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CBDT CS 04 Scrutiny Guidelines 2026-27: Trust Registration, 12AB, ITR-7 & Form 10BD

Income Tax : CS 04 scrutiny examines whether trusts and NGOs validly claimed exemption in ITR-7 despite registration, approval, renewal, cancel...

July 1, 2026 87 Views 0 comment Print

Tax Benefits Guide for Salaried Employees for AY 2026-27

Income Tax : This guide explains the exemptions, deductions, allowances, perquisites, and retirement benefits available to salaried taxpayers f...

July 1, 2026 564891 Views 47 comments Print

Complete TDS Rate Chart for AY 2026-27 After Finance Act 2026

Income Tax : This guide consolidates the latest TDS rates applicable to residents, non-residents, companies, and firms under the Income-tax Act...

July 1, 2026 825 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Rate Chart for AY 2026-27 After Finance Act 2026

Income Tax : This guide explains the income-tax rates applicable to individuals, HUFs, companies, firms, co-operative societies, and other taxp...

July 1, 2026 624 Views 0 comment Print

Rates of Depreciation as Per Income Tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : This guide compiles the depreciation rates applicable to buildings, machinery, vehicles, computers, renewable energy assets, ships...

July 1, 2026 2842339 Views 148 comments 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 276 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 6271 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 327 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 1998 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 4038 Views 1 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


TP Addition Deleted as Management Support Services Proved Genuine

Income Tax : The ITAT Pune held that detailed agreements, invoices and supporting records established that management support services were act...

July 1, 2026 69 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Assessment Set Aside as SCN Reply Was Not Properly Considered

Income Tax : Calcutta High Court quashed the assessment, demand and penalty proceedings after holding that the assessee was denied a meaningful...

July 1, 2026 63 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi Excludes TPO Comparables for Functional Dissimilarity

Income Tax : ITAT excluded EDCIL, Just Dial, Info Edge and India Exposition Mart as transfer pricing comparables due to functional differences ...

July 1, 2026 66 Views 0 comment Print

Interest on Government Grant Not Taxable as It Forms Part of Grant Corpus Under MOU: ITAT Ahmedabad

Income Tax : ITAT held interest on government grant funds was not taxable as the MOU required it to be added to the project corpus....

July 1, 2026 54 Views 0 comment Print

Writ Seeking Tax Evasion Investigation Dismissed as No Case for Mandamus Was Made Out

Income Tax : The Chhattisgarh High Court declined to direct the Income Tax Department to investigate alleged tax evasion after noting that the ...

July 1, 2026 66 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 282 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 138 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 51075 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 948 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 750 Views 0 comment Print


Kolkata Income Tax (Investigation Wing) reports seizure of Rs 65 Cr cash

February 7, 2009 2882 Views 4 comments Print

The current financial year 2008-09 the Investigation Wing of the Income Tax Department, Kolkata, has so far seized unaccounted cash of Rs 65 Crore and other assets to the tune of Rs 11 Cr. Multiple searches have led to disclosure of income to the tune of Rs 360 Cr so far. Some of the noteworthy […]

Cabinet gives nod to CBDT to set up centralised processing centre at Bangalore

February 7, 2009 834 Views 0 comment Print

THE Union Cabinet has approved the proposal of the Income-tax Department to establish a Centralized Processing Centre (CPC) at Bangalore for processing of all electronically filed returns in the country and the paper returns filed in Karnataka. The CPC will enable the Department to process the returns and issue refunds expeditiously. It will encourage more […]

Let us 'care' for Indian Income Tax Department's new slogan 'Let us Share'!

February 7, 2009 4565 Views 5 comments Print

YESTERDAY was a red-letter day for the Indian Income Tax Department. It was an important day from the taxpayers’ angle as well. If the Netizens are thinking in terms of any tax relief, then they need to take a close look at the concept of relief. A fiscal relief is certainly a welcome news even for taxmen in their capacity as taxpayers.

Determination of head of income in respect of payment received by an assessee from his employer under a non-compete agreement

February 7, 2009 1415 Views 0 comment Print

(iii) Even in the case of the assessee, the department is accepting the earning of income albeit on a different footing i.e. claiming the same to be salary income in contra distinction to assessee’s claim being business income by virtue of Section 28(va). Though reference is made to colourable devise in the hands of the assessee following Supreme Court judgment in the case of McDowell &. Co. (supra), the same confine

Former I-T commissioner Purwar acquitted in graft case

February 5, 2009 1341 Views 0 comment Print

A special court has acquitted former income tax commissioner Ashok Purwar in a sensational corruption case for lack of sufficient evidence against him. Purwar was charged with taking money from a government contractor in 2001 to pass an order in his favour. According to the CBI, the complainant Kripashankar Chaturvedi’s chartered accountant,  demanded money on […]

Satyam effect: I-T department to increase staff strength

February 5, 2009 591 Views 0 comment Print

In the wake of the Satyam fiasco, the Income-Tax department now wants more manpower and technical assistance for its investigation wing and closer scrutiny for TDS returns. The department, in its recent report being prepared for cadre review and restructuring, being done after eight years, will submit these suggestions to the government. “With the recent […]

Tax exemption on gas output unlikely soon

February 5, 2009 528 Views 0 comment Print

Energy firms may have to wait a little longer to avail a seven-year tax holiday on natural gas production. The Income-Tax department is unwilling to allow tax benefit on production of natural gas as the matter is sub judice. Companies producing crude oil, however, enjoy the tax incentive. The issue is sub judice and it […]

Allowability of interest paid in respect of loans obtained from Public Financial Institutions

February 4, 2009 1155 Views 0 comment Print

17.1 According to us, as correctly held by the Tribunal, the assessee’s claim for deduction had to be allowed, in one lump sum, keeping in view the provisions of Section 43B(d) which provides that any sum payable by the assessee as interest on any loan or borrowing from any financial institution shall be allowed to the assessee in the year in which the same is paid irrespective of the provisions in which the liability to pay

Illegal Income is taxable : Madras High Court

February 4, 2009 31219 Views 1 comment Print

22. The primary function of the Income Tax Act is to bring the income of various kinds into the tax net. The Income Tax authorities are not concerned about the manner or means of acquiring income. The income might have been earned illegally or by resorting to unlawful means. Illegality tainted with the earning has no bearing on its taxability.

New Wealth Tax Circular Specifying Fees to be charged by Valuer

February 4, 2009 21758 Views 5 comments Print

Notification No. 15/2009 – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by section 46 of the Wealth-tax Act, 1957 (27 of 1957), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following further amendments in the Wealth-tax Act, 1957, namely:— 1. (1) These rules may be called the Wealth-tax (First Amendment) Rules, 2009. (2) They shall come into force with effect from 1st April, 2009. 2. In the Wealth-tax Act, 1957 for rule 8C, the following rule shall be

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