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Income Tax : Taxpayers now get three extra months to correct mistakes in originally filed income tax returns. The revised return mechanism rema...
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Income Tax : Establishes that higher tax burdens on promoters under the new regime require companies to reassess payout strategies. The takeawa...
Income Tax : The amendments focus on reassessment timelines, electronic communication, and procedural clarity. The changes aim to reduce litiga...
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CA, CS, CMA : Budget 2026 prioritises easing compliance, reducing penalties, and cutting litigation rather than raising tax rates. The reforms a...
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Income Tax : U/s 250(4), the CIT (A) has the power to direct enquiry and call for evidence from the assessee. Under Rule 46A, the assessee has ...
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Income Tax : The Finance Act, 2026 prescribes income-tax rates, surcharge, and cess for the assessment year 2026–27. It establishes the legal...
Excise Duty : The government has withdrawn an earlier central excise exemption notification with effect from 2 February 2026. The rescission is ...
Excise Duty : The government has extended key excise provisions and introduced a specific duty structure for CNG blended with biogas. The key ta...
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Even after due efforts taken by the Government to ensure compliance relating to filing of TDS returns by the deductors, the defaults on behalf of deductors continue for one or the other reason
Currently an assessee filing his income tax return needs to fill all the data manually wrt the taxes paid by him/ on his behalf (TDS) in excel utility. Since TDS returns are e-filed now days, an asseesee by manually punching the data relating to prepaid taxes like TDS is prone to committing errors.
The scope of filing return of income should be widened so as to include in its ambit the persons entering into the following transactions:
Under Section 54 of the Income-tax Act, if an assessee who has earned a Capital Gain on sale of a residential house, has, within the prescribed period, purchased or constructed another residential house, then, to the extent of the cost of the new residential house, no tax in respect of such Capital Gain is payable.
For the purpose of conducting special audit under section 142(2A) of Income-tax Act, 1961, the auditor is nominated by Chief Commissioner or Commissioner. Presently, no specific guidelines have been issued by the authorities to enable the Chief Commissioners or Commissioners to take an informed decision.
Section 200 provides for the payment of TDS and filing of TDS Returns. The Income Tax Law requires payment of TDS every month by 7th of the following month and by 30th April of the Assessment year for tax deducted in the month of March of the Previous year.
In order to support/clarify the provisions of Chapter XVII, various circulars have been issued from time to time. Further various court decisions, favourable or unfavourable for the assessees, have also clarified various provisions of Tax deduction at source or tax collection at source.
As per the provisions of section 207 and section 211, the assessee is liable to pay the advance tax on the `Current Income’ of the assessee. This presupposes the existence of the assessee. In view of this, interest under section 234C
Currently, every bank/any other company or institution issuing credit card is required to report through Form No 61A, data related to all persons making payment exceeding the specified amount in respect of one or more credit cards issued to that person.
The mechanical disallowance u/s 14A r.w. Rule 8D is also being added to the book profit by the AO irrespective of the fact whether assessee has actually debited any such expenditure in its P&L Account which is against the pronouncements given by various Judicial authorities in the recent past.
