Income Tax : The ruling clarifies that unauthenticated digital chats and screenshots cannot form the sole basis of tax additions without proper...
Income Tax : The framework permits taxpayers to settle offences by paying prescribed compounding charges instead of facing prosecution. It clar...
Income Tax : CBDT amended Income-tax Rules to include crypto-assets and digital financial products in CRS reporting. The move expands disclosur...
Income Tax : The Draft Income-tax Rules, 2026 require salaried taxpayers to disclose their relationship with landlords, enabling enhanced scrut...
Income Tax : Refunds for AY 2025–26 are being withheld after system-based risk checks detected discrepancies. Taxpayers are advised to review...
Income Tax : CBDT signed a record number of APAs to provide clarity on transfer pricing and reduce disputes. The framework ensures advance dete...
Income Tax : The Government stated that representations on own merit promotions are examined regularly as per existing rules, with no separate ...
Income Tax : Draft Income-tax Rules and Forms have been released for public feedback before the new law takes effect, with inputs to shape the ...
Income Tax : Following judicial criticism of delayed appeals, officers urged structural reforms to fix institutional gaps rather than penalisin...
Income Tax : The NUDGE campaign targets fraudulent claims under sections 80G and 80GGC, helping taxpayers voluntarily revise returns and avoid ...
Income Tax : Reassessment proceedings was invalid for a notice issued beyond three years without the sanction of the prescribed higher authorit...
Income Tax : The ruling clarifies that unauthenticated digital chats and screenshots cannot form the sole basis of tax additions without proper...
Income Tax : ITAT held that delay in filing Form 9A cannot automatically result in denial of exemption under Section 11. The issue was sent bac...
Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that assessment orders in e-proceedings must be digitally signed as per CBDT instructions. A manually signed or...
Income Tax : The issue was whether CBDT jewellery instructions could shield bullion found during a search from taxation. The Tribunal held that...
Income Tax : The notification requires payers to generate UINs and file quarterly details of declarations even where no tax is deducted. It enh...
Income Tax : Explains the CBDT notification granting section 10(46) exemption to a district legal services authority and the categories of inco...
Income Tax : The Central Government notified an urban development authority under section 10(46A) of the Income-tax Act. The exemption applies ...
Income Tax : CBDT instructs CIT(A) offices to issue intimation confirming withdrawal of appeals for MAP-resolved grounds, serving as proof for ...
Income Tax : The government has authorised all non-rural branches of 19 banks to operate Capital Gains Account Scheme accounts, enhancing taxpa...
Taxpayers may get relief in terms of tax rates in the proposed Direct Taxes Code, which is likely to replace the 50-year-old Income Tax Act from the next fiscal, a key official indicated today. “We are in the process of reducing the rate of tax and DTC will be a good example in that direction,” Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Chairman S S N Moorthy said at an Assocham tax conference.
In all fairness, while hearing an appeal from the original authority, the CIT, the CBDT who is the appellate authority cannot deny the reasonable opportunity of hearing to the petitioning assessee at whose instance the impugned order came to be passed and which has become the subject-matter of appeal before the CBDT.
The Finance Ministry today said that it too is verifying the documents to check financial irregularities in award of works related to the Commonwealth Games.
The billions of rupees stuck in courts and rising tax litigation have invited the attention of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee as he pushes through a major reform in the country’s tax regime.
Vodafone’s senior counsel, Harish Salve, today began arguments on behalf of the company on its plea against the income tax department in the Hutchison case. The arguments could continue for some weeks. The company had moved court on a showcause notice from the I-T Department, quantifying a tax liability of Rs 12,000 crore (Rs 120 billion), which could include a penalty, on account of Vodafone not deducting tax from the payment made to Hutchison for acquiring the latter’s stake in an Indian telecom venture.
Notification No. 65/2010-Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred in sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 120 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following amendments to the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, Central Board of Direct Taxes number S.O. 732(E), dated 3rd July, 2001, namely:-
Mumbai : Nowadays Income Tax Department is issuing letters to taxpayers demanding them to pay tax which they already paid. These letters being sent out as a result of the income-tax department moving on to a computerised system, wherein taxes cut by your employer and those with whom you share a business relationship get listed under your name. The problem arises at the last link — where tax deducted by any organisation against your name has to appear. The system is not being able to connect the two fields, and hence, thinks you have not paid tax.
THE CBDT is truly excited and fully geared up to celebrate 150 years of income tax in India. The Governor General of India accorded to the bill levying the tax, introduced by James Wilson, the first Finance Member in Council, on 24th July 1860. The 150 years of income tax, spanning 3 centuries, have witnessed tremendous global changes.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has constituted a three-member committee to inquire into income tax loss to Mumbai caused due to non-transmission of important information on unaccounted income to field officials concerned. The Central Information Branch (CIB) of I-T department in Mumbai had collected the information which could not be disseminated to the assessing officers for action, as they were locked up in the faulty computer system of the department.
The employees of the Income-Tax Department will strike work on Thursday to stress the various demands including filling up vacancy and stop outsourcing at the Central Processing centre in Bangalore.The two major employees associations Income-Tax Gazetted Officers Association and Income-Tax Employees Federation will participate in the strike.
