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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


Finmin refused to relax FBT norms for exporters

March 8, 2009 510 Views 0 comment Print

The Finance Ministry has turned down a Commerce Ministry proposal to provide relaxation to exporters, reeling under the impact of the global financial meltdown, from payment of FBT, saying such benefits cannot be granted to one section of taxpayers. The issue of relaxing the Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) norms for foreign travel undertaken for export […]

Director not liable for Company's taxes unless found guilty of misfeasance

March 8, 2009 18508 Views 0 comment Print

Under company law, a director of a company is not personally liable for the company’s debts unless a court of competent jurisdiction finds him guilty of misfeasance. Company law proceeds on the basic principle of jurisprudence that a director is presumed to be innocent unless he is proved to be otherwise. These salient principles of […]

Income Tax raids on electricity department offices

March 6, 2009 812 Views 0 comment Print

The income-tax department has commenced a series of raids on divisions of the state’s electricity department unofficially citing irregularities in tax deduction at source (TDS), while the excise and customs department has sought details on sale of power to consumers. Officials in the electricity department told TOI that they received notices from the IT department […]

Bona fide reason to believe that there is escapement of income is sufficient for issue of notice under section 148

March 6, 2009 1204 Views 0 comment Print

19. As per our considered view, at the time of issue of notice, it is sufficient that prima-facie reasons and material should be with Assessing Officer that there is escapement of some income. At the time of issue of notice the Assessing Officer is not required to conclusively establish that there is escapement of income, mere bona-fide reason to believe that there is escapement of income is sufficient for issue of notice

Imposition of penalty on basis of findings given in assessment proceedings

March 6, 2009 999 Views 0 comment Print

7. We have carefully considered the rival submissions and have also perused the materials available on record. The decisions cited at the time of hearing of appeal were duly considered. It is apparent from the record that the assessee company had debited a sum of Rs.2,37,370/ – under the head `travelling expenses’ and claimed the above expenditure as a business expenditure.

When an expenditure payable is waived subsequently, resulting in refund or benefit to the assessee, it is taxable as income

March 6, 2009 852 Views 0 comment Print

The accent of the statute is ‘an allowance or deduction has been made in the assessment for any year in respect of loss, expenditure or trading liability’. The condition for applying Section 41(1) is the allowance of deduction earlier and subjecting it to tax later on its waiver. Explanation 1 to Section 41(1) covers even unilateral transfer of liability by write off in the books of account by the taxpayer.

Amount excluded from export turnover should also be excluded from total turnover for purposes of sections 10A or 10B of IT Act, 1961

March 6, 2009 1627 Views 0 comment Print

25. We now proceed to examine the contention of the revenue that the principle of parity between export turnover and total turnover was rejected by the Supreme Court in Nair’s case (supra). In this case the narrow dispute which arose for determination was whether the department was right in including the processing charges received by the assessee in the total turnover while arriving at the export profits u/s.80HHC(3)

I-T Department searches at Anand Jain’s home, offices

March 6, 2009 756 Views 0 comment Print

The I-T search was conducted simultaneously at Jain’s residence at Sterling Apartments and Jai Corp.’s corporate office at Embassy Centre, Nariman Point, as well as its office at the Navi Mumbai SEZ The investigation wing of the income tax (I-T) department in Mumbai on Thursday searched the offices and residence of Anand Jain, chairman of […]

IT Department in Mumbai yet to recover 1000 Crore Self Assessment Tax

March 6, 2009 636 Views 0 comment Print

The Mumbai income tax department has detected that self assessment tax worth Rs 1,000 crore has not been paid since September 2008. Self assessment tax is the amount payable by the taxpayer’s own admission in the return filed by him. Despite this information, many taxpayers have not paid the tax till now. Self assessment return […]

Notification No. 23/2009 – Income Tax Dated 5/3/2009

March 5, 2009 394 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 23/2009 – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by the clause (22B) of section 10 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby specifies the “The Press Trust of India Limited, New Delhi” as a news agency set up in India solely for collection and distribution of news, for the purposes of the said clause for the assessment year 2009-2010 to 2011-2012

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