Income Tax : The Income-tax Department is increasingly relying on AI-based verification and automated reconciliation systems to detect discrepa...
Income Tax : The new Income Tax Act, 2025 significantly reduces the number of statutory sections and reorganises tax compliance procedures effe...
Income Tax : The case emphasizes that ignoring clarification notices may result in denial of deductions and exemptions. Taxpayers must substant...
Income Tax : Many taxpayers receive notices despite exemption due to AIS-ITR mismatches. The case highlights that non-reporting of even exempt ...
Income Tax : This analysis explains how employer-leased cars reduce taxable salary since only a prescribed perquisite value under Rule 3 is tax...
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 : 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 ITAT in Mumbai has restricted an income tax disallowance on alleged bogus purchases for Quality Heightcon, capping it at 12.5%...
Custom Duty : Delhi High Court permitted the petitioner to pursue a customs duty appeal before CESTAT by depositing 50% of the required pre-depo...
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...
The new Citizens’ Charter will be a guiding rule book for the I-T department and its officials.Taxpayers whose premises have been searched or raided by the Income Tax (I-T) department can now expect to get possession of their sealed properties and assets in two months as compared to the usual duration of over a year.
Corporate earnings from trading in certified emission reduction or carbon credits has caught the eyes of income-tax department. Tax authorities plan to closely look at companies found active in carbon trading after finding non-payment of taxes on such earnings.
The Income Tax Department has carried out search operations at companies engaged in real estate business, I-T department sources said here today. Over 50 premises including business and residence of five builders are being searched by more than 250 I-T sleuths, sources said, adding some of the business premises in Ahmedabad are also being searched.
The Income Tax Department is likely to slap a demand of Rs 8,500 crore on foreign companies and their domestic subsidiaries which allegedly transferred profits to other countries to reduce tax liability. “Income Tax Department is likely to raise over Rs 8,500 crore from transfer pricing audits. There has been scrutiny of 8,105 such cases,” Finance Ministry sources told PTI.
THE Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has directed the Income Tax Department ( ITD ) to make arrangements for receiving income tax returns on 31 st July 2010, the due date for filing tax returns by most taxpayers, as that day happens to be a Saturday. ITD has also been asked to make special arrangements by setting up additional counters from 28 th July to 31 st July 2010, to facilitate taxpayers in filing their income tax returns.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) have directed the Income Tax Department (ITD) to make arrangements for receiving income tax returns on 31st July 2010, the due date for filing tax returns by most taxpayers, as that day happens to be a Saturday.
By the end of this fiscal, income tax payers will be able to get all their problems relating to filing of returns and obtaining of refunds, among others, addressed at nine more help centres. The Income Tax Department has decided to set up help centres at 12 cities, including Kolkata, Coimbatore and Surat, to address the problems of tax payers. At present, help centres exist at three places in the country.
The Income Tax (I-T) department, which is investigating the origin of funds invested in Indian Premier League (IPL) teams, has run into a road block as most of the team owners have refused to part with their funding details. The I-T department’s problems stem from the fact that most of the IPL team owners, though of Indian origin, are citizens of other countries.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said that after Bangalore, two more centres that handle I-T returns digitally would be set up at Pune and Maneasar. The Finance Minister also asked the Income Tax Department to partner with the corporate sector to automatise its non-core processes, so as to achieve economy of scale.
The introduction of electronic filing of I-T returns, e-payment of taxes, establishment of the national network (TAXNET), and consolidation of the Regional Computer Centers into the National Data Center have laid the foundation for the next generation administrative reforms in the Income Tax Department.
