The income tax act defines Income tax and laws related to income tax. It covers income tax levy, collection, administration, and recovery. Income tax acts and income tax laws get changed/updated from time to time. Read our Latest News and Updated on the Income-tax act and Articles on the income tax act to understand the income tax act and its sections. Read our articles to understand income tax act section 10, income tax act section 24, income tax act section 54, income tax act section 80c, income tax act 44ad, income tax bare act, etc.
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In the recent landmark judgement of Texport Overseas Private Limited v. DCIT [IT(TP)A No. 1722/Bang/2017], Honorable Bangalore Tribunal held that: it would be deemed that clause (i) of Section 92BA of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (‘the Act”) was never been on the statute as it has been omitted w.e.f. April 01, 2017 vide Finance Act, 2017 and nothing was specified whether the proceeding initiated or action taken on this continue.
The decision relates to deductibility of excise duty u/s 43B of the Income Tax Act, 1961. Section 43-B requires cumulative existence of following; The deduction claimed by the Assessee must be otherwise allowable under the other provisions of the Act.
In an appeal before Ahmedabad ITAT, DCIT vs. Parinay Organizers Pvt. Ltd., one of the grounds raised was that whether on the facts of the circumstances of the case, the CIT(A) was justified in deleting the penalty levied by the AO on account of dis allowances of interest expenses of Rs. 44,19,194/- without considering the merits of the case.
The world is soon going to become a village; therefore, it is time to standardize business practices all over the world, and global uniform accounting standards and practices are the need of the hour. The Indian Accounting Standards or IND AS have also been designed accordingly. Transactions would be perceived differently with the advent of IND AS, as it focuses on the substance of the transaction rather than merely its form or nomenclature.
Advocate Akhilesh Kumar Sah Just because the assessee has not filed income tax returns in earlier years, it can not be said that the activities of the assessee of the charitable trust / society were not genuine and grant of the registration under section 12AA cannot be denied
Under one time settlement the bank waived loan amount (used by the assessee for acquiring capital assets) which includes both principal amount of loan and interest on loan. Held that Waiver of loan is taxable under section (‘u/s’) 28(iv) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (‘the Act’).
Finance minister, Mr. Jaitley had proposed to impose a provision for collection of Tax at source at the rate of 1%, in case of Sale of Motor Vehicle and finally it was passed and law amended. Effective date is 1st June, 2016. In this article, I am trying to answer most commonly asked questions on this Amendment.
Once a search takes place under Section 132 of the Act, notice under Section 153A(1) will have to be mandatorily issued to the person searched requiring him to file returns for six AYs immediately preceding the previous year relevant to the AY in which the search takes place.
It is a matter of general belief that taxes on income and wealth are of recent origin but there is enough evidence to show that taxes on income in some form or the other were levied even in primitive and ancient communities. The origin of the word Tax is from Taxation which means an estimate.
Through the Finance Act, 2015, no. of changes has been introduced In Income Tax Act, 1961 (‘Act’) in respect of TDS Compliance provisions. Some of these changes has taken effect from April 1, 2015 and some of the changes will take effect from June 1, 2015. I have tried to summarize these changes which can effect to the corporates. A Gist of the same is as follows:
