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Cost Inflation Index – Meaning & Index from 1981-82 to 2024-25

Income Tax : CBDT has notified Cost Inflation Index (CII) from 1981-82 to 2023-24. Find out the Meaning & Index of CII and its use for computin...

May 26, 2024 2336270 Views 319 comments Print

Tax Benefits Available to Senior Citizens

Income Tax : A person becomes senior citizen under Income Tax Act in any year after attaining the age of 60 even for one day. Once he attains 6...

June 29, 2023 692655 Views 150 comments Print

Long-term capital gains tax exemption on Investment U/s. 54EC

Income Tax : Section 54EC of the Income Tax Act, 1961 provides exemption from long-term capital gains tax provided an assessee invests within s...

October 24, 2020 17683 Views 2 comments Print

Avoid gifts in cash to stay outside taxman’s radar

Income Tax : Under the latest provisions, any sum of money received without consideration (in excess of Rs 50,000), by an individual or Hindu U...

October 13, 2020 2929 Views 0 comment Print

Received Gift – Whether it is Taxable or Not?

Income Tax : Under the provisions of Section 56(2)(vi) certain gifts are liable to income tax as income from other sources. However, this provi...

October 12, 2020 5407 Views 4 comments Print


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Cost Inflation Indexed Cost Calculator

Income Tax : Calculate Long term capital gain on sale of capital Assets other then shares with the help of Indexation.- We have given below the...

November 20, 2011 40054 Views 9 comments Print

Know Your PAN and TAN Application Status on SMS

Income Tax : National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) processes PAN and TAN applications on behalf of Income Tax Department. With a view t...

October 11, 2011 15845 Views 1 comment Print

926 branches of Banks to accept Advance Income Tax in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai

Income Tax : As many as 926 computerised branches of public and private sector banks will receive advance income tax in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai....

August 18, 2011 2105 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax department to publish and expose names of tax defaulters on newspapers

Income Tax : Tax defaulters beware! With tax recovery to the tune of more than Rs one lakh crore held up for lack of information about the wher...

May 31, 2011 706 Views 0 comment Print

Gujarat not ready for implementation of GST

Goods and Services Tax : Though the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill has been tabled in the Lok Sabha, the Gujarat government today said in the state Asse...

March 25, 2011 957 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Making and sale of advertising materials for customers is advertisement service liable for service tax

Service Tax : The making and sale of advertising materials for customers in the form of banner or hoarding or film-slide, etc. is `advertisement...

June 14, 2009 4207 Views 1 comment Print

Department need not provide reason for search U/s. 132

Income Tax : Search & seizure action u/s 132 was undertaken at the assessee’s premises. Thereafter an order of provisional attachment u/s 281...

June 5, 2009 738 Views 0 comment Print

Disallowance of Excise duty, if any, to be made under section 145A

Income Tax : 6. We have verified the orders and heard:the rival contentions. There is no dispute that there was a qualification in the auditors...

May 26, 2009 3254 Views 0 comment Print

Penalty can not be imposed for non deduction of TDS if assessee was prohibited by reasonable cause

Income Tax : 3. We have duly considered the rival contentions and gone through the records carefully. Learned Assessing Officer as well as lear...

May 25, 2009 3899 Views 0 comment Print

AAR on tax liability of a partnership firm to be formed in Canada by a Canadian company for executing its PSCs in India

Income Tax : 10.1 It is the common stand of both - the applicant and the Revenue, that the nature of income arising from the transfer of the ap...

May 24, 2009 1980 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Circular on Validity of Form ‘I’ under Central Sales Tax Act

Goods and Services Tax : Considering the genuine difficulty faced by the Trade in this respect, the instructions contained in Trade Circular No.8T of 2005 ...

June 20, 2009 48291 Views 1 comment Print

Ex- President, Ex- Senior Vice-President, Ex-Vice-President and Members cannot practice before ITAT

Income Tax : Ministry of Law & Justice, Department of legal Affairs, New Delhi Notification Dated : 3rd June 2009 GSR 889 (E). In exercise of t...

June 20, 2009 709 Views 0 comment Print

Accounting for taxes on income – AS 22-Treatment of deferred tax asset and liabilities

Finance : Accounting for taxes on income – Accounting Standard 22 – Treatment of deferred tax assets (DTA) and deferred tax liab...

June 10, 2009 8862 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 47/2009 – Income Tax Dated 1/6/2009

Income Tax : Notification No. 47/2009 - Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 120 of the Incom...

June 1, 2009 1499 Views 0 comment Print

New TDS and TCS payment and information reporting system

Income Tax : CIRCULAR NO. 02 / 2009 One of the fundamental principles of financial accounting is that if a person claims credit for payment o...

May 21, 2009 3809 Views 1 comment Print


They call accounting the language of business- Popular Accounting Terms

January 12, 2011 363 Views 0 comment Print

But with that, comes a range of terms which can be difficult to understand. Read our glossary to learn more: Accounting information systems: Computerised accounting systems are essential for all organisations these days. An information systems strea

Work for GST, Not Against It

December 29, 2010 562 Views 0 comment Print

The government’s move to offer fresh excise duty exemptions to companies already enjoying a tax holiday in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand is blatantly wrong. It does damage to the goal of having a harmonised goods and services tax, to the economic

Amount Collected as Education CESS during the last three years from direct and indirect taxes

November 27, 2010 609 Views 0 comment Print

Since no Reserve Fund has been opened in the Public Account of India for the purpose of crediting the 1% Secondary & Higher Education Cess for expenditure towards related schemes/prgorammes, the expenditure provision for Department of School Educatio

Indian-American stores against soft drink tax

November 23, 2010 462 Views 0 comment Print

Indian American owners of convenience stores have joined hands with the Coca-Cola company and the American Beverage Association against the proposed Federal soft drink taxes of an extra one-cent an ounce. A decision in this regard was taken at the Si

Ireo under I-T probe for FDI norms violation

November 6, 2010 615 Views 0 comment Print

The Income Tax department is probing the source of investments in the real estate firm Ireo for alleged violations of FDI norms and evasion of taxes in bringing a whopping Rs8,000 cr through tax havens.The Income Tax department is probing the country

Income Tax department expects Rs 5,000 crore as TDS from Commonwealth Games related works

October 26, 2010 297 Views 0 comment Print

The Income Tax department is expecting to collect Rs 5,000 crore as taxes from the payments and salaries relating to award of contracts and payments made by various agencies in the Commonwealth Games .

SEZs will continue enjoying exemption till 2014 but have to pay 20 Percent MAT

August 31, 2010 373 Views 0 comment Print

The direct taxes code (DTC) approved by the Cabinet gives a reprieve to special economic zones, or SEZs, till 2014 from the proposed regime, but has imposed a 20% minimum alternative tax, which is likely to be opposed by the industry.

DTC: Tax experts not liked the proposed move to hike MAT rate to 20 pc from existing 18 pc

August 31, 2010 330 Views 0 comment Print

The decision to hike Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) rate to 20% from 18% now is being seen as a retrograde step by tax experts. However, the Direct Tax Code (DTC) as a whole, which the government plans to introduce in Parliament on Monday, is being seen as a step towards taking the Indian direct taxation system to global standards, tax practitioners and top company officials said.

Frequently Asked Question on fringe benefit tax (FBT) PART- 4

June 20, 2009 2939 Views 0 comment Print

76. Whether expenditure incurred on prizes/rewards to employees for achievements is liable to FBT? Any expenditure incurred on prizes/rewards to employees for achievements would fall within the scope of clause (E) of sub -section (2) of section 115WB relating to employee welfare and accordingly be liable to FBT. 77. Whether expenditure incurred on transportation facility […]

Frequently Asked Question on fringe benefit tax (FBT) PART- 3

June 20, 2009 669 Views 0 comment Print

51. Whether expenditure incurred during in-house employee training would be considered as conference expense and liable to FBT? The FBT is not envisaged for levy on the expenditure incurred for the purposes of imparting in-house training to employees. However, FBT would be payable on any expenditure incurred towards food and beverage, tour and travel, and […]

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