Under Section 54 of the Income-tax Act, if an assessee who has earned a Capital Gain on sale of a residential house, has, within the prescribed period, purchased or constructed another residential house, then, to the extent of the cost of the new residential house, no tax in respect of such Capital Gain is payable.
For the purpose of conducting special audit under section 142(2A) of Income-tax Act, 1961, the auditor is nominated by Chief Commissioner or Commissioner. Presently, no specific guidelines have been issued by the authorities to enable the Chief Commissioners or Commissioners to take an informed decision.
Section 200 provides for the payment of TDS and filing of TDS Returns. The Income Tax Law requires payment of TDS every month by 7th of the following month and by 30th April of the Assessment year for tax deducted in the month of March of the Previous year.
In order to support/clarify the provisions of Chapter XVII, various circulars have been issued from time to time. Further various court decisions, favourable or unfavourable for the assessees, have also clarified various provisions of Tax deduction at source or tax collection at source.
As per the provisions of section 207 and section 211, the assessee is liable to pay the advance tax on the `Current Income’ of the assessee. This presupposes the existence of the assessee. In view of this, interest under section 234C
Currently, every bank/any other company or institution issuing credit card is required to report through Form No 61A, data related to all persons making payment exceeding the specified amount in respect of one or more credit cards issued to that person.
The mechanical disallowance u/s 14A r.w. Rule 8D is also being added to the book profit by the AO irrespective of the fact whether assessee has actually debited any such expenditure in its P&L Account which is against the pronouncements given by various Judicial authorities in the recent past.
A plain reading of Section 35(2AB) of the Act may suggest that the weighted deduction is not with respect to expenditure on scientific research on in house R&D facility as approved by the prescribed authority.
The employer company contributing towards gratuity for the employees is required to make such contribution to the irrevocable trust. The said trust required to obtain approval under Part C of Fourth Schedule of Income-tax Act, 1961.
Rule 3(7)(iii) exempts prepaid meal vouchers upto Rs. 50 per meal provided to employees. But there is no clarification whether such meal vouchers need to be necessary in physical form or whether electronic
