Income Tax : India's Income Tax Department shifts to a taxpayer-friendly approach, prioritizing silent recoveries, refund adjustments, and redu...
Income Tax : Learn about different types of income tax notices, letters, and orders issued by the Income Tax Department to individual taxpayers...
Goods and Services Tax : Explore Income Tax systems, from Form 26AS and AIS for tax data to CPC-ITR and faceless assessments ensuring transparency and effi...
Income Tax : Received an SMS about Section 80GGC deductions? Learn why the Income Tax Department is scrutinizing claims and what steps to take ...
Income Tax : Discover the risks and penalties of submitting fake rent receipts to claim HRA exemptions and learn how to comply with tax regulat...
Income Tax : CBI arrests two Income Tax employees in Silchar for accepting Rs. 4,000 bribe as part of a Rs. 10,000 demand for PAN card closure....
Income Tax : The PAN 2.0 Project simplifies PAN/TAN management with a unified platform, paperless processes, and faster services. Approved by C...
Income Tax : Over 34 lakh Audit Reports filed on the e-filing portal by October 7, 2024, showing a 4.8% increase from last year, according to t...
CA, CS, CMA : KSCAA addresses glitches in the Income Tax portal, highlighting challenges faced by taxpayers and professionals, in a representati...
Goods and Services Tax : Bikaner Tax Consultants Association seeks an extension of the Income Tax Return filing deadline due to ITD portal glitches and iss...
Corporate Law : CAT directs CBDT to review transfer policies for Group B & C employees, ensuring fairness and alignment with Group A guidelines. D...
Income Tax : Kerala High Court rules that an income tax appeal filed with delay cannot be dismissed without considering the delay petition. App...
Service Tax : Bombay High Court rules that service tax cannot be imposed solely on income tax return data. The department may issue a fresh noti...
Income Tax : Calcutta High Court stays Section 148 notice issued by jurisdictional assessing officer citing procedural non-compliance with Sect...
Income Tax : Calcutta High Court stays Section 148 notice citing procedural irregularities under Section 151A and faceless assessment rules. Fu...
Income Tax : Nirmala Sitharaman Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Government of India Dy. No. 1759745 FM/FMP/2021 22/07/21 Message My h...
DGFT : Following DGFT services will not be available from 1 st June 2021 to 6th June 2021: i. Application for a new IEC ii. Application f...
Income Tax : A note said to be written by Shri. V G Siddhartha (VGS) of CCD is doing the rounds. Among others it was mentioned in the note abou...
Income Tax : The Income Tax Department today said that tax returns filed by senior citizens above 60 years and small taxpayers with gross total...
Income Tax : On or about 12th January 2010, an officer in the Income Tax department, Mumbai, noticed that refunds had been issued from his juri...
The Income Tax department is planning a drive against tax evaders in the Kashmir Valley and to begin with will use “coercive” tools in the law to get people to file annual returns on their income.
Nowadays I am receiving one or more email daily with subject ‘Tax Refund Notification’. With mail I receive a attached form in which they ask bank account details. This is the trap Once you enter your bank account detail which includes your username and password the same get stored in the database of the person sending fraud emails. After receiving your username , password they transfer all your money in their bank account.
On or about 12th January 2010, an officer in the Income Tax department, Mumbai, noticed that refunds had been issued from his jurisdiction without his knowledge or approval of his higher authorities. He immediately brought the matter to the notice of his superior officers. 2. On internal inquiry by the Income Tax department, it was found that User Ids and Passwords of certain officers had been fraudulently used to generate refunds in some cases. Upon detection of the fraud, the following actions were taken by the Income Tax department to contain the damage:-
Bank Accounts, Beneficiaries and Some Scamsters Involved in Income tax Refund Fraud in Mumbai Identified. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has stated that an officer in the Income Tax department, Mumbai noticed on or about 12th January, 2010 that refunds had been issued from his jurisdiction without his knowledge or approval of his higher authorities. The officer immediately brought the matter to the notice of his superior officers.
The Income Tax department is giving special attention to tax deducted at source (TDS) as it aims to turn in the highest ever collection from the segment this financial year. During the last five years, the contribution from TDS had gone up from 33 per cent to 38.5 per cent of the net direct tax collection with an annual average growth of around 25 per cent.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has sought a detailed report from the field formation in Mumbai over the reported “income- tax refund scam” in that jurisdiction. “The Government has called for a report. We are monitoring the situation,” sources in the CBDT told today.
In a reprieve to the assessees, the Supreme Court has ruled that the Income-Tax Department cannot re-open the assessment cases arbitrarily but on the basis of some ‘tangible material’. If armed with unrestricted power to re-open the cases against assessees, it will amount to review of the assessment by the assessing authority, said the apex court.
If you’re worried about what questions your income tax officer will ask about your returns, you can relax a bit. The department has decided to take up fewer tax returns for scrutiny this year. The Central Board of Direct Taxes had issued an internal circular in December 2009, asking commissioners to select fewer cases for scrutiny.
About Rs 4 crore has been siphoned off the I-T system by some unidentified fraudsters with the help of bogus PAN cards, e-returns and e-refund orders. The I-T refunds claimed on the basis of these bogus documents have been deposited in some bank accounts opened in the name of persons who have never paid any income tax.
Those trying to evade the taxman may find that showing a lower income has just got tougher. The Bombay high court on Thursday, in a significant ruling, held that the income-tax department can rely on any relatable document when it comes to a block assessment. A bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud essentially made it easier for the tax officials to add or join other monies into the `income’ bracket based on surveys or search and seizures
