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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 144 Views 1 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 201 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 897 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 300 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 1632 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 3747 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 3975 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 78 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 84 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 3786 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 60 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 132 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 45669 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


Weighted deduction for sum paid to a company to be used by such company for scientific research

March 27, 2009 1116 Views 0 comment Print

Circular No. 1/2009 – Income Tax 10.1 In order to encourage the outsourcing of scientific research, a new clause (iia) in sub-section (1) of section 35 of the Income-tax Act has been inserted to allow a weighted deduction of 125 per cent of the amount paid by a person to an approved company to be used for scientific research subject to prescribed conditions. To avoid multiple claims of deduction by a company approved to receive such

Expenses paid or credited in the month of March are allowable if TDS paid on or before due date of filing Income Tax Return

March 27, 2009 739 Views 0 comment Print

Circular No.1/2009 – Income Tax 12.1 As per the provisions of sub-clause (ia) of clause (a) of section 40, any interest, commission, brokerage, fees for professional services, fees for technical service payable to a resident, or amounts payable to a contractor or sub-contractor, being resident, for carrying out any work, rent and royalty on which tax is deductible at source and such tax has not been deducted or, after deduction

Preliminary expenses after commencement of business allowed to non industrial undertaking too

March 27, 2009 1264 Views 0 comment Print

Circular No. 1/2009 – Income Tax 11.1 Section 35D provides for deduction of certain specified preliminary expenses. After the commencement of business, the deduction was being allowed to only an industrial undertaking or unit. In order to provide a level playing field to the services sector, the section has been amended to provide the benefit of amortization to all assessees after commencement of his business, in connection with the

I-T department moved SC challenging relief given by Bombay HC seven and half year back to Amitabh Bachchan in a case related to KBC

March 27, 2009 957 Views 0 comment Print

In what may strain the already troubled relations between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress, the Income Tax (I-T) department on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court challenging a seven-month-old order of the Bombay high court, which gave relief to superstar Amitabh Bachchan in a case related to Kaun Banega Crorepati. The move to appeal against […]

Indian subsidiaries of foreign companies employing expatriates to deduct tax at source on their entire salary

March 27, 2009 1570 Views 0 comment Print

The taxman has finally caught up with expatriate employees. The Supreme Court today directed Indian subsidiaries of foreign companies employing expatriates to deduct tax at source on their entire salary just as domestic companies do.

Tribunal can set aside the order of CIT Appeal only after considering the evidence and material on record

March 26, 2009 1182 Views 0 comment Print

This appeal came before me as Third Member to express my opinion on the following question:- “Whether in view of the facts and circumstances, the issue relatable to computation of deduction under section 801B, the order of the Id. CIT(A) could be reversed and that of the Assessing Officer could be restored or matter can be set aside and remitted back to the file of the Assessing Officer for reconsideration?

Morgan Stanley Advantage Services Pvt. Ltd. Vs. ITO (ITAT Mumbai)

March 25, 2009 1378 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee having applied for extension and having completed all the formalities; and in response the Reserve Bank of India having taken the remittances on record, the non-issue of a formal letter for approval, in our view, cannot be held against the assessee for none of its faults. The assessee having applied for extension and the same having been impliedly granted in substance, the benefit of section 10A has got to be allowed to the assessee on the ground that the extension is deemed to have been granted.

CBDT restores TDS/TCS rules prevailing prior to 1 April 2009

March 25, 2009 919 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 31/2009 – Income Tax The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) had last year amended Rules 30, 31, 31A, 31AA, 37A, 37CA and 37D (rules) pertaining to tax deducted/collected at source (TDS/TCS) vide Notification No.31/2009 dated 25 March 2009. The amended rules were to come into force from 1 April 2009. The most significant features of the amended rules were (a) Mandatory electronic payment of TDS/TCS in new challan Form 17 for all deductors/collectors.

Notification No. 858 – Income Tax Dated 25/3/2009

March 25, 2009 5790 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 858/2009 – Income Tax The Board has amended the rules relating to Tax Deduction at Source (TDS) and Tax Collected at Source (TCS) vide Notification No. S.O.858 (E) dated 25th March 2009

Payment for transfer of right to use software loaded on hardware – not royalty

March 25, 2009 1669 Views 0 comment Print

Lucent Technologies International Inc. 1(“the assessee”) is a company incorporated in the USA. It is a tax resident of USA. It is a leading supplier of hardware and software used for GSM cellular radio telephone system. The assessee had supplied telecommunications hardware and software to its customers in India through its subsidiary Lucent Technologies India Limited (“LTIL”) (formerly known as AT&T India Private Limited).

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