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Income Tax : Understand the new 1% TCS on luxury goods above ₹10 lakh in India, effective April 2025. Learn which items are included, implica...
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Income Tax : CBI arrests IRS officer and private individual for allegedly undermining the Faceless Tax Scheme by leaking confidential info for ...
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Income Tax : Representation highlights long delays at NFAC affecting over 5 lakh appeals, urging CBDT to expedite resolutions and restore taxpa...
Income Tax : ITAT enables e-filing and virtual hearings; over 26,000 e-filings and 1.22 lakh video hearings conducted till Feb 2025, per Minist...
Income Tax : The Finance Bill 2025 proposes tax exemption on income up to ₹12 lakh, revised tax slabs, and a ₹75,000 standard deduction for...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai rules on Usha Chandresh Shah's appeal against treating share sale proceeds as cash credit instead of long-term capital...
Income Tax : Punjab & Haryana HC dismisses Balbir Chand Maini's appeal, upholding ITAT's finding of a non-genuine share sale transaction and in...
Income Tax : Punjab & Haryana HC affirms ITAT order, treating Chandan Gupta's share sale gain as unexplained income (Sec 68) due to bogus trans...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai upholds treating Ratnakar Pujari's share sale proceeds as unexplained cash credit due to a previously established bogu...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi hears Shikha Dhawan's appeal against LTCG denial on penny stock sale, deemed unexplained income. Accommodation entry al...
Income Tax : CBDT notification details income tax exemption for Mysore Palace Board. Covers income from palace, fees, rent from government agen...
Income Tax : CBDT notification clarifies that expenses to settle proceedings under SEBI, Securities Contracts, Depositories, and Competition Ac...
Income Tax : The Central Government notifies the National Mission for Clean Ganga as exempt from income tax under Section 10(46A), effective AY...
Income Tax : The Central Board of Direct Taxes notifies tax collection at source on the sale of certain goods exceeding 竄ｹ10 lakh, effectiv...
Income Tax : Latest income tax rule changes effective April 2025. Form 27EQ updated with new categories for tax collection at source on various...
In the case of TRF Limited vs. CIT (Supreme Court) Supreme Court had to consider whether after the amendment to s. 36 (1) (vii) w.e.f. 1.4.1989, an assessee had to establish, as a matter of fact, that the debt advanced by the assessee had, in fact, become irrecoverable or whether writing off the debt as irrecoverable in the accounts was sufficient. HELD deciding in favour of the assessee:
The Income-Tax (I-T) department in Mumbai is summoning CEOs and CFOs of mid-size companies with the objective to communicate to them that anything less than the full payment of advance taxes will not be acceptable. I-T department sources said a face-to-face interaction helps in gauging the exact amount of tax payable by companies.
The Income Tax (IT) department’s decision to collect IT from the land losers getting compensation above Rs one lakh from Essar Steel for the company’s pelletisation project at Paradeep has paralyzed the land acquisition process. Land losers have threatened not to concede even an inch of land if the collection of IT is not stopped.
Every domestic company is liable to pay a Dividend Distribution Tax @15% on the amount declared, distributed or paid by such company by way of dividends. The effective rate of tax works out to16.995%. The proposed Direct-tax Code also contains similar provision. The only exception is when the dividend is received by a domestic company from its subsidiary.
Where a partner retires from a partnership and the amount of his share in the net partnership assets after deduction of liabilities and prior charges is determined on taking accounts in the manner prescribed by the relevant provisions of the partnership law there is no element of transfer of interest in the partnership assets by the retired partner to the continuing partners.
We would recommend a separate limit for deductions under Section 80C for long-term saving instruments such as life insurance. Currently, the deduction under Section 80C also includes short-term saving instruments such as mutual funds and fixed deposits. Life insurance and pensions are the only segments of financial services that address the needs of individuals in the long term.
Last fortnight, the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) delivered an important ruling on tax neutrality in relation to cross border mergers. The significance of ruling in the present context is attributable to tax administration’s ongoing stance that business restructuring is motivated for tax avoidance purposes and hence tax neutrality should be denied.
Insurance companies are in a tizzy after the revenue-hungry income tax department asked for tax deduction at source to be imposed on most of the insurance transactions. This included payments made by insurers to foreign reinsurance companies and also payments made on behalf of insurance companies to hospitals in settlement of ‘cashless’ claims.
AAR Ruling: The amount received on account of assignment of rights, title, interest, obligations and duties in connection with the supply of products is not taxable in India in the absence of a Permanent Establishment and therefore, tax is not required to be withheld under section 195 of the Income tax Act while making remittance outside India [Laird Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. (AAR No. 793/ 2008)(2010-TIOL-06-ARA-IT)].
An individual who resides in India for a period of less than 182 days during the previous year and is residing outside India for the purpose of employment, then irrespective of the fact of his presence in India for the period of 365 days or more during the preceding 4 previous years, he cannot be treated as a resident of India for the purpose of taxing his salary income
