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Income Tax : Understand advance tax rules, due dates, and penalties for non-compliance. Learn how to avoid interest charges under sections 234B...
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Income Tax : Discover key highlights of India's Income Tax Bill 2025, effective April 2026, featuring simplified tax structures, revised slabs,...
Income Tax : Supreme Court clarifies the applicability of TOLA to reassessment notices under the Income Tax Act, addressing the interplay with ...
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Income Tax : Get insights on key amendments in the Income-tax Act, 1961, including changes to Sections 9A, 44BBD, 10(10D), and 158BB under the ...
Income Tax : JAOs face workload imbalances, limited manpower, and systemic issues post-Faceless Assessment Scheme. Suggestions for better resou...
Income Tax : ITGOA urges CBDT to address workload imbalances in JAO charges. Proposes systematic reorganization to ensure equitable distributio...
Income Tax : IT officials can access digital records during searches under IT Act, 1961, but personal emails and social media access is not all...
Income Tax : The updated return facility encourages voluntary tax compliance, allowing taxpayers to correct income omissions. Proposal to exten...
Income Tax : ITAT Pune remands Dnyanagan Education Society's case for fresh consideration after the rejection of its Section 12AB registration ...
Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad held that fresh assessment is necessary in case of taxability of interest earned from Fixed Deposit from compensati...
Income Tax : Delhi High Court held that Section 260A of the Income Tax Act refrains from incorporating a specific provision permitting the fili...
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Income Tax : CBDT notifies the Income-tax (Seventh Amendment) Rules, 2025, updating Forms 26Q and 27Q to include Section 194T on payments to fi...
Income Tax : Income Tax offices across India will remain open on March 29-31, 2025, for pending work, as per CBDT order under Section 119 of th...
Income Tax : CBDT notifies Income Tax (Sixth Amendment) Rules, 2025, introducing safe harbour rules for assessment year 2025-26. Full details o...
Income Tax : Guidelines for Assessing Officers on handling high-risk e-Verification cases under the e-Verification Scheme 2021, including steps...
Income Tax : CBDT allows data sharing with Delhi's IT Dept. for social welfare scheme identification under Income Tax Act Section 138. Read the...
Union Finance Minister Calls for Strong Measures to Reverse the Ongoing Trend of Illicit Outflows from Developing Countries and Exploitation of their Natural Resources Through Abusive Transfer Pricing Schemes; Inaugurates two Day High Level International Seminar on ‘Adopting Tax System and International Tax Rules to the New Global Environment: a Shared Challenge for India and the Oecd’; India Oecd to Strengthen Ongoing Cooperation on Tax Related Issues Through three Year Partnership Programme.
Under pressure from civil society to take concrete action on black money, the government today said it has enough tools to deal with transactions arising from non-cooperative jurisdictions and would take action as and when necessary. We have developed a toolbox… We have enabled ourselves to declare (tax havens) as non-cooperating jurisdiction and countries as and when the situation arises. We will take appropriate steps, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters here today.
Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (Kum Div I) Limited Vs JCIT (ITAT Chennai)- The Tribunal has held that the assessee-company has discharged its interest liability and instead of making payment in cash it has issued share capital to the Government as per the G.O. in question. Hence, the provisions of section 41(1)(a) of the Act are not attracted at all. Therefore, the conversion of the payment in the share capital has to be treated as proper discharge of interest payments. This decision is applicable to the facts of this case mutatis mutandis. In view of the above decision, we are of the considered opinion that this issue stands allowed in favour of the assessees in all these appeals.
India will introduce a bill in the monsoon session of parliament that will enable confiscation of illegal money stashed in India by foreigners, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Monday. We will introduce the bill in monsoon session,’ Mukherjee said while addressing a joint press conference with Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) secretary general Angel Gurria.
At a time when the government is accelerating efforts to strengthen the country’s taxation system , India and rich countries’ club OECD will deliberate on challenges to international tax rules on Monday. Co-operation in global tax matters have gained prominence , especially after the G-20 crackdown on tax havens, which are being used to park unaccounted money worth billions of dollars. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will address a seminar on ‘Adapting Tax Systems and International Tax Rules to the New Global Environment: A Shared Challenge for India and OECD’ .
Pune Income Tax Appellate Tribunal on the issue of deductibility of portfolio management fees in computing ‘capital gains’ under the Indian Tax Laws (ITL) held that such fees was directly connected to the acquisition and sale of securities and was incurred in the normal course of the investment activity. It was held that the payments would be allowed as a deduction in computation of capital gains under the ITL.
Amid reports that the government is planning to make tax evasion a criminal offence, a finance ministry official today said it could be done only if the source of income is illegal. But ‘if it is a tax evasion alone, it is a civil offence,’ the official said. He, however, asserted that ‘if there is an element of illegality about the source of income or if funds are used for illegal purpose…we can think of classifying these as criminal tax offences’.
M/s Total Securities Ltd Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) – Whether penalty paid by a registered broker is not a fine for any infringement of law and hence allowable – Whether admission fee paid by the assessee to stock exchange for acquiring membership is revenue – Whether salary paid to directors can be disallowed on the ground that the assessee has failed to prove the genuineness of services rendered when similar payments have been allowed in subsequent years – Whether payments made to arbitragers and jobbers is covered by 194C and hence the same is not allowable if TDS is not deducted.
M/s. Perfetti India Ltd. Vs. ACIT (ITAT Delhi) Considering all the aspects and principle of consistency propounded by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of Radha Swami Satsand vs. ITO reported in 193 ITR 321, we are of the opinion that loss suffered by the assessee on account of exchange rate fluctuation is allowable expenditure in this year also. The assessee may not be able to produce evidence of the utilisation of the capital before the AO but from the orders of the AO in earlier years and in subsequent years impliedly, it is ascertainable that it is used for the working capital which is in a revenue account.
Shanker Raju Vs UoI (Supreme Court) – CAT – Appointment of Member – A person who has completed ten years as a Member of Tribunal is ineligible to be re-appointed as Member even if he has not attained 65 years of age – Plain reading of proviso to sec. 10A makes it clear that the Chairman and Members appointed prior to Amending Act of 2006, on completion of either their term of service or on attainment of 65 years in the case of Chairman or 62 years in the case of Members of the Tribunal, whichever is earlier, may be considered for fresh appointment – Proviso to sec. 10A provides that such fresh appointment could be made only when the criteria prescribed under amended sec. 8 is satisfied and it is further subject to the condition that the total term of office of the Chairman shall not exceed 5 years and that of a Member, ten years.
