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Six Compulsory Income Tax Scrutiny Categories Every Taxpayer Should Know

Income Tax : The article clarifies that the CBDT's 4 June 2026 instruction governs six categories of compulsory manual scrutiny and is distinct...

June 25, 2026 135 Views 0 comment Print

Why Your Indian Subsidiary Abroad Might Be Triggering Tax Residency You Never Signed Up For?

Income Tax : The article explains how India's Place of Effective Management (POEM) rules may treat a foreign company as an Indian tax resident ...

June 25, 2026 81 Views 0 comment Print

Income-tax Act 2025: New TDS and TCS Forms Every Deductor Must Know

Income Tax : From 1 April 2026, TDS and TCS compliance shifts to new form numbers and section references under the Income-tax Act, 2025. Busine...

June 25, 2026 414 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax audit under section 44AB​: FAQs

Income Tax : Understand who must undergo a tax audit under Section 44AB, the applicable turnover limits, audit forms, filing procedure, due dat...

June 25, 2026 1274540 Views 54 comments Print

Tax Relief up to 12 Lakh in New Tax Regime, Yet ITR Filing is Still Mandatory

Income Tax : Income may become tax-free under the new tax regime because of the standard deduction and Section 87A rebate, but ITR filing may s...

June 24, 2026 3816 Views 8 comments Print


Latest News


Advance Tax Collections Grow 15.30% due to Higher Corporate Tax Payments

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...

June 19, 2026 237 Views 0 comment Print

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 6214 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 291 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 1902 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 3984 Views 1 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


ITAT Quashes Reassessment of Section 80GGC Political Donation Claim Due to Limitation

Income Tax : The ITAT Mumbai held that reassessment proceedings initiated on the basis of information arising from a search in the case of a th...

June 25, 2026 138 Views 0 comment Print

CSR Disallowance Under Section 37 Does Not Bar Relief Under Section 80G- Bangalore ITAT

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that although CSR expenditure is not allowable under Section 37, eligible donations made to recognised institut...

June 25, 2026 78 Views 0 comment Print

No Section 271D Penalty if AO Not Recorded Satisfaction: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that penalty under Section 271D could not be levied because the Assessing Officer failed to record satisfaction ...

June 25, 2026 105 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Sections 271D and 271E Penalties as Assessment Order Lacked Satisfaction

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that penalties under Sections 271D and 271E could not be sustained because the Assessing Officer failed to recor...

June 25, 2026 78 Views 0 comment Print

Section 153C Assessment Upheld as Delay in Handing Over Seized Material Did Not Extend Limitation Illegally

Income Tax : Smt. Pavithra Sugichandran Vs Office of the DCIT (Madras High Court) The Madras High Court considered six writ petitions challengi...

June 25, 2026 57 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 50067 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 885 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 687 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 252 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 222 Views 0 comment Print


CBDT Appoints Shri Pramod Chandra Mody as Chairman

February 15, 2019 1383 Views 0 comment Print

President of India is pleased to appoint Shri Pramod Chandra Mody, presently working as Member, Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT) as Chairman, CBDT

No addition u/s 56(2)(vii)(b) if difference in valuation is less than 5%

February 15, 2019 5436 Views 0 comment Print

Shri Rama Jogi Reddy Sanepalli Vs ITO (ITAT Bangalore) ITAT Pune Bench in the case of Ratnakanta B. Agarwal v. ITO, ITA 587/PUN/2014, order dated 24.07.2017 wherein the Hon’ble Pune Bench took the view that if the variance between the value estimated as fair market value by the DVO and the value adopted by the […]

CIT(A)’s Power to Enhance Assessment – Too Wide but “Too Narrow”

February 15, 2019 14388 Views 0 comment Print

1. CIT (A) is the first Appellate Authority under the Income Tax Act, 1961 to whom the Assessee can approach if he is aggrieved by the Order of the Assessing Officer. The CIT(A) shall dispose the appeal so filed by exercising his powers u/s 251 of the Act, which reads as under: – Powers of […]

Guidelines for representation of cases before CIT(A)

February 14, 2019 1704 Views 0 comment Print

Undersigned is directed to state that since the monetary limit of tax effect for filing of appeals to ITAT against the order of CIT(A) has been raised to Rs. 20 lakhs vide CBDT Circular No 3 of 2018 dated 11.7.2018, it is expedient that the cases are properly defended before the CIT(A), as the department will have no recourse to any appeal, against the Order of CIT(A).

I-T officer gets 7-year imprisonment; mother, 90, jailed in DA case

February 14, 2019 1497 Views 1 comment Print

SEVEN YEARS RIGOROUS IMPRISONMENT WITH FINE OF RS.3.5 CRORE TO THEN ADDITIONAL COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX IN DISPROPORTIONATE ASSETS CASE; THREE OTHER ACCUSED ALSO SENTENCED The Special Judge, CBI Cases, Dehradun (Uttarakhand) has sentenced Shri Swetabh Suman(an IRS Officer of 1988 Batch), the then Additional Commissioner of Income Tax, Jamshedpur to undergo seven years Rigorous […]

No Protective addition against Company if Dept already assessed Company MD

February 14, 2019 1563 Views 0 comment Print

Ms Inderpuri Express Couriers Pvt Ltd Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) The AO has made protective addition in the hands of the assessee towards estimated commission income derived from hawala transactions on the ground that certain incriminating materials were found in the premises of the assessee and further, one of the employees has stated that the […]

Date of acquisition of capital asset is date of allotment letter

February 14, 2019 21105 Views 0 comment Print

PCIT Vs Vembu Vaidyanathan (Bombay High Court) The controversy between the assessee and the revenue revolves around the question as to when the assessee can be stated to have acquired the capital asset. The assessee argued that the residential unit in question was acquired on the date on which the allotment letter was issued by the […]

In-depth analysis of overriding effect of Section 43B of I.T. Act, 1961 

February 14, 2019 17580 Views 1 comment Print

CA Gaurav Pahuja Background While the issue regarding the deduction of employer’s contribution made after due date, in funds set up for welfare of employees is well settled now, the practice of disallowing the claim of the assessee employer on account of delayed deposit of employee’s contribution is continued by the Income Tax Department since […]

Prosecution proceedings justified on failure to disclose foreign bank accounts under Black Money and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015

February 14, 2019 1962 Views 0 comment Print

Where assessee was given an opportunity to make the disclosure with regard to foreign bank accounts and the amount lying thereat however assessee failed to avail the  opportunity to make disclosure with regard thereto while submitting his return in the proceedings under search and seizure and also before Settlement Commission, the authorities was justified to initiate prosecution as per the provisions of Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015.

Mandatory to link Aadhaar-PAN by 31.03.2019 to to file Income Tax Return

February 14, 2019 1113 Views 0 comment Print

Aadhaar-PAN linking is mandatory now which has to be completed till 31.3.2019 by the PAN holders requiring filing of Income Tax Return. Constitutional validity of Aadhaar has been upheld by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in September 2018. Consequently, in terms of Section 139AA of Income Tax Act., 1961 and order dated 30.6.2018 of […]

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