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Income Tax : The Income Tax Department has clarified the purpose, contents, and access to the Annual Information Statement (AIS) and Taxpayer I...
Income Tax : The Income Tax Department has issued comprehensive FAQs explaining what constitutes a benami property and benami transaction under...
Income Tax : The Income Tax Department has issued detailed FAQs explaining registration, audit, return filing, investment norms, and tax exempt...
Income Tax : The Income Tax Department explains when interest is payable for delayed return filing, advance tax defaults, deferment of instalme...
Income Tax : ITAT Jaipur held that proceedings under Section 153C are invalid where the Assessing Officer merely reproduces information from th...
Income Tax : Net direct tax collections for FY 2026-27 grew by 14.64% as of June 17, 2026, driven by higher corporate and non-corporate tax rec...
Income Tax : The CBI apprehended an Income Tax Office Superintendent in Odisha after he was allegedly caught accepting a bribe for deleting a d...
Income Tax : The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal has proposed a priority disposal mechanism for appeals filed up to and including 2022 in respons...
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...
Income Tax : Association requested CBDT to rationalize CASS 2026 case selection considering the administrative burden caused by implementation ...
Income Tax : The Tribunal affirmed the CIT(A)'s order annulling assessments because the search was not conducted in the assessee's name. It als...
Income Tax : The ITAT held that the Supreme Court’s COVID-19 limitation extension did not apply to statutory timelines for completing income-...
Income Tax : The ITAT Raipur held that estimated gross profit addition on unrecorded sales cannot be sustained when the Assessing Officer has n...
Income Tax : The Karnataka High Court set aside the impugned order after finding that the entire tax demand had been recovered despite an inter...
Income Tax : The ITAT Mumbai held that the assessee's convertible debentures lacked the liability component required for classification as Comp...
Income Tax : The CBDT has identified specific categories of taxpayers whose returns will be compulsorily selected for complete scrutiny during ...
Income Tax : The Ordinance exempts interest income and capital gains arising from Government securities for Foreign Institutional Investors and...
Income Tax : The Central Government has specified infrastructure sub-sectors from the Updated Harmonised Master List as eligible businesses und...
Income Tax : CBDT has granted scientific research approval under the Income-tax Act, 2025, enabling eligible donations to qualify for tax benef...
Income Tax : CBDT has granted scientific research approval under the Income-tax Act, 2025, allowing eligible donations to qualify for tax benef...
SOME IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS BY FINANCE ACT, 2019 (Act No. 7 of 2019) & FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL, 2019 THE FINANCE ACT, 2019 (Act No.7 of 2019) (Interim Budget 2019.) In February’s interim budget, the then acting finance minister Piyush Goyal had provided several income tax sops to the middle-class. Following changes have been made by […]
Satender Singh Rana Commissioner of Income Tax(DR)-7, ITAT, Delhi s.s.rana@incometaxindia.gov.in Sri Satender Singh Rana is an IRS officer of 1994 Batch and is currently posted as Commissioner of Income Tax, ITAT, New Delhi. He has extensive experience in the field of Income Tax Litigation and judicial matters and is part of several committees formed by […]
Addition made under section 68 on account of share capital received by assessee as unexplained credit was to be deleted in absence of any material or inquiry conducted by AO that the issuing companies were non-existing entities or a paper company and AO had not brought material on record to dislodge the veracity of the evidences filed by assessee.
This article tries to develop a working guide to the officers on the issue of payment to non-residents. The fundamental point to be examined by the Assessing Officers in connection with disallowance under section 40(a)(i) of the Income Tax Act of any payment to a non-resident is whether the sum is taxable under the provisions of the Income Tax Act or not. The next point is whether the non-resident is entitled to treaty benefit to escape source-country taxation or not. With quick reference to the relevant sections of the Income Tax Act and the relevant articles of a typical treaty, two particular expenses, viz, software payments and export commission are picked up for further analysis. A check list is also prepared for guidance of the Assessing Officers. The need for co-ordination between the Assessing Unit and the TDS Unit of International Taxation is also highlighted.
In spite of already existing similar provisions under section 194-I of the Income Tax Act, 1961, with a view to widen the tax base, the new section 194-IB of the Income Tax Act, 1961 was introduced vide the Finance Act, 2017. The provisions of section 194-IB were made effective from 1st June 2017. Section 194-IB deals […]
Where the property or any part of the property is let and was vacant during the whole or part of the previous year and owing to such vacancy, the actual rent received or receivable is less than ALV, the sum so received or receivable during the year is less than the sum received or receivable during year shall be annual value, then no deemed rent could be assessed.
With the increase in the complexity and growing enterprise landscape, a number of IT companies engage in creation of databases and soft wares and have also entered in the business of data collection and data systemisation. In return, these vendor companies charge annual subscription fee that can be defined as the amount of money the vendors charge on a consequential basis for providing periodic access to their database and software.
Its that time of the year when usually, people are finding various ways and means (people knowing to file return) to get their Tax returns filed by either Chartered Accountants or someone who has some knowledge of it and regularly files their return of income over a period of years. However, thanks to the Central […]
Priyabrata Pramanik Addl. Commissioner, Tax Policy Research Unit Department Of Revenue, Ministry Of Finance pbpramanik@gmail.com Sri Priyabrata Pramanikhas done his Masters in Physics with specialization in Electronics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He belongs to IRS (Income Tax) and currently is working as Additional Commissioner, Tax Policy Research Unit, in the Department of Revenue. His area […]
Once an agreement to sell is executed in favour of some person, the said person gets a right to get the property transferred in his favour and, consequently, some right of the vendor is extinguished. Therefore, the agreement to sell which had been executed on 13th August 2010 was considered as the date on which the property, i.e. the agricultural land, had been transferred instead of 3rd July 2012 on which the sale-deed came to be executed and assessee was entitled to claim the benefit of section 54F as it had invested in purchase of residential house on 22nd April 2010 which was within the prescribed time limit.
