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Income Tax : The Income-tax Act, 2025 continues the old specified professions framework without addressing longstanding classification issues. ...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court dismissed the Revenue's review petitions and reiterated that payments for off-the-shelf software do not constitu...
Income Tax : A detailed overview of limitation periods prescribed under the Income-tax Act reveals how missing statutory deadlines can lead to ...
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 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 incomplete document recovered from an employee's laptop could not justify an addition under Section 69 w...
Income Tax : The ITAT held that once registration under Section 12AB was ultimately granted on the basis of the original application, the doctr...
Income Tax : The ITAT Chennai ruled that funds received by a Chartered Accountant for remitting clients' taxes could not be treated as unexplai...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held that appellate forums can entertain additional claims even without a revised return. The matter was remanded to t...
Income Tax : The Telangana High Court held that recovery proceedings under Section 226(3) cannot automatically extend to a daughter's bank acco...
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...
This article summarizes a recent ruling of the Mumbai Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) [2009-TIOL-707-ITAT-MUM] in the case of Cipla Investments Ltd. (Taxpayer) on taxability of waiver of loan. The ITAT held that since the loan received was on capital account, its subsequent waiver too was on capital account. Hence, the loan waived was not liable to be taxed as profits and gains from its business (business income) under the provisions of the Indian Tax Law (ITL). The ITAT also held that waiver would not be taxable as business income if a taxpayer was not allowed deduction of the loan amount earlier.
As per section 17 of the Indian Registration Act, 1908 any documents related to immovable property exceeding worth Rs.100/- needs to be compulsorily registered. This being a central Act and is being implemented by the state government as per the special power given to the state government. Further, the state government is also empowered to levy the registration fees by issuing necessary notifications. The registration fee is charged as a service charge and not as a part of taxes to increase the revenue.
These alerts relate to related party transactions, non-payment of deposits, etc. In reply to an unstarred question in the Lok Sabha today, Minister of Corporate Affairs, Shri Salman Khurshid said that the Registrars of Companies and the regional directorates, have also been involved in this exercise. He also informed the House that strengthening of MCA-21 System is an on-going exercise and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs takes steps on regular basis to update and modify the system according to requirements.
Notification No. 84/2009 – Income Tax 13. Rectification of mistake or error.- After the issue of directions under rule 10, if nay mistake or error is apparent in such direction, the panel may, suo motu, or on an application from the eligible assessee or the assessing officer, rectify such mistake or error, and also direct the assessing officer to modify the assessment order accordingly.14. Appeal against Assessment Order, – Any appeal against the Assessment Order passed in pursuance of the directions of the panel shall be filed before the Appellate Tribunal in Form No. 36B.
We have considered the rival contentions, relevant record and various decisions relied upon by both the parties. The undisputed factual position emerging out of the record is that in the case of first assessee in ITA Nos.826 & 827/09 the return of income for the assessment year 2003-04 was filed on due date but the return of income for
Section 46(2) provides that when a shareholder receives money or any other asset from a company on its liquidation, then such shareholder shall be charged to capital gains tax. This capital gain is on account of transfer of shares effected by extinguishment of rights in the shares. The section further provides
TDS rates in case of Section 194-C and 194-I gets simplified this year. With several deductors requesting the department to ease the rates in these cases, department has finally take a call to streamline these rates.Contract Payments:Earlier, contract payments were attracting 2% TDS rate. If such contract is an advertisement contract then it was charged at 1%. Also all sub contracts were charged at 1% TDS rate.
Finance Act (2) of 2009 comes with major amendment in TDS provisions, where it withdraws additional deductions of surcharge and cess for Non-Salaried, Resident Payments. This would give a slight relax to the deductors in calculating the rate of tax. Applicable only on Non-Salaried, Resident Payments.The withdrawal of Surcharge and Cess is applicable only for Non Salaried payments, made to Indian Residents.
In the present scenario, tax is a burden imposed by law. Since our present state rest on the Principles of Rule of Law, the tax administration does not remain a mere revenue collection exercise, it take the shape of administration of a branch of law. Thus the ideal taxation is execution of a well defined law with defined burden, legal-procedural-financial, on the subjects. When such law is administered by an inefficient and corrupt institution, it does not result in merely less collection of revenue but erosion of subject’s faith in the existence of Rule of Law.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and 926 computerized branches of public and private sector banks will receive advance income tax in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, apex bank said in a statement.These arrangements have been made for the convenience of the income tax assesses. Of the 926 bank branches 862 branches are public sector bank branches, 35 HDFC bank branches, 10 ICICI bank branches and 19 AXIS bank branches.
