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 ...
Chapter 1 Introduction & Background 1.1. Introduction One of the most significant and influential inventions of 20th century was the Computer. There has been a sea change in the purposes and the manner in which computers are used with advent of microprocessor technology and digital communication. The computer started with being a giant calculating machine. […]
Order No. 209 of 2014 – Transfer/Posting in the grade of Commissioner of Income Tax – reg. Vide Order No. 209 of 2014 dated 15.11.2014, the CBDT has ordered the local transfer & posting of 465 officers in the grade of Commissioners of Income-tax. Order No. 207 of 2014 – Transfer/Posting in the grade of Additional/Joint Commissioner of Income Tax – reg. Vide Order No. 207 of 2014 dated 15.11.2014 , the CBDT has ordered the transfer & posting of officers in the grade of Additional / Joint Commissioners of Income-tax.
CHAIRPERSON, CBDT INAUGURATES THE ‘THE TAXPAYERS’ LOUNGE’ AT IITF-2014 AT PRAGATI MAIDAN; VARIOUS TAXPAYER SERVICES INCLUDING E-FILING OF RETURNS, VIEWING OF TAX CREDIT THROUGH 26AS, APPLICATIONS FOR PAN AND SERVICES OF TAX RETURN PREPARERS ARE SHOWCASED TO THE PUBLIC
Instruction No. 7 of 2014 dated 26.09.2014 clarifies that ordinarily in scrutiny cases selected on the basis of AIR/CIB/26AS information, the scrutiny shall be limited to that information. Wider scrutiny would be possible only with the sanction of Principal Commissioner of Income-tax/ Commissioner of Income-tax in specified cases and under the monitoring of the Range Head. (Such cases form 25-30% of the total scrutiny basket, thus limiting the cases of full scrutiny).
CA Umesh Sharma Arjuna (Fictional Character): Krishna, recently on 7th November 2014, the Central Board of Direct Taxes has issued instructions for reducing hardship of taxpayers in Income tax scrutiny. But Krishna, what is this scrutiny? Krishna (Fictional Character): Arjuna, the taxpayer files his Income Tax Return. Income Tax Scrutiny means detailed assessment of Income […]
Though less that 1% of returns filed are selected for scrutiny, this area of work has often drawn adversarial comments. Supervisory officers, have been directed to play a more pro-active role in monitoring and guiding assessments towards ensuring that high-pitched assessments without proper basis are not made and that lengthy questionnaires or summons without due application of mind are avoided.
Senior IRS officer Anita Kapur is likely to be the new chairperson of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the apex authority of the Income Tax department. Anita Kapur, a 1978-batch officer of the Income Tax cadre, is currently serving as Member of Legislation and Computerisation and Income Tax in the CBDT. She is expected […]
The Central Board of Direct Taxes has issued an order to extend the last date of deposit of tax deducted at source/tax collected at source during the month of September, 2014 from 7th October, 2014 to 10th October, 2014 without entailing any consequential interest. However, the due date for filing of TDS/TCS statements for the 2nd Quarter of the F.Y. 2014-15 shall remain the same.
Recently, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted on black money submitted its first report to the Supreme Court wherein indications are that certain changes like disclosure of foreign travel in a year in income tax return have been suggested. Over the past decade, Indians undertaking foreign visits have increased manifold due to holidaying, medical treatment, education […]
CBDT has constituted a Committee to appraise the existing Instruction No 4/2002 dated 07.05.2002 on the above mentioned subject and to suggest suitable modifications to the same.
