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Income Tax : SC dismisses SLP in K R Jayaram's tax case due to low tax effect. Reassessment under Section 147 deemed invalid. Legal question re...
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Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore remands case concerning cash deposits during demonetization, directing the AO to re-assess the addition u/s 69A aft...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi dismisses Revenue's appeal in ACIT vs Hindukush Construction Pvt. Ltd. (AY 2016-17) due to low tax effect under CBDT Ci...
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Income Tax : CBDT extends the due date for filing Form 56F under Section 10AA(8) and 10A(5) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, to March 31, 2025, for...
Income Tax : CBDT authorizes data sharing with the Dept. of Food & Public Distribution to identify beneficiaries under PMGKAY as per Income-tax...
Income Tax : Circular No. 01/2025 outlines the application of the Principal Purpose Test (PPT) under India's Double Taxation Avoidance Agreemen...
Income Tax : The CAG's 2024 report on direct taxes highlights tax issues, recovery, and errors in corporate and income tax assessments, with co...
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE ****** New Delhi, dated 1st August, 2016 NOTIFICATION No. 61 :(F.No.A.19011/15/2014-Ad.I): The President of India is pleased to appoint Ms. Rani Singh Nair, IRS(IT:1979), as Chairperson, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance in the pay scale of Rs. […]
Recognizing various limitations under the existing legislation [Income-tax Act, 1961, etc.], the Government enacted a new law – ‘The Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015’ – to specifically and effectively tackle the issue of black money stashed away abroad.
In the last decade, the Income Tax Department embarked on an ambitious computerization plan which developed voluminous databases of IT returns, IT forms, TDS/TCS statements, Annual Information Return (AIR) etc. The large volumes of data necessitated development of a comprehensive platform for effective utilization of information.
The Direct Tax Dispute Resolution Scheme, 2016 was introduced with effect from 01.06.2016 to address the issue of pending litigation before CsIT (A). Tax payers stand to benefit by a timely disposal of their litigation, while the Department stands to reduce its administrative cost in disposing appeals and also to collect its due taxes. Therefore, it becomes expedient on the part of all officers to ensure that the Scheme is a resounding success.
CBDT entered into seven (7) Unilateral Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs) today, i.e., 18th July, 2016, with Indian taxpayers. Some of these agreements also have a Rollback provision in them.
Central Government hereby notifies that where the variation between the arm’s length price determined under section 92C and the price at which the international transaction or specified domestic transaction has actually been undertaken does not exceed one percent of the latter in respect of wholesale trading and three percent.of the latter in all other cases
Certain sections of the press have been carrying news reports today that Income Tax Department is going to arrest wilful defaulters of tax. In this regard, it is clarified that no such statement has been authorised by the Income-tax Department.
Following upon recent amendments in the Act that have advance tax connotations: As per provision of section 43CA of the Income-tax Act, 1961, Real Estate companies have to be assessed on a turnover (based on stamp duty value or circle rate) in respect of all transactions relating to land or building or both. This will have an impact in case of Real Estate developers and traders in India where immovable property is kept as stock-in-trade;
Now, a comprehensive view is available to the corporate entity (at PAN level) that displays TAN-wise defaults / compliance patterns for different years. This view is available to the corporates online under the heading ‘Aggregated TAN compliance’ on the portal of the CPC(TDS) [TRACES]. The F.Y.-wise comprehensive view of defaults is also available in ‘Part G’ of Form 26AS of the PAN of the respective corporate.
The key result areas for widening of tax-base are as under: (i) Improving compliance to TDS/TCS Provisions (ii) Effective collection of information about high value transactions (iii) Efficient handling of information without valid PAN (iv) Ensuring compliance from identified non-filers through various methods
