Income Tax : A resident person is chargeable to tax in respect of his global income. If Income-tax Act enlarges the scope of taxable income of ...
Income Tax : Exemptions from tax, also known as non-taxable income, refer to the income that is not subject to income tax. This income may be e...
Income Tax : As per section 10(1), agricultural income earned by the taxpayer in India is exempt from tax. Agricultural income is defined under...
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Finance : The government plans to offer stamp duty exemption for sale of accounts receivables, allowing businesses to encash sales made on c...
Corporate Law : The Commerce Ministry today said it will set up a committee to recast the export-oriented unit scheme so that the scheme remain a...
Excise Duty : The finance ministry is looking into the possibility of phasing out some exemptions from the Centre’s excise list in the next Bu...
Income Tax : The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday dismissed a petition challenging tax exemption to Members of the Legislative Assembly ...
Income Tax : Is Tarun Tahiliani, one of India’s leading fashion designers, an artiste? Those who admire his creations might think so, but not...
Income Tax : As per Section 10(23AA), the exemption can be for the income received by any person on behalf of any regimental fund or non-public...
Income Tax : Assessee sold 3,10,000 shares and claimed resulting gains as exempt under section 10(38). AO denied the exemption on the ground th...
Provisions of section 10(2A) of the Income Tax Act exempts share of profit received by a partner in the total income of the partnership firm/LLP. The main objective of granting the exemption,under section 10(2A) to the share of profit received by the partner, is the avoidance of double taxation. The present article meticulously explains the […]
Section 80C replaced the existing Section 88 with more or less the same investment mix available in Section 88. The new section 80C has become effective w.e.f. 1st April, 2006. Even the section 80CCC on pension scheme contributions was merged with the above 80C. However, this new section has allowed a major change in the method of providing the tax benefit. Section 80C of the Income Tax Act allows certain investments and expenditure to be tax-exempt.
Agriculture income is exempt under section 10(1) of the Indian Income Tax Act but While computing tax on non-agricultural income agricultural income is also taken into consideration and when we compute tax taking agriculture income into consideration we pay tax on agriculture income also.
One should not keep any unaccounted or undisclosed money, property or income popularly known as black money. If such a disclosure is made before its detection by the Income Tax Department, the chances of being trapped in a tax raid are minimized. A tax raid may also be conducted against a person in possession of undisclosed income or property not belonging to him but to someone else. It is therefore important for a person who is in possession or in custody of someone else’s jewellery or other valuables, etc. to ensure that they are duly accounted for.
Home loan entitles Individuals to Deduction Under Section 80C of up to Rs. 1.50 Lakh and Interest Deduction under section 24 of up to Rs. 2 Lakh. Articles deals with Faqs on Benefit U/s. 24 and 80C on Jointly Owned Property, Under Construction Property, multiple properties and Simultaneous benefit of Interest exemption and HRA.
AS REGARDS taxation of political parties, the income tax law prevalent in India has shown a kind and compassionate treatment. Section 13A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 confers tax-exemption to recognized political parties for income from house property, income by way of voluntary contributions, income from capital gains and income from other sources.
Assessee sold 3,10,000 shares and claimed resulting gains as exempt under section 10(38). AO denied the exemption on the ground that as the shares were not held by the assessee for more than 12 months period, therefore, same could not be considered as long-term capital assets.
Under Section 11 of the CGST Act,2017 the Central or the State Governments are empowered to grant exemptions from tax, subject to the following conditions: (i) Exemption should be in public interest
The draft of the notification to be issued under third proviso to section 10(38) is, in principle, a step in the right direction. We would like to suggest a few changes to the same in order to bring greater clarity and prevent unnecessary and unintended harassment to genuine investors.
The memorandum to Finance Bill, 2017, explained that the exemption on long-term capital gains tax, provided in section 10(38) of ITA was misutilised to declare unaccounted income . CBDT has issued a draft notification on 3 April , 2017 and provided that the amendment would not apply to any transactions except mentioned in the Notification. Analysis of the Notification and possible implications are discussed.
