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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 288 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 2607 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 6663 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 69 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 129 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 267 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 246 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 50862 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


For purposes of clause (iv) of Explanation 1 to section 115JB, extent of reduction in respect of deduction available under section 80HHC has to be computed strictly in accordance with provisions of section 80HHC

January 16, 2011 888 Views 0 comment Print

Tribunal was not justified in coming to the conclusion that the amount to be reduced under clause (iv) of Explanation 1 to Section 115JB in respect of the profits eligible for deduction under Section 80HHC has to be computed with reference to the net profits in the profit and loss account and not according to the profits of the business computed under the head of profits and gains of business or profession

Activity of preparing bouquets from natural flowers does not bring into existence commercially a different product and hence is not `manufacture’ for purpose of section 2(17) of Bombay Sales Tax Act, 1959

January 16, 2011 5068 Views 0 comment Print

If the `flower bouquet’ is an arrangement of cut flowers, such arrangement of cut flowers by itself would not convert the said flowers into a different commercial commodity nor will it amount to and activity which would have an impact on the nature of the goods and will therefore not fall within the definition of the word “manufacture”

Provisions of TDS Chapter (Chapter XVII) are relevant only for ascertaining deductibility of tax at source and not for actual deduction and payment for attracting provisions of section 40(a)(ia)

January 16, 2011 30014 Views 0 comment Print

During the year, the assessee paid Rs.2,83,43,188 to various contractor. The AO noticed that the payment of TDS was not made within the statutory period in respect of payments of the contractors and therefore, it required to be disallowed u/s 40(a)(ia). The assessee claimed before the AO that the entire payment was made in the month of March 2005 and tax was deducted in the month of March 2005 only Therefore, the tax deposited on 21.09.2005 is within the statut

Bad debt – Amount receivable by a share broker from his clients against purchase of shares when not recovered can be allowed as bad debt

January 16, 2011 1764 Views 0 comment Print

The amount receivable by the assessee, who is a share broker, from his clients against the transactions of purchase of shares on their behalf constitutes debt which is trading debt; the brokerage/commission income arising from such transactions very much forms part of the said debt and when the amount of such brokerage/commission has been taken into account in computation of income of the assessee of the relevant previous year or any earlier year, it satisfies the condition stipulated in section 36(2)(i) and the assessee is entitled to deduction under section 36(1)(vii) by way of bad debts after having written off the said debts from his books of account as irrecoverable.

Penalty on alleged gifts received by minor sons of assessee which are finally transferred to assessee

January 16, 2011 1384 Views 0 comment Print

Where assessee chose to sit quietly and did not furnish any satisfactory explanation about cash deposited in minors account which is finally transferred to assessee’s account, then it could not be said that assessee has discharged primary onus lying on him under Explanation 1(A) of section 271(1)(c)

As long as an AO has taken a possible view of a matter after applying his mind to facts of case and legal provision, view so taken cannot be subjected to revision proceedings under section 263 merely because the Commissioner has a different view of that matter

January 16, 2011 489 Views 0 comment Print

The true test, therefore, must lie in whether or not the view taken by the Assessing Officer could be said to be a possible view of the matter, upon due application of mind to facts of the case as also the applicable legal provisions.

No section 14A disallowance for personal tax-free investments if business expenditure not disallowed on ground of being for personal purposes

January 15, 2011 1010 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee is maintaining separate books of account for the purpose of business. The tax-free investments are in his personal capacity. As the AO has not disallowed any expenditure of personal nature out of the business income, the expenditure claimed in the business of share dealings cannot be correlated to the incomes earned in personal capacity that too on dividend, PPF interest and tax free interest on RBI bonds. Accordingly, the estimation of expenditure of Rs. 20,000 out of business expenditure as being incurred for earning tax free income is not acceptable.

Dispute Resolution Panel (DRP) Constitution w.e.f 12.01.2011

January 15, 2011 390 Views 0 comment Print

Vide Order No. 1/FT & TR 2011 dated 12.01.2011, the Central Board of Direct Taxes has constituted 12 (Twelve) Dispute Resolution Panels (DRP) to sit at various locations across the Country.

Govt orders redeployment of IRS officers to meet tax target

January 15, 2011 426 Views 0 comment Print

Crippled by an acute shortage of Revenue Service officers in crucial posts during the peak income tax collection season, the government has ordered that they be re-deployed. The department, which is racing to meet the budgeted target of Rs. 4.30 lakh crore tax collections in this fiscal, has been ordered by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to immediately rejig the officials at Additional and Joint Commissioners rank level to revenue collection duties and ranges concerned.

Vodafone made no capital gains- British envoy

January 15, 2011 348 Views 0 comment Print

British High Commissioner to India Richard Stagg today said telecom operator Vodafone should not be made pay the proposed Rs 11,000 crore tax from its deal with Hutchinson Essar as it had not made any capital gains. “We believe that Vodafone have

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