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FAQs on Statement of Financial Transactions & Reportable Accounts

Income Tax : Know about Statement of Financial Transaction (SFT) or Reportable Account under Section 285BA — entities liable to file, reporta...

November 5, 2025 119069 Views 16 comments Print

Section 194IA: TDS on purchase and sale of immovable property

Income Tax : Understand TDS on immovable property transactions. Section 194-IA mandates TDS deduction at 1% for sale consideration exceeding Rs...

May 10, 2024 8289 Views 0 comment Print

AIR – meaning, provisions, Applicability & FAQs

Income Tax : Annual Information Return (AIR) – meaning, provisions, Applicability & FAQs Annual Information Return (AIR) of ‘hi...

October 7, 2020 130616 Views 0 comment Print

Scope of scrutiny assessment in AIR cases under Income Tax Act 1961

Income Tax : Income Tax Department nowadays selects almost all cases for scrutiny assessment under section 143(2) of Income Tax Act 1961 based ...

September 9, 2020 15584 Views 0 comment Print

SFT Report Generation Utility Quick Reference Guide

Income Tax : Downloading the utility 1. Go to e-filing portal at https:iincometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/ 2. Click on the Forms (other than ITR) ta...

September 1, 2020 47892 Views 0 comment Print


Latest News


Email on Statement of Financial transactions (SFT) filing by IT Dept.

Income Tax : Statement of Financial transactions (SFT) should be filed by all reporting persons covered under Rule 114E of Income-tax Rules, 19...

May 19, 2017 26232 Views 2 comments Print

Companies to furnish Statement of Financial Transactions to Income Tax Department

Company Law : As per Rule 114E of the Income Tax Rules 1962, for and from 2016-­17, all companies have to be furnish SFT in respect of certain ...

January 12, 2017 6373 Views 1 comment Print

Bank to obtain and link PAN or Form No. 60

Income Tax : Income-tax Rules amended to provide that bank shall obtain and link PAN or Form No. 60 (where PAN is not available) in all existin...

January 9, 2017 5446 Views 0 comment Print

Reporting of Cash Transactions under Rule 114E: Clarification

Income Tax : Cash transactions did not require aggregation and the reporting requirement under SFT for this purpose is on receipt of cash payme...

December 23, 2016 6337 Views 1 comment Print

Guidance Note on FATCA and CRS updated till 30.11.2016

Income Tax : This Guidance Note is for providing guidance to the Financial Institutions, Regulators and officers of the Income Tax Department f...

December 4, 2016 17398 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


ITAT Deletes Addition Based on AIR Property Data as Assessee’s Evidence Remains Unrebutted

Income Tax : The case involved an addition based on AIR information regarding a property transaction. The Tribunal deleted the addition after f...

March 21, 2026 378 Views 0 comment Print

AIR Additions Without Disclosure Invalid; Assessment Remanded for Fresh Hearing

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai quashed ex-parte assessment based solely on AIR entries, directing AO to provide full details so assessee can respond ...

November 23, 2025 324 Views 0 comment Print

Kerala High Court Upholds Penalty for Delayed Submission of AIR

Income Tax : The Kerala High Court rules in favor of Director of Income Tax in Sub Registrar vs Director of Income Tax, asserting that the bona...

July 23, 2023 600 Views 0 comment Print

Addition cannot be made merely based on AIR Information

Income Tax : Since AO had not carried out any exercise to rebut the contention of assessee that they have not received any sum higher than what...

January 16, 2020 2502 Views 0 comment Print

Section 271FA penalty not leviable in absence of reportable transaction

Income Tax : Penalty under 271FA was unjustified as there was no requirement to file the AIR in absence of reportable transaction during the fi...

January 25, 2019 4821 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Report cash deposit in Bank & Post Office A/cs between 01.04.2016 to 09.11.2016

Income Tax : Cash deposits during the period 1st April, 2016 to 9th November, 2016 in respect of accounts that are reportable to be reported by...

January 6, 2017 50179 Views 1 comment Print

'Letter Template' for linking of AIR transaction(s) to a valid PAN

Income Tax : The Income Tax Department has received information about large value transactions relating to you under the Annual Information Ret...

July 25, 2016 22808 Views 0 comment Print

FATCA Rules for registration, due diligence & information maintenance

Income Tax : Central Government with respect to registration of persons, due diligence and maintenance of information, and the Central Board of...

June 20, 2016 4234 Views 0 comment Print

Clarifications for implementation of FATCA and CRS

Income Tax : Financial institutions are in the process of carrying out the due diligence of financial accounts and obtaining self-certification...

May 26, 2016 3097 Views 0 comment Print

Revised Procedure for registration & submission of report of reporting financial institution

Income Tax : Submission of Form 61B: Every reporting financial institution is required to submit the Statement of Reportable Account in Form 61...

April 4, 2016 3688 Views 1 comment Print


Guidance Note on FATCA and CRS as updated on 31.05.2016

May 31, 2016 3274 Views 0 comment Print

For implementation of FATCA and CRS in India, necessary legislative changes have been carried out in the Income-tax Act, 1961 and the Income-tax Rules, 1962 so as to collect and provide relevant information to the foreign tax authorities.

Clarifications for implementation of FATCA and CRS

May 26, 2016 3097 Views 0 comment Print

Financial institutions are in the process of carrying out the due diligence of financial accounts and obtaining self-certification from the account holders. Representatives of FIs have informed that there are large number of financial accounts and it is practically very difficult to physically obtain the self certification from the account holders. It has been requested to provide alternative channels to obtain self-certification.

Online upload of of TDS/TCS/AIR Return at NSDL-TIN website to discontinue from 01.05.2016

April 23, 2016 22708 Views 5 comments Print

Online Upload of e-TDS/TCS statement(s) and AIR functionality will be discontinued from May 1, 2016 at NSDL e-Gov end. The users who are desirous to file e-TDS/TCS statements/AIR are hereby requested to visit our TIN-FC agents. To know the nearest TIN-FC, please visit at the TIN website at https://www.tin-nsdl.com/tin-facilities.php For online upload of quarterly TDS/TCS […]

Revised Procedure for registration & submission of report of reporting financial institution

April 4, 2016 3688 Views 1 comment Print

Submission of Form 61B: Every reporting financial institution is required to submit the Statement of Reportable Account in Form 61B or submit Nil statement. The prescribed schema for Form 61B and a utility to prepare XML file can be downloaded from thee-filing website home page under forms (other than ITR) tab. The designated director is required to login to the e-filing website with the ITDREIN, PAN (of the designated director) and password The form is required to be submitted using a Digital Signature Certificate of the designated director.

Income Tax Deppartment sending notices to Foreign asset holders

March 14, 2016 6724 Views 0 comment Print

Foreign Account holders beware; the Income Tax department has started issuing notices to persons having foreign assets about the disclosures of such assets and income accruing from them in the Indian IT Return.

Precaution in Information Return filing by RBI & Electricity Companies

February 24, 2016 2284 Views 0 comment Print

Taxes are an important source of revenue to any Government. The government devises mechanism aimed at detecting cases of revenue leakage. It has been witnessed over last few years that there is increased emphasis on making interaction with taxpayers and requiring them to submit various information/records through online or electronic mode. This assists in cross verification of information furnished by assessee before various departments.

CBDT Clarifications on implementation of FATCA and CRS

February 19, 2016 2166 Views 0 comment Print

For the upcoming reporting in March 2015 and May 2016, all reporting has to be done in INR. For the reporting in 2017, Form 61B and Schema will be suitably modified to include a field for capturing type of currency

Widening Scope of Scrutiny Through Selection of Cases On the Basic of AIR

January 28, 2016 2231 Views 0 comment Print

We all are aware about the Scrutiny Proceedings in the case of ITR which is usually a trauma for each and every person. Now-a-days, CBDT has given instructions to select the cases for scrutiny on the basis of some specific transactions if entered in by any person. Regarding these transaction Income Tax Department (ITD) is collecting the data from different authorities or companies through Annual Information Return (AIR).

Furnishing of PAN and its Reporting to I.T. Department by Assessee

January 28, 2016 6437 Views 3 comments Print

Requirement of PAN to be obtained from parties and responsibility of furnishing of correct PAN is also lies with Your company, so verify the PAN from available sources. Moreover details to be obtained under form 60 are required to be filled truly and correctly, further all the particulars of the same are required to be verified to the satisfaction of the concerned person accepting the same (principal officer).

Guidance Note for implementation of FATCA and CRS

January 1, 2016 2477 Views 0 comment Print

For implementation of FATCA and CRS, necessary legislative changes have been made in the Income-tax Act, 1961 and Income-tax Rules, 1962. Rules 1 14F, 1 14G & 11411 and Form 61B have been inserted to provide legal basis for the Reporting Financial Institutions (RFIs) for maintaining and reporting information about the Reportable Accounts.

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