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Latest Changes in ITR-1, ITR-2 & ITR-4 for A.Y. 2026-27

Income Tax : The revised ITR forms for AY 2026-27 introduce new tax slabs, expanded ITR eligibility, and enhanced disclosure requirements. Unde...

June 13, 2026 615 Views 0 comment Print

Daily Backup Dilemma: Decoding “Electronic Mode” vs. “Computer System” under Income Tax Act 2025.

Income Tax : The article argues that the daily backup requirement under Rule 46(8) applies only to books maintained in electronic mode, not mer...

June 13, 2026 4389 Views 0 comment Print

Restricted Stock Units Taxation in India: Foreign Tax Credit, Form 67 & Reporting

Income Tax : Judicial authorities have held that Foreign Tax Credit is a substantive right and cannot be denied merely due to procedural delays...

June 13, 2026 399 Views 0 comment Print

Tax Treatment of Cash Credit U/s. 68, 69, 69A, 69B, 69C and 69D

Income Tax : This guide explains how unexplained cash credits under Section 68 and related provisions can attract steep taxation under Section ...

June 13, 2026 193875 Views 1 comment Print

Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) & Alternate Minimum Tax (AMT)

Income Tax : The document outlines how MAT and AMT ensure that companies and eligible non-corporate taxpayers pay a minimum level of income tax...

June 13, 2026 107195 Views 5 comments Print


Latest News


Income Tax Superintendent Caught by CBI in Bribery Case Linked to PAN Deletion

Income Tax : The CBI apprehended an Income Tax Office Superintendent in Odisha after he was allegedly caught accepting a bribe for deleting a d...

June 6, 2026 6094 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Prioritizes Old Appeals as Rising Pendency Requires Urgent Disposal Measures

Income Tax : The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal has proposed a priority disposal mechanism for appeals filed up to and including 2022 in respons...

June 5, 2026 255 Views 0 comment Print

Request for Rationalisation and Merger of TDS Return Codes 1023 & 1024

Income Tax : A representation has urged CBDT to merge TDS return codes 1023 and 1024, arguing that both apply to the same contract payments wit...

June 4, 2026 1698 Views 0 comment Print

Reduce CASS 2026 Scrutiny Cases Due to New Income Tax Act Transition Challenges: ITGOA

Income Tax : Association requested CBDT to rationalize CASS 2026 case selection considering the administrative burden caused by implementation ...

May 21, 2026 3804 Views 1 comment Print

Representation for timely release of e-filing utilities for ITR for AY 2026-27

Income Tax : KSCAA requested the CBDT to release e-filing utilities and schemas for AY 2026-27 without delay, stating that pending utilities ar...

May 13, 2026 3978 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Bogus LTCG Addition Sustained as Tribunal Finds Evidence of Fabricated Share Purchase Records

Income Tax : The Delhi ITAT sustained the addition arising from the sale of listed shares after finding discrepancies in purchase records, incl...

June 14, 2026 147 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Lucknow Allows Set-Off of Spouse’s F&O Losses Arising From Gifted Funds

Income Tax : ITAT Lucknow held that derivative losses incurred by a spouse using funds gifted by the assessee can be clubbed and set off under ...

June 14, 2026 585 Views 0 comment Print

JAO Lacked Jurisdiction to Issue Section 148 Notice: Rajasthan HC

Income Tax : While recognising that earlier judgments had invalidated JAO-issued notices, the Court avoided passing orders that would make the ...

June 14, 2026 228 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Directs GP-Based Addition as Jewellery Purchases Formed Part of Sales & Closing Stock

Income Tax : The Delhi ITAT held that where purchases are reflected in accepted sales and closing stock, the entire purchase amount cannot be d...

June 14, 2026 120 Views 0 comment Print

Faceless Reassessment Amounting to Best Judgment Assessment Can Be Remitted by CIT(A)

Income Tax : The Delhi ITAT held that repeated non-compliance with statutory notices transformed the reassessment into a best judgment assessme...

June 14, 2026 69 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


CBDT Issues Complete Income Tax Scrutiny Guidelines for FY 2026-27

Income Tax : The CBDT has identified specific categories of taxpayers whose returns will be compulsorily selected for complete scrutiny during ...

June 7, 2026 47565 Views 1 comment Print

Income-Tax (Amendment) Commencement Ordinance, 2026

Income Tax : The Ordinance exempts interest income and capital gains arising from Government securities for Foreign Institutional Investors and...

June 6, 2026 645 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT Notifies Infrastructure Sub-Sectors as Eligible Businesses Under Income Tax Act 2025

Income Tax : The Central Government has specified infrastructure sub-sectors from the Updated Harmonised Master List as eligible businesses und...

June 2, 2026 522 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT Approves National Institute of Advanced Studies as Scientific Research Institution  

Income Tax : CBDT has granted scientific research approval under the Income-tax Act, 2025, enabling eligible donations to qualify for tax benef...

May 30, 2026 195 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT Approves S. Nijalingappa Sugar Institute for Scientific Research Tax Benefit Eligibility 

Income Tax : CBDT has granted scientific research approval under the Income-tax Act, 2025, allowing eligible donations to qualify for tax benef...

May 30, 2026 159 Views 0 comment Print


Online Tracking Facility to Check Corruption in Income Tax Refunds

November 24, 2012 4488 Views 0 comment Print

Instances of alleged corruption for settlement of refund claims and complaints come to notice from time to time. Whenever any such instance or complaints comes to notice, the same is verified and if it is found to be correct, the concerned officers/officials have to face penal consequences depending on the facts and circumstances of the case.

IT – Control on count of Tax Audits, No Option to download Final Acknowledgment

November 24, 2012 5952 Views 0 comment Print

Government has put the facility for CAs to upload 3CA, 3CB, 3CD etc. If Govt. makes upload of the same compulsory from AY 2013-14 by making appropriate rules under I T Rules, 1962, then we will be able to track – how many reports are filed with the department in our name?

Registration to a trust can be denied if it was charging fees for citizen services in addition to statutory fees

November 23, 2012 1319 Views 0 comment Print

The present society is doing its business and charging huge fees from the public which was in addition to the prescribed fee of the Punjab Government. Even otherwise, the fees charged by the present society is in addition to the burden forced upon the common-man. Because of this service has to be rendered by the Punjab Government free of cost to the public against the fee prescribed in the chart as reproduced in the foregoing paragraphs.

Providing adequate support staff to all assessment units – CBDT

November 23, 2012 1787 Views 0 comment Print

Assessment officers of many charges have conveyed to the Board that they are not being provided any secretarial assistance or other office help and they are left with no option but to make private arrangement to finalise their assessment orders and other time bound matters.

TP – Super profit making or Restructured Companies cannot be taken as comparables for computing ALP

November 23, 2012 2098 Views 0 comment Print

It was held that :- (a) Companies with extra-ordinary circumstances, like those which suffered events like merger/de-merger, impacting the financial results, could not be treated as comparables. (b) Companies having supernormal profit cannot be considered as comparable; (c) Companies which are functionally dissimilar cannot be taken as comparables. (d) Companies acting merely as intermediary having outsourced its activity cannot be considered as comparable.

Taxability of Share Profit of Assessee maintaining separate investment and trading portfolio

November 23, 2012 2618 Views 0 comment Print

There is no dispute that the assessee is maintaining two separate portfolios i.e. investment portfolio and trading portfolio. The A.O. has admitted the said position consistently in the past. It is pointed out that the shares in question which are subject matter of short term capital gain and long term capital gain are part of the investment port folios and were not part of the trading portfolio.

Extension of time to submit ITR-V cannot validate a time-barred S.143(2) notice

November 23, 2012 2282 Views 0 comment Print

The scheme frame by the CBDT clearly says that where the return was filed electronically with digital signature the acknowledgment generated electronically shall be evidence for filing of the return. Wherever, the return was filed electronically without digital signature, on successful transmission, the computer shall generate acknowledgement in form ITR-V.

No addition to income for festival discount given, if the same is Practice in Industry

November 23, 2012 1168 Views 0 comment Print

The question, whether the above difference between the fair market price and the concessional price should or should not be added to the total income of the assessee(s) Society, needs to be re-looked by Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) [for short, ‘CIT(A)’]. Apart from the afore-stated question, CIT(A) would take into account, whether the above-mentioned practice of selling sugar at concessional rate has become the practice or custom in the Co-operative Sugar Industry?;

Regulatory function performed by BIS is not a business activity

November 23, 2012 2827 Views 0 comment Print

Statutory bodies (including BIS) are empowered to frame rules or regulations, exercise coercive powers, including inspection, raids; they possess search and seizure powers and are invariably subjected to Parliamentary or legislative oversight. The primary object for setting up such regulatory bodies would be to ensure general public utility.

Assessee can resort to section 264 proceedings, even if he has approached appellate authority

November 23, 2012 6213 Views 0 comment Print

The penalty was based on certain quantum additions. Such additions came to be deleted by the Commissioner(Appeals). Further appeal by Revenue before the Tribunal was rejected. When the Commissioner was deciding the revision petition of the assessee, what was prevailing was the order of the Tribunal.

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