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Income Tax : Understand key differences between legal and tax terms like Act vs Rule, Exemption vs Deduction, TDS vs TCS, and more for better c...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai ruled in favor of an auto-rickshaw driver, rejecting a ₹103 Crore income addition, citing insufficient investigation...
Income Tax : Understand the new 1% TCS on luxury goods above ₹10 lakh in India, effective April 2025. Learn which items are included, implica...
Income Tax : Learn about India's TCS on luxury goods. Effective April 2025, 1% TCS applies to sales over ₹10 lakh for watches, art, yachts, a...
Income Tax : Learn about the latest changes in TCS under Section 206C(1F) for luxury goods exceeding ₹10 lakh. Find the list of notified item...
Income Tax : CBI arrests IRS officer and private individual for allegedly undermining the Faceless Tax Scheme by leaking confidential info for ...
Income Tax : Understand CBDT's Notification 38/2025 on non-deductible settlement expenses under Income-tax Act for SEBI, Competition Act violat...
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...
Sushanto Roy, CEO, Sahara Prime City, has in a pre-Budget wish list of expectations said: “Given the pent-up demand for affordable housing which was discovered during the recent slowdown there is a need to reintroduce tax holiday under section 80IB for housing projects constructed after March 31, 2008.” Tax holiday for hotels, under section 80ID should be extended to 10 years from existing time limit of 5 years, in view of the long gestation period for the industry, he said.
In a pre-Budget wishlist, Vinod Juneja, managing director, Braj Binani Group, said, “I expect the finance minister to target the GDP growth of at least 8% or higher for the next 3 financial years.” “On tax reforms front, I would be very happy to see the reduction in individual income tax levels as it leaves the consumer with more spending power hence builds consumption leading to higher economy growth. Also I expect reduction in the corporate tax rates.”
Health-care costs are skyrocketing and are going beyond the reach of a common man. The need of the hour is to bring this sector under different schedule with a special status and declare some very important tax rebates to this sector to reduce the ultimate cost to the patient:
Life insurance companies want the current system of tax exemption for insurance maturity proceeds to be continued. The proposed Direct Taxes Code has suggested deduction of tax on the final payout, while exempting the policy premium at the time of contribution and the interest on it.
Before 2008-09, deduction towards leave encashment and gratuity was a controversial issue following a Calcutta High Court judgment in the case of Exide Industries. The court ruled in favour of Exide and against the revenue department, saying that such provisions whether paid or not were eligible for deductions on the basis of actuarial valuation. A stay was announced in 2008 for 2008-09 returns assessed in the current financial year.
The Income Tax Department has decided to scrutinise all returns filed by brokers and market players who seek rebate after paying the securities transaction tax (STT).The department, in its tax returns for 2008-09 that is assessed in the current financial year, found that most of brokers or market entities paying STT calculated total income and the tax liability on such income before availing of the rebate under section 88E of the Income Tax Act.
With virtually no reprieve from the tax burden on their pay packages and continuing anomalies and inequities, the new rules for valuation of perquisites announced by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on December 18, 2009 have hugely disappointed millions of salaried employees.
Over the past two months, at least a dozen senior officers of the Income-Tax department, belonging to the elite Indian Revenue Service (IRS), have opted for voluntary retirement, a government scheme that allows them to quit before the statutory retirement age. These officers are likely to end up in the private sector, most likely as consultants, to get around rules that prevent government employees from working within a year of quitting.
The Direct Taxes Code 2009 is now on the back burner. The Union finance ministry has veered round to the view that its bold move to reform direct taxes should be subjected to further scrutiny. Contrary to earlier expectations, therefore, the Direct Taxes Code 2009 will not be presented to Parliament as a Bill along with the Union Budget for 20010-11 on February 26.
The assessee, a co-op credit society, was engaged in providing credit facilities to its members and also marketing the agricultural produce of its members. The assessee had surplus funds which it invested in short-term deposits with banks and govt securities. The question arose whether the said interest earned on the said deposits was “business profits”