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....
Budget 2019: Changes in TDS provision- Related to 1. Section 194M : TDS on payment exceeding Rs 50 lakhs to Contractor or Professional by Individual/HUF, Section 194N: TDS on Cash Withdrawal exceeding Rs 1 crore from banks or cooperative bank or post office, Section 194DA: TDS on sum received under life insurance policy and Section […]
Section 194B and 194BB – TDS on winnings from lottery or crossword puzzle and TDS on winning from a horse race. Continuing the series of TDS articles, in the present article, both the Section 194B and Section 194BB relating to TDS on winnings from lottery or crossword puzzle and TDS on winning from horse race, […]
The provisions relating to TDS on dividend is covered under Section 194 of the Income Tax Act, and the same has been explained briefly in the current article. Going through the basic provisions of section 194 of the Income Tax Act – As per the provisions of section 194 of the Income Tax Act, the Principal officer of […]
The term ‘interest on securities’ is defined under section 2(28B) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 which means interest on securities of the Central or a State Government and interest on debentures / other securities issued by or on behalf of a local authority / a company / a co-operative society established by the Central […]
As the Announcement under UNION BUDGET 2019 had proposed a new section 194 M of the Income Tax Act,1961, which requires an Individual or an HUF, to deduct TDS @5%, where they make payment which exceeds Rs. 50 lakh in a year to a contractor or to a professional. Any Person Other than Those who […]
Under section 194DA of the Act, a person is obliged to deduct tax at source, if it pays any sum to a resident under a life insurance policy, which is not exempt under sub-section (10D) of section 10. The present requirement is to deduct tax at the rate of one per cent. of such sum […]
The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) is a saving scheme introduced, under the Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Act, 1952, with an aim to promote savings which can be used post-retirement of an employee. Section 192A was inserted vide the Finance Act 2015 applying the tax deduction at source (TDS) provisions in case of the premature […]
CIT Vs M/s. Reliance Life Insurance Co Ltd (Bombay High Court) Assessee had hired the services for various works such as storage of data, scanning of documents, processing charges, call centre operations etc. Looking to the nature of services outsourced, it was held that the same were basically clerical services of repetitive nature of work […]
In the absence of any material to establish that the affiliated colleges/centres were rendering services of professional or technical nature in the matter of conducting the University’s examination, we are of the opinion that the Tribunal has not committed any error of law in holding that the tax was not deductable on such reimbursement under Section 194J(b) of the Act.
The main purpose of ‘Tax deduction at Source’ is the collection of tax at the very source of income. The Deductor is required to deduct an appropriate tax and deposit the same with the Government. Different rates of TDS are prescribed for different payment. The present article would help the reader to understand the provisions […]
