All communication of income tax scrutiny to be via e-mail from FY17
Posted Date : 11-Jan-2016 , 08:41:53 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The income tax department is planning to carry out all communication related to the scrutiny of returns through e-mails from the next fiscal to reduce harassment of tax payers by eliminating interface between assessees and taxmen.
The I-T department, on a pilot basis, has already started scruti...
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Over 50 lakh ITRs e-verified by Income Tax department
Posted Date : 11-Jan-2016 , 08:23:08 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Income Tax department’s ambitious OTP-based ITR filing system for taxpayers has crossed the 50 lakh e-verification mark, while more than 39 lakh Aadhaar numbers have been successfully linked with the PAN database after the scheme was launched over six months back. The new e-filing sys...
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Taxmen’s appraisal format tweaked to ensure speedier disposal
Posted Date : 09-Jan-2016 , 11:17:50 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Seeking to end harassment of tax payers, the Income Tax department today came out with a new appraisal form for its officials that will judge their performance based on the pace of disposal of cases and quality of assessment.
In the revised Annual Performance Appraisal Report (APAR), the CBDT sai...
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Changes in the APAR format of the Assessing Officers of Income Tax Department
Posted Date : 09-Jan-2016 , 09:02:21 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Income Tax Department is committed to the objective of timely delivery of quality taxpayer services in a fair and transparent environment.
The Department has modified the Annual Performance Appraisal Report (APAR) of the Assessing Officers (Income Tax Officers as well as Assistant Commi...
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Income tax department extends ITR-V verification deadline till 31st Jan 2016
Posted Date : 07-Jan-2016 , 07:17:20 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
If you missed your 120 days ITR-V verification deadline, there is good news. The income tax department has extended the verification deadline till 31st January. Although it has not been officially notified yet, taxpayers having been receiving this information via email from the I-T department. Howev...
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Govt collects Rs 9.5 lakh cr in taxes during Apr-Dec
Posted Date : 07-Jan-2016 , 07:05:42 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government has collected Rs 9.5 lakh crore in taxes during the April-December period of 2015-16, which is 66 per cent of the budget estimates (BE).
The government in the budget for 2015-16 pegged tax collection (direct and indirect) at Rs 14.45 lakh crore.
"The total tax r...
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New Income Tax Reporting Norms for High Value Transactions From April 1
Posted Date : 03-Jan-2016 , 08:24:56 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
In order to check black money, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the apex policymaking body of the Income Tax Department, has notified norms under which cash receipts and high value transactions beyond a certain threshold will have to be reported to the income tax authorities with effect fro...
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Income tax officers to raise only specific queries in scrutiny - Revenue Secretary
Posted Date : 31-Dec-2015 , 07:29:00 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Seeking to eliminate corruption and promote ease of doing business, the revenue department has asked field offices only to raise specific queries in income tax assessment cases picked up for scrutiny.
Issuing comprehensive norms for scrutiny, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said qu...
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Income tax appeal before Commissioners must be e-filed - CBDT
Posted Date : 31-Dec-2015 , 07:25:21 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Aiming to reduce the compliance burden, revenue department today said appeals before Income Tax Commissioner should be filed in electronic format by those assessees who e-file their returns.
Electronic filing of appeals along with documents, before the CIT (Appeals), will remove human inter...
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Income Tax Department Names 18 Defaulters Owing Rs 1,100 Crore
Posted Date : 30-Dec-2015 , 06:08:58 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Income Tax Department Wednesday published a fresh list of 18 tax defaulters, including gold and diamond traders, who owe taxes of over Rs 1,100 crore to the government for the past many assessment years but have either gone untraceable or have inadequate assets to pay.
The list has been compi...
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IT officials search NCDEX office
Posted Date : 30-Dec-2015 , 08:47:18 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) said income tax (I-T) officials on Tuesday conducted a “routine survey” at its office in Mumbai.
“The visit of I-T officials is part of a routine survey by the department. The exchange is fully cooperating with the offici...
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No LPG subsidy for consumers with annual taxable income of more than Rs 10 lakh
Posted Date : 28-Dec-2015 , 09:20:42 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government on Monday decided that consumers with taxable income above Rs 10 lakh per year will not get LPG subsidy from January 2016.
The benefit of the LPG subsidy will not be available for LPG consumers if the consumer or his/her spouse had taxable income of more than Rs 10 lakh during th...
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Income Tax Department to quote email, phone number in e-notice - FinMin
Posted Date : 24-Dec-2015 , 03:04:28 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
In an attempt to bring authenticity to e-mail based communication to taxpayers, the Finance Ministry has asked Income Tax department officials to mandatorily mention their email and official phone numbers in such letters and notices.
An official order, accessed by PTI, in this regard was issu...
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Draft Guiding Principles for Determination of Place of Effective Management (Poem) of a Company Formulated
Posted Date : 23-Dec-2015 , 08:08:19 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Finance Act, 2015 has amended, with effect from 01.04.2016, the provisions of Income-tax Act relating to determination of residence of a company. In accordance with the amended provisions a company would be said to be resident in India in any previous year, if it is an Indian company or it...
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Income Tax Department to Launch Project Insight to Curb Black Money
Posted Date : 23-Dec-2015 , 08:11:03 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Income Tax department will implement 'Project Insight' from next year which will monitor high value transactions, with a view to curbing the circulation of black money, the Finance Ministry said today.
'Project Insight' has been initiated by the Department f...
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Over 27 lakh new assesses brought under Income Tax - FinMin
Posted Date : 20-Dec-2015 , 03:50:30 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Over 27 lakh new assessees from across the country have been brought under the tax net by the Income Tax department as part of its ambitious drive to bring one crore fresh taxpayers within its ambit this financial year.
Top sources in the Finance Ministry, quoting official data, said the ma...
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Furnishing of Information in Respect of Payments made to the Non-Resident
Posted Date : 17-Dec-2015 , 02:50:47 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Section 195 of the Income-tax Act empowers the Central Board of Direct Taxes to capture information in respect of payments made to non-residents, whether chargeable to tax or not. Rule 37 BB of the Income-tax Rules has been amended to strike a balance between reducing the burden of compliance and co...
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Date of Advance Tax for taxpayers in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry extended till 31st December, 2015
Posted Date : 15-Dec-2015 , 09:55:04 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The last date of payment of December 2015 installment of Advance Tax for both Corporate and Non-Corporate Taxpayers in the State of Tamil Nadu and Union territory of Puducherry has been extended from 15.12.2015 to 31.12.2015 in view of unprecedented rainfall and floods in these areas.
The C...
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Income tax dept's ambitious email project for taxpayers delayed
Posted Date : 15-Dec-2015 , 08:28:57 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The rollout of an ambitious pilot project of the Income Tax department to begin paperless and email-based communication with taxpayers has been delayed as many chosen tax offices have not sent the required data to the CBDT even after over a month-and-a-half of the go-ah...
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CBI arrests Joint Commissioner of Income Tax on bribery charges
Posted Date : 12-Dec-2015 , 09:05:05 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested a Joint Commissioner with the Income Tax Department in Mumbai on the charge of accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from a Mumbai resident. CBI officials said the accused, SK Jangre, had reopened the file regarding the co...
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Clarification regarding Notices of defective returns issued to FII/FPIs
Posted Date : 11-Dec-2015 , 08:14:50 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Notices of defective returns were issued under Section 139(9) of the Income-tax Act to Foreign Institutional Investors/Foreign Portfolio Investors (FIIs/FPIs) in cases where Balance Sheet and P&L account were not filled.
In order to overcome this difficulty, it is clarified that such returns ...
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I-Tax deptt warns taxpayers against fraudulent emails
Posted Date : 10-Dec-2015 , 08:49:28 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Income Tax Department today warned tax payers against phishing/fraudulent refund emails saying it does not seek details of personal information like PIN through e-mail.
"The Income Tax Department does not send e-mail requesting your PIN numbers, passwords or similar access information fo...
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Government Orders Quick Issue of Income Tax Refunds Under Rs. 50,000
Posted Date : 06-Dec-2015 , 06:13:47 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
In good news for lakhs of taxpayers awaiting their IT refunds, the government has directed the taxman to "expeditiously" settle claims involving less than Rs. 50,000.
According to government data, over Rs. 5,400 crore is locked in pending refunds, which has become a ...
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Failure to pay TDS collected can attract 7-yr jail term: CBDT
Posted Date : 06-Dec-2015 , 10:13:01 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Employers failing to pay the Government the tax deducted at source (TDS) on salaries of their employees can be jailed for up to seven years, the CBDT has said.
Failure to deduct income tax on salaries of employees or defaulting in payment of the same to the government will be liable to a ...
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Income tax department considering peer review before tax assessments
Posted Date : 03-Dec-2015 , 07:28:52 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Aiming to make it easier to pay taxes and improve quality of tax orders, the government has set up a committee to look into possibility of a system of peer review before assessment.
To a query on whether government feels peer review assessments can improve quality of tax orders, as recommen...
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Now, parents can claim interest on overseas edu loans for tax relief
Posted Date : 02-Dec-2015 , 08:21:11 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Higher education overseas is no bar for claiming interest on educational loans for tax deduction.
Parents whose children are studying overseas or plan to do so, have much to cheer. The Pune Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has held that a deduction for interest paid on educational loans tak...
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New Functionalities released under National Pension System (NPS)
Posted Date : 02-Dec-2015 , 07:38:02 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has been established by the Government of India for regulation and development of Pension Sector in order to protect the old age income security of subscribers. PFRDA takes various initiatives from time to time in order to simplify and improv...
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ITAT has no power to stay prosecution - Punjab and Haryana HC
Posted Date : 01-Dec-2015 , 08:17:47 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that Income Tax Appellate Tribunal(ITAT) has no power to interfere in a prosecution under the Income Tax Act, either at the stage of a show cause notice or at any other stage. A division bench of Justices Rajive Bhalla and Rekha Mittal said that pendency of app...
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Anita Kapur appointed advisor on tax reforms
Posted Date : 01-Dec-2015 , 07:54:37 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Centre has appointed Anita Kapur, the outgoing CBDT Chairperson, as an advisor on tax reforms for a period of six months.
Kapur, who superannuated on Monday, will be an advisor for a period of six months.
Meanwhile, A.K. Jain, Member, CBDT will discharge duties and responsibilities of ...
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Income Tax department launches PAN-based litigation management system
Posted Date : 26-Nov-2015 , 08:01:45 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Aimed to reduce lengthy proceedings and time taken in litigation, the Income Tax department has activated a PAN-based online system which enables the taxman to access cases in their jurisdiction on a click, amongst a building database of over 5 lakh appeals and 1.50 lakh judgements. The new fac...
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