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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 : Karnataka HC held that a Section 148A(b) notice granting less than seven days for compliance is invalid, making all consequential ...
Income Tax : ITAT Surat held that rural agricultural land falls outside Section 2(14), deleting capital gains and related additions....
Income Tax : ITAT held no TDS was required as the Revenue failed to prove the services made technical knowledge available under the India-US DT...
Income Tax : The ITAT held that Section 54 exemption must be examined separately for each residential house sold. The benefit cannot be restric...
Income Tax : ITAT held that failure to obtain a tax audit does not automatically justify rejecting books and estimating profit at 8% without pr...
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...
For the tax-payer, “T” in the EET will never look like preferable to EEE. However, looking to the fact of EET as certainty, one will have to learn to live under it. The only alternative for the tax payer is to organize the affairs in such a way that there is no additional burden due to tax-outflow.
The ITA has always treated income from CG under special category. Not only liberal deductions / exemptions were provided, even the rate of tax was low as compared to the rate of tax on income from salary, business etc. Since long, CG has always been classified into two broad categories viz. Long Term (LT) and Short Term (ST)
The case in point is the proposal under the Direct taxes Code (DTC) to levy tax on amount received under life insurance policy. It is vehemently argued that the Government is playing foul by changing the rule of the game in between. Having declared the said amount exempt so far, the policy cannot be changed overnight, making life difficult for numbers of tax payers.
Although the length of the Code is much compact with 285 sections, relationship between various sections, clauses, sub-clauses and Schedules makes one wondering from where to start. Should one start reading with Income from Employment or Capital Gain? Or should one start with the Schedule containing the definition clause? Having read it various times, one is still not clear about its ultimate impact on the final tax liability. Such problems arises for two reasons:
Hence, no income from offshore supplies accrues or arises or can be deemed to accrue or arise to the Applicant in India under the Indian Tax Law (ITL). The AAR also ruled that the Applicant does not have a Permanent Establishment (PE) in relation to offshore supplies. Therefore, no part of income from offshore supplies can be said to be taxable in India.
CBDT on Friday directed its field formation to levy the highest penal rate of tax on TDS (tax deducted at source) defaulters.Following a sharp shortfall in revenue from TDS collection, the Income Tax Department has launched a massive drive across the country to detect and inquire into TDS payments of companies and especially on payments made and salaries disbursed.
Indian companies with a majority foreign shareholding will not get relief from the stringent norms that govern their contributions and donations within the country. A Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs had recommended relaxing the rules that prohibited Indian companies with more than 50 per cent foreign shareholding from donating money or providing hospitality overseas (like paying for travel, boarding, transport and medical treatment abroad) to individuals and companies within the country.
Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee has asked Indian Revenue Service officials to consider tax payers as important stakeholders in nation building and to administer taxes with a human approach. He was addressing the 63rd batch of IRS trainees last evening.
In an oral judgement pronounced today 12th March 2010, the Court held that while “works contracts” were subject to TDS under section 194C, “sales contracts” were not. It upheld the arguments of the pharmaceutical companies that the contract manufacturing agreements entered into by them with other manufacturers amounted to a “sales contract” which was not liable to TDS u/s 194C.
Notification No. 15/2010-Income Tax S.O. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (6C) of section 10 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby declares that any income arising to Sinclair Knight Merz Pty Limited(M/s SKM), Australia having its office at 100, Christie Street, P.O. Box 164, St. Leonards, New South Wales, AustraIia-2065 by way of fees for technical services received
