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Can Updated Return Be Filed After Notice Under Sections 143(2), 148A or 148?

Income Tax : The article explains how the Finance Acts, 2025 and 2026 have reshaped the Updated Return regime under Section 139(8A). It highlig...

June 27, 2026 84 Views 0 comment Print

SC Sends JAO vs Faceless Reassessment Dispute Back to High Courts

Income Tax : The Supreme Court has remitted reassessment cases for fresh consideration after the retrospective insertion of Section 147A, leavi...

June 27, 2026 90 Views 0 comment Print

25 Practical Errors Found During ITR Filing that every Taxpayer should avoid

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...

June 27, 2026 879 Views 0 comment Print

Section 87A Rebate Anomaly Leaves Higher Earners With Lower Take-Home Pay

Income Tax : The article explains how the interaction of Section 87A, marginal relief, and Health & Education Cess can leave taxpayers earning ...

June 27, 2026 96 Views 0 comment Print

FAQs on Authority for Advance Ruling/Board for Advance Rulings

Income Tax : Learn who can apply for an advance ruling, applicable fees, withdrawal rules, and its binding effect under the Income-tax Act. The...

June 27, 2026 17091 Views 0 comment 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 249 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 6232 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 303 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 1929 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 4002 Views 1 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Madras HC Upholds Income Tax Search as Section 132 Challenge Failed

Income Tax : The Court rejected the challenge to the search conducted under Section 132 and upheld the legality of the search proceedings. It, ...

June 27, 2026 60 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Quashes Reassessment as ITO Lacked Jurisdiction Under CBDT Instruction No. 1/2011

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that the reassessment was invalid because the Income Tax Officer lacked pecuniary jurisdiction where the returne...

June 27, 2026 72 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Quashes Assessment as Jurisdictional AO Did Not Issue Section 143(2) Notice

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that the assessment was invalid because the Assessing Officer having jurisdiction failed to issue the mandatory ...

June 27, 2026 72 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Kolkata Quashes Reassessment as ACIT Lacked Pecuniary Jurisdiction

Income Tax : The ITAT Kolkata held that the reassessment was invalid because the ACIT lacked pecuniary jurisdiction and completed the assessmen...

June 27, 2026 54 Views 0 comment Print

Assessment Invalid Where Non-Jurisdictional AO Issued Section 143(2) Notice: ITAT Kolkata

Income Tax : The ITAT Kolkata held that the assessments were invalid because the ACIT was not shown to have jurisdiction under CBDT Instruction...

June 27, 2026 51 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


CBDT Grants Five-Year Scientific Research Recognition to Public Health Foundation

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...

June 27, 2026 147 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT Approved University of Hyderabad for Scientific Research Tax Benefits

Income Tax : CBDT has approved the University of Hyderabad for scientific research under Section 45 of the Income-tax Act, 2025. The approval i...

June 27, 2026 93 Views 0 comment Print

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 50577 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 903 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 711 Views 0 comment Print


No penalty for disclosure of agricultural income from Ancestral Property in HUF

January 12, 2018 3309 Views 1 comment Print

Indore bench of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) deleted the penalty imposed by the Assessing Officer (AO) by considering the fact that the assessee conceded the transaction of Sale of Agricultural Land in the hands of his Hindu Undivided Family (HUF).

Central Excise Duty paid in Cash Eligible for Deduction

January 12, 2018 1395 Views 0 comment Print

We are unable to approve the findings of Ld. CIT(A). Whether the payment is in cash or by way of cheque, the Central Excise amount paid would be eligible for deduction, out of the receipts of the business concern.

Income from Sub-Letting of Property is not Assessable as House Property Income

January 12, 2018 4920 Views 0 comment Print

ITO. Vs. M/s Batram Properties Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Kolkata) Under section 22 of the Act the charge to tax of income from house property is based on the ownership of such property. The admitted position in the present case is that the assessee is only a tenant and not the owner of the property. It is […]

Penalty for delay in filing Audit Report due to Dispute with Auditor is invalid: ITAT

January 12, 2018 19383 Views 0 comment Print

Due to disputes between the assessee with its earlier auditor and resignation thereof, the same (audited accounts) was filed before AO belatedly.

Deemed Dividend provision attracted on Loan Taken to pay Salary

January 12, 2018 1470 Views 0 comment Print

Taking loan from closely held company to discharge the payment of salary is to be treated as a commercial transaction. We are not in agreement with the submissions of the ld. AR as the salary commitment is in the proprietary concern, in which, assessee is the sole owner and any loan taken from the closely held company wherein assessee is holding substantial interest will definitely attract provisions of section 2(22)(e).

U S Taxation: Choosing most appropriate entity to start business

January 12, 2018 1896 Views 0 comment Print

In U.S.A., with the announcement of historical tax concessions for business, being reportedly released in the future, though the legal approvals have already been obtained, not a day passes when someone would not ask me what type of business he/ she may start in USA.

Abolish Income Tax, raise banks’ rates to 9%: Dr Subramanian Swamy

January 12, 2018 4365 Views 1 comment Print

Domestic savings and not foreign investment can take Indian economy on a 10 per cent growth path, for which Income Tax must be abolished and interest rates on Fixed Deposits be raised to nine per cent along with the reduction in the banks’ Prime Lending Rates (PLR), senior BJP leader and Member of Parliament (MP)

Out-of-the-Box proposal on Political Funding

January 12, 2018 1398 Views 0 comment Print

Political Funding- Let’s first accept that Politics is a legitimate activity, as it helps organize the life of citizens, saving them time, effort, accidents, injustices and conflicts. Otherwise, people will act and have acted in the past tribally resorting to the law of jungle, driven by instinct and arbitrariness, fighting and killing.

Action on Benami Property holders / Owners steeped up

January 11, 2018 1557 Views 1 comment Print

Income Tax Department had set up 24 dedicated Benami Prohibition Units (BPUs) under its Investigation Directorates all over India in May, 2017 to ensure swift action in respect of Benami properties.

Expense cannot be disallowed for mere absence of voucher

January 11, 2018 7293 Views 0 comment Print

The ITAT, Lucknow bench in M/s Maheshwari Flour Mills vs. JCIT, has held that expenses related to the fundamentals of the assessee’s business cannot be disallowed merely n ground that they were not vouched.

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