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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 remanded the matter after holding that the CIT(A) passed a non-speaking order without giving reasons or properly considering ...
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 : 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...
Income to be taxed in India if it accrues directly or indirectly through or from transfer of a capital asset situated in India. However, the transfer by a non-resident of any share or interest in a foreign company would not be treated as income unless, 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.
The Finance Minister tabled the Direct Taxes Code Bill, 2010 (DTC 2010) in the Parliament on 30 August 2010 which is proposed to come into force on 1 April 2012. Some of the salient features are outlined below: General The Code proposes that every person shall be liable to pay income-tax in respect of the […]
Taxmen are expected to soon get an ‘IT’ fillip in sniffing out unaccounted wealth. The income tax department has developed a ‘computer aided investigation tool’ that it claims can catch suspicious transactions in the books of accounts. “With the nodal centre operating the system at Mumbai, it will be soon rolled out in seven places.
The Direct Taxes Code (DTC) Bill has proposed to substitute all profit-linked incentives with investment-linked incentives for businesses that enjoy tax sops under the existing law. Apart from developers of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and units operating out of them, the proposal will also affect companies in power, infrastructure, food processing, hotel and hospital sectors, among others.
The government has proposed to impose capital gains tax on overseas acquisitions if the acquired company holds over 50 per cent assets in India to plug the loophole that led to Vodafone disputing a tax claim on its USD 11.1 billion deal with Hutchison.
Insurance policyholders could be in for a bonanza once the new Direct Taxes Code, or DTC, comes into effect, as insurance firms may pass on the tax benefit proposed in the bill. The new income-tax law tabled in Parliament has exempted the policyholders’ fund, the investment corpus created from premium payments, from the 12.5% tax on income earned.
The government is confident the proposed Direct Taxes Code (DTC) will increase the income tax base, which currently stands at around 3.25 crore, as well as boost economic growth and equity. “We do hope that tax base will widen… Minimum exemptions will lead to higher tax-GDP ratio,” Revenue Secretary Sunil Mitra said here.
Salaried taxpayers may have less kitty for holidays from April 2012, with the government proposing to scrap tax incentives on leave travel allowance in the new direct tax regime DTC. The Direct Taxes Code (DTC) bill, which was tabled in the Lok Sabha yesterday, seeks to do away with leave travel concession (LTC) from its list of exemption. “LTC was one of the popular elements given to employees by the government.
Special Economic Zones are likely to lose their sheen, with Direct Taxes Code Bill proposing to introduce minimum alternate tax at 20 per cent on the book profit of developers as well as units from April 1, 2012.
The Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has asked the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and Central Board of Customs and Excise (CBEC) to constitute Standing Committee at the level of Chief Commissioners to have a systematic bottom to top approach for litigation management.
