Income Tax : The reform consolidates TDS provisions into a structured system and introduces digital compliance mechanisms. It enhances clarity,...
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 : A representation has urged CBDT to merge TDS return codes 1023 and 1024, arguing that both apply to the same contract payments wit...
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 Tribunal observed that CBDT instructions prohibit the AO from examining issues beyond the specific reason for limited scrutiny...
Income Tax : Bombay High Court held that delay in filing Form No. 10 for claiming accumulation under Section 11(2) should be condoned where gen...
Income Tax : Court found that the appellant failed to clearly identify which exceptional clause applied. Since the tax effect was below Rs.2 cr...
Income Tax : The issue was whether jewellery found during search can be taxed despite CBDT limits. ITAT held that jewellery within prescribed l...
Income Tax : The case examined whether scrutiny selection without meeting CBDT conditions was valid. The ITAT held that failure to satisfy mand...
Income Tax : CBDT has instructed tax officers to uniformly apply Sections 68 to 69D and Section 115BBE after a C&AG audit found inconsistencies...
Income Tax : The Income Tax Department increased monetary thresholds for assigning cases between ITOs and D/ACITs in Delhi Region. The revised ...
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 ...
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.
Notification No. 51/2010-Income Tax In pursuance of the provisions contained in sub-clauses (iv) and (v) of clause (23C) of section 10 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) read with sub-rule (2) of rule 2C of the Income-tax Rules, 1962, the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) Central Board of Direct Taxes, number S.O. 851(E), dated the 30th May, 2007, namely
