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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 369 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 2682 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 6687 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 41277 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 57 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 132 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 50865 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


Exemption u/s 11 can not be denied merely on the ground that audit report was not filed with return of Income

October 3, 2010 13031 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee, a charitable trust, filed a return claiming exemption u/s 11 in respect inter alia of a receipt of Rs. 35.70 crores on sale of property. The audit report in Form 10B was not filed with the return. During the assessment proceedings, the assessee’s trustee gave a statement u/s 131 to the AO in which he stated that no audit report u/s 10B was obtained.

In matters giving benefit to assessee, dept must avoid Technical Approach-HC relief for actor Danny Denzongpa

October 3, 2010 778 Views 0 comment Print

The Bombay High Court has directed the income tax commissioner to reconsider the applications of Bollywood actor Danny Denzongpa alias Tshering Pintso for tax exemptions on dividends and interests since 1997-98 under section 10(26AAA) as incorporated in the Finance Act, which entitled tax exemptions to Sikkimese nationals on dividends and interest on securities. A division bench of the high court has set aside the order passed by the income-tax commissioner rejecting nine applications filed by Denzongpa seeking the exemptions as per the amendment to the Finance Act in 2008.

No penalty if delay in filing returns is genuine- ITAT

October 3, 2010 6454 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi bench of the (ITAT) has ruled that penalty cannot be levied if there is a genuine reason for the delay. Open Technologies India who filed the appeal against the Rs1 lakh penalty imposed on it by the I-T department because of an alleged delay in filing a report from a Transfer Pricing Accountant.

Direct Tax Code-2010 Proposed Changes in respect of international taxation

October 2, 2010 624 Views 0 comment Print

Income shall be deemed to accrue in India if it accrues, directly or indirectly through or from transfer of a capital asset situated in India. However, the income from the transfer by a non?resident of any share or interest in a foreign company would not be considered as income, wherein at any time in twelve months preceding the transfer, the fair market value of the assets in India, owned, directly or indirectly, by the company, represent at least fifty per cent of the fair market value of all assets owned by the company.

Summary of Bombay High Court decision in Vodafone’s case

October 2, 2010 4595 Views 0 comment Print

In this judgement, after hearing the matter, vide its order dated 8 September, 2010 running into 196 pages, the HC has dismissed the writ petition filed by VIH, holding that the proceedings initiated by the Revenue Authorities under section 201 of the Act cannot be held to lack jurisdiction.

Payments to non-residents would be subject to withholding tax only if the income is chargeable to tax- SC

October 2, 2010 552 Views 0 comment Print

Appellant(s) are the distributors of imported prepackaged shrink wrapped standardized software from Microsoft and other Suppliers outside India. During the relevant assessment year(s) appellant(s) made payments to the said software Suppliers which according to the appellant(s) represented the purchase price of the abovementioned software. The ITO(TDS) held that since the sale of software included a license to use the same

Most of the 2G licences issued by Government in 2008 are illegal

October 2, 2010 501 Views 0 comment Print

Adding a new twist to the 2G spectrum scam, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has in its latest communication told the department of telecom (DoT) that a vast majority of the 126 licences controversially issued by the government in 2008 are i

NSDL releases new FUV file for quarterly e-TDS/TCS statement pertaining to FY 2009-10 and 2010-11

October 2, 2010 768 Views 0 comment Print

New validation for quarterly e-TDS/TCS statement pertaining to FY 2010-11 and onwards. Amended file format and FVU version 3.0 & 2.129 released (October 01, 2010). NSDL releases FVU version 3.0 which applicable for quarterly e-TDS/TCS statement per

Tax effect of Indirect sale distribution channels

October 1, 2010 792 Views 0 comment Print

According to Income-tax Act, 1961 “the Act” companies need to withhold tax under section 194H on amount of commission paid to its distributors/ agents or anyone else. Generally the companies selling goods through agents sell its product to agents at price less than market price, Now here arise the point of legal action, whether difference between the retail price (at which product is sold to end user) and the price at which product is transferred to agents is “discount” or “commission”. Income-tax authorities consider it to be commission to try cover such transactions under the ambit of section 194H and on the other hand companies consider it to be a discount. In recent times there flowed numerous judgements from various forums dealing on this issue, some against and some in favour of the assessee.

Odds of Interpretation- Human intervention required for taxing a payment as ‘fees for technical services’

October 1, 2010 654 Views 0 comment Print

Telecom industry in India is suffering from the tussle between the odds of two interpretations. In recent time’s payments for various types of technology-related transactions has been a subject matter of disagreement between taxpayer and income tax d

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