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ITR Filing 2026: Important Due Dates, Budget 2026 Updates & Strategies

Income Tax : Budget 2026 has extended the due dates for ITR-3, ITR-4, and revised returns, offering taxpayers greater flexibility. Understandin...

June 10, 2026 216 Views 0 comment Print

Sikkim: India’s Only Income Tax-Free State and the Law Behind It

Income Tax : Relocating to Sikkim does not automatically exempt you from income tax. This article explains who qualifies under Section 10(26AAA...

June 10, 2026 147 Views 0 comment Print

8 Legal Ways to Save Income Tax in India for Business Owners & Freelancers

Income Tax : The article outlines practical methods through which business owners and professionals can legally minimise their tax burden. It h...

June 10, 2026 270 Views 0 comment Print

Section 54 Exemption for Capital Gains on Residential Property Transfer

Income Tax : Section 54 grants exemption on long-term capital gains from the sale of a residential house because the proceeds are reinvested in...

June 10, 2026 96822 Views 4 comments Print

E-Payment of Direct Taxes: Simplifying Tax Payments

Income Tax : The Income-tax Act mandates e-payment of direct taxes for companies and taxpayers covered under Section 44AB, while others may opt...

June 10, 2026 10215 Views 0 comment 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 6040 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 231 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 1602 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 3708 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 3957 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


ITAT Deletes Section 80GGC Disallowance as No Evidence Linked Donation to Accommodation Entry Scheme

Income Tax : The Jodhpur ITAT held that deduction under Section 80GGC cannot be denied merely on allegations against a political party in the a...

June 10, 2026 933 Views 0 comment Print

Settlement Proceedings do not invalidate assessments passed under Court’s interim liberty

Income Tax : Assessment orders passed pursuant to express liberty granted by the High Court during pendency of settlement-related litigation re...

June 10, 2026 84 Views 0 comment Print

Excess Stock Found During Survey Is Business Income, Not Deemed Income u/s 69A: Bangalore ITAT

Income Tax : The ruling emphasizes that undisclosed business receipts and stock arising from an existing business cannot automatically be chara...

June 10, 2026 159 Views 0 comment Print

Bogus Purchase Addition Can’t Be 100% When Sales Are Accepted: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that when sales are accepted and books of account are not rejected, the entire amount of disputed purchases cann...

June 10, 2026 117 Views 0 comment Print

CIT(A) Cannot Dismiss Appeal for Non-Prosecution Without Deciding Merits: ITAT Pune

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...

June 10, 2026 54 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 44991 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 564 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 492 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 165 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 138 Views 0 comment Print


Common Questions on SAHAJ and SUGAM and How these are different from OLD ITR forms?

April 21, 2011 14861 Views 0 comment Print

1. Why are the forms being Modified – Key Imperatives? Centralized Processing Center’s have been set up all over the country with the primary objective of processing returns on a bulk processing basis instead of case by case Processing. CPC would be the fulcrum of faster processing and world class Taxpayer Services. The automated environment at CPC requires forms to be designed in manner which would double the digitization productivity [ Digitization is conversion of manual return forms to Digitized XML Data which is fed to the Processing Engine for Processing]. Some of the problems noticed in Digitization

Royalty received in pursuance to agreement entered into before 1976 is not covered u/s. 115A of the Income Tax Act

April 21, 2011 1453 Views 0 comment Print

Siemens Aktiencesellschaft v. DCIT – ITAT Mumbai held that royalty received by the taxpayer was in pursuance to agreement entered into before 1976 and therefore not covered under Section 1 15A of the Act. The Tribunal has meticulously examined concepts such as novation/recession/modification and alteration as provided in the Contract Act to analyse the substance of the agreement and in conclusion rule that the 1981 agreement was an extension of 1974 agreement.

Income Tax official – Books completely manufactured in diamond trade

April 20, 2011 1174 Views 0 comment Print

A top Income Tax official has said that the diamond trade has one of the highest prevalence of black money, with investigations revealing that books in the sector are “completely manufactured”. “(In) certain areas like real estate or diamond trade there is a lot of circulation of black money…but in the case of diamond merchants, the books are completely manufactured,” Director General of Income Tax (Investigations) B P Gaur told reporters here late last evening.

SC to decide whether to treat interest on DoT dues as operating expenditure

April 20, 2011 1029 Views 0 comment Print

The Supreme Court will decide whether the interest paid on overdues to the Department of Telecom (DoT) can be treated as operating expenditure by operators. A three-judge bench has admitted a petition filed by Vodafone Essar Gujarat and decided to adjudicate whether such interest could be treated as operating expenditure.

Sharad Pawar asks FM to consider income tax exemption to Indian cooperatives

April 20, 2011 936 Views 0 comment Print

Terming cooperatives as one of the strongest pillars of Indian agriculture, Farm Minister Sharad Pawar today said he has asked Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to consider income tax exemption to Indian cooperatives. “I have written a letter to the Finance Minister to look into the issue of I-T exemption to cooperative societies,” Pawar said at a national level meeting with the state cooperative ministers here.

Income tax department to deploy its officials in tax havens to check evasion

April 20, 2011 906 Views 0 comment Print

The income tax department will soon post 10 of its officers in tax haven nations to collect information about alleged tax evasion by Indians from these countries, an official in the finance ministry said. Concerns have been raised in the recent past over suspicion of round tripping or routing of Indians’ illicit money back into the country through tax havens.

Technical proprietary information and pre-qualification rights obtained by assessee cannot be treated as goodwill and assessee is entitled to depreciation on these two items of intangible assets

April 20, 2011 816 Views 0 comment Print

The above four appeals filed by the Revenue, for assessment years 2002-03 to 2005-06, are directed against the common order dated 27-5-2008 passed by the ld. CIT(A)-VIII, Chennai. In all these appeals almost identical issues are involved, therefore, for the sake of convenience and brevity, we are deciding them by a common order.

ITAT rejects RTI on ex-CJI's returns

April 20, 2011 951 Views 0 comment Print

An Income-Tax appellate authority here has upheld the order of Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) not to provide a copy of NHRC chairperson and former CJI K G Balakrishnan’s I-T returns to an RTI applicant. Disposing off an appeal by the RTI applicant, the authority said that to provide a copy of IT return to the appellant either he should be able to establish a “larger public interest” or there should be no objection from the former CJI.

Futures and Options are speculative transactions u/s 43(5). Section 43(5)(d) is not retrospective

April 20, 2011 14885 Views 0 comment Print

Exchange traded derivative transactions carried on by the assessee during AY 2003-04 are speculative transactions covered under Section 43(5) of the Act and the loss incurred in those transactions are liable to be treated as speculative loss and not business loss. We further hold that clause (d) inserted to the proviso to Section 43(5) with effect from 1/4/2006 is prospective in nature and the ITAT was in error in holding that clause (d) to the proviso to Section 43(5) applied retrospectively so as to apply to the transactions carried on by the assessee during AY 2003-04. CIT vs. Bharat R. Ruia (Bombay High Court)

Print Specifications for Income Tax Return Form SAHAJ and SUGAM

April 20, 2011 20166 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax returns 2011 – Only Colour Forms; No Black and White – FOR the new Income Tax returns, No Black and White forms will be accepted and only standard forms with appropriate colors prescribed, fonts used, paper size, paper quality, Bar Code Values will be accepted by the department .

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