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...
Capital expenditure incurred by the telecommunication company for acquiring use of spectrum is allowable as a deduction under section 35ABA of the Income Tax Act. Notably, the deduction is allowed over the period of time the spectrum remains in use. The deduction provisions of section 35ABA are briefly taken up and explained in the current […]
Provisions of section 35 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 covers deduction allowable towards expenditure on scientific research. The provisions are briefly explained in the present article. Deduction towards revenue expenditure on scientific research [Section 35(1)]- Following table briefly explains the deduction available under section 35(1) on revenue expenditure for scientific research- Type of expenditure/ […]
ICAI in it’s guidance note on tax audit has given a glimpse of the method of computation of turnover and profit for the transactions entered in derivatives
The Dehradun Chartered Accountants Society Vs. Union of India (High Court of Uttarakhand at Nainital) High Court held that Admittedly, the country continues to suffer and to reel under the COVID-19 pandemic. A large number of assesses still find it difficult to even meet their Chartered Accountants and to file their Income Tax Audit Reports […]
High Court (HC) declined to interfere in the matter of extension of the due date for filing Tax Audit Report (TAR) and Income Tax Return (ITR) The Hon’ble Gujarat High Court in All Gujarat Federation of Tax Consultants v. Union of India [R/Special Civil Application No. 13653 and 660 of 2021, dated January 13, 2021] […]
Government is neither listening to representations submitted by various associations, nor listening to court direction in true spirit. In Covid 19 pandemic, all professionals and Trade, ignoring life and death risk, ensured that, India will stand again, paid taxes in lakh crores but it seems government doesn’t recognize us.
Learn how to claim deduction under section 33ABA of the Income Tax Act for site restoration funds. Understand the conditions and provisions for eligibility.
At this stage, we may only observe that the CBDT may consider issuing an appropriate circular taking a lenient view as regards the consequences of late filing of the Tax Audit Reports as provided under Section 271B of the Act. We leave it to the better discretion of the CBDT in this regard.
The Income-tax, Act, 1961 has in all 298 sections and many of these have cross reference to each other while interpreting the provisions. In such a scenario, when any amendment takes place in any of the sections, the corresponding effect and reference should be given to the relevant related sections as well. However, inconsistency exists […]
Examining the controversy surrounding the logo of the Income Tax department. Is the tagline ‘Kosh Moolo Dandah’ sending the wrong message?
