Excise Duty : Freight and insurance charges are includable in Central Excise assessable value for FOR destination sales where the buyer's premis...
Income Tax : In my previous article ‘The First Substantive Ground of Appeal against an adjustment u/s 143(1)(a)(iv)‘, the following...
Income Tax : The First Substantive Ground of Appeal against an adjustment made under Section 143(1)(a)(iv) It has been 15 years since the Incom...
Income Tax : Self assessment - The assessee is required to make a self assessment and pay the tax on the basis of the returns furnished. Any ta...
Income Tax : The definition of assessment has not been provided with the IT Act4, but a perusal of the term within the scope of the Act makes i...
Income Tax : The Income Tax Department (ITD) creates Annual Tax Statement of each taxpayer using their Permanent Account Number (PAN) as identi...
Self Assessment Tax alongwith interest is required to be deposited before furnishing the return of income and the proof of such payment should be attached with the return of income. Note 1: Where the amount paid by the assessee under section 140A is less than the amount required to be paid under section 140A, then […]
Self Assessment u/s 140A: This simply means that the person is calculating his own tax liability and thereafter filing ITR after payment of self calculated tax. Since assessee himself calculates the tax and income, it is called as self assessment.
To Confiscate means to appropriate private property to public treasury. Thus after confiscation the goods becomes a property of the government and the government candeal with it as it wants. Through option of redemption fine, government offers to some person to take ownership of the goods. Redemption fine is not a penalty and it has no penal connotation. In Blue Dart Express v. Commissioner of Customs the Tribunal observed that redemption fine in lieu of confiscation is not a fine as understood in criminal jurisprudence. Redemption fine is not a penalty in that sense. It is only an option to the person to pay an amount in lieu of confiscation. It contains no penal connotation.
Understand the annual tax statement (ATS) and how it provides details about tax deducted at source (TDS) or tax collected at source (TCS).
The Income Tax Department (ITD) creates Annual Tax Statement of each taxpayer using their Permanent Account Number (PAN) as identifier. The tax statement contains details of tax paid by the taxpayer himself (self assessment/advance tax) and also details of tax deducted/collected from him during the financial year.
: A search and seizure was conducted by the revenue (respondents) in the premises of the appellants (KCC software Ltd), pursuant to warrants of authorization dated 3.8.2005. On 4.8.2005 certain assets including jewellery, cash and fixed deposit receipts were seized. On that very day, appellants received a letter from the HDFC Bank at B-28, Community Centre, Janakpuri, New Delhi that operation of five bank accounts of appellant No.1 had been restrained by order issued under Section 132 (3) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (in short the Act). The Income Tax Department on 4.10.2005 issued two fresh warrants of authorization under Section 132 of the Act in respect of the bank accounts. On 5.10.2005 the bank accounts of the appellants were searched and seized through withdrawal of cash by demand drafts.
