Income Tax : The issue concerns applicability of tax audit based on turnover thresholds. The ruling highlights that exceeding prescribed limits...
Company Law : The proposal to remove statutory audits for small companies risks eliminating independent financial scrutiny, potentially weakenin...
Income Tax : India has moved from a uniform ITR deadline to a category-based system linked to audits and income complexity. The reform improves...
Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that penalty under Section 271A cannot be levied merely because books were rejected and income was estimated. S...
Income Tax : Understand the statutory time limits for filings, applications, approvals, and settlement processes under the Income-tax Act, incl...
CA, CS, CMA : The UDIN portal will now validate turnover, gross receipts, and presumptive tax conditions before allowing UDIN generation for tax...
Income Tax : Gujarat HC has directed CBDT to ensure that there is a mandatory one-month gap between date for furnishing tax audit reports (unde...
Income Tax : Rajasthan High Court granted a one-month extension for filing TARs under Section 44AB for AY 2025-26, citing delayed audit utility...
Income Tax : The Gujarat High Court is hearing a petition from the Chartered Accountants Association regarding persistent glitches on the new I...
Income Tax : The Pune Chartered Accountants' Society has requested an extension for tax audit and ITR filing deadlines for FY 2024-25, citing t...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai remanded ₹95.81 lakh commission disallowance, holding that non-response to Section 133(6) notices alone cannot justi...
Income Tax : The issue revolved around expansion of scrutiny from cash deposits to entire bank credits. The Tribunal ruled that such expansion ...
Income Tax : The case examines whether estimated expense disallowances can be made without rejecting books of account. ITAT held such additions...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that addition of entire cash deposits without proper verification was not justified. The matter was remanded for...
Income Tax : The Tribunal examined whether demonetisation cash deposits linked to recorded business sales could be taxed as unexplained income....
CA, CS, CMA : ICAI sets limit of 60 tax audit assignments per CA or partner annually, effective from 1 April 2026, replacing earlier 2008 guidel...
Income Tax : CBDT extends the due date for filing Form 56F under Section 10AA(8) and 10A(5) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, to March 31, 2025, for...
Income Tax : Stay updated with CBDT's Form 3CD Tax Audit Report Format, Form 3CEB & Form No. 65 revision. Learn about changes in tax audit rep...
Income Tax : Read Circular 18/2023 from the Government of India Ministry of Finance. Learn about the extension of the filing deadline for Incom...
Income Tax : CBDT has vide Notification No. 28/2021-Income Tax inserted new clauses in Form 3CD (Tax Audit Report) and also notified that Tax A...
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. […]
Sec 44AB states the provisions related to tax audit of certain entities. A tax audit is an independent examination of books of account by a chartered accountant.The chartered accountant conducting tax audit gives his observations, findings and qualifications in form 3CA/ 3CB. The provisions of Sec 44AB are as: 44AB. Every person,— (a) carrying on […]
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India & Ors. Vs. Shaji Poulose & Ors. (Supreme Court) In the writ petitions, which are sought to be transferred, writ petitioners have challenged validity of Chapter VI of Guidelines No.1‑CA(7)/02/2008 dated 08.08.2008 issued by the Council of petitioner Institute on the ground that the same is violative of […]
Critical issues in the tax audit report and the interplay of the form OI with the Tax audit report. Of late many assesses are receiving the intimations from the tax department for the mismatches in the tax audit report and the income tax return filing, however when one looks into the matter it is quote […]
With the COVID-19 pandemic playing havoc and resulting in many practical challenges, the Indian Government has come out with various relief measures and also extended different statutory deadlines. Recently, the Finance Ministry via Press Release and as per Notification No. 88/2020 issued by CBDT dated 29 October 2020 announced further extension of deadlines for filing […]
CBDT issued Notification No. 88/2020 and extended Due dates of Income Tax Return and Tax Audit Report as follows:- A. Income Tax Return FY 2019-20/AY 2020-21 i. Without tax audit –31.12.20 ii. TP, tax audit & tax audit firm partners– 31.01.21 B. Various audit reports (tax audit, transfer pricing etc) – 31.12.20 C. Income tax […]
Approach To Tax Audit Under Section 44AB Of The Income Tax Act, 1961 (Checklist) This document is a joint effort of the Direct Taxes Committee and the Taxation Audit Quality Review Board of ICAI. This checklist is designed to assist the members in enhancing the quality of tax audit under section 44AB of the Income […]
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 […]
Arjun (Fictional Character): Krishna, tax departments have gifted taxpayers with their Dussehera gift, in form of date extension, what are the new due dates for GSTR-9 & 9C? Krishna(Fictional Character): Arjuna, around 53 GST and trade associations had submitted representations as well as filed a writ petition for extension of due dates, which has now […]
Extension of Due Date for Tax Audit and Furnishing of Income Tax Returns for FY 2019-2020 welcomed by many organisations The Central Board of Direct Taxes has extended due dates of filing income tax returns till January 31, 2021 for taxpayers who have to get their accounts audited and those that are required to furnish […]
