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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 : ITAT Chennai held that unrealizable assets of a company under insolvency could not be included while computing fair market value u...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held that the CIT(A) validly remanded a best judgment reassessment after repeated non-compliance by the assessee. The T...
Income Tax : The High Court held that closing the Income Tax portal before the granted response deadline denied the taxpayer a reasonable oppor...
Income Tax : The Karnataka High Court allowed withdrawal of the writ petition and granted liberty to file an appeal under Section 260A of the I...
Income Tax : The ITAT Chandigarh held that no TDS was deductible where professional fees paid to each payee were below the statutory threshold....
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...
It is proposed that there will be no change in the rate of tax for Individuals, HUFs, AOPs, BOIs, Artificial Juridical Person, Firms, Cooperative Societies and Local Authorities in the FY 2016-17. In case of domestic company, the rate of Income-tax shall be 29% of the total income if the total turnover or gross receipts of the company in the previous year 2014-15 does not exceed Rs. 5 Crore and in all other cases the rate of Income- tax shall be 30% of the total income.
New manufacturing companies incorporated on or after 1.3.2016 to be given an option to be taxed at 25% + surcharge and cess provided they do not claim profit linked or investment linked deductions and do not avail of investment allowance and accelerated depreciation.
So the finance Minister has ultimately decided to give level playing field in respect of pension products and has proposed withdrawal from employee provident fund balance, created with employee’s contribution made after 1st April 2016, taxable to the extent of 60% and 40% exempt. In my opinion these provisions have either been drafted in a hurry or have deliberately been made to be unjust to salaried people. I have a feeling that the government treats the most honest class of tax payers i.e. salaried as second class citizens. Here is why I feel so.
W.e.f AY 2017-18 Exempted Dividends received by an Resident Individual, HUF in excess of 10 Lakhs from an Domestic Company will now be further taxed @ rate of 10% + Applicable Surcharge & Cess on the Gross Dividend receivedu/s115-BBDA, earlier any dividend received was exempted as the dividends have already suffered Dividend Distribution Tax (DDT) @ 15%+ Applicable Surcharge & Cess. The impact of the above amendment is explained in the below two illustrations
The ITAT Bench Cochin held that the assessee would be entitled to deduction u/s 80 IB(7) if its incomes are derived from eligible business irrespective of the manner in which the entries in the books of account are maintained.
Increase in threshold limit for audit for persons having income from profession Under the existing provisions of section 44AB of the Act every person carrying on a profession is required to get his accounts audited if the total gross receipts in a previous year exceed twenty five lakh rupees. In order to reduce the compliance […]
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE [CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES] Income Tax Notification No. 11/2016 New Delhi, the 1st March, 2016 S.O. 637 (E).─ In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 249, read with section 295 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board […]
Executive Summary of Finance Bill 2016 – Direct Taxes Highlights and Amendments in Service Tax Non-Tariff – Amendment in Central Excise Act, 1944 Tariff – Amendment in Central Excise Act, 1944 Non-Tariff – Amendment in Customs Act, 1962 Tariff – Amendment in Customs Act, 1962 ——————— Prepared by the joint efforts of following members: I. […]
Income-tax Department is also issuing instruction making it mandatory for the assessing officer to grant stay of demand once the assesse pays 15% of the disputed demand, while the appeal is pending before Commissioner of Income-tax (Appeals).
Over the years, the courts have laid down different parameters to distinguish the shares held as investments from the shares held as stock-in-trade. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (‘CBDT) has also, through Instruction No. 1827, dated August 31, 1989 and Circular No.4 of 2007 dated June 15, 2007, summarized the said principles for guidance of the field formations .
