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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 held that remuneration to trustees must be examined for reasonableness and cannot be disallowed merely because it was paid to...
Income Tax : ITAT held that a BSNL employee absorbed from DoT is entitled to exemption for ex gratia and leave encashment by treating the emplo...
Income Tax : ITAT held that foreign tax credit cannot be denied solely because Form No. 67 was filed after the return, subject to verification ...
Income Tax : ITAT directed the AO to verify Form 26AS and the corresponding income before deciding the TDS credit claim instead of denying it o...
Income Tax : ITAT held that Section 54F deduction cannot be denied where capital gains are invested in a residential house within the prescribe...
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...
With allegations and counter allegations over the bidding process, Income Tax officials today visited the headquarters of the cash-rich IPL and office of its Commissioner Lalit Modi to inquire into financial details and share holding patterns of all the league franchisees.
The Income Tax (I-T) department and Enforcement Directorate (ED) are reported to have begun a discreet enquiry into the source of funds of certain franchisees of the cash-rich T20 Indian Premiere League (IPL). Official sources said today the “source probe” commenced after a controversy broke out this week over the share holding patterns of the consortium led by Rendezvous which bagged IPL Kochi franchise.
Recent Notification No. 23/2010 dated 8 April 2010 (Notification) issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) prescribed the rules (Rules) for determining the fair market value (FMV), for the purposes of taxation, of certain specified assets received by a taxpayer without consideration or for inadequate consideration i.e. a consideration which is less than the FMV by an amount exceeding INR 50,000. The Finance (No. 2) Act, 2009 had inserted Section 56(2) (vii) (Section) to tax such specified assets received on or after 1 October 2009 (See Note-1 below). Specified assets are archaeological collections, drawings, paintings, sculptures or any other work of art (artistic work), jewellery and shares and securities.
Special Bench Tribunal Ruling: If the Payer is of the bona fide belief that no part of the payment is chargeable to tax, he need not undergo the procedure of section 195 at all. The Tribunal has chosen not to follow the Karnataka High Court’s judgement in the case of Samsung Electronics. [ITO v. Prasad Production Ltd. (ITA No. 663/Mds/2003)].
The Central Board of Direct Taxes has notified the valuation rules for gifts over Rs 50,000 which includes gift in kind too, and these will come into effect retrospectively from October 1, 2009. The transaction value of warrants, preference shares and other such instruments transferred to another individual or a company will now have to be certified by a category-I merchant banker according to CBDT’s new fair market value (FMV) norms for gifts.
The Government has extended tax concession on interest paid for educational loan to all streams of studies including vocational courses, benefiting students from all economic strata opting for higher studies, from this academic session onwards.
Industry body Assocham today suggested that Indian companies’ earning from overseas firms, in which they hold over 10 per cent stake, should be exempted from income tax. The move, the chamber said, would help Indian entrepreneurs bring back their foreign exchange income earned outside India and invest it domestically.
The Central Government have approved notification of the following areas as ‘specified territory’ for the purpose of Explanation 2 to Section 90 of the Income Tax Act 1961 – (i) Bermuda, (ii) British Virgin Islands, (iii) Cayman Islands, (iv) Gibraltar, (all British Overseas Territories); (v) Guernsey, (vi) Isle of Man, (vii) Jersey, (all British Crown Dependencies); (viii) Netherlands Antilles (an Autonomous Part of the Kingdom of Netherlands); and (ix) Macau (a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China).
The income-tax department is making a last-ditch effort to lay its hands on the $8 billion allegedly stashed away by Hasan Ali Khan, a Pune-based stud farm owner, who is being investigated by the income-tax department as well as the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which deals with violations of rules governing use of foreign currency.
Notification No. 24/2010-Income Tax The Central Government have approved notification of ten year Deep Discount Bond (Zero Coupon Bond) of Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (REC) to be issued by 31st March 2011 as specified bonds for the purpose of sub-section 48 of section 2 of the Income Tax Act, 1961. The number of bonds approved for issue are 25,00,000 with maturity value of Rs.30,000 each having life period of 10 years. Income from such bonds will be taxed as capital gain only on transfer or redemption or maturity.
