Income Tax : The article argues that recurring demands for ITR deadline extensions arise from delayed AIS updates, late utility releases, and t...
Income Tax : Senior citizens aged 75+ with only pension and bank interest income need not file ITR if a specified bank computes income and dedu...
Income Tax : Taxpayers can file updated returns within 48 months of the assessment year by paying additional tax. The provision promotes volunt...
Income Tax : Section 194N requires banks, co-operative banks and post offices to deduct TDS on cash withdrawals above prescribed limits, with h...
Income Tax : Resident individuals, eligible non-corporate taxpayers, and senior citizens can avoid TDS on specified incomes by furnishing Form ...
Income Tax : A representation has urged CBDT to merge TDS return codes 1023 and 1024, arguing that both apply to the same contract payments wit...
Income Tax : The updated TDS challan system reportedly displays incorrect interest-related options under the Company Deductee category. Taxpaye...
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 : ITAT Chennai held that late filing fees under Section 234E could not be levied through TDS processing for periods prior to 01.06.2...
Income Tax : The ITAT held that, following the Supreme Court's ruling denying LFC exemption for foreign travel, a bank could be treated as an a...
Income Tax : ITAT Kolkata held that TDS under Section 194C was not required on materials purchased for installation work. The disallowance unde...
Corporate Law : The Court held that TDS certificates and income tax filings established a prima facie jural relationship between the parties. It g...
Income Tax : he Tribunal held that accepted on-money receipts from earlier years could partly explain cash deposits made during the demonetisat...
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....
Earlier, only individuals and HUFs who were mandatorily required to have their accounts audited as per the tax laws were required to withhold tax on rental payments on immovable property. However, with the introduction of this new section, all individuals and HUFs
Eckhard Garbers Vs Shri Shubham Agrawal (Sessions Court, Mumbai) Section 276-B Criminal Prosecution for TDS default: Chief Finance Officer, who was responsible for the day to day finance matters including recovery of TDS from the customers and to deposit in the account of the Central Government, was prima facie responsible for the criminal prosecution for […]
Violation of TDS provisions has been a punishable offence for more than a century. However, the number of cases reported in the media where TDS cases have resulted in conviction and the persons responsible for such violation of law have been sent to jail are coming out in good numbers and at an increased frequency only recently.
TDS contributes about 43% of direct taxes revenue as also significant proportion of indirect tax collections. Besides it is the most regular source of revenue unlike advance tax which is received in four installments. Therefore in recent years the Government has placed more and more reliance on such mode of tax collection which is very convenient and cost effective. With globalization and expansion of economic landscape, various new and emerging areas of TDS mobilization have come into play which have to be effectively tapped not only to mobilize the valuable revenue but also to expand the tax base.
The government uses TDS as a tool to collect tax in order to minimise tax evasion at a later date. The objective of TDS could be said, in general, to be maximization of revenue collection while minimizing the cost of collection.
Earlier, the person making a remittance to Non-Resident was required to furnish a certificate in specified format circulated by RBI. Basic purpose was to collect the taxes at a stage when the remittance is made as it may not be possible to collect the tax from the NR at a later stage.
Tax deductee is a person who receives certain prescribed payments like salary, interest, commission, brokerage, rent etc. after deduction of tax at source
High Court held that in the case of deposits made by the petitioner societies with the Co-operative Banks, they would be entitled to the benefit of exemption under Section 194A(3)(iii)(v) of the Income Tax Act and, in respect of the deposits made by the petitioner societies with the Treasury, they will not be entitled to the benefit of exemption under Section taxguru.in 194A(3)(iii)(a) of the Income Tax Act.
TDS return filed beyond time cannot be declared as non est in law and that the CIT(A) does not have powers of enhancement in an appeal against an order under section 200A. The CIT(A) cannot travel beyond the subject-matter of the appeal, which was as to whether fee under section 234E can be levied or not; and not the question, whether the return of TDS filed by the assessee was non est in law? The CIT(A) had no power in the appeal in the present case to declare return of TDS filed by the assessee as non est in law.
Income Tax needs to be deducted at source by the purchaser on payment against purchase of an immovable property following the guideline as below: (Section 194 IA of the Income Tax Act, 1961) Q.1 Who is responsible to deduct? Ans. Any person, being a transferee/purchaser, who pays to a resident transferor for transfer of any […]
