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Income Tax Rule 46(8): Mandatory Daily Backup of Electronic Books of Accounts

Income Tax : Rule 46(8) mandates daily backups of electronic books on servers located in India, strengthening digital tax compliance and data i...

June 29, 2026 258 Views 0 comment Print

What every Salaried person must know before 31st July!

Income Tax : CBDT allows eligible salaried taxpayers with LTCG up to ₹1.25 lakh under section 112A to file ITR-1, simplifying return filing f...

June 29, 2026 2478 Views 0 comment Print

Comprehensive 10-Year Income Tax Rates Chart

Income Tax : Explore income-tax rates applicable over the last ten assessment years for individuals, companies, firms, LLPs, HUFs, and co-opera...

June 29, 2026 6657 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Provisions applicable to business entities

Income Tax : Learn how business and professional income is computed under the Income-tax Act after the Finance Act, 2026. This guide explains t...

June 29, 2026 3105 Views 0 comment Print

Time limit for issuing different income-tax notices & completion of assessment

Income Tax : Understand the statutory time limits for issuing income-tax notices and completing assessments under the Income-tax Act. The guide...

June 29, 2026 41271 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 261 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 6241 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 318 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 1959 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 4017 Views 1 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Delayed Form 10B Filing Not a Ground to Reject Section 11 Exemption: ITAT Jaipur

Income Tax : ITAT Jaipur held that exemption under Section 11 cannot be denied merely because Form 10B was filed late when it was already avail...

June 29, 2026 63 Views 0 comment Print

Bombay HC Admits AMP & Doctors’ Payment Issues as They Raise Substantial Questions of Law

Income Tax : Bombay HC admitted the Revenue's appeal on AMP expenditure and payments to doctors, holding both require judicial examination. It ...

June 29, 2026 54 Views 0 comment Print

Agricultural Land Taxable as Capital Asset as It Fell Within Statutory Distance from Municipality

Income Tax : ITAT held that agricultural land within the prescribed municipal distance is a capital asset and restricted the on-money addition ...

June 29, 2026 126 Views 0 comment Print

NCLAT Allows Joint Compounding Applications as Companies Act Has No Express Bar

Income Tax : NCLAT held that a single application covering multiple years and company officers is maintainable in the absence of any statutory ...

June 29, 2026 60 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Grants Section 87A Rebate on Special Rate STCG Tax as Total Income Qualified

Income Tax : ITAT held that Section 87A rebate cannot be denied on tax payable under Section 111A where the assessee qualifies under the prescr...

June 29, 2026 252 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 243 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 126 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 50850 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 918 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 726 Views 0 comment Print


Derivative transaction entered prior to notification defining Recognised Exchanges is also eligible to be treated as non speculative transaction

July 29, 2011 6806 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs Hiren Jaswantrai Shah (ITAT Ahmedabad)- Derivative transactions carried out through stock exchanges from 1 April 2005 to 25 January 2006, which are recognised by the notification issued by the CBDT on 25 January 2006, would be eligible for being treated as non-speculative transactions within the meaning of clause (d) of proviso to s 43(5) and, accordingly, are available for set-off against regular business income.

S. 40(b) Interest on deposits for availing bank guarantee is business income

July 29, 2011 5023 Views 0 comment Print

It is the purpose or the proximity to the purpose, which would determine the character of the asset and, thus, that of the income arising there-from and, consequently, its assessability under the Act, going on to hold that where the amount was deposited in the bank to obtain a letter of credit for purchase of a capital asset (machinery), the interest thereon would only be a capital receipt, which shall go to reduce the cost of the relevant capital asset. The said decisions, in our view, full govern the present case, and the Revenue has misapplied the decisions by the hon’ble jurisdictional high court.

Reasons are required to be recorded by the AO on valid material and an assessment cannot be reopened on mere assumptions

July 29, 2011 7667 Views 0 comment Print

Weizmann Capital Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai)- The income, which the Assessing Officer initially formed a reason to believe had escaped assessment, has as a matter of fact, not escaped assessment, it is not open to the Assessing Officer independently to assess some other income.

For the levy of FBT, the application of s 115WC(2)(b) cannot be restricted only to the business relating to civil construction and it will cover the business activity of the assessee carried on

July 29, 2011 7177 Views 0 comment Print

Innovative Steals Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi)- The word “construction” though mainly connected to the building but it includes within its ambit a bridge under construction building, erection, elevation, establishment, assembly, manufacture, fabrication. It also includes an impressive construction structure, building, edifice, assembly, framework. Therefore, its ambit has not been restricted to only to construction of building.

Depreciation on pre-operative expenses allocated to fixed assets is allowable under s 32 since expenses were incurred for setting up of fixed assets during the trial run

July 29, 2011 36342 Views 2 comments Print

Cosmic Kitchen Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi)- The only ground taken in this appeal, filed by the assessee, is that the learned CIT(A) erred in disallowing depreciation of Rs. 2,70,744/- in respect of pre-operative expenses allocated to fixed assets. It is also mentioned that he erred in holding that the expenses were revenue in nature and not linked with installation of various assets.

Only profit on the sale of the licence should be chargeable to tax under s 28(iiia) and not the profit which may come in the future on the sale of the licence

July 29, 2011 27242 Views 0 comment Print

GKW Limited Vs CIT (Calcutta High Court)- Only profit on the sale of the licence should be chargeable to tax under s 28(iiia) and not the profit which may come in the future on the sale of the licence.

Income arising to foreign company by way of fees for technical services – Notified foreign company – EADS Deutschland GmbH, Germany notified u/s 10(6C) of The Income Tax Act

July 29, 2011 6114 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 40/2011 – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (6C) of section 10 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government herby notifies that any income arising to M/s. EADS Deutschland GmbH Worthstrable 85,89077 Ulm Germany by way of fees for technical services received in pursuance of the agreement entered into by the Government of India with M/s. EADS Deutschland GmbH, dated the 22nd June, 2010

Regarding DPC for promotion to the grade of Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (CCIT) in the CBDT, Department of Revenue

July 29, 2011 7232 Views 0 comment Print

I am directed to say that officers as per the enclosed lists are being considered for promotion to the grade of Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, CBDT. You are therefore requested to kindly obtain the options for posting, if any, from the concerned officers on their promotion to the grade of CCIT and to forward the same to Database Cell by E-mail at www.dbe.cbdt@incometaxindia.gov.in and also by Speed Post latest by 02.08.2011.

Thin Capitalization Rules- Debt to Equity to Tax can no longer be tossed

July 29, 2011 6513 Views 0 comment Print

Companies borrowing large amount of loans enjoys tax deduction on interest paid thereby on such loans. But companies may no longer be able to enjoy this huge deduction on their taxable profit as the government is planning to implement Thin Capitalization Rule to avoid such tax evasion. 

Bonus shares eligible for benefit u/s 115F of the Act if if original shares acquired in foreign currency – ITAT Mumbai

July 29, 2011 1242 Views 0 comment Print

Sanjay Gala Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai)- In the present case, the assessee subscribed to shares in convertible foreign exchange and acquired the foreign exchange asset. In so far as this aspect is concerned, there is no dispute from the revenue authorities.

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