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Redundancy of Minimum Alternate Tax: A Missed Step towards Simplification

Income Tax : Redundancy of Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) in India's evolving tax landscape, focusing on its history, challenges & potential simpl...

February 16, 2025 549 Views 0 comment Print

Decoding MAT: Unraveling Minimum Alternate Tax Landscape in India

Income Tax : Unveiling the intricacies of Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) in India. Understand its purpose, computation, and recent developments. N...

February 5, 2024 1176 Views 0 comment Print

MAT Credit Short Notes and Presentation in Financial Statements

Income Tax : MAT credit should be accounted in books as it satisfies definition of Asset as per Framework for preparation and presentation of F...

April 30, 2023 159507 Views 10 comments Print

Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) & Alternate Minimum Tax (AMT)

Income Tax : MAT stands for Minimum Alternate Tax and AMT stands for Alternate Minimum Tax. Initially the concept of MAT was introduced for com...

June 3, 2022 103484 Views 5 comments Print

Importance of Minimum Alternate Tax In Tackling Tax Avoidance

Company Law : MAT or minimum alternative tax refers to a tax paid to by a company in advance. We should note that companies must pay tax accordi...

February 28, 2022 2544 Views 0 comment Print


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Cabinet approves Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019

Income Tax : In order to attract fresh investment in manufacturing and provide boost to 'Make-in India' initiative of the Government, another p...

November 20, 2019 1350 Views 0 comment Print

Clarify on MAT u/s 115JB: ICAI

Income Tax : The computation of book profit under section 115JB is a complicated and vexed issue with diverse interpretations possible on vario...

January 20, 2018 9051 Views 1 comment Print

CBDT relaxes MAT provisions for companies facing Insolvency

Income Tax : Relaxation in the provisions relating to levy of Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) in case of companies against whom an application for ...

January 8, 2018 1740 Views 0 comment Print

Relevant part of recommendations of MAT-Ind AS Committee’s Report

Income Tax : Relevant part of MAT-Ind AS Committee Report dated 17th June, 2017 containing recommendations regarding amendment to the provision...

July 27, 2017 2244 Views 0 comment Print

ASSOCHAM advocates MAT exemption for sick companies under debt restructuring

Income Tax : Apex Industry body ASSOCHAM has advocated continuation of the exemption from MAT (Minimum Alternative Tax) by the insertion of a s...

April 27, 2017 888 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Section 115J not authorizes AO to go beyond audited financial statement: SC

Income Tax : The Supreme Court examined tax issues in Apollo Tyres Ltd. vs. CIT, including the role of assessing officers under Section 115-J a...

February 18, 2025 393 Views 0 comment Print

Loss on sale of investment not deductible from book profits u/s 115JB

Income Tax : ITAT Chennai held that as capital profit are to be excluded while computing book profit u/s 115JB, similarly, the adjustment of lo...

August 24, 2023 1509 Views 0 comment Print

Penalty u/s 271(1)(c) not leviable as tax was payable on book profits u/s 115JB

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held that penalty u/s 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act alleging inaccurate particulars not leviable as assessee was subj...

April 14, 2023 819 Views 0 comment Print

Advance from customers cannot be added in computation of Book Profit

Income Tax : ITAT held that if advances received by the assessee from customers on which TDS Credits has been claimed, has been offered as inco...

January 6, 2023 1713 Views 0 comment Print

Receipt not in character of Income to not form part of book profit under Section 115JB

Income Tax : PCIT-4 Vs Krishi Rasayan Exports Pvt. Ltd (Calcutta High Court) Whether the interest subsidy and excise refund would be treated as...

September 14, 2022 492 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


CBDT clarification on MAT Credit on exercise of section 115BAA option

Income Tax : Representations have been received from the stakeholders seeking clarification on following issues relating to exercise of option ...

October 2, 2019 34707 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT notifies revised Form no. 29B for MAT audit with Annexures

Income Tax : Details of the amount required to be increased or decreased in accordance with sub-section (2A) of section 115JB- [Applicable only...

August 18, 2017 125271 Views 5 comments Print

FAQs on computation of book profit to levy MAT for Ind AS companies

Income Tax : Clarifications with FAQs on computation of book profit for the purposes of levy of Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) under section 115JB...

July 25, 2017 12912 Views 0 comment Print

Issues on implementation of MAT provisions for Ind AS companies

Income Tax : CBDT press release on Issues arising from the implementation of Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) provisions relating to Indian Accounti...

July 25, 2017 1971 Views 0 comment Print

Modification in Circular related to Tax Effect for Appeal Filing

Income Tax : References are being received by the Board that in certain cases appellate authorities are dismissing appeals without going into t...

July 14, 2017 1749 Views 0 comment Print


Taxation Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019 – Key Changes

September 26, 2019 10392 Views 0 comment Print

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE TAXATION LAWS (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 2019 The President has promulgated an Ordinance dated 20 September, 2019 to amend the Income-tax Act, 1961 and the Finance (No.2) Act, 2019. The Ordinance promulgated is THE TAXATION LAWS (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 2019, hereafter referred to as “the Ordinance”. The Ordinance shall come into force at once unless […]

Tax implication of Taxation Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019

September 26, 2019 3423 Views 0 comment Print

Analysis of tax implication on ‘The Taxation Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019 dated 20th September, 2019 The CBDT has introduced new section , Sec. 115BAA – Tax on income of certain domestic companies where at the option of the assessee, may compute tax @ 22% plus surcharge and cess (effective tax rate comes to 25.17%) from the […]

Recent Income Tax Changes by Taxation Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019

September 26, 2019 4203 Views 0 comment Print

DIRECT TAX HIGHLIGHTS Benefits have been announced by Finance Minister in order to boost the economy. A gist on them has been provided below for your ease of reference: For Existing Domestic Companies Reduce the Corporate tax rate for Domestic Companies from 30% to 22% (excluding surcharge & cess) subject to the condition that they […]

Taxation Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019 – Analysis

September 25, 2019 9492 Views 0 comment Print

The, TAXATION LAWS (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 2019 (hereinafter ‘Ordinance’), is an ordinance to further amend the Income-tax Act, 1961 and the Finance (No.2) Act, 2019. Since the parliament is not in session and the President of India is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary for him to take immediate action, this Ordinance has come into force with effect from 20th September 2019.

Bench marking of Most Appropriate Option for Taxation of Domestic Companies

September 24, 2019 4389 Views 2 comments Print

Government has brought in the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Ordinance 2019 and announces major relief in corporate tax for domestic companies, in order to boost the Make in India initiative. Corporate tax reduced to 22% (Effective Tax Rate 25.17% inclusive of Surcharge and Cess) for domestic firms while for new manufacturing companies, tax rate has been […]

Major highlights of Recent Changes in Income Tax and GST

September 24, 2019 20367 Views 5 comments Print

‘Acche din’ back for Indian Economy after recent Recent Reliefs in Income Tax and GST? In yet another surgical strike on bears and negative sentiments of the economy, the FM has tried to create an environment of surplus in the hands of corporates for making investments and ease their liquidity concerns. The Taxation laws (Amendment) […]

Analysis on recent reduction of Corporate Tax rates

September 24, 2019 7170 Views 0 comment Print

Analysis on reduction of Corporate Tax vide  Taxation Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019 1. The Government of India announced reduction in corporate tax rates for domestic companies in India with effect from F.Y. 2019-20. 2. A new section 115BAA has been inserted to reduce tax rate of 22% (excluding surcharge and education cess) for domestic companies. […]

A Renaissance for tax regime | Taxation Laws (Amendment) Ordinance 2019

September 23, 2019 2100 Views 1 comment Print

The Government passed Taxation Laws (Amendment) Ordinance 2019 to make certain amendments in the Income-tax Act 1961 and the Finance (No. 2) Act 2019. Below are a few impact areas that the companies and investors will need to revaluate:

Computation of book profit & MAT credit U/S 115JB

September 23, 2019 494808 Views 11 comments Print

The Minimum Alternative Tax (MAT) is a provision introduced in direct tax laws to limit the tax deductions/exemptions otherwise available to taxpayers so that they pay a ‘minimum’ amount of tax to the government.

Analysis of Taxation Laws (Amendment) Ordinance 2019 

September 22, 2019 11487 Views 4 comments Print

Taxation Laws (Amendment) Ordinance 2019  – Income Tax Amendment – 2019 September You have to go through tough situations to get better. As a bold step to revive the current Indian economy, the Finance Minister announced various amendments in the form of reduced tax rate and incentives in the Income tax act. These changes have […]

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