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 ...
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
Framing of Quality Assessments is an essential part of any risk management strategy. Quality of Assessments is being used as one of the most important indicator to judge the performance of tax department. Therefore, it is imperative that various authorities in the hierarchy of Income-tax Department discharge their respective roles in the process of assessment […]
Since the very beginning, the focus needs to be on the reduction of Arrear Demand by de-duplication of the entries and cleansing the arrear demand data. Priority should be accorded to reduce entries of amounts less than Rs. 10000/- and those pending for more than 2 years. These steps have already been reiterated in the SOP several times.
The PrCCsIT/DsGIT/CCsIT are the leaders of their respective regional field formations that are entrusted to administer the tax policies and plans to achieve the objective of revenue augmentation. They are the pivots of tax administration and have a major role to play in bringing systematic and methodical improvement in tax administration considering the expanse of field formations.
