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...
Income Tax Department is conducting investigations regarding frozen Demat Accounts which had balances of value in excess of approximately Rs. 10 lakhs as on December 2008. These accounts are 6385 in number with total approximate value of shares of Rs. 6,709.21 crores as in December 2008 and an approximate value of Rs. 16,230 crores when […]
Re: Hardships and Practical Difficulties being faced/likely to be faced by Assessees while filing the Return of Income for A.Y.2009-10, in view of directions contained in CBDT Circular No.03/2009 Dated 21.05.2009 We refer to the CBDT Circular No. 03/2009 dated 21.05.2009 in connection with the filing of the Income Tax Returns for A.Y. 2009-2010.
The Centre has changed the definition of ‘income’ under the Income-Tax law to ward off litigation on a Budget proposal on taxation of property passed on as gifts. The gifting route was hitherto used to escape the tax net, but this Budget sought to plug this loophole by bringing to tax, at the hands of […]
The Bombay High Court, in a recent order, came down heavily on the Income-Tax Department, which unilaterally injected an application for exemption for scientific and industrial research, without seeking guidance of experts on the matter. Tax authorities do not have the jurisdiction to decide on the issues pertaining to scientific research, according to a division bench of the HC comprising FI Rebello and JH Bhatia.
The Government has decided to make it compulsory to quote Unique Transaction Number (UTN) in the Income-tax return forms to be filed by all the assessees to whom such number has been allocated by the Income-tax Department.
For the current year, there have been a few changes which have been introduced and need to be kept in mind while filing the returns.The tax department has taken steps to make income tax returns filing easier and simple. In the past few years, there have been many improvements and use of technology by the Income Tax […]
Learn what Permanent Account Number (PAN) is and why it is compulsory to obtain and quote PAN. Understand its significance in income tax, business, and more.
It is now well accepted that “tax administration is tax policy”. A tax administration designed to foster voluntarily compliance yields higher revenue than a sound tax policy administered by an inefficient tax administration. Therefore, it has always been the endeavour of the Income-tax Department to improve the standards of its service and transparency in its functioning. Therefore, […]
New scheme of filing of Income Tax Return for the financial year 2008-09 onward and the general problems which is being faced by the assessee and their consultants are narrated below : 1. Earlier i.e. up to the financial year 2007-08, the Income Tax Returns could also be filed electronically by those assesses (which are […]
The government is considering a proposal to make tax audit reports mandatory for e-filing of income tax returns. This follows a recommendation by the Income Tax (I-T) department after the Satyam accounting fraud issue broke in January following founder Ramalinga Raju’s confession. I-T officials said since the returns were e-filed, there was no provision to […]
