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Income Tax : Updated TDS & TCS rates from April 1, 2025. Check applicable thresholds, deductions, and compliance requirements for various payme...
Income Tax : Understand Section 43B(h) of the Income Tax Act, MSME classification, payment timelines, tax disallowance, interest on delays, and...
Income Tax : Indian crypto investors who thought they could dodge taxes by trading on foreign platforms like Binance are in for a rude awakenin...
Income Tax : Erroneous application of Section 87A rebate has led to tax demand notices for eligible taxpayers, while others receive undue benef...
Income Tax : Explore the major amendments in Finance Act, 2025 compared to 2024, covering Income-tax Act changes, compliance updates, tax refor...
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 Delhi rules reassessment invalid as AO initiated it while rectification proceedings were pending. Cites Supreme Court ruling ...
Income Tax : Bombay HC dismisses Revenue appeal vs Vodafone Essar (AY 08-09). Upholds ITAT view: Call centre payments fall under TDS Sec 194C (...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai ruled that a show-cause notice must be issued before rejecting an 80G application. The case involved a trust's inadver...
Income Tax : ITAT Pune addressed appeal delay in Altekar vs. ITO, focusing on unexplained fixed deposits and CIT(A)'s limitation dismissal....
Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad addressed unexplained cash deposits during demonetization in Jaisinghani vs. ITO, focusing on Sec. 69A and 115BBE....
Income Tax : On 29 March 2025, the President of India granted assent to the Finance Act 2025, marking a significant milestone in the country’...
Income Tax : The Karnataka Urban Water Supply & Drainage Board receives tax exemption for specified income from FY 2023-24 to 2027-28 under Sec...
Income Tax : CBDT amends Income Tax Rules, effective April 1, 2025, revising Form 3CD, MSME interest provisions, buyback reporting, and loan/de...
Income Tax : The Government of India keeps Small Savings Schemes interest rates unchanged for Q1 FY 2025-26 (April–June 2025), as per the Min...
Income Tax : CBDT circular allows waiver of TDS/TCS interest under sections 201(1A)/206C(7) due to technical errors. Details on eligibility and...
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the government will try to plug tax leakages through the proposed Direct Taxes Code (DTC) which will make the taxation regime transparent and predictable.
Domestic savings are crucial, both for the national economy as well as for the people who save, particularly during recessionary times. This was proved once again, wherein unlike many Western countries, India remained fairly insulated from the recent global economic slowdown due to its relatively high level of savings. Ideally one should save 20-30 percent of his earning for future needs. For salaried people, savings are forced ones, thanks to tax saving plans. While in India, average savings are in the range of 30-32%, saving rate in Japan is 28%, and in US just 12 percent. Indian savings generally get parked in bank deposits, insurance products, provident fund & pension plan and mutual fund & capital market instruments.
If a foreign company pays interest on loan for carrying out operations in India it will be allowed tax exemption under the Income Tax Act, 1961, a tax tribunal has ruled. This has put to rest uncertainties on application of Thin Capitalisation rules
A few cases relating to cross border merger and acquisition deals have been identified for further examination by the Revenue Department. These deals are being examined for possible tax implications. Some of these cases are: • Deal of Vodafone Inter
Supreme Court directs that since, foundational facts could not be established by way of writ petition, the taxpayer should be relegated to adopt proceedings before various Income-tax authorities. Thus, the Supreme Court has confirmed the decision of the Punjab and Haryana High Court allowing Assessing Officer / Transfer Pricing Officer to continue with the reassessment proceedings. The Hon’ble Supreme Court (Supreme Court in the context of Transfer Pricing Provisions of Section 92 to 92F of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (the Act), has directed Assessing Officer (AO)/ Transfer Pricing Officer (TPO) to expeditiously hear and dispose of pending proceedings and to decide independently on the merits of case, uninfluenced by the observations of the Punjab and Haryana High Court (High Court). The Apex Court has further ruled if the taxpayer is aggrieved by the order passed by AO/ TPO, it will have to exhaust the statutory remedy of appeal provided under the Act.
Commonwealth Games overlays suppliers — questioned by Income Tax investigation in connection with irregularities in Games contracts — have alleged that an average 15% commission was paid to Organising Committee officials, besides payoffs to project e
Income tax department (I-T) suspects that the tapes of alleged conversation between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and journalists, ministers and corporate captains been leaked from telecom service provider’s end amid a raging debate on the whether p
Where the details in the charts relied upon in the show-cause notice have been culled out from the trade and order logs and, in the circumstances of the case, it was not only relevant but even necessary that the appellant be furnished with those trade and order logs so that she could possibly make out a case based on other orders punched into the system, non-furnishing of the trade and order logs to the appellant in the circumstances of this case resulted in the violation of the principles of natural justice
Had there been no minimum penalty prescribed under sub-section (3) of section 38, it would have been open for the adjudicating authority to consider the conduct of the defaulter and the extent of delay taking into account the extenuating circumstances while imposing penalty. But once the statute prescribes the minimum penalty without giving any discretion in favour of the adjudicating authority, then one has to go by the provisions of the Act
In order to be covered within the expression derived from it is sine qua non that the relation between the income and source must be that of the first degree Where the relation between income and source slips from first to second degree, income stands excluded from the scope of expression derived from and may fall within the purview of attributable to.
