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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 183 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 87 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 441 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 1274555 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 4944 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 84 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 114 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 66 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 50079 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 extend period for furnishing report U/s. 286(4) by constituent entity

December 26, 2018 3576 Views 0 comment Print

Circular No. 9/2018 F No 370142/17/2018 -TPL Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes New Delhi, Dated December 26, 2018 Order under section 119 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 Vide Notification in GSR 1217 (E) dated December 18, 2018 with effect from the date of its publication in […]

No penalty for mere non-reflection of Income surrendered voluntarily in ITR

December 25, 2018 3384 Views 0 comment Print

Where assessee had already paid income-tax on the amount surrendered during the course of survey, it could not be said that the surrendered income was not voluntary and the assessee wanted to conceal the income, therefore, imposition of penalty under section 271(1)(c) was not justified.

Reopening merely on the basis of information received without application of mind by AO is invalid

December 25, 2018 5640 Views 0 comment Print

Reopening of assessment beyond four years merely on the basis of information received, however, without pointing out failure of assessee to furnish truly and fully all material facts was not valid.

Assessment U/s. 153A invalid in absence of valid search at assessee’s business premises

December 25, 2018 4806 Views 0 comment Print

Where valid search was not conducted at assessee’s business premises then until and unless AO assumes valid jurisdiction under section 153A, assessment, therefore, made in consequence of notice issued under section 153A, was invalid and void ab initio.

Delay in hearing Miscellaneous Applications by ITAT: HC expresses displeasure

December 25, 2018 567 Views 0 comment Print

Lupin Investments Pvt. Ltd vs. ITAT (Bombay High Court) HC observed that we are at a loss to understand as to why the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal has not communicated to the petitioner regarding fixing a specific date of hearing of a Miscellaneous Application invoking Section 254(2) of the Income Tax Act, 1961. In this […]

HC dismisses belated writ filed against non refund of seized cash

December 25, 2018 705 Views 0 comment Print

Kishore Jagjivandas Tanna Vs. JDIT (Bombay High Court) The Department in the Assessment Order expressly refers to this Court’s earlier order in the petitioner’s Writ Petition No.721 of 1988. Still it makes no order of refund. If this is an erroneous order and the Department failed to rectify it, then, the petitioner’s remedy was to […]

Categorical finding of fact by ITAT cannot be challenged as a substantial question of law

December 25, 2018 744 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT came to a finding that Motilal Oswal Investments Advisory Pvt. Ltd. was not a concern which could be included in the list of comparable companies. We do not think that these findings of fact are in any way perverse or vitiated by any error apparent on the face of the record which, in turn, would give rise to any substantial question of law.

Taxability of Gifts In India

December 25, 2018 12429 Views 7 comments Print

GIFT TAX: The tax levied on the gifts that you have received in money or its worth and which is over and above a certain set limit by the Indian law is known as gift tax. Income tax on gifts helps regulate the gives which is given to you by a person who is not a close relative as per the definition of Income Tax Law of India.

Manual filing of Form No. 13 for Lower TDS/TCS Deduction

December 24, 2018 2724 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT (i) allowed non-resident Indians (NRIs), who are not able to register themselves on TRACES, to file manual application in Form No. 13 before the TDS officer or in ASK Centers till 31.03.2019. (ii) allowed resident applicants to file manual application in Form No. 13 before the TDS officer or in ASK Centers till 31.12.2018.

Income from Terrace space let out to mobile companies is house property Income

December 24, 2018 1302 Views 0 comment Print

The terrace of the building cannot be considered as distinct and separate but certainly is a part of the house property. Therefore, letting-out space on the terrace of the house property for installation and operation of mobile tower / antenna certainly amounts to letting-out a part of the house property itself.

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