The Government has mandated use of Aadhaar Number in most of the Subsidy Schemes where the benefit of Subsidy is directly transferred to beneficiary instead of the earlier practice of through Suppliers. This has resulted in plugging leakages in Subsidies
Under the existing provisions of the Act, revenue expenditure incurred in cash exceeding certain monetary threshold is not allowable as per sub-section (3) of section 40A of the Act except in specified circumstances as referred to in Rule 6DD of the Income-tax Rules, 1962.
The income tax department in its latest drive has started de-activating PAN of all income tax assesses who were allotted more than one PAN at anytime in the past.
Income tax department is sending bulk emails to all assesse, for filing of preliminary response and form 61A. We have summarized the SFT filing of preliminary response and form 61A, as under:
If the return could not have been filed within the above due dates even then the same can be filed validly as a belated return within the time limit prescribed U/s. 139(4) of the Act. Under section 139(4) a belated return can be filed before the expiry of one year from the end of relevant assessment year or before the completion of assessment whichever is earlier.
Govt. has come out with index table called Cost Inflation Index whose base year was fixed as 1-4-1981. In Finance Bill 2017 the Govt. has taken a very bold step and has shifted the base year from 1981 to 2001 for the benefit of investors.
Recently, I was approached by a multi-national company for an opinion regarding tax-treatment of the expenses reimbursed by the company on the re-location of an employee from his present location to the place of employment with the company. Of late, a number of multi-national companies and other big Indian companies have, by way of incentive, have started to make reimbursement of expenses incurred by an employee on re-location of his residence, etc.
1. Interest earned from investment in Co-operative & other banks: It is known fact that socities are earning interest income from investments such as F.D., etc. with co-operative & other banks. In the computation of total income, the assessee wrongly claim the said interest income as deduction u/s. 80P(2)(d) of the Income tax Act, 1961.
Budget 2016: In furtherance of the goal of the Government of providing ‘housing for all’, it is proposed to incentivise first-home buyers availing home loans, by providing additional deduction in respect of interest on loan taken for residential house property from any financial institution up to Rs. 50,000.
The Government believes that the tax payers should discharge their income tax liability simultaneously while earning and expects you to Pay as your earn. This philosophy is implemented through two modes.
