Income Tax : The Income Tax Act, 2025 replaces old reassessment provisions with Sections 279 to 286 and increases reopening timelines in certai...
Finance : The amended Finance Bill 2026 abolishes the Tax Recovery Officer’s power to arrest and detain taxpayers for recovery of dues. Th...
Income Tax : The article explains why advertisement expenses for brand building remain deductible under Section 37. Courts have consistently ru...
Income Tax : The article explains how Section 115BAE offers newly established co-operative societies a concessional 15% tax rate for manufactur...
Income Tax : The Income-tax Act, 2025 replaces old Sections 68 to 69D with a simplified sequential structure under Sections 102 to 106. The cha...
Income Tax : The issue was complexity in the existing tax law. It was clarified that the new Act simplifies structure by reducing sections and ...
Income Tax : This webinar breaks down the major structural and conceptual changes introduced in the new Income Tax Act, 2025. It helps professi...
Income Tax : The government informed Parliament that taxpayer-specific details of income tax searches cannot be disclosed due to confidentialit...
Income Tax : The Government clarified that the new income tax search provision does not expand powers or permit AI-based digital surveillance, ...
Income Tax : The representation highlights large-scale pendency and administrative bottlenecks under Sections 12AB and 80G, urging immediate re...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held that the assessee was covered under the search proceedings even though its name did not specifically appear in the...
Income Tax : Bangalore ITAT ruled that only solar days and not cumulative man-days should be considered while determining the existence of a Pe...
Income Tax : SC examined nature of amounts received from an AOP and upheld findings that receipts constituted profit share rather than revenue ...
Income Tax : The Rajasthan High Court held that the benefit of Section 115BAA could not be denied when Form 10-IC was filed within the period p...
Income Tax : The Court held that the petitioner had no connection with the entities or individuals from whose devices the disputed material was...
Income Tax : The Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (Exemptions) approved the company under Section 35(1)(iia) for scientific research ...
Income Tax : The government enforced a tax collection assistance agreement with Japan effective from 8 July 2025. The notification enables cros...
Income Tax : CBDT updated DIN rules to align with new provisions introduced under the Finance Act, 2026. The circular mandates DIN for most tax...
Income Tax : The CBDT introduced Form ITR-U to allow taxpayers to update previously filed returns. The amendment promotes voluntary compliance ...
Income Tax : The CBDT has substituted the ITR-V form to strengthen verification of electronically filed returns. The amendment enhances accurac...
An assessment order passed in the name of a non-existent entity, such as a company that has been amalgamated into another, was a fundamental jurisdictional error and was null and void from the beginning.
ITAT Ahmedabad held that addition towards unsecured loan is liable to be deleted since assessee has duly discharged its onus of proving the genuineness of the unsecured loan with documentary evidences. Accordingly, appeal of the assessee allowed to that extent.
ITAT Lucknow held that claim has been allowed by AO in scrutiny proceedings u/s 143(3) of the Act, it was natural that the demand raised on the same issue under section 143(1)(a) of the Act is required to be modified. Accordingly, appeal partly allowed.
Allahabad High Court held that in absence of valid service of notice under section 148 of the Income Tax Act, proceedings under section 147 of the Income Tax Act for reassessment cannot be initiated. Accordingly, appeal of the assessee allowed.
Karnataka High Court held that no incriminating material was found during the search proceedings and therefore no reassessment of income for the relevant assessment year could be made under Section 153A of the Income Tax Act. Accordingly, appeal of revenue dismissed.
Proportionate expenditure against interest income might be allowed to assessee subject to assessee establishing connection between incurring of such expenditure towards earning of interest income from nationalized banks, which was a specific requirement for claim of such expenditure u/s section 57.
Benami Act was intentionally drafted with a very broad and inclusive definition of property to ensure that all forms of assets, including cash, could be covered. A person could not be treated as a benamidar if they neither possess the property nor claim ownership of it; A property was considered benami when the purported real owner denies their ownership of it.
ITAT Rajkot deletes Rs.2.5 lakh cash addition made during demonetization, ruling that the amount was within the non-taxable limit specified by the CBDT for small deposits.
ITAT Delhi held that reopening under Section 148 on an incorrect PAN and with mechanical sanction by PCIT is invalid, quashing the Rs. 3.50 crore addition under Section 68 and setting aside reassessment proceedings.
Understand the transition from the Income-tax Act, 1961, to the 2025 Act, effective April 1, 2026. This summary clarifies how the legacy law governs pending obligations, assessments, appeals, and tax returns for prior financial years.
