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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 405 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 153 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 1422 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 129 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


Assessment Quashed for Failure to Decide Reopening Objections Before Completion of reassessment

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that Schedule-I of ITR-7 applies only to amounts accumulated under Section 11(2) and not to deemed application u...

June 28, 2026 12 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Order Quashed as Fresh Evidence Was Accepted Without Following Rule 46A

Income Tax : The High Court held that the CIT(A) admitted additional evidence without recording reasons in writing and without giving the Asses...

June 28, 2026 33 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi Deletes Section 271AAB Penalty as SCN Did Not Specify Applicable Clause

Income Tax : The ITAT held that a penalty under Section 271AAB cannot survive where the show cause notice fails to specify the exact statutory ...

June 28, 2026 57 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Upholds Addition as Unsupported Gold Deposit Agreements Failed to Explain Excess Stock

Income Tax : ITAT Hyderabad held that gold deposit agreements produced after the survey, without contemporaneous evidence or book entries, coul...

June 28, 2026 42 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Section 69A Addition as Agricultural Income Was Supported by Documentary Evidence

Income Tax : The ITAT held that the addition under Section 69A could not be sustained as the assessee had produced land records, agricultural s...

June 28, 2026 42 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 50718 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 714 Views 0 comment Print


Sec.69A–Deeming provision cannot be initiated based on suspicion

January 29, 2016 3307 Views 0 comment Print

Suspicion and doubt may be the starting point of an investigation but cannot, at the final stage of assessment, take the place of relevant facts, particularly where a deeming provision is sought to be invoked.

Powers of the A.O. are not plenary or unbridled

January 29, 2016 2418 Views 0 comment Print

Recently, I had an occasion to deal with a case, where no notice under section 143(2) of the Income‑Tax Act, 1961 (the Act), was served on the assessee, within the stipulated period of twelve months. But after the expiry of the aforesaid period, the Assessing Officer (AO) issued a notice under section 148 read with section 147 of the Act. We requested the AO to supply us the reasons recorded under section 148, which the AO did.

New Procedure for Adjustment of demand against Income Tax Refund

January 29, 2016 16548 Views 3 comments Print

F. No. 312/109/2015-OT Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes Room No. 281, Hotel Samrat Kautilya Marg, Chanakya Puri New Delhi – 110021 Telefax : 011-24101573 Mail – Salil.mishra@nic.in New Delhi, 29th January 2016 OFFICE MEMORANDUM Sub : Issue of refunds – procedure to be followed in other […]

Whether MAT applicable to share of a company in income of a joint venture business

January 29, 2016 2197 Views 0 comment Print

Of late, we have been witnessing a new and different trend in relation to the real estate development. Earlier, a builder would go for outright purchase of a piece of land from the landlord and develop the same at his own cost and risk. The scenario in this regard is undergoing a change. Now the landlord also desires to have a share in the profit of the project being undertaken by the builder and developer.

Planning the Pay – Package of a Senior Executive

January 29, 2016 22397 Views 1 comment Print

As is well known income-tax is deducted at source in respect of income from ‘Salaries’. As the income of salaried tax-payers is fixed, they are more susceptible to inflationary pressures. Therefore, there have been progressive attempts on the part of the Legislature to grant more and more relief to salaried tax-payers. In order to subserve the aforesaid objective, a number of exemptions and deductions in respect of various allowances and other receipts,

Profit on Sale of Share immediately after conversion from Stock in Trade to Investment is Business Income

January 29, 2016 1271 Views 0 comment Print

lndo Stosec (P.) Ltd. vs. ITO (ITAT Mumbai) Assessee has converted the stock in trade into investments only in the current year and immediately sold the shares after such conversion. Accordingly, the Ld D.R submitted that the assessee has entertained the idea of conversion, only to avail the exemption u/s 10(38) of the Act and also to avail concessional rate of tax in respect of short term capital gains.

No Legal Bar on conversion of Stock in Trade to Investment

January 29, 2016 2628 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT vs. M/s. Superior Financial Consultancy Services (ITAT Mumbai)- Ld.CIT(A), for the purpose of deciding the case has elaborately discussed three main issues, namely (i) whether the assessee can legally convert its stock-in trade into investments

Dear Assessing Officer, Please Co-operate With Co-operative Banks

January 28, 2016 2855 Views 0 comment Print

Co-operative banking is being aided and encouraged by the State Governments vide the various provisions of State Co-operative Societies Acts. A co-operative bank is a co-operative society, which is union of persons established according to the principles of equality, the number of whose members is unlimited and the purpose of which is, by joint performance of economic acts, to improve the financial position of its members or the condition under which they carry on their profession,

Signing of Protocol amending India-Armenia Double Taxation Avoidance Convention

January 28, 2016 567 Views 0 comment Print

A Protocol to amend the existing Double Taxation Avoidance Convention was signed by the Government of India and the Government of Armenia on the 27th day of January, 2016 in New Delhi.

Resolution of more than 100 cases of transfer pricing disputes with USA under MAP-regarding

January 28, 2016 1235 Views 0 comment Print

One of the significant steps taken by Central Board of Direct Taxes to boost investment sentiments among MNCs is the landmark Framework Agreement signed with the Revenue Authorities of USA in January, 2015. This agreement was finalised under the Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) provision contained in the India-USA Double Taxation Avoidance Convention (DTAC).

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