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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 135 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 192 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 294 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 75 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 81 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 3579 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 129 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 45663 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


Income-Tax department is scrutinising companies that have set up subsidiaries or units in SEZ

February 8, 2009 472 Views 0 comment Print

The Income-Tax department is scrutinising companies that have set up subsidiaries or units in special economic zones (SEZ) after it foundthat many of these firms were using their SEZ operations as a vehicle for claiming undue tax benefits. The modus operandi adopted by a number of companies is to manipulate the accounts to transfer the […]

Kolkata Income Tax (Investigation Wing) reports seizure of Rs 65 Cr cash

February 7, 2009 2861 Views 4 comments Print

The current financial year 2008-09 the Investigation Wing of the Income Tax Department, Kolkata, has so far seized unaccounted cash of Rs 65 Crore and other assets to the tune of Rs 11 Cr. Multiple searches have led to disclosure of income to the tune of Rs 360 Cr so far. Some of the noteworthy […]

Cabinet gives nod to CBDT to set up centralised processing centre at Bangalore

February 7, 2009 828 Views 0 comment Print

THE Union Cabinet has approved the proposal of the Income-tax Department to establish a Centralized Processing Centre (CPC) at Bangalore for processing of all electronically filed returns in the country and the paper returns filed in Karnataka. The CPC will enable the Department to process the returns and issue refunds expeditiously. It will encourage more […]

Let us 'care' for Indian Income Tax Department's new slogan 'Let us Share'!

February 7, 2009 4562 Views 5 comments Print

YESTERDAY was a red-letter day for the Indian Income Tax Department. It was an important day from the taxpayers’ angle as well. If the Netizens are thinking in terms of any tax relief, then they need to take a close look at the concept of relief. A fiscal relief is certainly a welcome news even for taxmen in their capacity as taxpayers.

Determination of head of income in respect of payment received by an assessee from his employer under a non-compete agreement

February 7, 2009 1394 Views 0 comment Print

(iii) Even in the case of the assessee, the department is accepting the earning of income albeit on a different footing i.e. claiming the same to be salary income in contra distinction to assessee’s claim being business income by virtue of Section 28(va). Though reference is made to colourable devise in the hands of the assessee following Supreme Court judgment in the case of McDowell &. Co. (supra), the same confine

Former I-T commissioner Purwar acquitted in graft case

February 5, 2009 1335 Views 0 comment Print

A special court has acquitted former income tax commissioner Ashok Purwar in a sensational corruption case for lack of sufficient evidence against him. Purwar was charged with taking money from a government contractor in 2001 to pass an order in his favour. According to the CBI, the complainant Kripashankar Chaturvedi’s chartered accountant,  demanded money on […]

Satyam effect: I-T department to increase staff strength

February 5, 2009 576 Views 0 comment Print

In the wake of the Satyam fiasco, the Income-Tax department now wants more manpower and technical assistance for its investigation wing and closer scrutiny for TDS returns. The department, in its recent report being prepared for cadre review and restructuring, being done after eight years, will submit these suggestions to the government. “With the recent […]

Tax exemption on gas output unlikely soon

February 5, 2009 525 Views 0 comment Print

Energy firms may have to wait a little longer to avail a seven-year tax holiday on natural gas production. The Income-Tax department is unwilling to allow tax benefit on production of natural gas as the matter is sub judice. Companies producing crude oil, however, enjoy the tax incentive. The issue is sub judice and it […]

Allowability of interest paid in respect of loans obtained from Public Financial Institutions

February 4, 2009 1143 Views 0 comment Print

17.1 According to us, as correctly held by the Tribunal, the assessee’s claim for deduction had to be allowed, in one lump sum, keeping in view the provisions of Section 43B(d) which provides that any sum payable by the assessee as interest on any loan or borrowing from any financial institution shall be allowed to the assessee in the year in which the same is paid irrespective of the provisions in which the liability to pay

Illegal Income is taxable : Madras High Court

February 4, 2009 31141 Views 1 comment Print

22. The primary function of the Income Tax Act is to bring the income of various kinds into the tax net. The Income Tax authorities are not concerned about the manner or means of acquiring income. The income might have been earned illegally or by resorting to unlawful means. Illegality tainted with the earning has no bearing on its taxability.

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