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Clause wise Items reportable in Income Tax Audit Report (Form 3CA/3CB/3CD)

Income Tax : Understand every reporting requirement under Form 3CD as amended by the Finance Act, 2026. This guide explains clause-wise disclos...

June 29, 2026 38877 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax audit under section 44AB​: FAQs

Income Tax : Understand who must undergo a tax audit under Section 44AB, the applicable turnover limits, audit forms, filing procedure, due dat...

June 25, 2026 1275620 Views 54 comments Print

New Tax Audit Form 26 Expands Stock Reporting Requirements in 2026-27

Income Tax : Tax Audit Form 26 now requires reporting of both quantity and value of principal stock, purchases, and sales. The key takeaway is ...

June 19, 2026 2166 Views 0 comment Print

Tax Audit as a Tool for Lower Profit Declaration Under Income-Tax Act 2025

Income Tax : The article analyses whether declaring profits below presumptive rates automatically triggers tax audit under the Income-tax Act, ...

June 15, 2026 4290 Views 0 comment Print

New Tax Audit Rules Mandate Reporting of Accounting Software Details

Income Tax : The Income Tax Act, 2025 introduces detailed reporting requirements for books maintained in electronic form. Tax auditors must now...

June 4, 2026 1125 Views 0 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 2760 Views 0 comment Print

Mandatory Preceding Year Audit Details Introduced for UDIN Generation by ICAI

CA, CS, CMA : UDIN generation now requires disclosure of preceding year audit details for specific audit categories. The update strengthens audi...

December 23, 2025 2178 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 21270 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 1041 Views 0 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 30105 Views 1 comment Print


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ITAT quahes ₹1.5 Lakh Penalty as Failure to Obtain Tax Audit Was Not Deliberate

Income Tax : ITAT Chennai held that the assessees bona fide belief, based on the Departments consistent acceptance of interest income as Income...

July 3, 2026 171 Views 0 comment Print

Tax Audit Mandatory Even for Exempt Income if Turnover Threshold Crossed: ITAT Kolkata

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that audit under section 44AB depends on turnover, not taxability of income. Exempt entities must still comply i...

March 25, 2026 12699 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Disallowance Caused by Clerical Error in Tax Audit Report

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi allows Henna Industries' appeal, deleting a Rs. 9.30 lakh disallowance made by the CPC under Section 143(1), confirming...

October 19, 2025 1287 Views 0 comment Print

Gujarat HC directed CBDT to extend ITR filing due date to 30th November 2025

Income Tax : HC directed CBDT to issue a circular extending due date for filing income tax returns to 30th November 2025, especially for taxpay...

October 14, 2025 1719 Views 0 comment Print

Gujarat HC Questions CBDT on Extension of Tax Audit Date Without Extending ITR Due Date

Income Tax : The Gujarat High Court has issued notice to the Union of India, demanding an explanation for not extending the Income Tax Return (...

October 3, 2025 8523 Views 3 comments Print


Latest Notifications


Extension of timelines for filing of various reports of audit & ITR for AY 2025-26

Income Tax : CBDT Circular 15/2025 extends the AY 2025-26 ITR filing deadline for audited accounts from Oct 31 to Dec 10, 2025. Audit reports a...

October 29, 2025 18633 Views 0 comment Print

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 15078 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT Amends Form 3CD: Adds Section 44BBC, Removes 32AC, 32AD, 35AC & 35CCB

Income Tax : CBDT amends Income Tax Rules, effective April 1, 2025, revising Form 3CD, MSME interest provisions, buyback reporting, and loan/de...

March 28, 2025 17640 Views 0 comment Print

NFRA Penalizes CA Rs 50 Lakhs for Misconduct in Section 80JJA Report

Company Law : NFRA issues order penalizing CA Pawan Jain and Mis Kumar Jain & Associates for lapses in issuing reports under Income Tax Act for ...

January 3, 2024 54450 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 40275 Views 0 comment Print


Is Tax Audit Necessary in every case where Section 44AD is applicable but Net Profit is less than 8% / 6%

April 2, 2018 229995 Views 19 comments Print

The Section 44AD of the Income Tax Act contains special provisions for computing profits and gains of a business on presumptive basis. According to this section the profits and gains from eligible businesses carried by an eligible assessee are required to be computed at least at the rate of 8% / 6% of the total turnover / gross receipts.

5 Year Restriction under Section 44AD of Income Tax Act, 1961

April 1, 2018 203586 Views 16 comments Print

The Section 44AD of the Income Tax Act contains special provisions for computing profits and gains of a business on presumptive basis. According to this section the profits and gains from eligible businesses carried by an eligible assesse are required to be computed at least at the rate of 8% / 6% of the total turnover / gross receipts. However, the assessee can declare lower profit by maintaining books of account etc. as required under section 44AA and by furnishing audit report as required under Section 44AB.

No penalty for failure to get books audited for Bonafide belief of non-applicability of Audit

November 15, 2017 3954 Views 0 comment Print

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.

Tax Audit Due Date Extension – Practical Problems And Suggested Measures To Overcome

November 6, 2017 39144 Views 13 comments Print

After lot of struggle by the Tax Payers, Tax Consultants, Chartered Accountants etc., the due date for e filing of tax audit U/s. 44AB of the Income Tax Act has been re extended by the Government to 07th November, 2017.

7 Day ITR / TAR Due date extension at Last Moment- What a Shame

November 1, 2017 54927 Views 55 comments Print

CBDT has extended Due date for filing ITRs & Tax Audit Reports under Income Tax Act,1961  from 30.09.2017 to 07.11.2017 for those who were liable to file ITRs by 30.09.17. The Extension was first announced on Twitter at 10.21 PM on 31.10.2017 and later by way of press release on pib.nic.in at 11.35 PM. Further […]

CBDT Order on extension of due date of ITR / TAR to 7th Nov 2017

October 31, 2017 28227 Views 7 comments Print

CBDT further extends the ‘due-date’ for filing income-tax returns and reports of audit pertaining to Assessment Year 2017-2018 from 31st October, 2017 to 7th November, 2017

ITR / Tax Audit Due date extended to 7th November 2017

October 31, 2017 60870 Views 31 comments Print

Income Tax Department has extended tax audit due date for ay 2017-18 and Income Tax Return filing due date for ay 2017-18 vide its notification dated 31st October 2017. Extended due date for filing of Tax Audit Report and Income Tax Return for AY 2017-18 fot those Assessee who filing date for same was 30th […]

Why no Tax Audit / ITR Due Date Extension?

October 31, 2017 64278 Views 37 comments Print

As we all know Extended due date to file Tax Audit Report and related ITR for A.Y. 2017-18 is 31st October 2017, which the Taxpayers and Tax Professionals across the country were demanding to be further extended till 30th November 2017. One of the Major Arguments and reason for asking the extension was additional workload […]

90% of Taxpayer/ Professionals wants Income Tax Due Date Extension

October 31, 2017 71037 Views 61 comments Print

We have created a Poll on our twitter page on 24th October 2017 asking Taxpayer and Tax Professionals across India that do they think that Time Limit for filing IT Return (44AB Audit Cases) must be further extended to 30th November 2017. In response to our poll we have received  3285 Votes and 90% of […]

Review of extension of date for filing audit reports & ITRs is a must

October 29, 2017 13719 Views 28 comments Print

It is estimated that a large number of cases are pending, countrywide, for audit as well as filing of related Income Tax Return(ITR), where there is compulsory requirement of audit & filing of ITR upto 31st of October 2017. Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has done a great job by already extending the due date of 30.09.2017 to 31.10.2017 for filing of audit reports and returns well understanding in advance the hard realities in the matter.

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