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Direct Tax Code (DTC) 2025: Overall analysis and Key Changes

Income Tax : Explains how the new tax code replaces the 1961 Act with simpler rules and fewer exemptions. The key takeaway is a clearer, taxpay...

January 21, 2026 3462 Views 0 comment Print

New Income Tax Bill 2025: Streamlining India’s Tax System for Modern Times

Income Tax : Explore the New Tax Bill 2025, replacing the Income Tax Act of 1961. Learn about its simplified structure, global alignment, and c...

February 12, 2025 7632 Views 0 comment Print

Direct Tax Code 2025: Key Changes and Timeline

Income Tax : Explore the timeline, objectives, and major changes in the Direct Tax Code 2025 compared to the Income Tax Act 1961....

January 1, 2025 17103 Views 1 comment Print

Direct Tax Code 2025: Challenges in Simplifying India’s Direct Tax Laws

Income Tax : India explores simplifying direct tax laws via a new code or amendments. Challenges include black money, inflation, manpower gaps,...

December 5, 2024 2226 Views 0 comment Print

Key Suggestions for Proposed Direct Tax Code 2025

Income Tax : Insights on the proposed Direct Tax Code 2025, focusing on exempt income, depreciation alignment, PAN issuance, and accounting bas...

November 29, 2024 3408 Views 0 comment Print


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Time to submit suggestions on new Direct Tax Law extended by 3 months to June 15, 2018

Income Tax : Stakeholder engagement by the Task Force drafting the ​N​ew Direct Tax Law extended by a period of three months up to June 15,...

May 28, 2018 978 Views 0 comment Print

ICAI expresses concern on proposed definition of “Accountant” in DTC

Income Tax : Direct Taxes Code, 2013 has proposed to widen the scope of the definition Accountant” to include other professionals as well. It...

April 18, 2014 9830 Views 0 comment Print

CMA body Request for Suggestions on Direct Tax Code Bill, 2013

Income Tax : Ministry of Finance, Government of India has pronounced the DTC, 2013 along with DTC Bill, 2010 is placed on http://incometaxindia...

April 3, 2014 1423 Views 0 comment Print

DTC, 2013 Includes Cost Accountant in definition of Accountant – CMA President

CA, CS, CMA : I am happy to inform that after several persuasions for long years by the Institute, the name of Cost Accountant have been include...

April 3, 2014 4326 Views 0 comment Print

Govt. invites comment on Proposed Direct Taxes Code 2013 + Download DTC 2013

Income Tax : Revenues are of paramount importance. The best source of revenue is taxes and for that we need modern tax laws. I am disappointed ...

April 1, 2014 3525 Views 0 comment Print


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Govt released Income-Tax Bill, 2025 (Download)

Income Tax : The Indian government is set to introduce the new Income Tax Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha on February 13, 2025. This comprehensive...

February 13, 2025 148596 Views 5 comments Print

Task Force to draft New Direct Tax law to submit report by 31.07.2019

Income Tax : Task Force for drafting a New Direct Tax Legislation- The term of the Task Force is extended by a period of two months i.e.. the T...

May 27, 2019 1203 Views 0 comment Print

Extended time to Task Force for drafting New Direct Tax Legislation

Income Tax : The term of the Task Force for drafting New Direct Tax Legislation is extended by three months beyond the initial term of six mont...

May 22, 2018 948 Views 0 comment Print

Communication of Board”s instructions and notifications

Excise Duty : Circular No. 73/73/94-CX In the All India Conference of Collectors (Appeals) held recently at Bangalore on 6th and 7th October 19...

November 7, 1994 382 Views 0 comment Print


DTC: Tax incentives for business to be investment-linked

September 2, 2010 1276 Views 0 comment Print

The Direct Taxes Code (DTC) Bill has proposed to substitute all profit-linked incentives with investment-linked incentives for businesses that enjoy tax sops under the existing law. Apart from developers of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and units operating out of them, the proposal will also affect companies in power, infrastructure, food processing, hotel and hospital sectors, among others.

Direct Tax code proposes to plug loopholes in Vodafone-type buyout

September 2, 2010 876 Views 0 comment Print

The government has proposed to impose capital gains tax on overseas acquisitions if the acquired company holds over 50 per cent assets in India to plug the loophole that led to Vodafone disputing a tax claim on its USD 11.1 billion deal with Hutchison.

Insurance Companies may pass on DTC gains to policyholders'

September 2, 2010 1084 Views 0 comment Print

Insurance policyholders could be in for a bonanza once the new Direct Taxes Code, or DTC, comes into effect, as insurance firms may pass on the tax benefit proposed in the bill. The new income-tax law tabled in Parliament has exempted the policyholders’ fund, the investment corpus created from premium payments, from the 12.5% tax on income earned.

Govt expects Direct Taxes Code (DTC) to increase the income tax base

September 2, 2010 1171 Views 0 comment Print

The government is confident the proposed Direct Taxes Code (DTC) will increase the income tax base, which currently stands at around 3.25 crore, as well as boost economic growth and equity. “We do hope that tax base will widen… Minimum exemptions will lead to higher tax-GDP ratio,” Revenue Secretary Sunil Mitra said here.

DTC: Bad news for Salaried- Leave travel Allowance (LTA) not available

September 2, 2010 2736 Views 0 comment Print

Salaried taxpayers may have less kitty for holidays from April 2012, with the government proposing to scrap tax incentives on leave travel allowance in the new direct tax regime DTC. The Direct Taxes Code (DTC) bill, which was tabled in the Lok Sabha yesterday, seeks to do away with leave travel concession (LTC) from its list of exemption. “LTC was one of the popular elements given to employees by the government.

MAT will take sheen off SEZs

September 2, 2010 810 Views 0 comment Print

Special Economic Zones are likely to lose their sheen, with Direct Taxes Code Bill proposing to introduce minimum alternate tax at 20 per cent on the book profit of developers as well as units from April 1, 2012.

Exemption limit for wealth tax to go up to Rs 1 cr

September 1, 2010 2915 Views 0 comment Print

The Direct Taxes Code (DTC) Bill proposes to raise the exemption limit for imposing wealth tax to Rs 1 crore from Rs 15 lakh at present, a move that will help a lot of taxpayers avoid the levy. The Rs 1 crore limit proposed in the Direct Taxes Code Bill, however, is much less that the exemption of Rs 50 crore proposed in the original draft.

DTC : Deductions in respect of Savings, Children Education Fees, Health Insurance, Life insurance and Home Loan Interest

September 1, 2010 1888 Views 0 comment Print

The new tax code offers a little extra in terms of your take-home salary by tweaking tax brackets and increasing tax deductions. But you will have to rework your investing habits a bit in the financial year 2012-13 (when the Direct Tax Code gets functional) and change the way you invest in order to get the maximum benefit that the government plans to offer.

DTC: Jewellery, works of art, property to qualify as long-term investments even if held for a year

September 1, 2010 2229 Views 0 comment Print

The Supreme Court will hear on September 10 the impleadment petition filed by the Forex Derivatives Consumers Forum along with the Special Leave Petition filed by Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India (FIMMDA). Forex Derivatives Consumers Forum is a registered association of exporters from across the country, a majority of them from Tamil Nadu’s Tirpur district.

Summary of Key proposals of the Direct Taxes Code (DTC) 2010 at one place

September 1, 2010 4926 Views 0 comment Print

Once the Direct Taxes Code (DTC) 2010 get approved by both houses of the Indian parliament, and receives the President’s assent, it would be enacted as law. Significantly, while it was earlier envisaged that as per the original proposal the DTC would be effective from 1 April 2011, the start date of DTC 2010 has now been deferred by a year to 1 April 2012.

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