Income Tax : Assessments under Income Tax Act 1961 are made U/S 143, 144, 147, 153. The criteria’s for selection of cases for scrutiny has be...
Income Tax : Gain insights into Limited Scrutiny under CASS and its retrospective nature. Understand the reasons behind case selection and the ...
Income Tax : 1. What is Scrutiny? Once the assessee files his return of income, irrespective of whether it is filed within the due date or i...
Income Tax : Navigate the complexities of Income Tax scrutiny selection based on AIR (SFT) information. Explore how the department leverages da...
Service Tax : With the introduction of the Point of Taxation Rules, 2011 and the advent of negative list-based comprehensive taxation of service...
Finance : Investigating agencies probing alleged financial irregularities in the 2G spectrum allocation have now ordered scrutiny of all cas...
Income Tax : The Central Board of Direct Taxes recently framed a scheme for ensuring quality tax assessments by its officers across India. In t...
Income Tax : Income tax evaders are being pushed into an increasingly tight corner – the I-T department is planning restructuring that will h...
Income Tax : If you’re worried about what questions your income tax officer will ask about your returns, you can relax a bit. The department ...
Income Tax : After taxing investors for dividend stripping, the Income Tax (I-T) Department is gearing up to tax bonus stripping. Official sour...
Goods and Services Tax : Andhra Pradesh High Court held that initiation of demand of tax u/s 74 may be either section 61 (scrutiny of returns) or section 6...
Income Tax : Here we summarised the ruling of the Bangalore Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) [2009-TIOL-666-ITAT-BANG] in the case of Bovis...
Income Tax : 8. We have considered he submissions made by both the sides, material on record and orders of the authorities below. We find that ...
Income Tax : Section 127 does not spell out under what facts and circumstances a transfer of a case can be made. However, in a case of inter-ci...
Income Tax : Nicholas Applegate South East Asia Fund Limited Vs Assistant Director of Income Tax (ITAT Mumbai) - The question of application of...
Income Tax : Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) released guidelines outlining the parameters and procedures for the compulsory selection of i...
Income Tax : Board hereby lays down that while proposing to take up 'Complete Scrutiny' in a case which was originally earmarked for 'Limited S...
Income Tax : The functionality for viewing such cases which are selected by AO under Manual Scrutiny on the basis of suggestions by CPC for A....
Income Tax : Instruction No. 19/2015 Instances have come to the notice of the Board that in cases selected under scrutiny, while issuing the fi...
Income Tax : The Central Board of Direct Taxes ('CBDT') , vide Instruction No. 7/2014 dated 26 09.2014 had clarified the extent of enquiry in c...
We all know about the dispute resolution mechanism under the provisions of Companies Act, 1956. Till 2002 amendments to the Companies Act, 1956, significantly, the dispute resolution mechanism was vested with the Company Court and the Company Law Board. Company Court is nothing but High Court having jurisdiction to entertain certain company matters like winding-up and amalgamation petitions etc.
After taxing investors for dividend stripping, the Income Tax (I-T) Department is gearing up to tax bonus stripping. Official sources say scrutiny of returns filed by companies, brokers and individuals active in the stock markets and in possession of shares revealed wide use of this mechanism to evade tax.
The finance ministry has quietly initiated the process of opening up the income tax files of politicians belonging to all parties and tallying their income statements with the affidavits filed by them with the Election Commission during the 2009 parliamentary polls. Verification of the assets declared by the Lok Sabha candidates, many of whom have now become MPs and even ministers, will help the department to assess if they had paid appropriate taxes as declared in their statements with the two different authorities.
Income Tax department has claimed Rs 30,000 crore from companies that have violated provisions under the minimum alternate tax. Sources said the claim is not only for the current assessment year of 2009-10, wherein assessments are still going on, but also for previous four-five assessment years, which are under litigation either in courts or at appellate levels.
At the beginning of each calendar year i.e. in the month of January, the Range Head in consultation with the concerned Assessing Officer would identify at least 5 pending time-barring assessment cases in respect of each Assessing Officer of his Range for monitoring. These should normally include cases taken up for scrutiny with the permission of CCIT. The selection should be done jointly by the Range Head and the concerned Assessing Officer. Cases of PSUs and loss-making concerns should normally not be identified for this purpose. This exercise should also include those Ranges which are held as additional charge by a Range Head in January.
For past sometime the Board has been concerned about the need for improving general quality of scrutiny assessments on a sustainable basis. In this connection, reference is invited to Board’s instruction No. 2/2006 dated 27.04.2006 which required monitoring of scrutiny assessments by Range Heads under the powers available to them under section 144A of Income tax Act. Instructions have also been issued from time to time for strengthening the machinery for review of assessments and inspection of assessment charges. However, it is felt that there is significant scope for improving the quality of scrutiny system.
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 payments
he Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has worked out new parameters for scrutiny of companies. These are based on reports on the Satyam fraud investigation. In instructions to the Registrar of Companies (RoC), MCA has pointed to ‘cash at bank’ as a vital parameter for scrutiny. Till now, the auditor’s certificate was sufficient.
The scrutiny of returns had been a regular measure to check tax evasion since long. The collection of information for the purpose of making enquiries in the course of such scrutiny assessments is as much important as the assessment proceedings itself. There are various provisions in the Income-tax Act, 1961 for the purpose of collecting information directly from the assessees as also from the others for the purposes of making such enquiries at various stages of assessment proceedings. The findings of such enquiries are utilized for the purposes of completing the assessment proceedings in the case of a particular assessee.
ALL practicing chartered accountants in the country may now have to keep a close tab on their clients, as the accounting rule-maker , the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), is considering a proposal to devise a set of know your customer (KYC) norms to be followed by its members before taking up business.
