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Income Tax : The article explains how the Finance Acts, 2025 and 2026 have reshaped the Updated Return regime under Section 139(8A). It highlig...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court has remitted reassessment cases for fresh consideration after the retrospective insertion of Section 147A, leavi...
Income Tax : Learn the most frequent errors taxpayers make while filing Income Tax Returns for AY 2026-27 and how avoiding them can prevent not...
Income Tax : The article explains how the interaction of Section 87A, marginal relief, and Health & Education Cess can leave taxpayers earning ...
Income Tax : Learn who can apply for an advance ruling, applicable fees, withdrawal rules, and its binding effect under the Income-tax Act. The...
Income Tax : Net direct tax collections for FY 2026-27 grew by 14.64% as of June 17, 2026, driven by higher corporate and non-corporate tax rec...
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 : The Court rejected the challenge to the search conducted under Section 132 and upheld the legality of the search proceedings. It, ...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that the reassessment was invalid because the Income Tax Officer lacked pecuniary jurisdiction where the returne...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that the assessment was invalid because the Assessing Officer having jurisdiction failed to issue the mandatory ...
Income Tax : The ITAT Kolkata held that the reassessment was invalid because the ACIT lacked pecuniary jurisdiction and completed the assessmen...
Income Tax : The ITAT Kolkata held that the assessments were invalid because the ACIT was not shown to have jurisdiction under CBDT Instruction...
Income Tax : CBDT has approved a scientific research institution under the Income-tax Act, 2025 for tax years 2026-27 to 2030-31. The notificat...
Income Tax : CBDT has approved the University of Hyderabad for scientific research under Section 45 of the Income-tax Act, 2025. The approval i...
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...
Circular No. 731-Income Tax Under the provisions of section 80-O of the Income-tax Act, 1961 an Indian company or a non-corporate assessee, who is resident in India, is entitled to a deduction of fifty per cent of the income received by way of royalty, commission, fees, etc., from a foreign Government or foreign enterprise for the use outside India of any patent, invention, model, design, secret formula or process, etc., or in consideration of technical or professional services rendered by the resident. The deduction is available if such income is
Circular No. 730 -Income Tax Section 172 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, deals with shipping business of non-residents. The scheme of section 172 is that every time a ship belonging to or chartered by a non-resident makes a voyage from a port in India, carrying passengers, live stock, mail or goods, shipped at the airport, 7½ per cent of the amount paid or payable on account of the carriage of the passengers, etc., is taken as the income and tax levied on such income at the rate applicable to a foreign company. The rate, at present, is 55 per cent
Notification No.S.O.962(E) – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by item (h) of sub-clause (iv) of clause (15) of section 10 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby specifies 7-years 10.5 per cent. (Taxfree) NEEPCO Bonds bearing distinctive numbers from B0368001 to B0768000 of Rs. 1,000 each aggregating for an amount of rupees forty crores only issued by the North Eastern
Notification No.S.O.924(E) – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (ii) of sub-section (1) of section 80L of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby specifies the following Secured Redeemable Non-Convertible Bonds issued by the Steel Authority of India Limited, New Delhi, for the purpose of the said clause, namely
Notification No.S.O.3075 – Income Tax It is notified for general information that M/s. Parashwanath Housing Finance Corporation Limited, Harsiddha Chambers, 3rd Floor, Ashram Road, Ahmedabad-380 014 have been approved by the Central Government as a housing finance company for the purposes of section 36(1)(viii) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, for the assessment years 1995-96 and 1996-97
Notification No.S.O.872(E) – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (23D) of section 10 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby specifies Indbank Communications (Offshore) Fund set up under the trust deed dated 6th September, 1994, by the Indbank Merchant Banking Services Limited and approved by the Securities and Exchange Board of India, as an offshore
Circular No. 729-Income tax The deduction under section 80HHC is available, as at present, in respect of “cut and polished minerals and rocks including cut and polished granites” with effect from 1-4-1991 by virtue of insertion of item ( x) in the Twelfth Schedule to the Income-tax Act, 1961. The export of dimensional
Circular No. 728-Income Tax It has been represented to the Board that when making remittances of the nature of royalties and technical fees, tax is being deducted at source at the rates specified in the Finance Act of the relevant year, without taking into account the special rates for taxation of such income provided for under the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement with the country concerned
Circular No. 727-Income Tax Reference is invited to the Board’s Circular No. 644, dated 15-3-1993 (see Sl. No. 371) wherein it was clarified that the expenditure on provision of food or beverages by an employer to the low-paid employees will not be treated as entertainment expenditure within the meaning of the Explanation under section 37(2) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 even if the facility is provided in places other than the place of work provided the same is provided during the working hours and the expenditure is genuine
Circular No. 726-Income Tax Representations have been received from some law and accountancy firms that are receiving fees for professional services from foreign companies or foreign law and accountancy firms saying that the latter find it very difficult to comply with the requirement of tax deduction at source under section 194J of the Income-tax Act and its payment to Central Government in the prescribed manner and within the prescribed time in the absence of any agent or business connection or permanent
