Income Tax : This covers how business income is computed under the Income-tax Act, including normal and presumptive methods. It explains deduct...
Income Tax : A simple guide to the five heads of income under the Income Tax Act, 1961, explaining salary, house property, business income, cap...
Income Tax : Explains when high-volume, systematic trading is treated as business income and highlights major criteria, tax rates, and complian...
Income Tax : Overview of exemptions and allowances for salaried employees, taxpayers, and businesses under various Income Tax provisions for AY...
Income Tax : A brief study of the tax provisions for Profits and Gains from Business or Profession, covering all chargeable incomes (including ...
Income Tax : From April 1, 2025, rental income from house properties must be reported under "Income from House Property," not as business incom...
Income Tax : The introduction of the Direct Taxes Code (DTC), which will replace the 50-year-old Income Tax Act, will make Foreign Institutiona...
Income Tax : The proposed reduction in corporate tax rate from 30% to 25% in the new direct tax code is only one side of the story. The cut ha...
Income Tax : A Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement was signed between India and Tajikistan today, i.e. 20th November, 2008. The Agreement was s...
Income Tax : The ITAT Mumbai ruled that an AO cannot reclassify rental income as business income if it was consistently assessed as income from...
Income Tax : Delhi High Court confirms arbitral award for Fujitsu's offshore supplies is business income, not taxable in India under Japan-Indi...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai clarifies tax on builders' unsold inventory, stating no deemed rental income on stock-in-trade. Also addresses 80G ded...
Income Tax : Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) Pune recently ruled that notional rent on unsold flats held as stock-in-trade by a builder ca...
Income Tax : Delhi ITAT allows Shivsagar Builders' appeal, deleting additions for notional rent on inventory and clarifying taxable revenue bas...
Income Tax : Clause (via) in section 28 is inserted by Finance Act, 2018, w.e.f. Financial year 2018-19 and it provides taxation of Inventory i...
Finance : A. P. (DIR Series)CIRCULAR NO03/RBI under Section 195 of the Income Tax Act read with Rule 29B of the IT Rules, any person respons...
The issue under consideration is whether the funds raised from buy back of FCCB at discounting rate is considered as business income and tax u/s 28 of the Income Tax Act?
The issue under consideration is whether the income earned by the Assessees during the Assessment Years in question from letting out of its warehouses or property to lessees, is taxable under the head ‘Income from Business’ or ‘Income from House Property?
o Employer Employee Relationship exist between a partnership firm and partners so TDS is not required to be deducted on Partner’s Remuneration.
PCIT’s action under challenge is not sustainable since the Assessing Officer had taken one of the possible views only in this factual backdrop. It is reversed therefore.
The issue under consideration is whether the lease income earned by the assessee is taxable under head Income from House Property or Income From Business ans Profession?
After my article on tax implication of different treatments of profits on sale of shares, I have received unprecedented number of mails asking for clarification as to when it is to be treated as capital gains and when it can be treated as business income. So I decided to write an article on the subject proper as to when it can be treated as capital gains and when as business income. Though the Income tax laws provides for taxation of profit on transfer of capital asset under the head capital gains, there are situations/cases when the activity of buying and selling of listed shares is treated as trading activity either by the tax payer or by the revenue authorities and any profit on it is taxed as business income.
The Section 2(13) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, contains an inclusive definition of the term business. There are differences between the meaning of words business & profession in various English dictionaries. Also as per the terminology of income-tax difference has been made in the above words yet no demarcating line has been drawn in respect of these.
In the process of integration of the Indian economy with the world economy, a number of companies are going for restructuring to gain benefits from large scale operations and focus upon its core competencies. In the restructuring exercise, certain companies sell off their unprofitable business activities and the business activity as a whole is sold along with assets and liabilities.
Haresh Khiamal Nanwani Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) The issue under consideration is whether ACIT is correct in treating the sale of investments in immovable properties as a business activity rather than considering it as capital gains, in spite of the appellant holding the flats for more than 36 months. Assessee state that, he had shown […]
The issue under consideration is whether tribunal was correct in holding rental income received from Forum Mall should be considered as ‘Income from business’ and not ‘Income from house property’, though agreement between landlord and tenant contemplating relationship of landlord and tenant and as such it would partake character of rental income?
