Income Tax - All about Section 44AD of the Income Tax Act, 1961 post amendment by finance act, 2016: (More specifically post replacement of Sub-Section 4 and 5 of 44AD) Before going into the discussion, it is better to understand the gist of this section for the benefit of readers as per current position of the provision: Section […]...
Read MoreIncome Tax - SECTION 44AD Who is eligible to adopt Section 44AD? Section 44AD is a well-known presumptive taxation scheme available to individuals, HUF and partnership firms (not including limited liability partnerships) for declaring their income on a presumptive basis which is not less than 8% of total turnover declared for the financial year. Secti...
Read MoreIncome Tax - 1. Applicability of Section 44AD Any business which has a turnover of less than Rs. 2 crores can opt for presumptive taxation under this section. Following class of businesses are out of scope of Section 44AD. – Life Insurance Agents – Commission of any kind – Running the business of Plying, Hiring or leasing Goods […]...
Read MoreIncome Tax - CA Brijesh Baranwal 1. As per the provisions of section 44AB/44AD of the Income Tax Act, 1961, every person carrying a business whose turnover exceeds Rs.1Cr./ 2 Cr. (as the case may be) or carrying a profession whose receipts exceeds Rs. 50 Lakhs in the financial year 2017-2018, must get his accounts audited before filing […]...
Read MoreIncome Tax - CA Tarannum Khatri Section 44AA: Maintenance of Books of Accounts WHO SHOULD MAINTAIN: Person carrying on business / profession whose total income exceeds INR 1,20,000 in any one of the three years immediately preceding the previous year; In case of in case of individual or HUF provisions are applicable in case total income exceeds INR ...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Dear Taxpayer, As per the section 44AB of Income Tax Act, the books of accounts for the relevant previous year are required to be audited by a Chartered Accountant and the audit report has to be electronically filed prior to or along with the return of income before the due date. In order to assist to […]...
Read MoreIncome Tax - ICAI decided to exclude audit conducted under section 44ADA of Income-tax Act, 1961 for reckoning the specified number of tax audit assignments...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Small Taxpayers (Businesses&Professionals) should file their return on or before 31st july 2018 (Due date for filing Income Tax Return for A.Y. 2018-19). File Early Beat The Rush...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Section 44AD relating to presumptive taxation applies only to businesses run by residents Individual, HUF and Firms excluding LLP. Tax on presumptive basis should be extended to all assessees, including a LLP. Only section 44AD excludes LLP, for which there appears to be no cogent reason. Otherwise under the Act, a LLP and a Firm are tre...
Read MoreIncome Tax - According to the new provisions, in case of an eligible assessee engaged in eligible business, income shall be deemed equal to a sum @ 8% of the turnover or higher income as per books. Section 44AD is applicable to any business except the business of plying...
Read MoreP.D. Usha Rani Vs. The Income Tax Officer (ITAT Hyderabad) - Penalty u/s. 271B is attracted for failure to get accounts audited u/s. 44AB. Even though the law prescribes the levy of penalty, in case of default, the same is not automatic as provisions of Section 273B gives relief, when there is a reasonable cause....
Read MoreCommissioner of Income Tax-XII Vs Subodh Gupta (Delhi High Court) - In the case in hand, the appellate authorities have not applied Section 44AD as such. Difficulty arose as they had to estimate reasonable rate of net profit. In the absence of any data and details, they applied the net profit rate as mentioned in Section 44AD....
Read MoreAll Gujarat Federation of Tax Consultants Vs CBDT (Gujarat High Court) - CBDT is directed to modify the notification dated 20th August, 2014 issued in exercise of powers under section 119 of the Act by extending the due date for furnishing the return of income to 30th November, 2014....
Read MoreShri Rattan Singh Rathod Vs Jt. CIT-25(2), Mumbai & Others (ITAT Mumbai) - Section 44AD deems the net profit rate at 8% in cases where accounts are not maintained and turnover is up to Rs. 40.00 lacs. This however, does not mean that profit will lower when the turnover is more than Rs. 40.00 lacs....
Read MoreI.T.O. Vs Mark Construction (ITAT Kolkata) - Once under the special provision of section 44AD of the IT Act exemption from maintenance of books of accounts have been provided and the presumptive tax at 8% of the gross receipts itself is the basis for determining the taxable income, the assessee was not under obligation to explain individual en...
Read MoreF.No.153/53/2014-TPL (Pt.I) - (26/09/2014) - In compliance to the judgments of various High Courts and after considering the representations received for extension of the due date, the Board, in exercise of its power conferred by section 119 of the Act, has extended the 'due-date' for furnishing return of income from 30th September, 2014 to 30...
Read MoreNotification No. 33/2014-Income Tax - (25/07/2014) - Notification No. 33/2014-Income Tax S.O. 1902 (E).. In exercise of the powers conferred by section 295 read with section 44AB of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Income Tax Rules, 1962, namely:- 1. (1) ...
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