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How to Handle Surrendered Income During a Tax Survey: A Practical Guide

Income Tax : Article explains how surrendered income is treated under I.T Act, particularly focusing on applicability of Sections 68 to 69D and...

August 23, 2024 6009 Views 0 comment Print

Latest Amendments relating to Survey under section 133A of Income Tax Act

Income Tax : Discover the latest Amendments relating to Survey under section 133A of Income Tax Act. Get guidance on relevant sections such as ...

January 19, 2023 7629 Views 1 comment Print

Impact of Finance Act 2021 on survey cases under section 133A

Income Tax : The Finance Act 2021 brought a new re-assessment procedure in respect of an income which has escaped assessment and also in survey...

June 17, 2021 6600 Views 2 comments Print

Income Tax Survey – Frequently Asked Questions

Income Tax : Q1. Whether notice is required to be issued to the assessee before initiating survey? No, the section does not require prior noti...

October 21, 2020 31217 Views 4 comments Print

Income Tax raid- What to do?

Income Tax : Our Income Tax law allows all persons to self-assess their income and pay taxes. However, to protect the revenue base, unearth con...

September 7, 2020 19461 Views 3 comments Print


Latest News


Join Free Webinar on Survey under Income Tax Act 1961

Income Tax : Join a free webinar on Jan 11, 2025, to learn about surveys under the Income Tax Act, 1961. Gain insights on taxpayer rights, obli...

January 2, 2024 4785 Views 0 comment Print

Wrongful claims of deduction under section 80JJAA detected

Income Tax : During the course of the survey operation, evidences of tax evasion have been gathered regarding wrongful claims of deduction u/s ...

July 16, 2021 1542 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Surveys unearths huge defaults in TDS deduction & deposit

Income Tax : Ministry of Finance TDS Surveys by Income Tax Department unearths huge defaults in deduction and deposit Posted On: 04 MAR 2020 In...

March 4, 2020 1056 Views 0 comment Print

Major Achievements of CBDT in Current Financial Year 2016-17

Income Tax : Major Achievements of CBDT in Current Financial Year 2016-17 so far include among others Enactment of The Benami Transactions (Pro...

January 9, 2017 4144 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Employees strike – I-T survey operations hit in Delhi

Income Tax : The crucial survey operations conducted by the Income Tax department to detect tax evasion have been severely hit due to a long dr...

November 15, 2011 621 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


No additions based solely on survey statements without supporting material

Income Tax : ITAT Indore partly allows Saaras Agro’s appeal, ruling on Section 69 and 115BBE additions. Key judicial precedents and CBDT circ...

February 20, 2025 1422 Views 0 comment Print

Survey Statements cannot be Sole Basis for Addition: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held survey statements cannot solely justify income addition without corroborative evidence. Case: DCIT Vs Ahinsa Infr...

February 6, 2025 951 Views 0 comment Print

Without Incriminating Material Section 133A Survey Statements Lack Evidentiary Value

Income Tax : ITAT Kolkata confirms statements recorded during surveys under Section 133A cannot justify additions without corroborating evidenc...

December 29, 2024 987 Views 0 comment Print

Business Income declared during Survey can be set-off against Business Losses

Income Tax : Income declared in survey is to be taxed and it has to fall under one of the heads of income, i.e., business income and, therefore...

February 16, 2021 2403 Views 0 comment Print

No section 271C penalty for non-deduction of TDS on LTA

Income Tax : The issue under consideration is whether the AO is correct in levying penalty u/s 271C of the Act for non-deduction of tax at sour...

June 30, 2020 1209 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


AO allowed to survey u/s 133A with prior approval of concerned Principal CCIT/DG

Income Tax : Now AO can also do survey u/s 133A of the Income Tax with the prior approval of concerned Principal CCIT/ DG F.No. 282/15/2022-IT ...

November 22, 2022 8238 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT amends guideline on power of survey under section 133

Income Tax : Any verification or survey u/s 133A of the Act by the TDS charges shall be conducted by its officers. Where the TDS charge is head...

January 31, 2021 3360 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT issues guideline on power of survey under section 133A

Income Tax : Order under section 119 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 for exercising power of survey u/s 133A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 and in pur...

October 19, 2020 10227 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT issues guidelines for intrusive or coercive tax recovery

Income Tax : Any coercive or intrusive action for recovery of tax demands should be taken only after exhausting alternative means of recovery a...

October 16, 2020 18453 Views 1 comment Print

Detection of substantial unaccounted cash & other valuables during surveys under section 133A of Income Tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : Instances have come to the notice of CBDT where despite detection of considerable unaccounted cash and other valuables during the ...

September 30, 2020 3222 Views 0 comment Print


IT dept. in delhi recovered 860 Crore in search, seizure and survey

May 21, 2009 444 Views 0 comment Print

Search and seizure operations by the revenue authorities have forced tax evaders in the national capital to cave in and admit that they owe the government more than Rs 860 crore (Rs 8.6 billion) for the last fiscal. According to an official report of the department, taxmen carried out search, seizure and survey operations in nearly […]

Presumption as to books of accounts, other documents, etc. found during survey

April 11, 2009 1155 Views 0 comment Print

Presumption as to books of accounts, other documents, etc. Section 292C of the Income-tax Act provides for a rebuttable presumption with respect to books of account, other documents, money, bullion, jewelry or other valuable article or thing found in the possession or control of any person in the course of a search under section 132. […]

Income tax department sleuths detected unaccounted cash worth over Rs 8 crore

March 29, 2009 1238 Views 0 comment Print

Income tax department sleuths detected unaccounted cash worth over Rs 8 crore during the survey carried out on three business establishments in Chandigarh. Survey started on Thursday completed on Friday afternoon. Income tax sleuths carried out the survey in the premises of Compact Disc (CD) India Limited, Manimajra, office of A-I Meters Private Limited, Industrial […]

I-T dept moves court over ITAT's demand for verifying the reasons for conducting a raid

March 24, 2009 886 Views 0 comment Print

The Income-Tax department is at loggerheads with the income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), the ultimate fact-finding body on tax disputes, over the latter’s demand for verifying the reasons for conducting a raid on FMCG major Marico Industries. ITAT had directed the department to produce the “satisfaction note”, which is an internal document prepared by income […]

Income Tax Department raid at Buldhana credit society

March 22, 2009 2588 Views 0 comment Print

Buldhana Urban Co-operative Credit Society, the country’s largest, has come under the taxman’s scanner for suspected money-laundering. A team of Income Tax officials has conducted a search and seizure operation on around 15 premises that include the society’s offices as well as those of its promoter Radheyshyam Chandak and other office-bearers. Some premises related to society’s top officials in Pune, Nasik, and Akola were also covered in the raid. Some godowns owned by the society, used to store agriculture commodities, were also raided.

Man in Mumbai admits to tax evasion, pays Rs 22cr

March 3, 2009 624 Views 0 comment Print

This could be one the biggest admission of tax evasion by an individual in recent times. Munir Khan, who describes himself as a`scientist’ and has a medicine for all incurable diseases, on Friday paid Rs 22 crore as tax on his income for the current financial year. According to sources, the assessment wing of the […]

CBI detains I-T officer T V Mohan for graft & Searched Additional comm. of IT, S M Keshkamat

February 28, 2009 636 Views 0 comment Print

The CBI and the income tax department are at loggerheads. The reason is the effect of a trap laid by the CBI to catch an income tax officer, T V Mohan who was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 4.5 lakh from the chartered accountant of a real estate agent. Mohan was detained on Thursday […]

Tax fraud through abuse of charities: OECD Survey

February 28, 2009 537 Views 0 comment Print

TAX evasion and tax fraud through the abuse of charities is a serious and increasing risk in many countries, and some estimate that the abuse of charities costs their treasury many hundreds of millions of dollars. The vast majority of charities are legitimate but some may be targeted by criminals to launder the proceeds of […]

Condition precedent for raising presumption under section 132(4A) read with section 292C of IT Act against a person searched

February 23, 2009 6250 Views 0 comment Print

(iii) that the signature and every other part of such books of account and other documents which purport to be in the handwriting of any particular person or which may reasonably be assumed to have been signed by, or to be in the handwriting of, any particular person, are in that person’s handwriting, and in the case of a document stamped, executed or attested, that it was duly stamped and executed or attested

Allowbility of kickbacks/secret commission as business expenditure under section 37(1) of IT Act

February 21, 2009 1791 Views 0 comment Print

“37. (1) Any expenditure (not being expenditure of the nature described in sections 30 to 36 and not being in the nature of capital expenditure or personal expenses of the assessee), laid but or expended wholly and. exclusively for the purposes of the business or profession shall be allowed in computing the income chargeable under the head “Profits and gains of business or profession’.

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