The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 29th March, 2018, and is hereby published for general information:— THE FINANCE ACT, 2018, NO. 13 OF 2018...

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[To be published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i)] Government of India Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) Central Board of Excise and Customs Notification No.12/2018 – Central Tax New Delhi, the 7th March, 2018 G.S.R……(E). - In exercise of the powers conferred by section 164 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017), the Central Government hereby makes the following rule...

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[To be published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i)] Government of India Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) Central Board of Excise and Customs Notification No. 13/2018 – Central Tax New Delhi, the 7th March, 2018 G.S.R…. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 128 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017), the Central Government, on the recommendations of the Council,...

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DIRECTORATE OF INCOME TAX (SYSTEMS) ARA Center, Ground Floor, E-2, Jhandewalan Extension F.No: DGIT(S)-3/AST/Processing of CASS Cases/101/2016-17/2 Date: 07.02.2018 Sir/Madam, Subject: Pendency of processing u/s 143(1) for ITR paper and E-filed Returns-regarding As you may be aware, the time barring date for processing of paper ITRs for AY 2016-17 and few belated ITRs of AY 2015-16 is 31.03.2018. Same applies to all e-filed Returns for the AY 2016-17 and belated ITRs of AY 2015-16 ...

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F.No. 370149/20/2018-TPL Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes New Delhi, Dated 4th February, 2018 Subject: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding taxation of long-term capital gains proposed in Finance Bill, 2018-reg. Under the existing regime, long term capital gains arising from transfer of long term capital assets, being equity shares of a company or a unit of equity oriented fund or a unit of business trust, is exempt f...

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F. No. 275/38/2017-IT(B) GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES North Block, New Delhi Date: 13th December, 2017 ORDER UNDER SECTION 119 OF THE INCOME-TAX ACT, 1961 Due to certain technical issues faced by NSDL’s gateway for e-payment of tax on 7th November, 2017, some taxpayers/ deductors were unable to make e-payment of tax deducted/ collected for certain period on that date. In order to redress genuine hardsh...

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Under the provisions contained in section 9(1 )(i) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 ('Act'), all income accruing or arising, whether directly or indirectly, through or from any business connection in India, or through or from any property in India, or through or from any asset or source of income in India or through the transfer of a capital asset situate in India, shall be deemed to accrue or arise in India. Explanations 5, 6 and 7 of section 9(1 )(i) further define the scope of said provisi...

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F.No. 225/ 287 /2017/ITA.II Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes New Delhi, the 18th August, 2017 To All Pr. Chief Commissioners of Income Tax, Sir, Subject: Functioning of Regional Committees to deal with Tax Payer Grievances from High Pitched Assessments-reg. Kindly refer to the above mentioned subject. 2. In April, 2017, Board had called for all India information regarding functioning of Regional Committees to dea...

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Central Government notified the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) which are converged with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) vide Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015. Consequently, the Finance Act, 2017, has amended the provisions of section 115JB of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (‘the Act’) for Ind AS compliant companies w.e.f. 1st day of April, 2017 (A.Y. 2017-18). The Central Board of Direct Taxes ('the Board ') has received representations f...

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Section 132B of the Income Tax Act 1961, provides for adjustment of seized assets/requisitioned assets against the amount of any existing liability under the Income Tax Act, 1961, (the Act), the Wealth-tax Act, 1957, the Expenditure-tax Act, 1987, the Gift-tax Act, 1958 and the Interest-tax Act, 1974, and the amount of the liability determined on completion of the assessment under section 153A of the Act and the assessment of the year relevant to the previous year in which search is initiated or...

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Section 2(22) clause (e) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (the Act) provides that “dividend” includes any payment by a company, not being a company in which the public are substantially interested, of any sum by way of advance or loan to a shareholder, being a person who is the beneficial owner of shares (not being shares entitled to a fixed rate of dividend whether with or without a right to participate in profits holding not less than ten per cent of the voting power, or to any concern ...

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE (DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE) (CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES) Notification No. 42/2017 New Delhi, dated the, 2nd June 2017 INCOME-TAX G.S.R 546(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by section 295 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes, hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Income-tax Rules, 1962, namely:- 1. (1) These rules may be called the Income-tax (10th Amendmen...

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Circular No. 17/2017 F. No: 500/07/2017-FT & TR-V Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes Foreign Tax & Tax Research – II Ft & TR-V Division New Delhi, dated 26.04.2017 CORRIGENDUM Subject: Corrigendum to Circular No 13/2017 dated 11.04.2017 on the Clarification regarding liability to income-tax in India for a non-resident seafarer receiving salary in NRE (Non Resident External) account maintained with an I...

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The Taxation and Investment Regime for Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana, 2016 (PMGKY) had commenced on 17.12.2016 and was open for declarations upto 31.03.2017. Considering the representations received from stakeholder, CBDT, vide Circular No.12 dated 31st March, 2017, extended the date for filing of declaration in Form No.1 till 10th of April, 2017, in cases where due tax, surcharge, penalty and deposit under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Deposit Scheme, 2016 (Deposit Scheme) had been recei...

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Cyprus was specified as a "notified jurisdictional area" (NJA) under section 94A of the lncome-iax Act, 1961 vide Notification N0.86/2013 dated 01.11.2013. The said Notification No. 86/2013 was subsequently rescinded vide Notification No. 114 dated 14.12.2016 and Notification No. 1 19 dated 16.12.2016 with effect from the date of issue of the notification. 2. lt has been brought to notice of the Central Board of Direct Taxes that in some cases a view has been taken by the Income-tax authorities...

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Clarifications on Income Computation and Disclosure Standards (ICDS) notified u/s 145(2) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 - Circular No. 10/2017, Dated 23-03-2017. CLICK HERE FOR CIRCULAR ...

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EFS Instruction No. 61 Tel: 0120-2770029, Fax: 0120-2770452 Email:adg2.systems@incometaxindia.gov.in DIRECTORATE OF INCOME TAX (SYSTEMS) ARA Centre, Ground Floor, E-2, Jhandewalan Extension, Delhi-110055 F. No. DGIT(S)-ADG(S)-2/Online verification of Cash Transactions/157/2016 Dated 21.02.2017 To The Pr. Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (CCA), Ahmedabad/Bangalore/Bhopal/Bhubaneswar/Chandigarh/Chennai/Delhi/Guwahati/ Hyderabad/Jaipur/Kochi/Kolkata/Kanpur/Luc...

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The Taxation and Investment Regime for Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana, 2016 (hereinafter ‘the Scheme’) provides an opportunity to persons having undisclosed income in the form of cash or deposit in an account maintained with a specified entity to declare such income and pay tax, surcharge and penalty totaling in all to 49.9 per cent. of such declared income and make a mandatory deposit of not less than 25% of such income in the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Deposit Scheme, 2016.The...

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The Central board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) vide Notification No 124/2016 dated 29th December, 2016 extends the deadline for Direct Tax Dispute Resolution Scheme by one month i.e. from31st December, 2016 to 31st January, 2017....

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Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes New Delhi, 19th December, 2016. Press Release Measures for Promoting Digital Payments & Creation of Less-Cash Economy Under the existing provisions of section 44AD of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act), in case of certain assesses (i.e. an individual, HUF or a partnership firm other than LLP) carrying on any business (other than transportation, agency, brokerag...

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Notification 11/2016 : Procedure for the purposes of furnishing and verification of Form 26A for removing of default of Short Deduction and/or Non Deduction of Tax at Source...

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MINISTRY OF FINANCE (Department of Revenue) (CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES) Notification No. 103/2016 New Delhi, the 7th November, 2016 Income Tax S.O. 3399(E).-In exercise of the powers conferred by section 32, section 115BA and section 295 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes, hereby, makes the following rules further to amend the Income-tax Rules, 1962, namely:- (1) These rules may be called the Income-tax (29th Amendme...

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F.No.279/Misc./140/2015/ITJ Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes New Delhi Circular No. 37/2016- Income Tax, Dated: November 2, 2016 Subject: Chapter VI-A deduction on enhanced profits – Reg. Chapter VI-A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (“the Act”), provides for deductions in respect of certain incomes. In computing the profits and gains of a business activity, the Assessing Officer may make certa...

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G.S.R. 1004(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by section 68 of the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988 (45 of 1988), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely:-...

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Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes North Block, New Delhi, the 25th of October, 2016 Order under section 119 of Income-tax Act, 1961 Subject: Issue of Intimation under section 143(1) of Income-tax Act, 1961 beyond the prescribed time in non-scrutiny cases-reg.- It has come to notice that some returns-of-income having ‘claim of refund’ pertaining to Assessment Years 2014-2015, 2013-2014 and 201...

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Draft Rules for prescribing the method of valuation of fair market value in respect of the trust or the institution-Chapter XII-EB of the Income-tax Act, 1961- reg. The Finance Act, 2016, inter alia, inserted a new Chapter XII-EB consisting of sections 115TD, 115TE and 115TF in the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act). This chapter contains specific provisions relating to levy of additional income-tax where the charitable institution exempt under the Act ceases to exist as charitable organization o...

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F.No. 225/195/2016/ITA.II Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes North-Block, ITA.II Division New Delhi Date- 18th October, 2016 Order under Section 119 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 In order to mitigate the difficulties being faced by the taxpayers in the State of Jammu & Kashmir in filing income tax returns and reports of audit for Assessment Year 2016-2017 by the ‘due date’, as prescribed under section 139(1)...

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F.No. 279/Misc/M-77/2011-ITJ Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes (ARO Division) New Delhi, the 18th October, 2016 To, All Principal Chief Commissioners of Income Tax. Madam/ Sir, Sub:- Modifications to the Instruction No. 6/2016 for engagement of Special Public Prosecutors (SPPs) to represent the Income Tax Department before Courts of Session and its subordinate courts- Reg. × Ref:- CBDT Instruction No. 6/201...

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F.No.225/195/2016/ITA.II Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes North Block, ITA.II Division, New Delhi, Dated : 30th of September, 2016 Order under Section 119 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 dated 9th September, 2016 In continuation of order u/s 119 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 dated 9th September, 2016 and clarification thereof dated 14th September, 2016, both vide F.No. 225/195/2016/ITA.II , it is further clarified that th...

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The Income Declaration Scheme, 2016 (the Scheme) has come into effect from 1st June, 2016 and is open for declarations upto 30.09.2016. During the video conference held on 24.09.2016, concern was raised by field authorities that there can be few cases where the assessees may not have PAN but would like to file declaration under the Scheme towards the date of closure of the Scheme. In such cases, the assessee may not get PAN by the date of closure of the Scheme i.e. 30.09.2016...

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