Found to Be Non-Genuine

Income Tax : The Tribunal upheld the denial of deduction under Section 80GGC after finding that the political donation formed part of an allege...

June 16, 2026 102 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 48555 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 690 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 558 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 207 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


Section 50C Stamp value as on date of agreement or date of registration?

January 29, 2021 2859 Views 0 comment Print

Ashok Vadilal Patel Vs ITO (ITAT Ahmedabad) The dispute between the assessee and the Revenue is, for the purpose of section 50C, which rate is to be deemed as full consideration for the sale of this property for purpose of section 48 of the Act ? According to the assessee, the rate should be adopted […]

No tax on Rental Compensation for Alternate Accommodation from Developer

January 29, 2021 55125 Views 2 comments Print

we find that compensation received by the assessee towards displacement in terms of Development Agreement is not a revenue receipt and constitute capital receipt as the property has gone into re­development. In such scenario , the compensation is normally paid by the builder on account of hardship faced by owner of the flat due to displacement of the occupants of the flat. The said payment is in the nature of hardship allowance / rehabilitation allowance and is not liable to tax.

‘Hundi receipts’ in cash towards Corpus of Trust is Capital Receipt

January 29, 2021 5397 Views 0 comment Print

The clinching fact that emerges here is that assessee’s ‘hundi’ receipts in cash from donors are not revenue items but capital receipts only. The relevant provisions of the ‘Endowment Act’ duly makes it clear that they are corpus donations which nowhere go against the provisions of tax law.

Receipts inextricably linked to project under implementation are capital receipt

January 29, 2021 1197 Views 0 comment Print

Meja Urja Nigam Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Allahabad) In this case, we have observed that there is a clear finding by ld. Assessing Officer/ld. CIT(A) that earnest money(EMD) given by contractors was forfeited by assessee on account of non completion of work and other miscellaneous recoveries were made from contractors. It is undisputed that […]

HC directs GST Authorities to consider proposal to release Bank account against Immovable Property

January 29, 2021 975 Views 0 comment Print

The present petition inter-alia seeks quashing of the impugned Letters dated 31st December, 2020 whereby Respondents have directed the Bankers of the Petitioner Company to Freeze and/or Provisionally attach the bank accounts of the Petitioner Company

If agent been paid at ALP than existence of DAPE is wholly tax-neutral

January 29, 2021 777 Views 0 comment Print

ADIT Vs Asia Today Limited (ITAT Mumbai) It has not been the case of the revenue authorities at any stage that the remuneration paid to the Indian agent is not an arm’s length remuneration for the services rendered by the agents concerned, yet a prayer is now made that the matter should be sent back […]

Catching Few Rather than many Effective Tax Administration?

January 29, 2021 987 Views 1 comment Print

Tax revenues forms large part of government revenues. Government budgeted Rs. 16 lakh crore of tax revenues out of revenue receipts of Rs. 20 lakh crore for the year 2020-2021. Government levies and collects taxes in various forms. One common principle that everyone expects in any taxation system is that tax has to be paid […]

Cloud Hosting Services to Indian customers not taxable as ‘Royalty’ as per India-US DTAA

January 29, 2021 2568 Views 0 comment Print

Cloud hosting services provided USA company to its Indian customers were not covered under the definition of ‘royalties’ as per India-US Tax Treaty as the agreement was to provide hosting services simpliciter and was not for the purpose of giving the underlying equipment on hire or lease and accordingly, it could not be said as royalty within the meaning of Explanation (2) to Section 9(1)(vi) as well as Article 12(3)(b) of the Indo-USA Data by AO and DRP.

Applicability & Implications of Section 115BAA of Income Tax

January 28, 2021 175980 Views 10 comments Print

Section 115BAA was introduced by the Government of India through the Taxation (Amendment) Ordinance 2019 on the 20th of September 2019 with the objective of proffering reduced rates of taxes to domestic companies.

Section 35E Deduction towards expenditure incurred on prospecting for or extraction/ production of certain minerals

January 28, 2021 14961 Views 0 comment Print

Understand the deduction provisions of Section 35E of the Income Tax Act for expenditure on prospecting or extraction/production of certain minerals.

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