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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...
As per section 271D & 271E, if a person accepts/repays a loan or deposit or specified sum/advance, as the case may be in contravention with the provisions of section 269SS/269T, he shall be liable to pay, by way of penalty, a sum equal to the amount of loan or deposit.
Section 271AAB provides for imposition of penalty at specified rates where search has been initiated. The rate of penalty varies from 10% to 60 % depending on the time when the assessee admits the undisclosed income.
Section 271AAB provides for imposition of penalty @ 10% on undisclosed income found during the course of search and admitted at the stage of search. Undisclosed income not admitted at the stage of search but disclosed in the return of income filed after the search to attract penalty @ 20%.
The Finance Act, 2012 had inserted the penalty provisions under section 271H providing for penalty ranging from Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 1,00,000 for failure to furnish quarterly statements of TDS and TCS within the time prescribed under the Income-tax law.
The Finance Act 2017 has inserted a new provision by way of section 271J which provides that where the Assessing Officer (AO) or Commissioner (Appeals) {CIT(A)}, in the course of any proceedings under the Income-tax Act 1961, finds that an accountant or a merchant banker or a registered valuer (hereinafter referred to as professional)
Sales and purchases of shares exceeding a specified amount respectively in the case of day traders. This information can be filed by the concerned brokers who are dealing with the day traders.
Under section 276B, the consequence of failure to comply with the provisions of Chapter XVII-B is rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three months but which may extend to seven years and with fine.
The Finance Act, 2016 introduced a tax rate of 29% of total income to (domestic) company assessees provided its total turnover or the gross receipts in the previous year 2014-15 does not exceed five crore rupees.
Section 282A provides for issue of any income tax notice or other document without it being signed by the requisite authority. Although, the said section has been provided in the context of computerized generation of notices and other documents
Section 281B empowers Assessing Officer to invoke bank guarantee wholly or in part if demand raised on the assessee is not paid within time limit provided in the demand notice served. Very wide powers are conferred upon Assessing Officer.
