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Income Tax : Budget 2026 has extended the due dates for ITR-3, ITR-4, and revised returns, offering taxpayers greater flexibility. Understandin...
Income Tax : Relocating to Sikkim does not automatically exempt you from income tax. This article explains who qualifies under Section 10(26AAA...
Income Tax : The article outlines practical methods through which business owners and professionals can legally minimise their tax burden. It h...
Income Tax : Section 54 grants exemption on long-term capital gains from the sale of a residential house because the proceeds are reinvested in...
Income Tax : The Income-tax Act mandates e-payment of direct taxes for companies and taxpayers covered under Section 44AB, while others may opt...
Income Tax : The CBI apprehended an Income Tax Office Superintendent in Odisha after he was allegedly caught accepting a bribe for deleting a d...
Income Tax : The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal has proposed a priority disposal mechanism for appeals filed up to and including 2022 in respons...
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...
Income Tax : Association requested CBDT to rationalize CASS 2026 case selection considering the administrative burden caused by implementation ...
Income Tax : KSCAA requested the CBDT to release e-filing utilities and schemas for AY 2026-27 without delay, stating that pending utilities ar...
Income Tax : The Jodhpur ITAT held that deduction under Section 80GGC cannot be denied merely on allegations against a political party in the a...
Income Tax : Assessment orders passed pursuant to express liberty granted by the High Court during pendency of settlement-related litigation re...
Income Tax : The ruling emphasizes that undisclosed business receipts and stock arising from an existing business cannot automatically be chara...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that when sales are accepted and books of account are not rejected, the entire amount of disputed purchases cann...
Income Tax : The ITAT Pune held that the CIT(A)/NFAC cannot dismiss an appeal merely for non-prosecution without adjudicating the issues on mer...
Income Tax : The CBDT has identified specific categories of taxpayers whose returns will be compulsorily selected for complete scrutiny during ...
Income Tax : The Ordinance exempts interest income and capital gains arising from Government securities for Foreign Institutional Investors and...
Income Tax : The Central Government has specified infrastructure sub-sectors from the Updated Harmonised Master List as eligible businesses und...
Income Tax : CBDT has granted scientific research approval under the Income-tax Act, 2025, enabling eligible donations to qualify for tax benef...
Income Tax : CBDT has granted scientific research approval under the Income-tax Act, 2025, allowing eligible donations to qualify for tax benef...
The Ministry of Revenue has intimated that some posts of Members of the Settlement Commission are vacant and due to be filled shortly. As per the Settlement Commission (Income Tax/ Wealth Tax) (Recruitment and Conditions of Service of Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Members) Amendment Rules, 2007 applicable to the said post, only serving Chief Commissioners of Income-tax or officers of equivalent rank are eligible to apply for these posts.
The amended Indo-Swiss taxation treaty has came into effect, a development that will allow India to seek specific information on black money and tax evasion cases dating back to January 1, 2011. The revised taxation pact between the two countries came into force yesterday, at a time when the black money issue has triggered an intense political debate in India.
SMS BASED SERVICE FOR CHALLAN STATUS – NSDL provides CIN (Challan Identification Number) based view of direct tax challans to taxpayers to know the status of challan on its web-site. In addition to the above facility, NSDL has launched a Short Message Service (SMS) based facility to know the status of its challans. The procedure for availing this facility is as under:
Taxpayers can view status of refund 10 days after their refund has been sent by the Assessing Officer to the Refund Banker – by entering ‘PAN’ and ‘Assessment Year’ below. Status of ‘paid’ refund, being paid other than through ‘Refund Banker,’ can also be viewed at www.tin-nsdl.com by entering the ‘PAN’ and ‘Assessment Year’ below. ‘Refund paid’ status is also being reflected in the ‘Tax Credit Statements’ in Form 26AS.
National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) processes PAN and TAN applications on behalf of Income Tax Department. With a view to keep the applicant updated about the status of his application, NSDL has launched a Short Message Service (SMS) based facility. The applicant can send an SMS to 53030 with a message containing the word PAN followed by a space and the 15-digit acknowledgement number provided at the time of submission of application i.e., PAN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT NUMBER (e.g., PAN 123456789012345 – this is an illustrative acknowledgement number. Actual acknowledgement number should be provided in the SMS).
Notification No. 55/2011 – Income Tax [F.NO. 203/4/2011/ITA-II] – It is hereby notified for general information that the organization Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan, Jodhpur 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 2011-12 and onwards in the category of ‘Other Institution’, engaged in research activities subject to the following conditions, namely:-
Concerned over the CBDT panel’s proposal to allow reopening of tax filings of the past 16 years, experts and lawyers said it would only result in harassment of assessees without yielding any substantial gains to the exchequer.
Premiums paid for Life insurance – Deduction under Section 80C Category of assesses allowed deduction: Individual assessee and Hindu Undivided Family assessee. Eligible Savings: Premiums paid or deposited by assessee to effect or to keep in force insurance on the life of following persons: In case of individual assessee – Himself/Herself, spouse, children of such […]
As we all know anonymous donations received by a trust are taxable, so every charitable trust has to keep the records of donation received which includes keeping the name, address and PAN of donee. If donations are received towards corpus than trust should obtain from donee an instruction mentioning his intention to treat the donation given by him as towards corpus of the trust. Given below is the format of instruction given by donee to trust to treat the donation given by him as towards the corpus fund:-
Government plans to allow reopening of income tax returns of past 16 years of suspected assessees, as against 6 years at present. The move is aimed at strengthening the mechanism to investigate black money cases. A Finance Ministry official said in New Delhi that extending the period of reopening returns is to unearth undisclosed income […]
