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Income Tax : The Ordinance exempts interest income and capital gains arising from Government securities for Foreign Institutional Investors and...
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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...
Section 142(2A) was amended by Finance Act, 2013 apparently to amplify the scope of special audit i.e. the Assessing Officer now has the power to direct a special audit, having regard to volume of transactions
Assessee’s case with both original and revised returns filed in time was placed in a better position, therefore, deduction under section 80-IA was allowable, despite the same was claimed through filing of revised return.
Any receipt of interest, fees or royalty on such loans, services and licenses respectively, would attract income tax in the hands of the overseas AEs in India @ 10% under Indian domestic tax laws and/ or tax treaties, where the overseas AEs do not have permanent establishments in India.
Finance Act 2017 inserted second proviso to section 115JAA(2A) restricting quantum of MAT credit to be carried forward to subsequent years. The proviso provides that where the amount of FTC (Foreign Tax Credit) available against MAT/AMT is in excess of FTC available against normal tax, MAT/AMT credit would be reduced to the extent of such excess FTC.
As per the existing provisions of the Act, the work for the purpose of deduction of tax at source on payment to contractors has been defined to include manufacturing or supplying a product according to the requirement or specification of customer by using material purchased from such customer.
The Finance Act, 2017 has inserted an Explanation to section 132(1), 132(1A) and 132A(1) to declare that the reason to believe or reason to suspect as the case may be, shall not be disclosed to any person or any authority or the Appellate Tribunal. The said amendment would lead to unnecessary harassment of taxpayers.
Considering application of section 132(3) read with section 132(8A), search in actual practice is kept open for a period of 60 days in case no incriminating evidence is found against the assessee or the assessee has not surrendered any unaccounted/concealed income.
a. One will appreciate that entire scheme of Income tax is based on Real income theory. b. Tax on accreted income is payable even if entity is merged with other entity which is registered u/s 12AA but whose objects are not similar. c. Further, the term similar object is subjective and prone to litigation.
As per the provision prior to Finance (No. 2) Act, 2014 contained in section 142A, the Assessing Officer may, for the purpose of making an assessment or reassessment require the Valuation Officer to make an estimate of the value of any investment, any bullion, jewellery or fair market value of any property.
To run a business and make adequate tax planning, an assessee and entities may require entering into a number of transactions with outsiders as well as their relatives or close associates. Since, stringent tax laws prevailing like disallowing of an entire Expenditure while completing an assessment by Assessing Officer, it is advisable to keep all the provisions in mind.
