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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 : Allahabad HC quashes two Section 154 tax orders, citing laconic reasoning and violation of natural justice. Fresh hearing ordered....
Income Tax : Supreme Court dismisses Bihar Police Building Construction Corporation's tax appeal due to significant delay....
Income Tax : Patna High Court rules interest earned on government grants for construction is taxable income, not capital receipt....
Income Tax : Supreme Court dismisses tax case due to delay and lack of merit. Bombay High Court quashes reassessment notice against Teleperfor...
Income Tax : Bombay High Court quashes reassessment notice in Teleperformance case due to lack of application of mind in granting approval unde...
Income Tax : The Central Government notifies Punjab RERA for tax exemption under Section 10(46A) of the Income-tax Act, effective from the 2024...
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...
Electronic filing, or e-filing, of tax returns first clicked in India as part of a proposal for Web-based electronic tax administration system for service tax. Thanks to the Central Board of Excise and Customs, the e-filing of service tax returns commenced in April 2003 but its benefit was available only to a few service tax providers.
The income-tax department that faced flak from many quarters for late payment or non-payment of tax refunds, has been now asked to beef up its automation that does not seem to have helped much for the pending refund claims that could take even four years to be processed.
“The Finance Bill, 2010 was earlier passed by the Lok Sabha followed by its passage by the Rajya Sabha. The Finance Bill, 2010 has been assented to by the Hon’ble President on 8-5-2010 as Act No. 14 of 2010. With this, the Budgetary exercise is over for the F.Y. 2010-2011.”
Notification No. 32/2010-Income Tax It is hereby notified for general information that the organization M/s Foundation for Revitalization of Local Health Traditions, Bangalore, has been approved by the Central Government for the purpose of clause (ii) of sub-section (1) of section 35 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (said Act), read with Rules 5C and 5E of the Income-tax Rules, 1962 (said Rules), from Assessment year 2009-2010 onwards in the category of ‘other Institution’, partly engaged in research activities subject to the following conditions, namely:-
A host of companies from Mumbai, said to be 367 in number and mostly multinational in nature, have moved the recently set up dispute resolution panel (DRP) to resolve issues related to cross-border taxation. An official in the I-T department said except two, all of the companies have chosen DRP instead of the conventional channel of appeal — that of approaching the commissioner (appeal).
Recently, the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) in the case of Royal Bank of Canada (A.A.R No 816 of 2009) has held that the profits / losses on futures and options contracts (derivative transactions) carried out by Canadian entity would be in the nature of ‘Business Income’. Further since the entity did not have a Permanent Establishment (PE) in India, as per Article 5 of the India-Canada tax treaty (the tax treaty), the Business Income of the applicant would not be taxable in India.
The Inland Revenue (now HMRC) in the United Kingdom (UK) in the Gaines-Cooper case has clarified the rules in respect of determining tax residency in the UK. The Decision-The case was not about the residence status of the taxpayers as such, but rather an application for judicial review on the basis HMRC had, in effect, “moved the goalposts” in the middle of the game by changing the rules for determining a tax payer’s residence status.
Recently, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, New Delhi (ACIT vs Harashima Naoki Tashio, ITA No. 4634/Del/) has held that the employer’s contribution towards the social security in the home country of the employee is not taxable in the hands of the employee as a perquisite.
The Delhi High Court (CIT Vs. Dr. Percy Batlivala [ ITA No. 13 08/2008]) has held that in respect of the expatriate employee sent on deputation to India, the amount of hypothetical tax representing the difference between the tax liability in the home country of the expatriate and in India should not be added to the salary income of such expatriate taxable in India.
The Finance Bill, 2010 (the Bill) was presented by the Finance Minister (FM) before the Lok Sabha ( The lower house of Parliament of India ) with certain amendments. This Flash News gives a snapshot of the key amendments to the Bill as passed by the Lok Sabha. The Bill including these amendments will become law only after they are passed by the Rajya Sabha (The upper house of Parliament of India ) and thereafter receive the assent of the President of India.
