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 income-tax department has launched a campaign against those assessees who deduct tax from various payments they make but don’t remit the same into the government treasury, Pradeep Sharma, commissioner of income-tax for tax deducted at source (TDS) said on Monday. Sharma said the department has begun checking the records of assessees to find out […]
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati’s income for the financial year 2001-02 will be reassessed by the income tax department as the Delhi HC has allowed it a relook, while hearing a plea that she had allegedly not declared full details. A bench of Justices Vikramajit Sen and Rajiv Shakdher dismissed the BSP chief ‘s plea […]
In a path-breaking investigation, with all-India ramifications, sleuths from the Income Tax department (Bangalore circle) have found that a private airline had not remitted to the government a part of the tax it has been deducting at source for over the past eight years. The TDS default and the interest on it amounts to around […]
Mayawati wins again in ITAT – can gift to a politician be treated as Professional income? – Gift of Rs 11 Lakhs allowed by AO after proper inquiry and consultation with CIT – Commissioner’ s Review order quashed: ITAT KM Mayawati the beloved Chief Minister is in the habit of getting huge gifts from her […]
The current financial year 2008-09 the Investigation Wing of the Income Tax Department, Kolkata, has so far seized unaccounted cash of Rs 65 Crore and other assets to the tune of Rs 11 Cr. Multiple searches have led to disclosure of income to the tune of Rs 360 Cr so far. Some of the noteworthy […]
In the wake of the Satyam fiasco, the Income-Tax department now wants more manpower and technical assistance for its investigation wing and closer scrutiny for TDS returns. The department, in its recent report being prepared for cadre review and restructuring, being done after eight years, will submit these suggestions to the government. “With the recent […]
The income-tax department appears to have turned a blind eye seven years ago to diversion of funds from Satyam to members of the Raju family. A deputy director of investigation in IT found fixed deposits worth Rs 19.5 crore in banks on which tax had not been deducted at source.
The investigative wing of the Income-Tax department raided the factory premises of 40 textile and paint manufacturers in Surat Tuesday, an official said. The raids were conducted by a team of 150 sleuths, with senior officials from the Rajkot Income Tax Commissionerate joining in the raids.
The Mumbai income tax department has surveyed 50-60 companies, including multinational firms, in the past two weeks as part of its drive to identify and bring to book tax deducted at source (TDS) defaulters. The department is mainly focusing on companies that have collected TDS, but not deposited the same with the department.
Did Satyam Computer Services’ promoter B Ramalinga Raju make a calculated move in owning up to a Rs 7,800 crore fraud to lessen the degree of punishment? With media reports speculating that Raju may have had benami accounts, land holdings and so on, senior government sources told Outlook Business that the suspicion from day one […]
