Income Tax : The FAQs explain that FAST-DS, introduced through the Finance Act, 2026, offers eligible taxpayers a one-time opportunity to discl...
Income Tax : The Income Tax Department explains how faceless assessments under Section 144B operate through the e-Filing portal without requiri...
Income Tax : The case highlights denial of TDS credit after an incorrect TAN was reported in the income tax return, even though the correct TDS...
Income Tax : The case demonstrates how an incorrect exemption claim based on Form 16 led to scrutiny and penalty proceedings. The Tribunal ulti...
Income Tax : Learn what TAN is, who must obtain it, how to apply, and where it must be quoted under the Income-tax Act. The guide also explains...
Income Tax : A government official was arrested for demanding and accepting ₹1.5 lakh to wipe off outstanding tax liabilities. The key takeaw...
Income Tax : The C&AG’s audits ensure proper assessment, collection, and allocation of direct taxes, identifying evasion risks and improving ...
Income Tax : CBDT’s 2024-25 APA report details 174 new agreements, including record bilateral deals, advancing tax certainty and reducing cro...
Income Tax : All Odisha Tax Advocates Association requests due date extensions for AY 2025-26 ITRs and Tax Audit Reports citing portal glitches...
Corporate Law : Professionals request an amnesty scheme for partnership firms in Maharashtra to regularize past lapses and ease compliance with Re...
Income Tax : Having regard to the gravity of the allegations, the ongoing investigation, the requirement of further probe into digital and fina...
Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore restored the issue of consultancy fee deduction to the Assessing Officer after noting that additional evidence rela...
Income Tax : The Gujarat High Court held that revisional powers under Section 263 cannot be invoked merely because the Commissioner prefers ano...
Income Tax : Delhi High Court held that seized amount is prima facie proceeds of crime and not lawful income hence to treat such amounts as tax...
Income Tax : Mumbai ITAT allowed Mahindra & Mahindra's appeal, holding that advertisement and sales promotion expenses of ₹3.26 Cr for 'Mahin...
Income Tax : The Income Tax Department increased monetary thresholds for assigning cases between ITOs and D/ACITs in Delhi Region. The revised ...
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...
After slapping over Rs 11,000 crore tax notice on Vodafone over its deal with Hutch , the income tax department today said it is not unnecessarily aggressive on this case and is just implementing the law. “We are implementing the law as it is.
The Income Tax department is expecting to collect Rs 5,000 crore as taxes from the payments and salaries relating to award of contracts and payments made by various agencies in the Commonwealth Games .
The Income Tax department today issued an order raising a tax demand of Rs.11,217.95 crore on Vodafone International Holdings BV treating it as an assessee in default under section 201(1) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (the Act) for failure to deduct ta
Confronted with rising number of cases where financial data is encrypted electronically, the Income Tax department is hunting for high-end digital data extraction and investigation tools which can glean through erased information and recover internet
Income Tax sleuths will keep an eye on private functions such as ‘mundan’ and marriage held by persons associated with candidates in poll-bound Bihar to check if these ceremonies were being secretly financed by them to bribe voters. The details of mo
The money recovered from Harshad Mehta-led 1992 banking securities scam is lying idle. The distribution of 2,200 crore recovered from Mehta group by the custodian appointed under a Special Act by government is not taking place due to differences between two major claimants — the I-T department and banks and financial institutions (FIs) — which have lost money in the scam.
In a major crackdown, the Income Tax department is conducting nationwide searches on more than 70 premises of major real estate developers in the NCR including Paras and Amrapali group over alleged tax evasion. According to sources, more than 450 off
The Mumbai region of Income Tax Department which has been assigned a direct tax collection target of Rs 1,50,480 crore for the current financial year, has already collected Rs 34,000 crore, which is over a third of the all-India collection.
This is the time of the year when tax payers look forward to getting refunds from the IT Department if eligible. But for roughly seven out of 10 cases, income tax refunds have remained elusive for no fault of the tax payers. The income tax department maintains that it is also not at fault. According to senior taxmen, they reject an overwhelmingly large number of eligible cases every year for what they call the incidence of missing entries.
On July 24, 2010, the Finance Minister released Citizen’s Charter — a declaration of Income-Tax Department’s commitment to taxpayers. In this Charter, one of the commitments is to make compliance easy. In this background, one of the members of the CBDT has issued a D.O. letter dated June 18, 2010 to all Chief Commissioners of Income Tax, concerning giving credit for tax deducted at source (TDS). At present, a large number of lower- and middle-income taxpayers face the problem of their refunds being withheld.
