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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...
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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...
ICAI President CA Manoj Fadnis suggested that The ‘specified date’ for the purpose of audit of accounts and furnishing report of such audit under section 44AB is the due date of filing return of income under section 139(1). Therefore, in the interest of the stakeholders and the Revenue, the said date for A.Y. 2015-16 for assessees mentioned Under clause (a) of Explanation 2 to section 139(1) be extended from 30th September, 2015 to atleast 31st October, 2015.
In continuation of its efforts to serve the profession, Tax Research Foundation has today filed a Writ petition titled as ‘Avinash Gupta & Ors Vs Union of India and Ors’ , seeking extension of due date of furnishing Tax Audit Report.
In this article we have summarised the status of Writ Petition filed against non extension of Due date of Tax Audit and Income Tax Return (ITR) filing for cases covered under Tax Audit Provisions, filed in various High Courts All over India. Till Date as per our information Writs been filed in Gujarat, Delhi, Jodhpur, Karnataka, Orrisa, Mumbai, Calcutta, Madras, Andhra Pradesh & Telangana and in Punjab & Haryana High Court.
ICAI vide representation made to CBDT has requested to to grant extension for filing of Income Tax Return for A.Y. 2015-16 up to 30th September in case of Individual and HUF and up to 31st December in case of Companies. It also requested to consequential extension in due date of filing Tax Audit Report to 31.12.2015.
This section applies to all types of assesses whether resident or non-resident who are engaged in the business of plying , Hiring or leasing of goods carriages and owns not more than 10 goods carriages at any time during the financial year. Here the important point that is to be noted Is that the ownership of the good carriages should be of the assessees.
The Tax Audits u/s 44AB for the assessment 2015-16 pertaining to the financial year 2014-15 are under progress and in some cases audit report are complete and ready for uploading. Generally we are accustomed to file TAR and ITR simultaneously but since the law makers are still not able to introduce the formats of most of the ITRs and further the utility to E-file the ITRs is still not issued and it is not certain when these forms and their utilities will be made available .
To give relief to small taxpayers from the tedious job of maintenance of books of account and from getting the accounts audited, the Income-tax Act has framed the presumptive taxation scheme under sections 44AD and section 44AE. In this part you can gain knowledge about various provisions of the presumptive taxation scheme of section 44AD […]
Under the Income tax Act, 1961, the power of conducting Tax Audit u/s 44AB and various others certification/attestation work is conferred upon an Accountant, the term Accountant is defined under explanation to sub-section (2) of section 288 of Income tax Act, 1961 as under:
Audit of accounts of certain persons carrying on business or profession The purpose of Tax Audit is to ensure that books of Accounts have been maintained in accordance with the provisions of the Income Tax Act. Tax Audit also ensures that the Accounts are properly being presented to the Assessing Officers when called for. However […]
All the auditors cannot be placed on an equal footing and an assumption cannot be made that an auditor would be able to fulfil his obligations only up to 30 tax audit assignments under section 44AB of the Income-tax Act, per financial year.
