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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 252 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


Being original contract and amendments inextricably linked with business of exploration of minerals, assessable u/s 44BB – AAR

January 31, 2016 978 Views 0 comment Print

Authority for Advance Rulings held In the case of Aker Contracting FP ASA, Norway, USA that it is beyond doubt that the consideration received as per amended order is similar to consideration received as per original contract.

Hurdles in Extension of Due Dates of Filing of ITR & Tax Audits- Suggestions

December 29, 2015 7978 Views 0 comment Print

SUGGESTIONS FOR UNION BUDGET 2016-17 – FOR AMENDING SECTION 140A & 234A OF INCOME TAX ACT FOR REMOVAL OF HURDLES IN EASY EXTENSION OF DUE DATES OF FILING OF INCOME TAX RETURNS AND TAX AUDITS

No Penalty on Tax Audit Report Obtained on last day of due date

December 3, 2015 4793 Views 0 comment Print

Chopra Properties Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) AO was of the view that according to provisions of Section 44AB assessee is required to get his accounts audited before specified date and not on the specified date. Therefore, as assessee has obtained this tax audit report on 30th September 2008 and not before 30th September, 2008, therefore, levied penalty of Rs. 1,00,000/- u/s 271B of the IT Act.

Extend ITR due date to 31st October 2015- P&H HC to CBDT

October 31, 2015 79465 Views 0 comment Print

In the case of Vishal Garg & Ors. Vs. Union of India & Anr., Punjab & Haryana HC instructed CBDT extend due date of Tax Audit cases to 31st October 2015 from existing 30th September 2015. Its not clear if the due date for non audit cases also been extended

Tax Audit Report Filing Due Date also extended to 31-10-2015

October 29, 2015 2212 Views 0 comment Print

Vide order under section 119 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (‘Act’) dated 01.10.2015 infile of even number, Central Board of Direct Taxes had extended the ‘due-date’ for E­ filing Return of Income from 30th September, 2015 to 31st October, 2015 in case of income-tax assessees which are covered under clause (a) of Explanation 2 to sub-section (1) of section 139 of the Act.

Is there a need to apply Fuzzy Logic? in Sec 44AA & 44AB

October 27, 2015 3527 Views 0 comment Print

Sec 44AA of the Income tax Act stipulates about the compulsory maintenance of Accounts by Certain persons carrying on business or profession and return their income under the head Profits & Gains of Business or Profession.

CBDT – Highly Unreasonable Authority under Namo Government

October 5, 2015 9057 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT PROVED TO BE VERY UNREASONABLE TOP AUTHORITY EVEN DURING REGIME OF NAMO GOVERNMENT – even after directions from various High Court’s action of CBDT is not only very delayed but also half-hearted, incomplete and wrong- it requires to be rectified and clarified

CBDT Appears to be Unreasonable Top Authority like Lower Tax Authorities

October 4, 2015 1751 Views 0 comment Print

EXPECTATION FROM NAMO GOVERNMENT: The public of India at large and also investors abroad are given to understand that NAMO government will provide EASE of doing business. However, for Indian citizens working in India ease of doing business and also carrying profession with ease seems to be a far distant dream.

Social Media and Extension of Due Date- Do they played any role?

October 3, 2015 4344 Views 0 comment Print

CA Sandeep Kanoi Social Media is a term which is very frequently used nowadays and been considered as a powerful weapon, which has the capacity to bring changes. In this Article I have discussed in a brief about Social Media and its role in extension of Due Date of Income Tax Returns from 31.10.2015 in […]

Bombay HC criticises CBDT move of extending of ITR due date for only two states & one Union territory

October 3, 2015 2262 Views 0 comment Print

It was argued that the above decisions were accepted by CBDT and the due date was extended in the respective territories of the High Court’s jurisdiction. Hon’ble HC after considering the above two judgments held that held that it is very unfair that benefit regarding an all India statute is restricting its benefit to only two states and one Union territory.

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