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Income Tax : Compare the old and new tax regimes for FY 2025-26 to find out which one suits your financial situation, with details on exemption...
Income Tax : Notification No. 36/2025-Income Tax dated 22nd April 2025. For the first time, certain luxury goods priced above 10 lakh will attr...
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 : 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 Surat ruled that reassessment of deceased person is void ab initio, quashing the order and allowing the appeal in Bharat Ranc...
Income Tax : ITAT Cochin grants 12A registration to Naughty's Pet Sanctuary, ruling against CIT(E)'s decision over trustee honorarium clause....
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 : 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...
Recently, the Himachal Pradesh High Court in the case of CIT v. Maggronic Devices Pvt. Ltd. [2009-TIOL-568-HC-HP-IT] held that payment made by the taxpayer to a Singapore company for outright purchase of plant and product knowhow cannot be considered as ‘Royalty’ within the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961. Accordingly, no tax was required to be deducted while making payment to the Singapore company for acquiring such know-how outside India.
The government is likely to ease the incidence of minimum alternate tax, or MAT, on infrastructure companies. The department of revenue plans to change the proposed direct tax code to exempt these companies from MAT for the first few years since they execute projects with long gestation periods. The code, in its current form, says all companies must pay MAT based on their gross asset value. In the case of infrastructure companies, this is very high since their asset base is huge. “It is oneof the proposals we are looking at,” a senior finance ministry official told.
An Indian company that provides a bank guarantee (BG) against a loan taken by a subsidiary abroad will now have to pay tax here for standing guarantee for its associate, irrespective of whether or not it has received a commission from the latter for the BG. Seven companies which have provided bank guarantees against loans taken by their subsidiaries abroad are already under the tax net of India’s transfer pricing administration, a senior income-tax official said.
The assessee earned a capital profit of Rs. 10.38 crores on sale of rights to immovable property. The said profit was directly credited to the capital reserves in the balance sheet instead of being routed through the Profit & loss account. The accounts of the assessee company were duly certified by the auditors and were also adopted in the AGM. The audited accounts were filed with ROC. In the computation of “book profits” for s. 115JB, the said capital profits were not included.
The scrutiny of returns had been a regular measure to check tax evasion since long. The collection of information for the purpose of making enquiries in the course of such scrutiny assessments is as much important as the assessment proceedings itself. There are various provisions in the Income-tax Act, 1961 for the purpose of collecting information directly from the assessees as also from the others for the purposes of making such enquiries at various stages of assessment proceedings. The findings of such enquiries are utilized for the purposes of completing the assessment proceedings in the case of a particular assessee.
After the judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of ACIT vs. Rajesh Jhaveri Stock Brokers (P) Ltd. delivered on 23-5-2007 and reported at (2007) 291 ITR 500 (SC), a large number of actions are being initiated u/s. 147/148 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (‘the Act’ for short) and often high-pitched Income tax assessments are being made at several places.
Tax Planning :- Tax planning as a concept had at a point of time suffered degradation and for a while seemed to be a euphemism for tax evasion. This was the fall-out of some observations in McDowell’s case, [154 ITR 148 (SC)] especially in the separate opinion of Justice Chinnappa Reddy. But the libel did not stay too long. Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Justice of the Supreme Court salvaged its respectability by observing tax avoidance by genuine transactions is not evil.
In a path-breaking judgment, the Bombay high court has held that even a single dissenting member of a cooperative housing society cannot be thrown out by a builder based on a mere development agreement with the society and a majority of the flat owners in it for redevelopment of the building.
A senior revenue department official told , There are three issues on which a political call is required. These are: the exempt-exempt- tax regime for retirement savings, the 2 per cent minimum alternate tax on gross tax assets of companies and the proposal to tax charitable organisations at 15 per cent. Hectic lobbying by interest groups is still on for dilution or an altogether elimination of these proposals from the final draft.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday indicated the government could rewrite the new direct tax code to make it acceptable to all stakeholders. On the tax code, he said, the government would attempt to build consensus on the proposals. “I have laid a certain proposal in the form of a direct tax code. But it is not the Bhagwad Gita and it cannot be said that it cannot be changed,” he added.
