Finance : Secondary SGB buyers must now pay 12.5% LTCG tax, unlike primary holders. The change reshapes returns and investment strategies in...
Income Tax : Establishes that higher tax burdens on promoters under the new regime require companies to reassess payout strategies. The takeawa...
Finance : The Supreme Court has allowed taxpayers to challenge retrospective amendments validating JAO reassessment actions. It stayed ongoi...
Income Tax : The issue arose from taxing buybacks as dividends, causing higher tax burden and unusable capital losses. The reform restores capi...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court has admitted a case to resolve conflicting interpretations of due dates for PF/ESI contributions. The ruling wil...
Income Tax : The amendments focus on reassessment timelines, electronic communication, and procedural clarity. The changes aim to reduce litiga...
Income Tax : The Government introduced reforms to simplify tax dispute resolution, including broader immunity provisions and expanded scope for...
Income Tax : A focused session breaks down recent Budget amendments affecting NRI taxation. It highlights how changes impact income, investment...
CA, CS, CMA : Budget 2026 prioritises easing compliance, reducing penalties, and cutting litigation rather than raising tax rates. The reforms a...
Custom Duty : New baggage rules and processing regulations are notified, replacing earlier frameworks and aligning customs procedures for passen...
Goods and Services Tax : Discover the key amendments in the Finance (No. 2) Bill, 2024, affecting CGST, IGST, UTGST, and Cess Act, including tax exemptions...
Income Tax : A petition has been filed in the Madras High Court challenging the section 271J of the Income Tax Act inserted vide Finance Act 2...
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 ...
Income Tax : CBDT updated DIN rules to align with new provisions introduced under the Finance Act, 2026. The circular mandates DIN for most tax...
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Excise Duty : The government has withdrawn an earlier central excise exemption notification with effect from 2 February 2026.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...
Excise Duty : The government has reduced the effective National Calamity Contingent Duty on specified tobacco products. The key takeaway is a ca...
Monetary limits in the Income-tax Act, 1961 Issue/Justification The monetary limits for all exemptions or deductions were provided long back. In has been long since the same have been revised considering the prevailing inflationary conditions in India. An effort has been made to compile all such monetary limits with the Cost inflation index (CII) of […]
TDS credit should be allowed on the basis of Form 26AS, even if the payee has not claimed the same in the return of income (due to non updation of Form 26AS) but has claimed TDS credit during the assessment proceedings (during which time the updated TDS credit is reflected in Form 26AS)
Under the current tax regime, there is no provision under the Act which enables an employer to consider admissible benefits under the respective Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements (e.g. credit for taxes paid in another country/ treaty exclusions of income etc.)
TDS CPC has been one of the successful projects of the Government for online tracking of the Tax deducted, deposited, corrections and reconciliations.
Section 203 of the Act requires the deductor of TDS to issue the TDS certificate to the deductee to the effect that tax has been deducted and specifying the amount so deducted.
Most of the companies record provision entries made towards various expenditures on a monthly basis to report performance to the parent entities that are reversed on the first day of the subsequent month.
Applicability of the CBDT Circular on formation of AOP vis-à-vis the EPC contracts/ turnkey projects in case of associate enterprise being a member of the consortium
Currently, the National Pension Scheme (NPS) works on Exempt, Exempt, Tax (EET) regime whereby the monthly/ periodic contributions during the pension accumulation phase are allowed as deduction for Income-tax purposes
Section 255(3) as amended by the Finance Act, 2016 provides that a single member bench may dispose of a case where the total income as computed by the Assessing Officer does not exceed fifty lakh rupees.
Vide the Finance Act, 2017, section 245Q has been amended so as to enlarge/expand the scope of Authority for Advance Rulings to cover cases relating to central excise, custom duty and service tax and thus have single AAR
