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Income Tax Audit under Section 44AB: Rules, Forms Penalties & Due Dates

Income Tax : The issue concerns applicability of tax audit based on turnover thresholds. The ruling highlights that exceeding prescribed limits...

April 5, 2026 24021 Views 0 comment Print

Audit Exemption: Alarming Risk Signals for CA Profession

Company Law : The proposal to remove statutory audits for small companies risks eliminating independent financial scrutiny, potentially weakenin...

March 23, 2026 6144 Views 1 comment Print

Staggered ITR Filing Deadlines in India: A Legal & Policy Analysis of Revised Compliance Framework

Income Tax : India has moved from a uniform ITR deadline to a category-based system linked to audits and income complexity. The reform improves...

February 10, 2026 807 Views 0 comment Print

Penalty Deleted as Audited Books Existed Despite Rejection for Defects

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that penalty under Section 271A cannot be levied merely because books were rejected and income was estimated. S...

December 26, 2025 906 Views 0 comment Print

Period of limitation prescribed under Income-tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : Understand the statutory time limits for filings, applications, approvals, and settlement processes under the Income-tax Act, incl...

November 20, 2025 5289 Views 1 comment Print


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ICAI Introduces Field-Level Validation for UDIN Under Section 44AB

CA, CS, CMA : The UDIN portal will now validate turnover, gross receipts, and presumptive tax conditions before allowing UDIN generation for tax...

February 14, 2026 2304 Views 0 comment Print

BREAKING: Gujarat HC Orders CBDT to Ensure 1-Month Gap Between ITR & Tax Audit Dates

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...

October 13, 2025 20955 Views 1 comment Print

Rajasthan HC Extends Tax Audit Filing Deadline to 31 October 2025

Income Tax : Rajasthan High Court granted a one-month extension for filing TARs under Section 44AB for AY 2025-26, citing delayed audit utility...

September 25, 2025 921 Views 0 comment Print

CAAS Files writ challenging persistent technical failures in Income Tax portal

Income Tax : The Gujarat High Court is hearing a petition from the Chartered Accountants Association regarding persistent glitches on the new I...

September 25, 2025 7911 Views 1 comment Print

Requests for Extension of Due Dates for Tax Audit, ITR, Form 10B/1OBB, 12A/80G, AOC-4

Income Tax : The Pune Chartered Accountants' Society has requested an extension for tax audit and ITR filing deadlines for FY 2024-25, citing t...

September 24, 2025 29736 Views 1 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Commission Disallowance Remanded – 133(6) Non-Response Not Sufficient; Ad-hoc Expenses Cut to 10%

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai remanded ₹95.81 lakh commission disallowance, holding that non-response to Section 133(6) notices alone cannot justi...

April 18, 2026 45 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Hyderabad: AO Cannot Exceed Limited Scrutiny Scope – Entire Assessment Held Invalid

Income Tax : The issue revolved around expansion of scrutiny from cash deposits to entire bank credits. The Tribunal ruled that such expansion ...

April 15, 2026 369 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Mumbai: No Ad-hoc Disallowance Without Rejecting Books; Section 40(a)(ia) Relief If TDS Paid Before Return Due Date

Income Tax : The case examines whether estimated expense disallowances can be made without rejecting books of account. ITAT held such additions...

April 13, 2026 207 Views 0 comment Print

₹9.32 Cr Cash Deposit Addition remanded Due to Lack of Verification by Tax Authorities

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that addition of entire cash deposits without proper verification was not justified. The matter was remanded for...

April 10, 2026 159 Views 0 comment Print

Demonetisation Cash Sales Accepted: No U/s 68 Addition Without Proof of Bogus Sales

Income Tax : The Tribunal examined whether demonetisation cash deposits linked to recorded business sales could be taxed as unexplained income....

April 3, 2026 249 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


ICAI Caps Tax Audit Limits at 60 per partner from 1st April 2026

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...

July 25, 2025 13854 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT extends Due Date for Filing Form 56F for AY 2024-25

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...

February 18, 2025 10593 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT revises Form 3CD Tax Audit Report Format, Form 3CEB & Form No. 65

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...

March 5, 2024 38190 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT extends due date of Filing Audit report- Section 10AA(8)

Income Tax : Read Circular 18/2023 from the Government of India Ministry of Finance. Learn about the extension of the filing deadline for Incom...

October 20, 2023 40110 Views 0 comment Print

New reporting requirements in Form 3CD & Revision

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...

April 1, 2021 40965 Views 1 comment Print


Review of extension of date for filing audit reports & ITRs is a must

October 29, 2017 13578 Views 28 comments Print

It is estimated that a large number of cases are pending, countrywide, for audit as well as filing of related Income Tax Return(ITR), where there is compulsory requirement of audit & filing of ITR upto 31st of October 2017. Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has done a great job by already extending the due date of 30.09.2017 to 31.10.2017 for filing of audit reports and returns well understanding in advance the hard realities in the matter.

Advise clients to timely approve tax audit reports: ICAI

October 28, 2017 29118 Views 22 comments Print

Members are requested to advise their clients to timely approve the tax audit reports under their digital signatures for the AY 2017-18 uploaded by them on the e-filing portal The Department of Income-tax (Systems) has informed ICAI that a large number of tax audit reports have been uploaded by the members but the same have […]

Last Minute Form 3CD Schema Change but no extension

October 27, 2017 32757 Views 24 comments Print

CBDT and Finance Ministry seems to have their own merrily way as despite request from Taxpayer all around the country they have not bothered to accept their request for extension of due date of Income Tax Returns which are falling due on 31st October 2017 to 30th November 2017.

Why time Limit for filing IT Return (44AB Audit Cases) must be further extended

October 27, 2017 179175 Views 224 comments Print

CAS, Surat has once made a representation to Finance Minister for Extension of time Limit for filing IT Return (44AB Audit Cases) due to Work related issues in GST which arise due to Due to the hasty implementation of GST.

AIFTF requests extension of date for filing Income Tax Returns for AY 2017-18

October 25, 2017 34392 Views 50 comments Print

Your Honor are well aware that this year, professionals are busy in making compliance with GST obligations. GST Act is new, compliances are many, notifications are being issued everyday and the technical glitches in the system have aggravated the problems. Further dates are being extended everyday and the professionals have to make the compliances on daily basis. Accordingly, professionals are finding a very short time for making compliance with the income tax obligations.

ICAI Request for Tax Audit / ITR Due Date extension to 30th Nov 2017

October 25, 2017 133059 Views 221 comments Print

Request to extend the due date of filing Income-tax returns for assessees mentioned under clause (a) of Explanation 2 to Section 139(1) and Tax Audit report u/s 44AB for the AY 2017-18 from 31st October, 2017 to 30th November, 2017

S. 271B No penalty Failure to get accounts audited for Bona fide belief that assessee not liable to get audited

October 20, 2017 11088 Views 0 comment Print

The issue is with respect to levy of penalty under section 271B of the Act. It is an undisputed fact that assessee is engaged in the business of Advertising Agency and during the year under consideration the commission earned from the Advertising Agency was not in excess of the limits prescribed under section 44AB for the purpose of getting the books audited.

Request for extension of date of filing of Tax Audit Report & ITR

October 16, 2017 67020 Views 61 comments Print

Rajasthan Tax Consultants’ Association, Jaipur has requested to CBDT Chairman for extension of date of filing of Tax Audit Report and ITR in Audit cases for A.Y. 2017-18 to 30th November 2017

Penalty for failure to get account audited not justified if assessee acted bona fide

September 22, 2017 2346 Views 0 comment Print

Even though the net profit / loss arising from the purchase and sale of securities was disclosed by the assessee in the profit and loss account, the value of such securities held by the assessee was fully and truly disclosed by the assessee under the head investment in the relevant balance sheet.

Adjustments as required under ICDS – Clause 13 (e) of Form 3CD

September 16, 2017 37659 Views 2 comments Print

Adjustments under ICDS will mean additions to arrive at total income in beginning and in later years same additions will have to be deducted in computation of Total income. The adjustments thus are in the nature of only timing difference – advancing the revenue collection – But Tax neutral in the long run. Disclosure with respect to ICDS to be done in Form 3CD – only if assesse is subject to tax audit. Impact of ICDS would be more to those who were Never following Accounting Standards of ICAI / Companies Accounting Standard Rules

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