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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 Tribunal held that an inadvertent mistake in Schedule 112A relating to the acquisition period of mutual fund units could be re...
Income Tax : The Court held that reassessment proceedings cannot be sustained merely on the basis of an unsigned and unauthenticated loose pape...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi set aside the assessment after finding that the assessees additional evidence had not been properly scrutinized by the ...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that delayed filing of Form 10-IC should not defeat the assessee's substantive right to opt for the concessional...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that deduction of tax under Section 194J cannot automatically classify receipts as professional income. Tax auth...
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...
Mr Palanimanickam noted that the Department’s efficiency had to be benchmarked by the satisfaction level of the users. He highlighted that a major source of dissatisfaction of income-tax assessees is with respect to refund of taxes. “The time taken to grant refunds is very high when compared to international standards,” the Minister said, adding that the department should set up a task force to revamp the system of tax refunds.
The BJP today demanded that the income tax department, which has already assessed the documents seized in connection with the multi-crore money laundering scam involving former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, should submit a copy of its report to the CBI.
Notification No. 43/2010-Income Tax Notification:-The Central Board of Direct Taxes (“CBDT”) has extended the enhanced exemption limit of INR 10 lakhs to the employees of companies who do not fall under the provisions of the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972. The notification will be effective from 24 May 2010.
Even as Larsen and Toubro withdrew its proposal for an IT/ITeS Special Economic Zone (SEZ) citing uncertainty in tax treatment towards SEZs in the Direct Taxes Code (DTC), the Commerce Ministry has said the Finance Ministry is yet to consult it on the continuity of fiscal sops in the DTC to these tax-free zones.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee asked the revenue department to aim for a higher direct tax collection. The government had budgeted this year’s revenue collections at Rs 4,30,000 crore, against the revised target of Rs 3,87,000 crore last year.
Notification No. 43/2010-Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-clause (iii) of clause (10) of section 10 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), and in supersession of Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, notification no. S.O. 287 dated the 20th January, 1999 the Central Government, having regard to the maximum amount of any gratuity payable to its employees, hereby specifies ten lakh rupees as the limit for the purpose of the said sub-clause in relation to the employees who retire or become incapacitated prior to such retirement or die on or after the 24th day of May, 2010 or whose employment is terminated on or after the said date.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes has approved notification of ten lakh rupees as the maximum amount of gratuity entitled to exemption under sub-clause (iii) of clause (10) of section 10 of the Income Tax Act 1961. The notification will be applicable to employees who retire, or become incapacitated before retirement, or expire, or whose services are terminated, on or after the 24th May 2010.
The only issue arising in the appeal was whether while computing the income from capital gains, the fair market value of the property on the date of sale could be adopted as against the sale consideration received by the assessee. In the facts of the instant case, the assessee had sold the property for a total consideration of Rs. 15.25 lakhs. The said value of consideration was accepted by the registering authorities and was not disturbed. The provisions of section 50C were neither applicable nor applied by the Assessing Officer.
Close on the heels of Vodafone-Essar contesting a tax case in the Bombay High Court, tax sleuths have snared another multi-national company for tax evasion. This time, French pharma firm Sanofi Aventis, that acquired India’s Shantha Biotech last year, has been asked to pay Rs 650 crore as capital gains tax to the Indian government.
The Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, has asked the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to consider hiving off its technology-driven taxpayer services to a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) that could better deliver such services in the public-private-partnership (PPP) mode.
