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 ...
TAX UPDATES – DECEMBER 2018 NEWS 1. CBDT vide Notification dated 06th December, 2018 notifies the norms for conversion of Branch of Foreign Banks in India into Subsidiary Company. [Notification No. 85/2018/F.No.370133 /34/2016-TPL] 2. CBDT vide Notification 06th December, 2018 further clarifies that no tax deduction at source u/s 194A of the Income Tax Act, […]
Notification No. 14/2019-Income Tax Dated: 6th March 2019 MINISTRY OF FINANCE (Department of Revenue) (CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES) Notification No. 14/2019 New Delhi, the 6th March, 2019 S.O. 1142(E).—On consideration of application of M/s Agricultural Development Trust, Baramati, Pune (‘ADT’) (PAN:- AAATB7892F) dated 10.03.2018 for approval under section 35(1)(ii) of Income Tax Act,1961(‘said Act’) […]
Office Order No. 43 of 2019The President is pleased to appoint the following Income Tax Officers, presently posted in the region shown against their names. in the grade of Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax (ACIT) on ad-hoc basis for the vacancy year 2018 in the Level 10 in the pay matrix Rs. 56100-177500/- for a period of one year with immediate effect or until further orders, whichever is earlier.
CBDT is taking initiatives to make income tax proceedings paperless, faceless, nameless and jurisdiction-less to bring about transparency and accountability in assessments under Income-tax laws.
CBDT identifies non-filers through Non-filers Monitoring System (NMS) by using Data Analytics and request the Non-filers to assess their tax liability for AY 2018-19 and file the Income Tax Returns (ITR) or submit online response within 21 days The Non-filers Monitoring System (NMS) aims to identify and monitor persons who enter into high value transactions […]
Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) today said that certain news items that appeared in a section of media regarding enmasse issue of prosecution notices to small companies for TDS default are completely misleading and full of factual inaccuracies. CBDT clarified that Mumbai Income Tax TDS office has issued prosecution show cause notices only in a limited number of big cases where more than Rs. 5 lakh of tax was collected as TDS from employees etc and yet the same was not deposited with the Income Tax Department in time.
Any view expressed by the Board in Circular No. 10/2018 shall be considered to have never been expressed and accordingly, the said circular shall not be taken into account by any Income-tax authority in any proceedings under the Act.
The undersigned is directed to refer to Circular No.1/2019 dated 1st January, 2019 bearing file of even number on the above mentioned subject and to state that in Annexure-I from Examples from 1 to 8 referred to in pages from 47 to 55, For Assessment Year 2018-19 may be read as For Assessment Year 2019-20.
Each year Central Broad of Direct Taxes (CBDT) comes out with strategy called as Central Action Plan which prescribes the mechanism and approach for various internal tax departments and authorities to improve tax compliances, widening the tax base, litigation management, reduction in outstanding demand and most importantly, to meet the core objective of budget collection.
The author has taken strong exception to the CBDT castigating CIT(A) for giving relief to taxpayers on legal grounds. He has also condemned the CBDTs offer of incentives to CIT(A) to enhance assessments. He has argued that by dictating CIT(A)s to carry out appellate proceedings with a preconceived notion and in a prejudiced process, the CBDT has crossed the lakshman rekha by compromising a fair and unbiased trial promised by our Constitution.
