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 following achievements are noteworthy: a) Huge network of amended DTAA (81) and TIEA with tax havens (4) has been created. b) Specific requests in 333 cases (220 by Foreign Tax Division of CBDT and 113 by FIU) have been made by Indian authorities for obtaining information from foreign jurisdictions. c) Over 9900 pieces of Information obtained (9743 information by Foreign Tax Division of CBDT and 177 information by FIU) regarding suspicious transactions by Indian citizens from several countries have been obtained which are now under different stages of processing and investigation.
Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) M C Joshi on Friday said on the sidelines of an Assocham function that it has not given direction for targeting anyone for political reasons and action against a member of team Anna would have come in normal manner. A specific case would have come up in normal manner …No direction, anything (has been ) given to anyone to treat any such case in a particular manner.
Concerned over the CBDT panel’s proposal to allow reopening of tax filings of the past 16 years, experts and lawyers said it would only result in harassment of assessees without yielding any substantial gains to the exchequer.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes, Department of Revenue, it has been decided with the approval of competent authority that the Committee to examine ways to strengthen laws to curb generation of black-money in India, its illegal transfer and abroad and its recovery shall be co-chaired by Member (investigation), CBDT.
Nine months after the responsibility for Income Tax investigations was taken over by the Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the portfolio has now once again been vested with a separate member, in sync with the practice of previous years. The present Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), M C Joshi, had held on to the charge of I-T investigations when he took over on August 1 this year.
A special voluntary disclosure scheme for bringing back black money stashed away in tax havens abroad may be in the offing. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is understood to be ‘seriously considering’ recommending to the government a scheme on the lines of the Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme (VDIS) announced in 1996 to tap funds lying abroad for productive use in India.
To Achieve the Target of Direct Tax Revenue Collections of Rs.8.3 Lakh Crore and Direct Tax to GDP Ratio at 7.62 % by 2014-15, CBDT to Continuously Evolve Processes, Procedures Innovative Ways of Taxation Especially Related to Cross Border Taxation: FM
Unlike the United Kingdom, India cannot have a treaty with Switzerland under which the deposits of Indians in Swiss banks would be taxed by the European nation, says the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).
As per Instruction No 3/2011 the revised monetary limit was applicable only for the appeals filed on or after 09/02/11 ie the date of issue of Instruction. As per para 11 of the Instruction, it was clarified that the appeals filed earlier would be governed by the old instructions operative at the time of filing.
Instruction No. 09/2011 It has come to the notice of the Board that at the time of transfer of an officer/official, detailed Handing Over Note indicating the confidential records and documents, including documents relating to survey and search and seizure, pending important and time bound matters such as audit objections, appeals, revision matters, approvals for retaining impounded/seized documents, reopening of assessments, pending search and survey assessments etc. is not given to the successor. In the absence of a proper handing over of records, important documents get misplaced and even lost in some cases.
