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FAQs on interest under section 234A, 234B, 234C and 234D

Income Tax : Understand Sections 234A, 234B, 234C, and 234D of the Income Tax Act covering interest on late filing, short payment, delayed adva...

October 28, 2025 11691 Views 0 comment Print

Penalties and Prosecutions Under Income tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : A summary of key penalties under the Income Tax Act for AY 2026-27, covering defaults from late filing and non-payment to misrepor...

October 28, 2025 531558 Views 4 comments Print

Understanding Interest Under the Income Tax Act: How It’s Calculated and Why It Matters

Income Tax : Understand how interest under the Income Tax Act is calculated, including Sections 234A–234D, 244A, and Rule 119A mechanics for ...

October 14, 2025 2214 Views 0 comment Print

Section 234B Interest on 115BBE Income for Senior Citizens

Income Tax : Interest under Section 234B cannot be levied on Section 115BBE-assessed income for resident senior citizens exempt from advance ta...

October 13, 2025 2937 Views 0 comment Print

Interest on Advance Tax: Is Section 210 Ignored?

Income Tax : A look into why taxpayers face interest charges under Sections 234B and 234C, exploring how Section 210, a provision for official ...

August 25, 2025 1128 Views 0 comment Print


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Request to CBDT to permit delayed filing of Form 10IC

Income Tax : Request to CBDT to permit filing of Form 10IC after expiration of  time limit by condoning delay Issuance of Order under Section ...

February 4, 2022 10362 Views 1 comment Print

AOTAA files PIL before Orissa HC on the issue of late fee, interest & penalty under Income Tax

Income Tax : All Odisha Tax Advocates Association has filed an PIl before Orissa High Court with following Prayers- (i) Admit the Writ Petition...

January 13, 2022 4932 Views 1 comment Print

Belated Release of ITRs and burden of Interest U/s. 234 B

Income Tax : At the end of May the Income Tax Return forms are released for the Assessment Year 2015-16 and same been held back by finance mini...

June 4, 2015 3273 Views 0 comment Print


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ITAT Reduces Profit Estimation as Assessee Acted Only as Pass-Through Entity Earning Thin Commission Margins

Income Tax : Relying on its earlier ruling in the assessee’s own case, the Tribunal held that gross profit should be estimated at 0.40% rathe...

May 22, 2026 87 Views 0 comment Print

Opening Balances Cannot Be Added Under Section 68 as They Relate to Earlier Years

Income Tax : Tribunal reiterated that credits brought forward from earlier financial years cannot ordinarily be taxed under Section 68 in subse...

May 22, 2026 219 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Allows TDS Credit as Denial Was Due to Inadvertent Omission by AO

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held that lawful TDS credit cannot be denied merely because the Assessing Officer overlooked an earlier rectification o...

May 19, 2026 153 Views 0 comment Print

No Service of 143(1) Intimation = No Delay in Appeal – ITAT Revives TDS Credit Claim After 15 Years

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that the limitation period for appeal commenced only when the assessee first received the ITBA screenshot revea...

May 16, 2026 345 Views 0 comment Print

Notional Rent from Sister Concerns Taxable as ‘Other Sources’: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : The ITAT Mumbai held that notional rent cannot be taxed under “Income from Other Sources” without evidence that such income wa...

May 15, 2026 198 Views 0 comment Print


In absence of liability to pay advance tax, Interest U/s. 234B not applicable

December 19, 2017 1992 Views 0 comment Print

While dismissing the appeal filed by the revenue, the Delhi bench of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has held that interest under section 234B is not leviable in respect of payments to the non-resident assessee being subject to tax deduction at source under Section 195 of the Income Tax Act 1961.

Interest u/s 234B / 234C payable on failure to pay advance tax on AMT/MAT

December 8, 2017 10950 Views 0 comment Print

A bench comprising Vijay Pal Rao (JM) and Vikram Singh Yadav (AM) of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) recently declared that Interest u/s 234B of the Income Tax Act can be levied on ground of non-payment of advance tax in respect of Alternative Minimum Tax.

Seized cash must be adjusted towards advance tax liability on request from Assessee

October 24, 2017 5061 Views 0 comment Print

Circular No. 20/2017 makes clear the intention of the Department not to contest those cases where the assessees had been given the benefit of adjustment of seized cash against the advance tax liability. There cannot be a situation where for those Assessees who have continued to remain in default of payment of advance tax the benefit […]

Interest u/s 234A/ 234B cannot be levied in absence of any mention in Assessment Order

October 20, 2017 5565 Views 2 comments Print

In the absence of any specific mention of the Assessing Officer in the assessment order for charging of interest u/s 234A and 234B, no interest would be recovered from the assessee merely by way of a demand notice.

Computation of interest U/s. 234B when Assessment order was subjected to revision U/s. 263

October 11, 2017 21849 Views 1 comment Print

Where original assessment order was subjected to revision under section 263, interest under section 234B would be charged till completion of assessment under section 143(3) read with section 263.

Proposed Income Tax Rule 39A takes us 30 year back: CTC

September 26, 2017 8031 Views 7 comments Print

The financial information sought for in form 39A is an invasion of privacy. A lot of financial information is price sensitive for a listed entity and filing of such information would cause governance issues. The assessee would be providing information which has neither released to a Stock Exchange nor is in public domain and there is no guarantee that this information which is filed and lying in a folder will not be accessed in a price sensitive manner.

Nil Book Profit – Section 234B & 234C Interest not applies

June 14, 2017 1170 Views 0 comment Print

When its book profit was nil on the last date of the financial year then the assessee had no liability to pay advance tax and therefore, interest u/s 234B and section 234C of the Act will not be charged

As Advance tax not payable on salary Income so interest U/s. 234B, 234C cannot be levied

February 14, 2017 8412 Views 0 comment Print

In cases where receipt is by way of salary, deductions under Section 192 of the Act is required to be made. No question of payment of advance tax under Part ‘C’ of Chapter VII of the Act can arise in cases of receipt by way of ‘salary’.

Appeal can be filed against Levy of Interest u/s 234A,234B and 234C

September 15, 2015 5891 Views 0 comment Print

The Hon’ble Punjab & Haryan High Court in the case of Shri Krishan Gopal HUF held that the levy of interest u/s 234A , B & C is part and parcel of the of assessment process and it is open to an assessee to dispute the levy in appeal provided he challenge the very levy rather than claiming any waiver

All about Advance Payment of Income Tax

September 11, 2015 5915 Views 0 comment Print

Advance Payment due date is approaching fast as due date for September Quarter for Payment of advance tax is 15th September 2015, so I thought it appropriate to discuss provisions related to payment of advance tax and consequences of late payment, Short Payment or non payment of advance tax.

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