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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...
The Indian Income Tax department on Monday told the division bench of the Bombay High Court that it has the jurisdiction to levy tax on the $11-billion acquisition of Indian telecom major Hutch-Essar by Vodafone. The division bench has been hearing a petition filed by Vodafone against the Income tax department
Government of India has taken several punitive and deterrent steps to unearth black money. These include scrutiny of returns, surveys, search and seizure action, imposition of penalty and launching of prosecution in appropriate cases.
The Finance Ministry on Monday said Cairn Energy Plc is likely to pay close to $1 billion as capital gains tax on the $8.48 billion it expects to get from selling majority stake in its India arm to Vedanta Resources. “This deal will attract a capital gains tax of 11.33 per cent,” a Finance Ministry official said. Edinburgh-based Cairn Energy Plc is selling up to 51 per cent stake in Cairn India at Rs 405 per share to billionaire Anil Agarwal-controlled Vedanta Resources Plc.
Satellite Television Asia Region Advertising Sales BV (Taxpayer) [2010- T11-58-ITAT-MUML-INTL]: Mumbai Income Tax Appellate Tribunal:- The Tax Authority sought to disregard the existence of the Taxpayer and taxed the income in the hands of the Taxpayer’s Hong Kong-based shareholder company. However, the ITAT ruled in favor of the Taxpayer and held that the Tax Authority could not treat the Taxpayer as a conduit as there was commercial justification for the Taxpayer’s existence.
MSM Satellite Singapore Pte Ltd (SET), a tax resident of Singapore, is engaged in the business of acquiring television programs, motion pictures and sports events. It exhibits the same on its television channels from Singapore.
We are also in agreement with the submission made by Mr. Piyush Kaushik that it is settled law that in the absence of any incriminating evidence that anything has been paid over and above than the stated amount, the primary burden of proof is on the Revenue to show that there has been an under-statement or concealment of income. It is only when such burden has been discharged, would it be permissible to rely upon the valuation given by the DVO.
The option of choosing the initial year for claiming tax holiday under the Section for a consecutive period of 10 out of 15 years (20 years in some cases) from the commencement of operations of an eligible undertaking, is intended to provide meaningful benefit to such taxpayers, since these business are capital-intensive and typically have long gestation period during which they incur losses and are not in a position to avail the profit-linked tax holiday benefit.
A recent ruling of the Mumbai Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) in the case of Hindalco Industries Ltd. (Taxpayer) [AIT2010-211-1TAT] under the provisions of the Indian Tax Act, 1961 (ITA),held that any person from whom a non resident is in receipt of any income can be treated as an agent of such non-resident.
T.D.S means the Tax deducted at source. Whenever a person liable to deduct tax of another person under Income Tax Act, deducts tax, the credit of such tax is given to the deductee when his liability to pay income tax is calculated. Such credit is given on the basis of the information given by the deductor to the Income Tax Department by way of filing his T.D.S statements, wherein the full detail about the tax deducted, the PAN No of deductee etc are given, so that the right credit of T.D.S can be given to the deductee.
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has come down heavily on the Tax Department for fostering “a perception that it has a tendency to opt for appeals even when it is on a weak wicket” and this “appealititis is more detrimental when applied on small taxpayers constituting a large chunk of appellants.”
