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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 1299 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 174 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 570 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 1274771 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 7947 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 240 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 1908 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 3987 Views 1 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Mumbai ITAT: Absence of Expenditure Alone Cannot Be a Ground to Deny Renewal of Registration Under Section 12AB

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that rejection of Section 12AB registration merely because no expenditure was reflected in the financial statem...

June 26, 2026 27 Views 0 comment Print

Mumbai ITAT: U/s 12AB Registration Cannot Be Denied Merely Because Original U/s 12A Certificate Issued Decades Ago Is Not Available

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that loss of an old Section 12A registration certificate is only a procedural deficiency and cannot by itself j...

June 26, 2026 39 Views 0 comment Print

Mumbai ITAT: Registration of Flat Solely for Mortgage Loan Does Not Automatically Attract Section 56(2)(x)

Income Tax : The ITAT observed that registration undertaken solely to satisfy a banks mortgage requirement cannot automatically attract tax und...

June 26, 2026 45 Views 0 comment Print

Mumbai ITAT Deletes Ad Hoc 10% Disallowance of Business Expenses – No Addition Sustainable Without Specific Defects in Audited Books

Income Tax : The ITAT found that the Assessing Officer failed to establish any specific infirmity in the assessee's business expenditure before...

June 26, 2026 69 Views 0 comment Print

Mumbai ITAT Restricts Addition on Alleged Bogus Diamond Purchases to 2% Following Earlier Orders in Assessee’s Own Case

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that only the profit element embedded in the disputed purchases could be taxed and affirmed a 2% estimation base...

June 26, 2026 96 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 50157 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 888 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 693 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 225 Views 0 comment Print


Claim though ineligible in law but based on CA certificate does not amounts to making false claim

June 30, 2018 1209 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT held that, if book profit and tax payable u/s 115JB was based on certificate issued by Chartered Accountant then it cannot be held that, assesses claim was not bonafide or it has furnished inaccurate particulars of income, penalty so levied deleted.

Know your Income tax form- ITR-4

June 30, 2018 16371 Views 6 comments Print

WHAT IS ITR 4 ITR 4 Form is for presumptive income from Business & Profession as per Section 44AD, Section 44ADA and Section 44AE of the Income Tax Act. ITR 4 APPLICABLE FOR: The persons having income from following sources are eligible to file ITR 4: Presumptive income from Business & Profession as per Section […]

Is the Fine on Late Filing of Income Tax Return Mandatory?

June 30, 2018 26070 Views 11 comments Print

It is an old disease in India that regardless of repetitive updates, there are sure tax assessees who turn a deaf ear and neglect to meet the due date for Income Tax Return Filing. They are utilized to record late returns or neglect to document the return of income. This has happened on the grounds that, before the present arrangement of income tax, penalty on late filing of return was not compulsorily upheld by the Department. Thus, tax assessees used to take the provision of timely filing of return for granted. From the financial year 2018-19 onwards, another section has been presented, i.e. Section 234F of Income Tax Act-1961 for a penalty for late ITR filing.

Tax Treatment of Foreign Income of Persons Resident in India

June 30, 2018 15219 Views 0 comment Print

Article informs the taxpayers about the broad tax treatment of foreign income of persons resident in India.  In a liberalized economy, more and more citizen of the country are travelling to work and earn income in foreign countries. Often these taxpayers are not adeuately equipped to understand the taxability of their foreign income. Article is […]

CBDT issues Final Notification on POEM – Section 115JH of Act

June 30, 2018 15687 Views 0 comment Print

The CBDT has issued the Final Notification No. 29/2018 dated 22 June 2018 (applicable from AY 2017-18) for exception, modification and adaptation in respect of a foreign company said to be resident in India due to its place of effective management (POEM) being in India, under Section 115JH of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act). […]

Addition for Cash Deposited in Joint Account cannot be made to an A/c holder if he/she Proves that same belongs to other Joint A/c Holder

June 29, 2018 7728 Views 0 comment Print

The question, however, as we see it, is not the amount at which the land was actually sold, which is in the following year, but whether the cash deposit of Rs.49 lacs could be said to form part of the transaction of sale of land by the assessee’ s father. S

Disallowance U/s. 14A not applicable on investment on which dividend received is chargeable to tax but allowed Rebate under DTAA

June 29, 2018 1638 Views 0 comment Print

Investments on whom dividend received, though chargeable to tax but allowed as rebate in view of DTAA agreement cannot be included for the purpose of computing disallowance u/s 14A of Income Tax Act.

The Impact of the Government Polices on Direct Tax Collections

June 29, 2018 915 Views 0 comment Print

The first sixty-seven years after Independence from 1947 to 2014 saw a total number of 3.82 crore assesses filing tax returns. Obviously, in comparison to total population of almost 1.3 billion, this figure appears highly inadequate. The total direct tax collection (income tax) in 2013-14 was Rs.6.38 lakh crore.

Deduction U/s. 80IA not available on interest on FDR by a company engaged in providing infrastructure facilities

June 29, 2018 2328 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee company was engaged in the business of Developing, Maintaining and Operating of Infrastructure Facilities. Return declaring an income of Rs. 29,53,100/- was filed on 30/09/2009. The same was processed u/s 143(1) on 13/09/2010. Case was selected for scrutiny under CASS and notice u/s 143(2) was sent on 20/08/2010.

Income from Share cannot be treated as Business merely for Frequent Transactions

June 29, 2018 1266 Views 0 comment Print

DPJ Viniyog Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Kolkata) Assessing Officer treated the income on account of purchase and of shares under the head ‘business income’ instead of under the head ‘capital gain’ as claimed by the assessee. On Appeal CIT(A) held that assessee is making purchase and sale on a continuous basis and besides being […]

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