Income Tax : Understand every reporting requirement under Form 3CD as amended by the Finance Act, 2026. This guide explains clause-wise disclos...
Income Tax : Understand who must undergo a tax audit under Section 44AB, the applicable turnover limits, audit forms, filing procedure, due dat...
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Income Tax : The Income Tax Act, 2025 introduces detailed reporting requirements for books maintained in electronic form. Tax auditors must now...
CA, CS, CMA : The UDIN portal will now validate turnover, gross receipts, and presumptive tax conditions before allowing UDIN generation for tax...
CA, CS, CMA : UDIN generation now requires disclosure of preceding year audit details for specific audit categories. The update strengthens audi...
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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...
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Company Law : NFRA issues order penalizing CA Pawan Jain and Mis Kumar Jain & Associates for lapses in issuing reports under Income Tax Act for ...
Income Tax : Read Circular 18/2023 from the Government of India Ministry of Finance. Learn about the extension of the filing deadline for Incom...
Income tax Audit working sheet in Excel Format contains following checklist with relevant formats related to Tax Audit Income Tax, 1961- Audit Notes Check Opening balances Tally Turnover With GST Tally ITC with GST Tally ITC balance with GST Portal Compare GST2A with Books for ITC availed Verify the Provisions or expenses made, if any […]
All Odisha Tax Advocates Association Vs Union of India (Orissa High Court) HC held that Considering that the Department has itself acknowledge that there have been technical glitches which have prevented many Assesses from filing their returns and tax audit reports within time, and taking a cue from the aforementioned judgment of the Gujarat High […]
Understand income tax audit in simple terms – learn about tax audit criteria, presumptive taxation schemes, penalties, and FAQs. Get clarity on when a tax audit is mandatory.
Tax audit procedure under Section 44AB of the Income Tax Act explained simply. Taxpayers need to appoint a Chartered Accountant to comply with 44AB provisions. Learn details with our analysis.
Under section 44AB of the Act, every person carrying on business is required to get his accounts audited, if his total sales, turnover or gross receipts, in business exceeds one crore rupees in any previous year. The limit is raised to ten crore rupees where at least 95% of receipts/payments are in non-cash mode.
When assessee entertained bona-fide belief that its account were not subject to audit u/s 44AB, it would certainly constitute reasonable cause for not obtaining the audit report and, therefore, question of imposing of penalty u/s 271B does not arise.
How to Calculate Futures and Options Turnove ? It is important to determine turnover in order to determine the applicability of tax audit as per Section 44AB of the Income Tax Act, 1961 or declaring income u/s 44AD.
ITAT Mumbai ruled on 07/12/2022 in the case of P R Packaging Service Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) Appeal No. ITA 2376/Mum/2022 on employee’s contribution to Provident Fund. Find out the ruling!
Held that the disallowance of employees contribution to Provident Fund paid before filing income tax return u/s 139(1), based on the statement made in the Tax Audit Report is not permissible u/s. 143(1)(a) as did not fall within the ambit of prima-facie adjustments.
If assessee was under bona fide belief that as per Guidance Note issued by ICAI on ‘tax audit under section 44AB’ net result in derivative transaction was to be considered as turnover and accordingly, he would not be liable to get his books audited as turnover did not exceed more than Rs. 1 crore, penalty levied under section 271B was to be deleted
