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Income Tax - CBDT has issued Instruction No. 5/2017 dated 7th July 2017 by which it has laid down the procedure and criteria for compulsory manual selection of returns/cases requiring scrutiny during the financial-year 2017-2018. ...
Read MoreIncome Tax - In 2006, the Indian Government introduced electronic filing of Income-tax returns for the first time in case of corporates which subsequently made mandatory for all tax payers. Since then there is constant digitization of processing of tax returns....
Read MoreIncome Tax - In order to encourage more people to file income tax returns, necessary provisions may be introduced, such as: Individuals having taxable income upto Rs. 10 lakhs may not be subjected to scrutiny for 3 Assessment Years unless there is specific information available with the Department regarding his high value transaction....
Read MoreIncome Tax - Presently, notice u/s 143(2) is generated by CASS in ITBA. Also, AO issues the statutory notice including notice u/s 142(1) with Questionnaire of the IT Act 1961 from the ITBA assessment module to the assessee’s designated email ID. Similarly, there are many proceedings of the Income Tax Act which require notice or correspondence betwee...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Under the present system of limited scrutiny under CASS (Computer Aided Scrutiny Selection) Income Taxes Cases are selected for hearing under various parameters and assessments are made basing on the books of account and evidences produced. Further notices are sent to assessees basing on information collected from the Annual Information R...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Paperless assessment/ e-mail based assessment on a pilot basis was commenced in the financial year 2015-16 in non-corporate charges of five cities i.e. Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai. The e-mail based assessment scheme has now been extended to two more cities, namely Hyderabad and Kolkata during the current financial year...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Taking another step in this direction, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has issued instructions to the assessing officers to be specific in enquires made in the case of tax payers whose returns are under scrutiny. The directions are comprehensive and cover cases selected through Computer Aided Scrutiny Selection (CASS) for limited scr...
Read MoreIncome Tax - The Central Board of Excise and Customs had issued detailed guidelines in 2009 to its field formations on conducting detailed manual scrutiny of service tax returns. In view of the legal changes brought about by the Negative List based taxation of services and administrative changes like creation of separate Commissionrates for Audit etc,...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Though less that 1% of returns filed are selected for scrutiny, this area of work has often drawn adversarial comments. Supervisory officers, have been directed to play a more pro-active role in monitoring and guiding assessments towards ensuring that high-pitched assessments without proper basis are not made and that lengthy questionnai...
Read MoreIncome Tax - We have attached a file in excel format. The file contains the format of various details which normally assessing officer asks Assessee to furnish during Scrutiny Assessment U/s. 143(3) of the Income Tax Act, 1961. We have attached the format of following details :-...
Read MoreAccording to section 143(2) of the Income Tax Act, 1961(for short the Act), where a return has been furnished under section 139 of the Act, or in response to a notice under section 142(1) of the Act, the Assessing Officer(AO) or the prescribed income-tax authority, as the case may be, if, considers ...
Read MoreCIT Vs Vivek Aggarwal (Delhi High Court) - CIT (A) appeal as well as ITAT examined the document relied upon the revenue for making addition. It was found that the document was not addressed to anyone and without any signature and date. In such situation it can be said that it belong to assessee. ...
Read MoreJoginder Pal Gulati Vs The Officer On Special Duty (ITA II) Cum CPIO and ANR (Delhi High Court) - In so far as the impugned order is concerned, there is nothing stated in the operative part which would seem to indicate that the CIC has come to the conclusion which it has, is based on the fact that, the economic interest of the country, will get effected. The CIC, in the operative part has merely...
Read MoreBovis Lend Lease (India) Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Bangalore) - Here we summarised the ruling of the Bangalore Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) [2009-TIOL-666-ITAT-BANG] in the case of Bovis Lend Lease (India) Pvt. Ltd. (Taxpayer) on the taxability of payments towards reimbursement of cost forservices provided by a group entity. The ITAT held that such payme...
Read MoreBholanath R. Shukla Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) - 8. We have considered he submissions made by both the sides, material on record and orders of the authorities below. We find that the question, before US, is whether limited scrutiny proceedings and regular scrutiny proceedings are independent of each other or not and, therefore, notice issued for l...
Read MoreInstruction No. 05/2017-Income Tax - (07/07/2017) - CBDT hereby lays down the following procedure and criteria for compulsory manual selection of returns/cases requiring scrutiny during the financial-year 2017-2018:-...
Read MoreFTS-300315894/2016 - (19/12/2016) - Constitution of Committee to give recommendations regarding how to make effective assessment through the use of departmental database/ e-system-reg....
Read MoreF. No. 225/246/2014-ITA-11 - (15/11/2016) - Reconstitution of Committee to study the feasibility of the recommendations regarding Group Assessment and System of Peer Review Before Assessment...
Read MoreF.No.DIT(S)-2/CASS/2016-17/ - (29/09/2016) - It is seen that till 28-09-2016, notices u/s. 143(2) for scrutiny have not been issued in 625 cases. These 625 cases include 62 cases which are lying with inactive codes. In view of the above, you are requested to make arrangements for issue of notice u/s 143(2) well before the time barring date i....
Read MoreF.No.DIT(S)-2/CASS/2016-17/ - (28/09/2016) - It is seen that till 27-09-2016, notices have not been issued in 991 cases. These 991 cases include 80 cases which are lying with inactive codes. AO are requested to make arrangements for issue of notice u/s 143(2) well before the time barring date i.e. 30.09.2016....
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Circular No. MIRSD/DPS III//Cir-11/07-SEBI - (06/08/2007) -
Instruction No. 05/2017-Income Tax - (07/07/2017) -
FTS-300315894/2016 - (19/12/2016) -
F. No. 225/246/2014-ITA-11 - (15/11/2016) -
