Income Tax : Union Budget 2024 proposes revised holding periods, increased short-term capital gains tax rates, and uniform long-term capital ga...
Income Tax : Explore FAQs on latest capital gains tax changes effective from July 23, 2024. Simplified holding periods, updated rates, and roll...
Income Tax : Union Budget 2024: Key tax changes impact short-term, long-term capital gains, and security transaction tax for capital market par...
Income Tax : Understand Income Tax Act rates: Short Term Capital Gains @15% with STT, exceptions to 36-month rule, Long Term Capital Gains, and...
Income Tax : Analyze the tax implications of share splits and amalgamations in India. Understand capital gains treatment, period of holding, an...
Income Tax : Finance Bill 2024 amends Section 55 to include fair market value for unlisted shares in IPOs. Changes apply retroactively from Apr...
Income Tax : The Finance Bill 2024 proposes a streamlined and rationalized taxation system for capital gains, with changes including reduced ho...
Income Tax : From April 1, 2025, Section 47 will exclude transfers of capital assets under gifts or wills from capital gains tax, with specific...
Corporate Law : Finance Ministry's new capital gains tax: Short-term gains at 20%, long-term at 12.5%. Exemption limit raised to ₹1.25 lakh for ...
Income Tax : Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021 Key Features of Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021 1. Provides that no tax demand shall be ...
Income Tax : Read the detailed analysis of ITAT Chennai's decision to grant full S.54F deduction for property purchase in wife's name out of a ...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi rules that Section 50C deeming provisions cannot be applied to leasehold rights in the Shivdeep Tyagi vs ITO case....
Income Tax : Understand the implications of the Parulben Vijaykumar Patel vs ITO case from ITAT Ahmedabad. Detailed analysis and conclusion pro...
Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore dismisses valuation of bonus shares under Income Tax Act sec. 55(2)(aa)B. Detailed analysis of Zash Traders vs ACIT...
Income Tax : Section 54F amendment restricting exemption to one residential house was prospective, applying only from April 1, 2015 and Violat...
Income Tax : The Ministry of Finance, through the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), issued Notification No. 44/2024-Income-Tax on May 24, 2...
Income Tax : The Government of India in IEBR for FY 2022-23 have not mandated NHAI to raise funds from the market. Therefore. NHAI shall not is...
Income Tax : The Finance Act, 2021 amended clause (10D) of section 10 of the Act by inserting fourth to seventh provisos. Fourth proviso provid...
Income Tax : CBDT vide Notification No. 8/2022-Income tax notifies Rule 8AD Computation of capital gains for the purposes of sub-section (1B) o...
Income Tax : No tax demand shall be raised in future on the basis of the amendment to section 9 of the Income-tax Act made vide Finance Act, 20...
The new draft Direct Taxes Code proposes to tax capital gains as regular income at normal tax rates, thereby removing the benefits of lower rates for long-term capital gains on sale of shares.
As per the changes proposed by the new code, a non-profit organisation will have to pay tax at a rate of 30% as per its net worth when it converts itself into an entity that does not qualify as a non-profit organisation. In fact, tax would be levied even if it fails to transfer upon […]
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 has been offset by a reduction in exemptions and the dreaded change in the minimum alternate tax (MAT), which would hit companies that have to invest heavily in their businesses.
It was contended by the assessee that their agricultural land is situated in the rural area outside the municipal limit and hence does not fall within the ambit of provisions of s. 2(14) of the Act and not liable to tax in the assessee’s hand. But the AO has not accepted the contention of the assessee and treated the sale consideration of assessee’s share as undisclosed income of the asses see and added to the income of the assessee.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on August 10 released the New Draft Direct Tax Code. The draft, which is expected to radically change the tax structure, will now be open for discussion after which it will take the form of law. The finance minister had in his budget promised to deliver a new code within 45 […]
Foreign companies cannot be discriminated vis-a-vis Indian firms so far as capital gains tax on securities transaction is concerned, according to an order by the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR). Giving its ruling in a case related to UK-based Fujitsu Services, AAR said the company should also be given an option of paying tax at […]
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The assessee purchased the Indira Vikas Patra during the financial year 1997-98. The Indira Vikas Patras are shown as investment in the books of assessee since 1997-98. The Indira Vikas Patras are issued for certain denominations at half of the face value. The period of maturity varies on the basis of rate of interest and accumulation thereof. As per the provisions of Indira Vikas Patras
The Supreme Court will decide whether mutual fund brokers can resort to a process (dividend stripping) of creating a short-term loss to avoid tax. A Bench headed by Justice S H Kapadia has issued notice broking firms on a batch of petitions filed by the income-tax department challenging the Bombay High Court judgment that a broker […]
Due date of July 31 fast approaching, it is that time of the year again when the nation’s tax payers scramble to file I-T returns. After all, filing of tax return is compulsory for everyone whose gross total income exceeds the basic exemption limit. For financial year 2007-08, for instance, the basic exemption limit was […]
