Income Tax : Taxpayers missing the ITR deadline can claim delayed refunds for TDS/advance tax paid, subject to limits and conditions under CBDT...
Income Tax : Government expands Tax Collected at Source (TCS) under Section 206C(1F) to include 10 specific luxury goods valued over ₹10 lakh...
Income Tax : KSCAA urges CBDT to clarify the disallowance of Section 87A rebate on Short Term Capital Gains, citing taxpayer hardship and incon...
Income Tax : Understand the new 1% TCS on luxury goods above ₹10 lakh in India, effective April 2025. Learn which items are included, implica...
Income Tax : Understand Form 15G & 15H for no TDS on interest. Learn who should file, deadlines, online submission, and penalty details....
Corporate Law : CBDT signed 174 Advance Pricing Agreements in FY 2024-25, including a record number of bilateral agreements, to improve transfer p...
Income Tax : ITGOA urges CBDT to address workload imbalances in JAO charges. Proposes systematic reorganization to ensure equitable distributio...
Income Tax : Explore the Finance Bill 2025 highlights, including revised tax rates, TDS/TCS amendments, ULIP taxation, and updated rules for sa...
Income Tax : India's tax arrears stand at ₹47 lakh crore as of Dec 2024. CBDT & CBIC are taking steps, including asset identification, litiga...
Income Tax : India decriminalizes minor direct tax offenses to ease compliance. New measures include litigation management, compounding guideli...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held that while computing total income as per Rule 5 r.w. section 44, provisions of section 14A are not applicable. Fur...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held that alternative claim of assessee (lessee) to allow depreciation on Finance Lease Rental Payment is allowable si...
Income Tax : ITAT Chennai held that cash sales of liquor is the source of cash deposit during demonetization and accordingly, since the nature ...
Income Tax : ITAT Pune remands Dnyanagan Education Society's case for fresh consideration after the rejection of its Section 12AB registration ...
Income Tax : Madras High Court directed to expeditiously dispose of the appeal filed before Appellate Authority and also held that stay granted...
Income Tax : CBDT amends Income-tax Rules, 1962; introduces new ITR-2 form effective from 1st April 2025 via Notification No. 43/2025 dated 3rd...
Income Tax : CBDT issues Income-tax (Fourteenth Amendment) Rules, 2025, effective April 1, 2025, replacing FORM ITR-5 in Appendix-II....
Income Tax : CBDT notification clarifies that expenses to settle proceedings under SEBI, Securities Contracts, Depositories, and Competition Ac...
Income Tax : The Karnataka Urban Water Supply & Drainage Board receives tax exemption for specified income from FY 2023-24 to 2027-28 under Sec...
Income Tax : CBDT amends Income Tax Rules, effective April 1, 2025, revising Form 3CD, MSME interest provisions, buyback reporting, and loan/de...
10. We have heard the rival submissions and perused the material on record. The authorities below have not controverted the claim of the assessee company that the amount received from above three companies is inter-corporate deposits. The Assessing Officer held against the assessee only on account that it had failed to explain, the investment is neither loan or advance.
THE Union Cabinet has approved the proposal of the Income-tax Department to establish a Centralized Processing Centre (CPC) at Bangalore for processing of all electronically filed returns in the country and the paper returns filed in Karnataka. The CPC will enable the Department to process the returns and issue refunds expeditiously. It will encourage more […]
YESTERDAY was a red-letter day for the Indian Income Tax Department. It was an important day from the taxpayers’ angle as well. If the Netizens are thinking in terms of any tax relief, then they need to take a close look at the concept of relief. A fiscal relief is certainly a welcome news even for taxmen in their capacity as taxpayers.
The Income Tax Department, one of the investigating agencies probing the Satyam fraud case, has asked the Hyderabad Police for documents related to purchases and investments by the firm’s former Chairman Ramalinga Raju.
A Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) circular that clears the air on utilisation of central value-added tax (Cenvat) credit is expected to lead to saving of crores of rupees by Indian companies. This clarification could not have come at a better time, as most companies are reeling under the pressure of recession.
SSN Moorthy, a 1973 batch IRS officer, was on Saturday appointed as the new chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes. He replaces NB Singh. Prior to his new assignment, Moorthy was a member in CBDT from August 2008. The government also appointed Sudhir Chandra, a 1973 batch IRS, in the CBDT as a […]
Faced with the prospect of missing the direct tax collection target because of the economic slowdown, the Income Tax (I-T) department has sharply increased fresh tax demands to Rs 1,24,000 crore from companies and individuals in the current fiscal, a 130 per cent increase over fresh demands raised last year. At this level, the demand […]
When it rains, it pours. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has launched an investigation into Satyam Computer Services, joining a growing list of authorities investigating the company whose fate hangs in the balance following an admission of financial irregularities by its founder-chairman. The company, which is likely to be issued with a show […]
Notification No. 1/2009 – Income Tax The Finance Act, 2008, w.e.f. from 1 April 2008, introduced a new concept of Electronic Meal Cards (‘EMC’), for the purpose of Fringe Benefit Tax (‘FBT’) on hospitality expenses. Hospitality expenses do not include any expenditure incurred by an employer on provision of EMCs1, which fulfils the prescribed conditions. Accordingly, FBT will not be payable on expenditure incurred on such EMCs. Hospitality expenses are valued at 20% of the expense incurred for the purpose of FBT (except in case of certain industries).
A number of trusts, societies and other organization avail exemption under Section 11 or Section 10(23C) by virtue of having income derived from property held under trust wholly for charitable or religious purposes, to the extent of the application of such income. Background of amendment Section 2(15) of the Act defines the term ‘Charitable Purpose’, […]
