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Income Tax : Learn key updates in the New Income Tax Bill, 2025, effective April 2026. Covers tax year, compliance, deductions, international t...
Income Tax : The Income Tax Bill 2025 aims to simplify tax laws by replacing the 1961 Act. It includes 23 chapters, 16 schedules, and 536 secti...
Income Tax : Perquisites and Profits in Lieu of Salary are important components of taxable income under the Income Tax Act of 1961. These refer...
Income Tax : Budget 2025-26 focuses on growth, tax relief, and investment. GDP projected at 6.3-6.8%, new tax slabs ease burden on middle class...
Income Tax : Explore the New Tax Bill 2025, replacing the Income Tax Act of 1961. Learn about its simplified structure, global alignment, and c...
Income Tax : Analysis of income tax return filings in India over five years, including trends, zero-tax cases, and government initiatives to en...
Income Tax : Government addresses Supreme Court judgment on tax exemptions for clergy and its implications on Hindu Undivided Families (HUFs) u...
Income Tax : Corporate tax collections rose post rate cuts from AY 2020-21, except during COVID. Budget 2025 proposes presumptive tax for elect...
Income Tax : CPC (TDS) reminds deductors to file TDS Statement 26Q for Q2 FY 2024-25. Late/non-filing may attract fees and affect TDS credit fo...
Income Tax : Union Cabinet has approved the new Income Tax Bill 2025, aiming to simplify and modernize India's tax system by replacing the 1961...
Income Tax : Therefore, the procedure that is required to be completed for issuance of notice under Section 148 of the Act is required to be co...
Income Tax : ITAT Pune deletes additions against Ganraj Homes LLP based on extrapolated on-money allegations, citing lack of corroborative evid...
Income Tax : ITAT Chennai held that addition under section 69 towards unaccounted gold and silver jewellery set aside relying on CBDT instructi...
Income Tax : Kerala High Court held that recovery of tax arrears by income tax department from property that was already auctioned by Kerala Ge...
Income Tax : Delhi High Court held that license fees paid to M/s. Remfry & Sagar for use goodwill vested in the company is allowable as deducti...
Income Tax : The Indian government is set to introduce the new Income Tax Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha on February 13, 2025. This comprehensive...
Income Tax : Bhaikaka University, Gujarat, is approved for scientific research under Section 35(1)(ii) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, effective f...
Income Tax : Notification No. 14/2025 updates Form 49C submission rules for liaison offices under the Income-Tax Act. Filing deadline set to 8 ...
Income Tax : CBDT amends Income-Tax Rules, 1962, updating regulations for Infrastructure Debt Funds, including investment criteria, bond issuan...
Income Tax : CBDT authorizes data sharing with DFPD to identify PMGKAY beneficiaries. MoU to govern data confidentiality, transfer mode, and ti...
Delhi High Court in the case of CIT v. Sandan Vikas (India) Ltd. (ITA No. 348 of 2011) (Judgement date: 24 February 2011, Assessment Year: 2005-06) held that the taxpayer was eligible to claim weighted deduction on in-house Research and Development (R&D) expenditure from the year in which the taxpayer made an application to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR). The High Court observed that the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) does not suggest or imply that the cut-off date mentioned in the certificate issued by the DSIR will be the cut-off date for eligibility of weighted deduction on the expenditure incurred on in-house R&D to avail benefit of Section 35(2AB) of the Act.
Delhi bench of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (the Tribunal) in the case of Intelsat Corporation (ITA No. 5443/D/2010) (Judgment Date: 4 March 2011, Assessment Year: 2007-08) held that income received by the non-resident taxpayer from leasing of transponder capacity and bandwidth cannot be taxed as ‘royalty’ under the provisions of Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act).
Recently, the Mumbai bench of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (the Tribunal), in the case of Bharat Bijlee Limited v. ACIT (ITA NO. 6410/MUM/2008) (Judgment Date: 11 March 2011, Assessment Year: 2005-06) , held that where a business undertaking is transferred against issue of bonds / shares, the transaction is not a “Slump Sale” as defined under Section 2(42C) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) and therefore provisions of section 50B of the Act relating to computation of capital gains in case of Slump Sale are not applicable to such transfer.
Acting tough, the government has imposed fines worth Rs 700 crore on various telecom operators for carrying out illegal and clandestine activities in their services, particularly for non-compliance of the subscriber verification process. The penalty was imposed by Telecom Enforcement , Resource and Monitoring (TERM) Cells till January 2011 on various telecom service providers operating in different licence service areas for non-compliance of subscriber verification guidelines, a Home Ministry report said.
The Supreme Court Friday asked the government to consider the option of setting up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the black money stashed away by Indian citizens in foreign banks. An apex court bench of Justice B Sudershan Reddy and Justice SS Nijjar asked Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniun to get back with the government’s response by March 28.
The Supreme Court has ruled that private companies cannot complain about violation of their contractual rights by government when national interest is involved in awarding contracts for public projects involving taxpayers’ massive money. A bench of justices V S Sirpurkar and T S Thakur in a judgement expressed anguish at the manner in which the Tehri Pump Storage Plant could not be taken up for the past three and half years due to the legal battle involving two MNCs–Voith GMBH (respondent No.1) and Alstom (respondent No.2).
The second meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) on inflation was held today under the Chairmanship of Dr Kaushik Basu, Chief Economic Advisor (CEA), Ministry of Finance. The IMG was set-up at the suggestion of the Prime Minister on 2nd February,2011 in order “to review the inflation situation and suggest corrective measures.” The IMG has been entrusted with the task of studying and proposing policies pertaining to (a) food article inflation and (b) macro-economic demand management.
India plans to open income tax offices in eight countries including United States, Britain, Germany and the UAE to trace tax evaders, parliament was told Friday. The government has taken steps to operationalise eight new Income Tax Overseas Units in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Cyprus, US, Britain, United Arab Emirates, and Japan in the next financial year, Minister of State for Finance S.S. Palanimanickam told the Lok Sabha in a written reply.
If a search under section 132 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 is challenged on the ground that information leading to reasons to believe for authorising search was irrelevant then how should this question be resolved? Should the court, Look into the records and decide it alone; or Disclose the information to the aggrieved person and then adjudicate upon it, after hearing the parties (a)The Director of Income-tax (Investigation) Kanpur had jurisdiction to authorise the search;
Over Rs 3 lakh crore in direct taxes, which is more than the annual corporate tax collection, is locked up in litigation at various levels. While Rs 2.2 lakh crore of revenue was locked up in appeal cases with Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) in 2009-10, the amount involved in litigation at the higher levels was Rs 91,087 crore, said the latest CAG report.
