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Section 62(4) of Income-tax Act 2025: Closed List of Specified Professions Remains Unreformed

Income Tax : The Income-tax Act, 2025 continues the old specified professions framework without addressing longstanding classification issues. ...

June 11, 2026 105 Views 0 comment Print

SC Order Settled the issue of Taxability of International Software Supply Transactions?

Income Tax : The Supreme Court dismissed the Revenue's review petitions and reiterated that payments for off-the-shelf software do not constitu...

June 11, 2026 138 Views 0 comment Print

Period of limitation prescribed under Income-tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : A detailed overview of limitation periods prescribed under the Income-tax Act reveals how missing statutory deadlines can lead to ...

June 11, 2026 5691 Views 1 comment Print

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 810 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 279 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 6070 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 1626 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 3744 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 3969 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


ITAT Deletes Section 69 Addition as Seized Loose Document Lacked Corroborative Evidence

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that an incomplete document recovered from an employee's laptop could not justify an addition under Section 69 w...

June 11, 2026 57 Views 0 comment Print

Capital Spending on School Infrastructure is Application of Income: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : The ITAT held that once registration under Section 12AB was ultimately granted on the basis of the original application, the doctr...

June 11, 2026 63 Views 0 comment Print

CA Acting as Conduit for Clients’ Tax Payments Cannot Be Taxed on Deposits: ITAT Chennai

Income Tax : The ITAT Chennai ruled that funds received by a Chartered Accountant for remitting clients' taxes could not be treated as unexplai...

June 11, 2026 1491 Views 0 comment Print

Revised Return Not Essential Before Appellate Authorities for Additional Tax Claims

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held that appellate forums can entertain additional claims even without a revised return. The matter was remanded to t...

June 11, 2026 51 Views 0 comment Print

Daughter’s Bank Account Can’t Be Frozen for Father’s Tax Dues: Telangana HC

Income Tax : The Telangana High Court held that recovery proceedings under Section 226(3) cannot automatically extend to a daughter's bank acco...

June 11, 2026 102 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 45540 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 582 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 501 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


In determining head for profit/loss on sale of shares intention of assessee also need to be looked into

September 23, 2009 790 Views 0 comment Print

The main issue involved in these appeals is whether the loss shown by the assessee is assessable under the head income from business as claimed by the assessee company or under the head income from other sources as held by the authorities below.

Income Tax Refund for A.Y. 2008-09 may get delayed

September 23, 2009 1445 Views 0 comment Print

Even as income-tax payers grapple with non-acceptance of their returns, it’s surely not a good time to expect refunds. Refunds across the country will be enormously delayed as the software at the new Centralised Processing Centre (CPC) of the I-T department is yet to be rid of bugs. The net result is that processing tax returns […]

Payments made to retiring partners not allowable as it is application of firms income

September 22, 2009 2445 Views 0 comment Print

The expenditure incurred by the assessee by way of payments to the retiring partners is only an application of its income, which is on capital account and not allowable as a deduction.

Allowability of depreciation on stock exchange membership card

September 22, 2009 855 Views 0 comment Print

In all the appeals before us, the specific case of the assesses is that the BSE card acquired by them on or after 1/4/1998 is an intangible asset covered under the expression ‘licences’ or alternatively covered under the expression ‘any other business or commercial rights of similar nature’ enumerated in section 32(1)(ii) of the Act and therefore, depreciation is allowable on the BSE card acquired by them.

Renovation expenses incurred on leased premises and allowability of same as revenue

September 22, 2009 4467 Views 0 comment Print

It is difficult to conceive that items like carpet etc., would fall in the category of items which are considered in the case of Madras Auto Service (supra). In particular, the assessee has not placed any material, either before the tax authorities or before us to show that the lump-sum payment in the form of renovation expenses has benefited the assessee in the form of reduction in the revenue expenditure over a period of years by virtue of low rentals or otherwise.

Co-operative credit society is not a co-operative bank and not entitled to any deduction u/s. 80P(2)(a)(i) as a bank

September 22, 2009 15905 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee co-operative society did not conform to the stipulation and limitation of the types of activities in which a banking company is allowed to engage as per the Banking’ Regulation Act, 1949.

Ayurvedic doctor can claim deduction U/s. 80R even if he was not having permission to practice in foreign country

September 22, 2009 1470 Views 0 comment Print

In our-view, the receipts do satisfy the conditions mentioned in section 80R that the services are rendered in his capacity as a teacher or research worker in such Institution, Association of Body. The amounts are not his professional receipts as he has no permission to practise in a foreign country.

Amendment in E-Furnishing of Return of Income Scheme, 2007

September 22, 2009 1705 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 70/2009 – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1B) of section 139 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), vide S.O. 1281(E) dated the 27th July, 2007, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II,

IT exemption u/s 11 cannot be denied merely on the grounds that the assessee serves alcohol in the club

September 22, 2009 1180 Views 0 comment Print

The claim of exemption u/s 11 cannot be denied merely based on the flimsy grounds that the assessee serves alcohol to the members and their friends in the club. Serving alcohol is part and parcel of the activities of any club and it is an integral part of the activities of the club.

Income-tax department unearthed a major scam involving duping of 60,000 customers

September 21, 2009 648 Views 0 comment Print

THE Income-tax department has unearthed a major scam involving duping of 60,000 customers by an Orissa-based real estate company through a multi-level marketing cum incentive scheme. The tax sleuths under the direction of the Central Board of Direct Taxes’ (CBDT) investigation wing have frozen several accounts of the company and recovered about Rs 6.5 crore.

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