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...
Relaxation of time-Compounding of Offences under Direct Tax Laws (Income Tax)-One-time measure-Extension of Timeline- Circular No. 1/2020-Income Tax Dated 3rd January, 2020.
Appointment of 187 IRS Officers to the grade of Joint Commissioner of Income Tax (JCIT) purely on ad-hoc basis vide Office Order No. 269 of 2019 Dated 26th December, 2019. F. No. A-32012/12/2019-Ad.VI Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue (Central Board of Direct Taxes) North Block, New Delhi The 26th December, 2019. OFFICE […]
Order u/s 119 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 for Extension of due date for filing of Income-tax Returns/Tax Audit Reports to 31st January, 2020 in respect of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh. F. No. 225/306/2019-ITA-11 Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes […]
The Festival of Holi is unthinkable without colours. The use of colours by way of different devices like pichkaris, balloons, pumps, and even buckets, constitutes an essential ingredient of a vibrant, joyful and blissful Holi. However, in Income Tax Act, the expression, colourable device, is being looked at, in an altogether different manner.And with the advent of GAAR, there will be a paradigm shift in taxation regime.
GST Council has approved constitution of ‘Grievance Redressal Committee’ at Zonal/State level consisting of both Central Tax and State Tax officers, representatives of trade and industry and other GST stakeholders.
Office Order No. 259 of 2019- Consequent upon approval of the Competent Authority, following officers are, hereby, promoted to the grade of Commissioner of Income Tax (CIT) (level 14 in the pay matrix Rs. 144200-218200/-) w.e.f. the date of assumption of the charge of the post by them and until further orders:
When any entity enters into any transaction in foreign currency, it is exposed to exchange fluctuation risk on such transaction unless the same is hedged by the entity through hedging techniques like Forward Contracts, Currency Invoicing etc.
Government, in consultation with Chief Justice of High Court of Himachal Pradesh, Shimla designates Civil Judge-cum-JMIC (3), Shimla and Civil Judge-cum-JMIC(2), Hamirpur as Special Courts under Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015
Office Order No. 246 of 2019 – Promotion of Officers to the grade of Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (CCIT) – reg F.No. A-32011/1/2019-Ad-VI Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue (Central Board of Direct Taxes) North Block, New Delhi -110 001 Dated: 02.12.2019 Office Order No. 246 of 2019 Consequent upon approval […]
It has been brought to the notice of Board that notices under section 143(2) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (‘Act’) were generated in respect of certain invalid returns of the assessees filed for the Assessment Year 2017-18 through CASS Cycle 2018. As the scrutiny of such returns will pose a challenge for the AO and is bad in law, I am directed to state that Assessing Officers shall drop the proceedings u/s 143(2) of the Act in such cases and reopen the same by issue of notice under section 148 of the Act.
