Income Tax : The new rules replace old form numbers with a structured sequence across categories. The update simplifies compliance and improves...
Income Tax : Tax authorities are increasingly questioning decision logic behind TDS deductions. The lack of recorded reasoning in ERPs makes co...
Income Tax : The new law replaces the 1961 Act without introducing new taxes or changing tax policy. It simplifies provisions, reduces complexi...
Income Tax : The case highlights that TDS applies to multiple income categories including salary, interest, and contracts. It reiterates that f...
Income Tax : The 30% Disallowance Trap in Section 35(b) of the Income Tax Act, 2025: When a Wrong TDS Payment Code Under Section 393 Triggers F...
Income Tax : Income Tax India, through its X account post dated 30.03.2026, has clarified the applicability of tax deduction at source (TDS) on...
Income Tax : Rule 219 prescribes Forms 138, 140, 142–144, fixed quarterly due dates, special challan-cum-statements for specified transaction...
Income Tax : Rules 212–213 introduce Form 127 for buyer declarations to avoid TCS and Form 128 for obtaining lower or nil TDS/TCS certificate...
Income Tax : Stakeholder-wise and thematic overview of Budget 2026 tax reform proposals covering farmers, MSMEs, corporates, NRIs, exporters, a...
Income Tax : The C&AG’s audits ensure proper assessment, collection, and allocation of direct taxes, identifying evasion risks and improving ...
Income Tax : Karnataka High Court flags catch-22 in TDS prosecution of ex-MD post-liquidation; directs Official Liquidator to act on representa...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that consultancy payments for architectural services were not FTS since no technical knowledge was made availabl...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that TDS credit must be granted in the year in which the related income is assessed, even if it is not reflected...
Income Tax : Expenses incurred for a proposed business project later abandoned were allowed as revenue expenditure. The Tribunal held that such...
Income Tax : The case examines whether estimated expense disallowances can be made without rejecting books of account. ITAT held such additions...
Income Tax : The new tax regime introduces Form 121 as a single declaration replacing Forms 15G and 15H. It simplifies TDS exemption compliance...
Income Tax : The Finance Act, 2026 prescribes income-tax rates, surcharge, and cess for the assessment year 2026–27. It establishes the legal...
Income Tax : The notification requires payers to generate UINs and file quarterly details of declarations even where no tax is deducted. It enh...
Income Tax : The issue involved delay in issuing TDS certificates due to technical issues. The Board extended the deadline to provide relief. T...
Goods and Services Tax : The advisory explains that registrations will be automatically suspended if bank account details are not furnished within 30 days....
CIT (A), notwithstanding the fact that in Financial year 2010-11 he had held that the payments were not in the nature of services falling under section 194J, not only ignored his appellate order in Financial Year 2010-11 but also chose to brush aside the explanations and evidences supplied by assessee without examining the same in detail. tI was deemed fit to restore the issue of short deduction of tax at source and interest thereon in the fourth quarter of Financial Year 2011-12 to the file of CIT (A) with a direction to pass a speaking order.
Indian Newspaper Society was not required to deduct tax at source (TDS) under section 194I in respect of lease premium paid on following the orders dated 27.01.2014 and 20.06.2013 of Co-ordinate Benches of ITAT, Delhi in assessee’s own case; and after due consideration of CBDT Circular dated 13-10-2016 which took into account the orders of High Court in assessee’s own case
DCIT Vs Barclays Technology Centre India Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Pune) Conclusion: Liability to deduct tax at source on leased line charges could be fastened only under the law prevailing at the time of payment. If no liability existed at the time of payment, any subsequent retrospective amendment could not be enforced against the payer. Once […]
A. e-TDS/TCS RPU version 3.5 for Statement(s) from FY 2007-08 onwards is released (01/01/2021). Key Features – Return Preparation Utility (RPU) version 3.5 1. Addition of Section code 1940 for Form 26Q:- 1940 – TDS on e-Commerce transactions This section will be applicable for regular and correction statements pertaining to FY 2020-21 for quarter 3 […]
TDS under section 194H was not required to be deducted on discount allowed to distributors on sale of Set Top Box and hardware, recharge coupons vouchers because transaction between assessee company and distributor was on principal-to-principal basis and all the risk, loss, damages were transferred to distributor on delivery and it was a sale but not service to come within the ambit of definition of commission as defined under section 194H.
Tata Sky Limited Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) By virtue of this Miscellaneous Application, the assessee on a limited aspect seeks to recall the order of this Tribunal on one particular issue alone with regard to upholding the disallowance made u/s.40(a)(ia) of the Act on year end provision for expenses on the ground that while rendering […]
Kapoor Watch Company Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) Hon’ble Court held that maintenance charges must form a part of the rent while calculating the annual value of property u/s 23(1) of the Act for the purpose of Section 22 of the Act. However, in the present assessee company’s case, the common area maintenance charges […]
Monetary Limit under section 194J & 194C are unchanged for Individual or HUF, it is still Rs 1 crore instead of Rs 5 crores With Finance Act, 2020, tax audit total sales, turnover or gross receipts limit in case of Business has been changed to Rs 5 Crores instead of Rs 1 Crore earlier. Provided […]
Reliance Corporate IT Park Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) Payment for software, by no stretch of logic, can be treated as a payment for “a process” liable to be taxed as royalty. When database access by itself does not result in taxation as royalty, such database access being coupled with software licence cannot bring the […]
Merely because tax at source has been deducted by the builder, the receipt of mobilization money cannot be deemed as income of the assessee for the year under consideration. We, therefore, do not find any error in the decision reached by the Ld. CIT (A) in deleting the addition on this count. Finding no merit in this ground raised by the revenue, the same stands rejected.
