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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


Easwar Committee Recommendations For Income Tax Reforms Through Administrative Instructions

January 21, 2016 1445 Views 0 comment Print

1. IMPLEMENTATION OF IND-AS AND THEIR IMPACT ON TAXABLE INCOME IND-AS (Indian version of IFRS) accounting standards are being implemented with effect from previous year commencing on 1st April, 2015 based on fair value, permitting recognition of unrealised income and anticipated unrealised losses and various other implications on book profit, turnover as well as income […]

Enhance time for Payment of TDS and Filing of Return: Committee Recommends

January 21, 2016 1126 Views 0 comment Print

Proposal For Certain Amendments In Rule 30 And 31 In Relation To Time And Mode Of Payment Of TDS And Filing Of Statement Of TDS Under The Provisions of Section 200 Section 200(1) read with Rule 30 prescribes guidelines and procedure in relation to the time and mode of payment of tax deducted to the […]

Recommendations Regarding Recovery of Disputed Income Tax Demand

January 21, 2016 1093 Views 0 comment Print

Under the existing regime for recovery of demand, Assessing Officers insist upon collecting disputed demands even when they are in appeal. The situation is aggravated in years when the revenue collection targets are ambitious. In practice, this is leading to serious hardship to the taxpayer particularly in cases where there is high-pitched assessment. Experience has shown that generally an application under section 220(6) for not treating the assessee as being in default is routinely rejected.

Raise TDS Threshold limit and reduce deduction Rates: Committee Recommends

January 21, 2016 2080 Views 0 comment Print

With nearly 65% of the personal income-tax collection in India being raised through tax deducted at source (TDS), the onerous task of which has been cast on tax deductors, the TDS provisions need to be made more tax friendly and not as ‘tedious’ as they have remained over the years.

ITAT has Power to grant stay beyond 365 days : Bombay HC

January 21, 2016 2406 Views 0 comment Print

Even in case of substituted third proviso to Section 254(2A) of the Act which restricts the power of the ITAT to grant stay beyond 365 days “even if the delay in disposing of the appeal is not attributable to the assessee” has been struck down in Pepsi Foods 376 ITR 87 (Del) as being arbitrary

Obviate Hardships Arising In Relation to Claiming of Credit For Tax Deducted U/S. 199

January 20, 2016 1680 Views 0 comment Print

Section 199 read with rule 37BA deal with the provisions in regard to granting credit for tax deducted. However, there are a number of situations, where in actual practice, it becomes extremely difficult or at times, even virtually impossible for the person entitled to claim credit for tax so deducted.

Allow making of fresh claim during assessment proceedings

January 20, 2016 4075 Views 0 comment Print

It has been observed that in many cases an assessee may wish to make a claim which was not made in the return of income filed under section 139. Where the assessee makes a claim of any expenditure or a deduction during the assessment proceedings which had not been made in the return of income […]

Resolve Practical Difficulties Faced by Persons Granted Certificates For Lower TDS Deduction U/s. 197

January 20, 2016 1439 Views 0 comment Print

Section 197 read with Rules 28, 28AA and 28AB prescribe guidelines and procedure for issue of a certificate for TDS at a lower rate in the case of a person, when the Assessing Officer is satisfied that the total income of such person liable to TDS justifies the deduction of income-tax at any lower rate or no deduction of Income tax.

No Reopening of Assessment to be made on Audit Objections: Committee Recommends

January 20, 2016 7317 Views 0 comment Print

One of the key sources of dispute is the existing arrangement for follow up on audit objections by Internal Audit Party and the Revenue Audit Party. In terms of the existing arrangement, the Assessing Officer is required to take corrective steps following audit objections. The corrective measures take the form of rectification or reassessment (by reopening the case under section 147 or revision by the Principal Commissioner or Commissioner under section 263).

Deffer Implementation of ICDS : Committee Recommends

January 20, 2016 2740 Views 0 comment Print

By notification No. 892(E) dated 31st March, 2015 issued by virtue of the powers conferred under Section 145(2) of the Income tax Act, 1961, the Central Government notified Income Computation and Disclosure Standards with effect from 1-4-2015 (AY 2016-17). These standards are applicable to the computation of income under the heads Profits and gains of business or profession and Income from other sources.

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