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 : Refunds for AY 2025–26 are being withheld after system-based risk checks detected discrepancies. Taxpayers are advised to review...
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 NUDGE campaign targets fraudulent claims under sections 80G and 80GGC, helping taxpayers voluntarily revise returns and avoid ...
Income Tax : Reassessment proceedings was invalid for a notice issued beyond three years without the sanction of the prescribed higher authorit...
Income Tax : The ruling clarifies that unauthenticated digital chats and screenshots cannot form the sole basis of tax additions without proper...
Income Tax : ITAT held that delay in filing Form 9A cannot automatically result in denial of exemption under Section 11. The issue was sent bac...
Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that assessment orders in e-proceedings must be digitally signed as per CBDT instructions. A manually signed or...
Income Tax : The issue was whether CBDT jewellery instructions could shield bullion found during a search from taxation. The Tribunal held that...
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 ...
Income Tax : CBDT instructs CIT(A) offices to issue intimation confirming withdrawal of appeals for MAP-resolved grounds, serving as proof for ...
Income Tax : The government has authorised all non-rural branches of 19 banks to operate Capital Gains Account Scheme accounts, enhancing taxpa...
The following Order Nos. 21 of 2011 dated 09.02.2011, 22 of 2011 dated 11.2.2011, 23 of 2011 dated 11.2.2011, 24 of 2011 dated 11.2.2011 & 25 of 2011 dated 11.2.2011 have been issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) related to promotion
References have been received by the Board from a large number of taxpayers, especially from mofussil areas, that the existing monetary limits for assigning cases to ITOs and DCs/ACs is causing hardship to the taxpayers, as it results in transfer of their cases to a DC/AC who is located in a different station, which increases their cost of compliance.
As you are aware, the Apex Court of the country has time & again expressed its anguish & annoyance over the delayed filing of SLPs as also appeals in the High Courts. In some cases, such delay is inordinate. The inordinate delay is more pronounced in
Income tax department is upgrading its system to ensure an assesse, scrutinised for a particular financial transaction, does not land in trouble the year after. The income tax department has undertaken intensive upgrade of its software and systems responsible for picking up cases for intensive scrutiny.
Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee has said that the targets for direct and indirect tax collections are being raised for this financial year. He said that direct tax collection target is to be increased to 4% and indirect tax collection target will be raised to 6%. The Finance Minister was addressing the review meeting of Central Board of Direct taxes (CBDT) and Central Board of Exise and Customs (CBEC) in Chennai today.
The National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) has warned that individual Income Tax records can be accessed in an unauthorised manner by outsiders via cyber attacks. Through a letter dated January 17, the NTRO alerted the Central Board of Direc
The Income Tax department today raided business establishments and residences of prominent pan-masala and gutkha manufacturers in 14 states. The raids were conducted on 69 premises related with manufacturers of the tobacco products, sources said.
Good news awaits hundreds of thousands of taxpayers in the country. The Income Tax department is mulling a proposal for providing them small refunds of below Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million) within a month’s time. Delay in receiving income tax refunds has
Salaried taxpayers with no other income could get a respite from filing tax returns. The income-tax (I-T) department is open to examining a proposal to exempt them from the annual chore. Asked whether the department would think about doing away with
To crack down on black money, the revenue department is contemplating a scheme to unearth such funds. The options under consideration include a tax amnesty scheme to get back ill-gotten wealth parked overseas.While I-T officials said that a scheme to
