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 government is expecting to exceed the direct tax collection target of Rs 4.30 lakh crore for 2010-11 on the backdrop of high economic growth of 8.9 per cent recorded during the first half of the current fiscal. Pinning hopes on higher tax realis
Those looking for income-tax relief in the forthcoming Budget to fight rising food prices are likely to be disappointed. According to a senior finance ministry official, the Direct Taxes Code (DTC) has to be implemented next year and considering DTC is a composite plan, it will not be a good idea to implement it in bits and pieces.
Vide Order No. 1/FT & TR 2011 dated 12.01.2011, the Central Board of Direct Taxes has constituted 12 (Twelve) Dispute Resolution Panels (DRP) to sit at various locations across the Country.
The Income Tax department will process more than 40 lakh refund cases before April this year. The department has streamlined the process as the statutory time limit to process the return and issue refund in the financial year 2009-10 is March 31 an
Saddled with huge tax arrears of Rs 2,50,000 crore — more than half of the total tax collection projected for 2010-11 — finance minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to introduce in the forthcoming Budget some major changes in direct tax laws that co
Having accepted the Mankad committee recommendation which limits the tenure of CBDT chairman to one year, Sudhir Chandra IRS 1973 Member Investigation assumed charges on Friday in place of retiring Chairman SSN Murthy. Prior to this new role, Mr Chandra, a 1973-batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer, has been Member (Investigation) in CBDT since February 2009.
Early this month, FM Pranab Mukherjee had okayed the setting up of a high-level multi-disciplinary panel to study black money at home and abroad, and another panel to suggest counter-measures against tax havens. These actions are likely to reflect in the Budget for 2011-12.
A Group for identifying direct tax issues arising from convergence of Indian Accounting Standards (IAS) with International Financial Reporting Standards (Ind AS) was constituted by the ICAI, which comprised both of members of the Council of the Insti
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) — the nodal office for the income tax department — has decided to settle all income tax refunds pertaining till 2009-10 by the end of the current fiscal. With the Central Processing Centre operational,
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has clarified that the Income Tax Department is currently scrutinizing only a handful of cases relating to takeovers, mergers and acquisitions; not 380 or 100 as reported in some sections of the media. Tax scrutiny is an ongoing process and the numbers vary from year to year. This has already been stated in replies to several Parliament Questions
