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Presumptive Taxation Simplified as Income Tax Act 2025 Merges 44AD, 44ADA & 44AE

Income Tax : The Income Tax Act, 2025 replaces Sections 44AD, 44ADA, and 44AE with a unified Section 58 framework. While the structure has been...

May 6, 2026 2520 Views 0 comment Print

Analysis of Presumptive Taxation under Section 58 of Income Tax Act, 2025 

Income Tax : The issue addresses the consolidation of multiple presumptive taxation provisions into a single section. The framework simplifies ...

May 5, 2026 4392 Views 0 comment Print

Presumptive Taxation under Section 58 of Income Tax Act, 2025

Income Tax : The Income Tax Act, 2025 introduces Section 58, consolidating earlier presumptive taxation schemes into one unified framework. It ...

April 6, 2026 2838 Views 4 comments Print

MAT Exemption Extended to More Presumptive Businesses of Non-Residents: Budget 2026

Income Tax : The amendment removes MAT for additional specified non-resident businesses taxed on a presumptive basis. This ensures uniform tax ...

February 3, 2026 876 Views 0 comment Print

Presumptive Taxation for Residents – 1961 Act via-a-vis 2025 Act

Income Tax : The issue examines how presumptive taxation is consolidated under Section 58. The key takeaway is that structural simplicity masks...

January 25, 2026 8397 Views 0 comment Print


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MEF empanelment date extended – Firms under Presumptive Taxation not to submit Financial Statements

CA, CS, CMA : There is no requirement for submitting the Financial Statements i.e. Balance Sheets and Income & Expenditure Account for the appli...

October 9, 2020 1284 Views 0 comment Print


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ITAT Delhi Rejects Revenue Appeal Over Presumptive Taxation & Jewellery Additions

Income Tax : The ITAT Delhi held that once income higher than the presumptive rate under Section 44AD was declared, the assessee was not requir...

May 12, 2026 294 Views 0 comment Print

GST Not Income Under Section 44B; Statutory Levy Excluded from Presumptive Taxation

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that GST collected is not part of income for presumptive taxation under section 44B. It ruled that GST is a stat...

March 28, 2026 678 Views 0 comment Print

Cash Deposits Cannot Be Treated as Unexplained Under Presumptive Tax Scheme: ITAT Kolkata

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that once income is declared under the presumptive taxation scheme of Section 44AD, individual cash deposits can...

February 19, 2026 8334 Views 0 comment Print

Section 69A Addition on Demonetisation Deposits Deleted in 44AD Presumptive Case: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : ITAT held that cash deposits during demonetization were explained as business sales declared under Section 44AD. Without disprovin...

February 17, 2026 1581 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Chandigarh Accepted Presumptive Income Despite Demonetization Cash Deposits

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that cash deposits could not be fully treated as undisclosed when income was declared under section 44AD. The ke...

February 2, 2026 336 Views 0 comment Print


Combined Study of Section 44AB with Section 44AD

December 14, 2020 20217 Views 3 comments Print

Currently, businesses having turnover of more than one crore rupees are required to get their books of accounts audited by an accountant. In order to reduce the compliance burden on small retailers, traders, shopkeepers who comprise the MSME sector, the Finance Act 2020 has raised the limit of audit by five times the turnover threshold […]

Presumptive Taxation Scheme under Section 44ADA

December 14, 2020 11352 Views 0 comment Print

The Scheme of Presumptive Taxation for Professionals was introduced under Section 44ADA in the Finance Act 2016 and is applicable from Financial Year 2016-17 onwards. Need for Introduction of Section 44ADA Before 2016, the benefits of Presumptive Taxation were only given to Businesses under Section 44AD and to Transporters under Section 44AE. Specified professionals were […]

Section 44AA, 44AB & 44AD when turnover is up to Rs. 1 crore

December 14, 2020 94278 Views 5 comments Print

Applicability of provisions of sec 44AA, 44AB and 44AD when turnover is up to Rs. 1 crore Broadly speaking, provisions of Section 44AD of the Act are applicable to Resident Individual or HUF or Partnership Firm engaged in the business other than specified (excluded) business whose total turnover/ gross receipts are Rs.2 Crores or less. […]

Section 44AD Computing profits & gains of business on presumptive basis

December 13, 2020 45414 Views 2 comments Print

A. Meaning of terms used in section 44AD(1) To understand the provisions of sec 44AD(1) of the Act, we must study the meaning of following terms: 1. Eligible assessee: 1) Resident Individual 2) Resident Hindu Undivided Family 3) Resident Partnership Firm (not a Limited LiabilityPartnership Firm as defined under LLP Act, 2008) Note: While explaining […]

Some special things related to Tax Audit

October 26, 2020 21276 Views 2 comments Print

1. Tax Audit is mandatory if ‘business’ is having total sales, turnover or gross receipts more than Rs. 1 crore in any Previous Year (‘PY’). [Read clause (a) of Section 44AB of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (‘the IT Act’)]. 2. However, the aforesaid limit of Rs. 1 crore shall be read as 5 crores […]

Section 44AB vs Section 44AD

October 24, 2020 8904 Views 0 comment Print

Section 44AD versus Section 44AB: What to choose ? As per recent amendments in Finance Act, 2020 where one of major amendment was made in Section 44AB by inserting a proviso to clause (a), which reads as follows:- Audit of accounts of certain persons carrying on business or profession. 44AB. Every person,— (a)  carrying on […]

Whether GST is to be included in gross turnover in presumptive taxation- An unending issue.

October 12, 2020 39834 Views 2 comments Print

Whether the GST component will be calculated while calculating the Gross turnover for the applicability of the 44AD. Of late many assesses are seeking an opinion that whether the GST component will be included while calculating the threshold limit of the 2 crore as provided in the section 44AD and whether the 8 percent threshold […]

MEF empanelment date extended – Firms under Presumptive Taxation not to submit Financial Statements

October 9, 2020 1284 Views 0 comment Print

There is no requirement for submitting the Financial Statements i.e. Balance Sheets and Income & Expenditure Account for the applicants who have opted for the Presumptive Taxation Scheme under Section 44ADA of Income Tax Act, 1961 and have filed their ITR accordingly for the financial year 2018-19.

Applicability of Section 44AB

October 7, 2020 5817 Views 2 comments Print

There is lots of confusion in mind of professional or accountant that when they have to get their client account audited due to different slab under section 44AB and 44AD? As per section 44 AB every person require to get their account audited from accountant in following condition (a) Total sales or turnover or gross […]

Key Issues In Presumptive Taxation under Income Tax

October 7, 2020 24936 Views 7 comments Print

Presumptive taxation is being followed by the huge number of the small taxpayers throughout the country. However ironically they are of the opinion that the government has relieved them with all the provisions of the income tax act and therefore does not take into the consideration the relevant provisions of the income tax act and […]

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