Income Tax : The Double Tax Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) is essentially a bilateral agreement entered into between two countries. The basic objec...
Income Tax : The Government believes that the tax payers should discharge their income tax liability simultaneously while earning and expects y...
Income Tax : By now, many of you would have filed several tax returns of your clients or your own companies or even your own returns. It has be...
Income Tax : The Income-tax Appellate Tribunal, Mumbai in the case of Mrs. Bakhtawar B Dubash v. DCIT, Mumbai (ITA No. 403 1/Mum/03), Mrs. Sud...
Income Tax : In the previous chapter we studied the impact of proposed tax rates and concluded it is more in favour of the rich and not for mid...
Income Tax : Black sheep in tax administration...misused...powers...harassed taxpayers...honest assesses...taking excessive action for minor......
Income Tax : Increase in Number of Tax Payers in the Last Three Years The numbers of taxpayers have increased in the country during the l...
Income Tax : Individuals as well as corporates may have fewer occasions to meet the taxmen in future. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) ...
Income Tax : The forthcoming Union budget may have an anti-avoidance provision, which can effectively check convoluted transactions devised exc...
Income Tax : To ensure impartiality in adjudication of transfer pricing disputes, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has decided that com...
The Double Tax Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) is essentially a bilateral agreement entered into between two countries. The basic objective is to promote and foster economic trade and investment between two Countries by avoiding double taxation.
The Government believes that the tax payers should discharge their income tax liability simultaneously while earning and expects you to Pay as your earn. This philosophy is implemented through two modes.
By now, many of you would have filed several tax returns of your clients or your own companies or even your own returns. It has been brought to our notice that this year, whenever an ITR form is filed electronically without the digital signature, the system shows that the ITR-V has been e-mailed to the e-mail ID registered with the Income-tax Department’s web site. Thereafter, when the ITR-V is tried to be opened, the system asks for a password. This was creating problems as the password that is generally used by the tax payer to log onto the e-filing site does not work while opening the ITR-V.
Black sheep in tax administration…misused…powers…harassed taxpayers…honest assesses…taking excessive action for minor…violations…have…taken…step…compulsorily retiring…number of tax officials…will not tolerate this type of behaviour
Increase in Number of Tax Payers in the Last Three Years The numbers of taxpayers have increased in the country during the last three years. The number of income-tax assessees (taxpayers) for past three years is as under: Assessment year Number of assessees* 2011-12 43867006 2012-13 47868755 2013-14 51085906** *the data is based on the […]
Individuals as well as corporates may have fewer occasions to meet the taxmen in future. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is thinking of putting in place a system in which taxpayers do not meet the assessing officer or any tax official for routine assessments. In the system being envisaged by the country’s tax regime, the tax payer would not know who his assessing officer is. Assessments will be centralised at one place where a set of officers will supervise the assessments. Each officer will be specialising in certain segment of the assessment process, such as giving credit, refunds, etc.
The Income-tax Appellate Tribunal, Mumbai in the case of Mrs. Bakhtawar B Dubash v. DCIT, Mumbai (ITA No. 403 1/Mum/03), Mrs. Sudha D Dubash v. DCIT, Mumbai ( ITA No. 4032/Mum/03) has held that an amount disallowed in the hands of the Company for corporate tax purposes, should not be taxed again in the hands of its Director as the same amount cannot be taxed twice.
The forthcoming Union budget may have an anti-avoidance provision, which can effectively check convoluted transactions devised exclusively for the purpose of evading paying taxes in India. The finance ministry, said revenue department officials, is contemplating the idea of vesting powers with the commissioners of Income-tax (I-T) to declare a transaction a sham, if there is a reason to believe that its purpose is to avoid tax in this country.
To ensure impartiality in adjudication of transfer pricing disputes, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has decided that commissioners associated with transfer pricing orders will not be part of the alternate dispute resolution panel. This panel is being set up by CBDT to resolve disputes arising from transfer pricing assessments.
In the previous chapter we studied the impact of proposed tax rates and concluded it is more in favour of the rich and not for middle income group. A similar view has also been expressed by group of Senior Income Tax Officials in which they have stated “under the garb of providing long term stability in the tax regime, the tax code in fact would widen the rich-poor gap and create more economic absurdities”[BS.21/09/09] In this chapter we propose to discuss the impact of the new code on the salaried persons who are the most efficient tax payers of this country.
