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Income Tax : Rule 46(8) mandates daily backups of electronic books on servers located in India, strengthening digital tax compliance and data i...
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...
Income Tax : Explore income-tax rates applicable over the last ten assessment years for individuals, companies, firms, LLPs, HUFs, and co-opera...
Income Tax : Learn how business and professional income is computed under the Income-tax Act after the Finance Act, 2026. This guide explains t...
Income Tax : Understand the statutory time limits for issuing income-tax notices and completing assessments under the Income-tax Act. The guide...
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 Jaipur held that exemption under Section 11 cannot be denied merely because Form 10B was filed late when it was already avail...
Income Tax : Bombay HC admitted the Revenue's appeal on AMP expenditure and payments to doctors, holding both require judicial examination. It ...
Income Tax : ITAT held that agricultural land within the prescribed municipal distance is a capital asset and restricted the on-money addition ...
Income Tax : NCLAT held that a single application covering multiple years and company officers is maintainable in the absence of any statutory ...
Income Tax : ITAT held that Section 87A rebate cannot be denied on tax payable under Section 111A where the assessee qualifies under the prescr...
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...
TRIAD GESTCO LTD. VERSUS HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Canada Tax Court) – The transactions undertaken by the appellant amount to abusive tax avoidance because they defeat the underlying rationale of the capital loss provisions in the Act. Through the manipulation of the fiscal ‘amount’ of the Rcongold common shares, the appellant created artificially devalued property that was transferred to a person within the same economic unit to create an artificial capital loss without incurring any real economic loss. On August 27, 2002, the appellant owned shares of Rcongold which had a fair market value of $8 million (the common shares). On August 28, 2002, the appellant continued to own shares of Rcongold which had a fair market value of $8 million (the Class ‘E’ shares) and after the disposition of the common shares of Rcongold to the PCT, the appellant continued to own shares in Rcongold having a fair market value of $8 million.
CIT vs. Cosmo Films Ltd (Delhi High Court) – High Court observed that if the sale and lease back agreement between the assessee and the OSEB indicate that the assessee had purchased the plant and machinery from OSEB for a price and had leased out the same to OSEB on lease rent, the revenue department cannot discard the said sale and lease back agreement on the ground that the underlying motive of the assessee to enter into the said transaction was to reduce its income-tax liability.
Hasan Ali Khan, arrested for alleged money laundering, has stashed $800 million in banks in countries like the U.S., Switzerland and Singapore and has links with officials of these banks, the Enforcement Directorate told the Bombay High Court on Monday. Justice A.M. Thipsay was hearing a bail application filed by Mr. Khan after a sessions court rejected his bail plea. The matter will be heard on July 26.
Fulford (India) Ltd v. DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) – The Tribunal made specific reference to the noting of the DRP in its order viz., that the assessee may be justified in claiming that own researched medicine should fetch higher profit margin, may be justifiable arguments, but the same had to be supported by adequate fact and each and every medicine had to be shown with respect to back-up research and development to justify the profit margin.
ITO v. Parag Mahasukhlal Shah (ITAT Ahemdabad) If a payment is compensatory in nature and not related to any deposit/debt/loan, then such a payment is out of the ambits of the provisions of section 194A of the Income-tax Act. To buttress this legal proposition, we hereby placed reliance on the decision of Hon’ble Gujarat High Court in the case of Nirma Industries Ltd. (supra), wherein the question was the admissibility of deduction under sections 80HH and 80-I of the Income-tax Act in respect of interest received from trade debtors.
Yahoo India P. Ltd v. DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) -Payment made by assessee-company to Yahoo, a Hong Kong company, for hiring its services for uploading and display of banner advertisement of Department of Tourism of India on its portal was not in nature of royalty within meaning of clause (iva) of Explanation 2 to section 9(1)(vi). meaning of clause (iva) of Explanation 2 to section 9(1)(vi).
A country-wide probe conducted by the Income Tax department has found that close to 300 registered political parties have never filed their tax returns and the Election Commission has now asked the department to issue notices to them. The probe, conducted after the EC asked the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to ascertain the financial status of these small parties for alleged violation of tax laws and money laundering, has been submitted to the election Panel.
The Swiss National Bank, the central bank of Switzerland, has estimated that Indian clients had deposits of about $2.5 billion in banks in the European nation in 2010. This is just a fraction of the $1.5-trillion figure that had been projected by political parties and non-governmental organizations, who have attacked the UPA government with their anti-corruption movement over the last few months.
DCIT v. Golflink Software Park P Ltd. (ITAT Bangalore) – The taxpayer was not only letting out its building for rent, but also carried on a complex commercial activity of setting up a software technology park in which various amenities and fit-outs have been provided. The Tribunal relied on the Supreme Court’s decision of CIT v. National Storage Pvt Ltd [1967] 66 ITR 596 (SC).
Voith Siemens Hydro Kraftwerkstechnik GMBH & Co KG Vs. DDIT (ITAT Delhi)- The Tribunal observed that even though in the contract between the taxpayer and OHPC, the term supervision has been given a specific meaning, the conduct of the taxpayer was not supported by any evidence to demonstrate that it had done any thing other than „supervision‟ as understood in its general meaning.
