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Reassessment 2.0: New Tax Notice Playbook Every Tax Professional Must Decode

Income Tax : The Income Tax Act, 2025 replaces old reassessment provisions with Sections 279 to 286 and increases reopening timelines in certai...

May 15, 2026 7158 Views 0 comment Print

Finance Bill 2026 Enactment Highlights: What Has Changed?

Finance : The amended Finance Bill 2026 abolishes the Tax Recovery Officer’s power to arrest and detain taxpayers for recovery of dues. Th...

May 15, 2026 381 Views 0 comment Print

Enduring Benefit or Recurring Necessity: Tax Treatment of Advertisement Expenditure

Income Tax : The article explains why advertisement expenses for brand building remain deductible under Section 37. Courts have consistently ru...

May 14, 2026 1146 Views 0 comment Print

Decoding Section 115BAE: Are Co-operative Societies Next Manufacturing Hubs?

Income Tax : The article explains how Section 115BAE offers newly established co-operative societies a concessional 15% tax rate for manufactur...

May 14, 2026 177 Views 0 comment Print

Segregation & Aggregation of Income Under Income Tax Acts 1961 & 2025

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...

May 12, 2026 387 Views 0 comment Print


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Salient Features of Income Tax Act 2025

Income Tax : The issue was complexity in the existing tax law. It was clarified that the new Act simplifies structure by reducing sections and ...

April 29, 2026 9459 Views 0 comment Print

Free Live Webinar: Decoding the New Income Tax Act, 2025

Income Tax : This webinar breaks down the major structural and conceptual changes introduced in the new Income Tax Act, 2025. It helps professi...

April 5, 2026 8301 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Raid Details Cannot Be Shared Due to Legal Confidentiality

Income Tax : The government informed Parliament that taxpayer-specific details of income tax searches cannot be disclosed due to confidentialit...

March 18, 2026 537 Views 0 comment Print

No New Digital Search Powers Under Section 247 of New Income Tax Act 2025

Income Tax : The Government clarified that the new income tax search provision does not expand powers or permit AI-based digital surveillance, ...

February 10, 2026 1983 Views 0 comment Print

Representation for Streamlining Sections 12AB and 80G Registration & Renewal

Income Tax : The representation highlights large-scale pendency and administrative bottlenecks under Sections 12AB and 80G, urging immediate re...

January 8, 2026 4992 Views 1 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


ITAT Upholds Section 153A Jurisdiction as Search Warrant Mentioned “& Ors.” in Group Search

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held that the assessee was covered under the search proceedings even though its name did not specifically appear in the...

May 22, 2026 93 Views 0 comment Print

Only Solar Days Count for Determining PE Under India-Saudi Arabia DTAA: ITAT Bangalore

Income Tax : Bangalore ITAT ruled that only solar days and not cumulative man-days should be considered while determining the existence of a Pe...

May 22, 2026 1191 Views 0 comment Print

Income From AOP Held Non-Taxable in Member’s Hands as It Was Share of Profit: SC

Income Tax : SC examined nature of amounts received from an AOP and upheld findings that receipts constituted profit share rather than revenue ...

May 22, 2026 339 Views 1 comment Print

Concessional 22% Corporate Tax Rate Cannot Be Denied for Procedural Lapse: Rajasthan HC

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...

May 22, 2026 150 Views 0 comment Print

Reopening Quashed as It Was Based on Unverified PDF Complaint Found on Third Party’s Mobile Phone: Gujarat HC

Income Tax : The Court held that the petitioner had no connection with the entities or individuals from whose devices the disputed material was...

May 22, 2026 138 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


CBDT Grants Section 35 Approval to Shree Hari Arogyam Foundation

Income Tax : The Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (Exemptions) approved the company under Section 35(1)(iia) for scientific research ...

May 15, 2026 192 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT Notifies India-Japan Tax Recovery Pact

Income Tax : The government enforced a tax collection assistance agreement with Japan effective from 8 July 2025. The notification enables cros...

April 2, 2026 765 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT revises Mandatory DIN Requirement to align with Finance Act 2026

Income Tax : CBDT updated DIN rules to align with new provisions introduced under the Finance Act, 2026. The circular mandates DIN for most tax...

March 31, 2026 2289 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT notifies ITR-U form Form for AY 2026–27

Income Tax : The CBDT introduced Form ITR-U to allow taxpayers to update previously filed returns. The amendment promotes voluntary compliance ...

March 30, 2026 678 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT notifies ITR-V Form for AY 2026–27

Income Tax : The CBDT has substituted the ITR-V form to strengthen verification of electronically filed returns. The amendment enhances accurac...

March 30, 2026 747 Views 0 comment Print


Taxation of Business Process Outsourcing Units in India

July 30, 2020 11721 Views 1 comment Print

The provisions containing taxation of IT-enabled business process outsourcing units are not contained in the Income-tax Act, 1961 but are given in Circular No. 5/2004 dated 28.9.2004 issued by CBDT. The provisions are briefed hereunder – ♣  A non-resident entity may outsource certain services to a resident Indian entity. If there is no business connection […]

वित्त वर्ष 2018-19 के लिए आयकर के स्वैच्छिक अनुपालन पर ई-अभियान

July 27, 2020 1413 Views 0 comment Print

वित्त वर्ष 2018-19 के लिए आयकर के स्वैच्छिक अनुपालन पर ई-अभियान शुरू करने के लिए सीबीडीटी 20 जुलाई, 2020 से आयकर विभाग की नई पहल 20 जुलाई, 2020 से वित्त वर्ष 2018-19 के लिए स्वैच्छिक अनुपालन पर ई-अभियान शुरू करने जा रही है। एक आधिकारिक प्रेस विज्ञप्ति में, सीबीडीटी ने कहा है कि सोमवार से […]

Cashbacks: Whether An Invitation To Income Tax?

July 21, 2020 10191 Views 0 comment Print

We often get tempted by attractive offers and cashbacks offered by various vendors when we make digital payments. Online shopping websites and some stores are offering cashbacks on use of certain credit cards or mobile wallets to pay for the goods.

Voluntary Retirement Scheme and Tax implications

July 21, 2020 53274 Views 8 comments Print

1. Overview of Voluntary Retirement Scheme. As the name suggests a voluntary retirement scheme is an option given by an organization to its current employees to take early retirement before the actual date of retirement. Unlike a compulsory layoff, this scheme is optional to employees, and decision about whether they want to continue with the […]

Expenditure on Scientific Research – Income Tax Treatment

July 11, 2020 85872 Views 2 comments Print

Expenditure on Scientific Research And Its’ Treatment Under Income Tax Act, 1961 Dear friends, we are going through a very turbulent phase in which we are facing unpresented threat of COVID-19 pandemic, declining pace of economy, lack of foreign reserves and new threat of India -China war position at our borders. The government has shown […]

Unjust Enrichment To CBDT- 21 Examples

July 6, 2020 10296 Views 3 comments Print

Concept of Unjust enrichment refers to situations in which one person is enriched at the expense of another in circumstances which the law treats as unjust. Whenever the word unjust enrichment is told by someone two names immediately crept in the mind one is highest authority of indirect tax i.e. CGST and other one is […]

Taxation of income from hydroponic farming

July 6, 2020 26256 Views 2 comments Print

1. Introduction The Hydroponic farming is an emerging trend in Indian agricultural sector, which is far different from traditional agriculture activities carried on in the country. In this method plants are grown without using soil, by using mineral nutrient solutions in a water solvent. Further, in this method of farming plants are grown in plastic […]

Income Tax Updates – March to June 2020

July 5, 2020 9354 Views 0 comment Print

NEWS DIRECT TAX 1. Employee opting for Sec. 115BAC eligible to claim exemption for tour, travel and conveyance exp. [Ref: NOTIFICATION NO. G.S.R. 415(E) [NO. 38/2020/F.NO.370142/15/2020-TPL], DATED 26-6-2020] 2. CBDT further extends various due dates for compliance under Income-tax Act. [Ref: NOTIFICATION S.O. 2033(E) [NO. 35 /2020/F. NO. 370142/23/2020-TPL], DATED 24-6-2020] 3. CBDT notifies ‘301’ […]

Analysis of extension of due dates under Income Tax, GST & FTP

June 26, 2020 3750 Views 0 comment Print

Extension of due dates under Income Tax, GST & FTP Recently Central Government has issued Income Tax Notification No. 35/2020 and Notification No. 48/2020-Central Tax to Notification No. 54/2020-Central Tax on 24th June 2020 which relates to extension of Due dates under GST, Law, Income Tax Law and other Laws. In Addition to that Government […]

Evidentiary value & burden to prove under Tax Law

June 25, 2020 21351 Views 1 comment Print

Legal fictions create an artificial state of affairs by a mandate of the legislature. They compel everybody concerned including the courts to believe the existence of an artificial state of facts contrary to the real state of facts. When a fiction is created by law, it is not open to anybody to plead or argue that the artificial state of facts created by law is not true

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