Income Tax : The CAG has pulled up the Income Tax Department for not recovering tax arrears worth over Rs 4,500 crore from various entities due...
Income Tax : The net direct tax collection during the first two months of the current fiscal fell by 47.93 per cent, mainly on account of dolli...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court has directed the Income Tax department to freshly decide the issue on whether telecom operators Bharti Airtel an...
Income Tax : The crime branch of Delhi Police has arrested a 24-year-old man who allegedly posed as an income tax commissioner and demanded Rs ...
Income Tax : Calling it the biggest litigant in the entire Government, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has asked the Income Tax Department to...
Income Tax : Orissa High Court remits income tax matter back to PCIT after rejecting delay condonation applications in a cryptic manner. Detail...
Orissa High Court remits income tax matter back to PCIT after rejecting delay condonation applications in a cryptic manner. Detailed analysis of the case provided.
The CAG has pulled up the Income Tax Department for not recovering tax arrears worth over Rs 4,500 crore from various entities due to a lack of coordination between two of its wings. The government auditor, in its latest report tabled in Parliament, said it found several cases where the Assessing Officers (AOs) did not communicate updated information relating to demands to Tax Recovery Officers (TROs).
The net direct tax collection during the first two months of the current fiscal fell by 47.93 per cent, mainly on account of dolling out of large refunds by the IT department. Net direct tax collections, gross collections minus refunds, were down by 47.93 per cent at Rs 12,954 crore during the first two months of the current fiscal, the finance ministry said in a statement.
The Supreme Court has directed the Income Tax department to freshly decide the issue on whether telecom operators Bharti Airtel and Vodafone would have to deduct TDS while paying BSNL for sharing network of the state-owned firm. A bench comprising Chief Justice S H Kapadia and Justice K S Radhakrishnan directed the IT department to adjudicate freshly over the issue with the help of technical experts within four months.
The crime branch of Delhi Police has arrested a 24-year-old man who allegedly posed as an income tax commissioner and demanded Rs 30 lakh from a businessman in return of closing a fictitious complaint against the victim. The accused, Dinesh Kumar, was arrested last Friday from the Millennium Park area in southeast Delhi.
Calling it the biggest litigant in the entire Government, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has asked the Income Tax Department to reexamine the way it handles tax disputes. He said, the Department is filing appeals in a routine manner without careful thought and examination leading to the Income Tax Department earning the dubious distinction of being the biggest litigant in the Government of India.
Congress leader Kripashankar Singh, who is currently under various investigating agencies’ scanner for allegedly amassing huge wealth, has been asked by the income-tax department to explain his income source for properties acquired in the city and elsewhere. The I-T department will also estimate the properties’ value.
The Income Tax department which is probing all financial transactions of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has advised all foreign players to obtain PAN cards, failing which they will have to pay penal tax on their cricket related earnings in India.
The Central Information Commission feels that details of property belonging to government servants and even judges of the high courts and the Supreme Court are subject to the purview of the Right To Information (RTI) Act but some government departments, including the Income-Tax department, seem to think otherwise.
The Income Tax Department, one of the investigating agencies probing the Satyam fraud case, has asked the Hyderabad Police for documents related to purchases and investments by the firm’s former Chairman Ramalinga Raju.
