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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 282 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 117 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 1308 Views 1 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 123 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 17115 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 6235 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 1935 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 4005 Views 1 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Google AdWords Is Advertising, Not Technical Service; Section 194C TDS Upheld

Income Tax : The ITAT Hyderabad held that payments made for Google AdWords constitute advertising contracts under Section 194C and not fees for...

June 28, 2026 45 Views 0 comment Print

Section 270A Penalty Deleted as AO Failed to Specify Under-Reporting or Misreporting Charge

Income Tax : The ITAT Mumbai held that penalty under Section 270A cannot be sustained where the show cause notice and assessment order fail to ...

June 28, 2026 63 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Section 69A Addition as Cash Deposits Represented Recorded Business Receipts

Income Tax : The ITAT Lucknow upheld deletion of the addition after finding that the cash deposits represented business receipts arising from d...

June 28, 2026 66 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Jewellery Addition as Inheritance & Purchase Records Explained Source

Income Tax : The ITAT Delhi deleted the addition under section 69A after finding that the assessee had substantiated the source of the jeweller...

June 28, 2026 267 Views 0 comment Print

12.5% Bogus Purchase Addition Sustained as Transport & Consumption Evidence Was Missing

Income Tax : The ITAT Raipur upheld the disallowance of 12.5% of disputed purchases after finding that the assessee failed to establish the act...

June 28, 2026 240 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 159 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 99 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 50706 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


MAT not payable on Capital receipts on forfeiture of share warrants

April 8, 2016 3547 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT held that it is not in dispute that the receipt representing forfeiture of share warrants is only a capital receipt & not chargeable to tax. However, the same has been duly credited in the profit and loss account as an extraordinary item.

High pitched assessments: 100% demand stay must be Granted

April 8, 2016 13102 Views 0 comment Print

The Tribunal granted 100 percent stay of demand because (a) the assessed income was more than 10 times the returned income. (Instruction 96 of 1969 was relied upon) & (b) The stand taken by the AO was at variance with the stand taken by TPO.

Technical services denote services for special needs of Customer: SC

April 7, 2016 4894 Views 0 comment Print

Supreme Court held that ‘technical services’ under Section 194J read with Explanation 2 to Section 9(1)(vii) of Income Tax Act, 1961 denote services to cater to the special needs of the consumer/user, rather not a facility / service offered to all.

Assessee not obliged to provide a facility for conducting survey unless asked for

April 7, 2016 2506 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Amritsar Bench in an interesting decision of Smt. Kailash Devi ITA 347/ASR/ 2015 pronounced on 05-04-2016 on conduct of survey had an occasion to ponder over the obligations cast upon Income Tax Authorities under the law. Often assessee and income tax authorities are at logger-heads for assessee not acting as “required” but before authorities allege the assessee for not doing his part of obligation, a line has to be drawn from where assesse’s part of obligations commence, because it is easy to tell a person how best to carry his pack until the burden is on one’s own back.

Download e-filing Utility for ITR 2, ITR 2A & ITR 3 for AY 2016-17

April 7, 2016 21025 Views 1 comment Print

Income Tax Department has released on 03/04/2016 Excel Utility of ITR 1 and ITR 4S for AY 2016-17 for e-filing and now they have released todayExcel  e-filing utility for ITR 2, ITR 2A and ITR 3 for AY 2016-17. Other ITR are also expected to be released soon. Department has also released JAVA utility of […]

Notification No. 27/2016-Income Tax, Dated: 07/04/2016

April 7, 2016 1063 Views 0 comment Print

(i) The sole objective of the approved Scientific Research Association shall be to undertake scientific research; (ii) The approved organization shall carry out scientific research by itself;

S. 80IA: Option to claim deduction post business commencement

April 7, 2016 1771 Views 0 comment Print

As per CBDT Circular No.1/ 2016 dated 15.2.2016, it is clear that the assessee has option to claim deduction in subsequent years i.e. he can choose initial assessment year for claiming deduction even post commencement of business.

Reopening based on factual inadvertent error not sustainable

April 7, 2016 1447 Views 0 comment Print

Reason for reopening of the assessment was a mistaken factual premise that the Assessee had changed the system of accounting from the mercantile to the cash system. It was more than adequately explained by the Assessee that this was an inadvertent error.

CHANGES IN FORM 15CB & 15CA – w.e.f 1st April 2016

April 7, 2016 33799 Views 1 comment Print

Furnishing of Information in Respect of Payments made to the Non-Resident Section 195 of the Income-tax Act empowers the Central Board of Direct Taxes to capture information in respect of payments made to non-residents, whether chargeable to tax or not. Rule 37 BB of the Income-tax Rules has been amended vide Notification No. G.S.R. 978(E) […]

Seven Years Imprisonment to then ITO in Bribery Case

April 6, 2016 15289 Views 1 comment Print

SEVEN YEARS RIGOROUS IMPRISONMENT WITH FINE OF RS.1.5 LAKH TO THEN INCOME TAX OFFICER IN A BRIBERY CASE        The Special Judge, CBI Cases, Dehradun has today convicted Shri Dinesh Kumar, then Income Tax Officer, Pithoragarh (Uttarakhand) in a bribery case and sentenced him to undergo seven years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.1.5 lakh. CBI […]

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