Income Tax : The new law reorganizes TDS provisions into simplified sections and forms. The key takeaway is that rates remain unchanged, but co...
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 : 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....
1. News story subject to royalty:(Agence France Presse vs. ADIT [2015] 167 TTJ 149 (Delhi – Trib.)) The assessee an International News Agency was having its headquarters in France. AFP had been distributing its text news and photos connected with news in India through various Indian News agencies, viz., Press Trust of India and IANS. There were two categories of payments received by assessee from India one for transmission of news and the other for transmission of news photos.
Form 24G Return Preparation Utility (RPU) and File Validation Utility (FVU) Version 1.5 for the Form 24G Statements from FY 2005-06 onwards released
e-TDS/TCS Return Preparation Utility Ver. 1.0 based on JAVA platform for Regular Statements from FY 2007-08 onwards released (24/03/2015) Key features of RPU 1.0 NSDL e-TDS/TCS Return Preparation Utility in JAVA platform. Preparation of Regular TDS/TCS Statement(s) for Form 24Q, 26Q, 27Q & 27EQ pertaining to Financial Year 2007-08 onwards (for all quarters).
CA Rohit Gupta Some of the important case laws published during 2015 pertaining to TDS u/s 195 and/or taxability of foreign companies/non-resident entities in respect of source of income in India. Discussion and analysis (given in italics) pertain to relevance of judgement in future proceedings, subsequent developments, other relevant case laws on the same aspect, […]
Assessee, a US company, entered into agreements with various customers in India for rendering software services – Assessing Officer held that payments received by assessee from sale of software and provision of maintenance and other support services to customers in India
Next ground of appeal is about disallowance of interest paid by the assessee to HO amounting to Rs.8.57Crores.During the assessment proceedings, AO found that interest of Rs.8,56,15, 525/- was paid by the assessee to HO on subordinate debts and term borrowing.
CPC (TDS) reminder communication to Banks: Closure of Short Payment defaults in Quarterly TDS Statements Please refer to the earlier CPC(TDS) Communication Reference No.070/2014; dated 29th November 2014 regarding Defaults in TDS Statements for different TAN’s associated with your PAN. The Centralized Processing Centre (TDS) has observed from its records that there are Short Payment […]
CPC (TDS) drive for closure of Short Payment Defaults to facilitate downloading of Conso Files/ TDS Certificates The Centralized Processing Centre (TDS) is sending notice based on its records if there are Short Payment Defaults in Quarterly TDS Statements submitted by you and restricts downloading of Consolidated Files and TDS Certificates for TAN in default. […]
Interest Income from India- Foreign Remittance- Taxation and Planning. A. Taxation as per Domestic Law: A.1. Definition of Interest- 2(28A) “interest” means interest payable in any manner in respect of any moneys borrowed or debt incurred (including a deposit, claim or other similar right or obligation) and includes any service fee or other charge in respect of the moneys borrowed or debt incurred or in respect of any credit facility which has not been utilised ;
For closure of Short Payment Defaults arising due to Unmatched Challans quoted in TDS Statements, CPC(TDS) has further enhanced the Online Correction facility at TRACES, providing with the feature of Move Deductees from Unmatched Challans to any other Unconsumed OLTAS Challan.
