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  • ITR filing deadline extended from July 31, 2025 to September 15, 2025

    ITR filing deadline extended from July 31, 2025 to September 15, 2025

    This extension will provide more time due to significant revisions in ITR forms, system development needs, and TDS credit reflections, says CBDT

  • IT sleuths target brokers for proprietary trading abuse

    IT sleuths target brokers for proprietary trading abuse

    Several brokers were served IT notices suspected of misusing trading terminals and masking third-party trades as loan entries

  • MNCs stare at tax notices over corporate guarantees extended to Indian subsidiaries

    MNCs stare at tax notices over corporate guarantees extended to Indian subsidiaries

    The Indian units of MNCs typically pay their foreign parents 1-2% of outstanding debt as a fee for such guarantees. The foreign parent companies have been considering this payment as interest and arguing that it should be taxed at a lower rate.

  • Not against common taxpayer, new Income Tax bill won't breach taxpayer's online privacy: Report

    Not against common taxpayer, new Income Tax bill won't breach taxpayer's online privacy: Report

    The government has brought the new Bill in order to change the decades-old I-T Act of 1961 with an aim to make the bulky direct tax law simpler and easier for the taxpayers.

  • Action by I-T Dept should be proportionate, use enforcement as last resort: FM Sitharaman

    Action by I-T Dept should be proportionate, use enforcement as last resort: FM Sitharaman

    'Sense of fear should not be there in assessees, so notices sent should be simple and straightforward,' Sitharaman urges CBDT

  • BCCI paid Rs 2,038 crore GST in FY23, FY24

    BCCI paid Rs 2,038 crore GST in FY23, FY24

    Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said BCCI, which is the apex body for the promotion of cricket in India, is an autonomous body registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, 1975

  • Ravi Agrawal appointed CBDT chairman

    Ravi Agrawal appointed CBDT chairman

    He takes over from Nitin Gupta, a 1986-batch Indian Revenue Service officer, whose extended tenure as the chairman ends on June 30

  • Income tax department notifies cost inflation index for current fiscal

    Income tax department notifies cost inflation index for current fiscal

    It is popularly used to calculate 'indexed cost of acquisition', while calculating capital gains at the time of sale of any capital asset

  • Income tax department rolls out new functionality in AIS

    Income tax department rolls out new functionality in AIS

    The Income Tax Department has now rolled out a new functionality in AIS to display the status of the information confirmation process.

  • ED, I-T actions on Kejriwal, Congress spark election conduct debate. Can the Election Commission step in?

    ED, I-T actions on Kejriwal, Congress spark election conduct debate. Can the Election Commission step in?

    Amid opposition concerns about their impact on fair elections, former Election Commission officials are of the view that the poll body is empowered to intervene if the actions of ED and income tax department substantially disrupt the level playing field.

  • Bank of India receives Rs 1,128 crore tax demand order

    Bank of India receives Rs 1,128 crore tax demand order

    BOI has stated that it is currently in the process of lodging an appeal with the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals), National Faceless Appeal Centre (NFAC) against the order.

  • Delhi HC reserves order on Congress' pleas against tax re-assessment proceedings

    Delhi HC reserves order on Congress' pleas against tax re-assessment proceedings

    The court reserved its order on the pleas filed by the Congress party and is likely to pronounce it in the next couple of days.

  • Delhi HC reserves Congress plea against ITAT order for judgment

    Delhi HC reserves Congress plea against ITAT order for judgment

    During the course of the hearing, the bench led by Justice Yashwant Varma observed that the court is inclined to send the case back to ITAT to reconsider whether a stay could be granted subject to deposit of 20 percent of the disputed amount.

  • Delhi HC to hear Congress's appeal against ITAT order on March 12

    Delhi HC to hear Congress's appeal against ITAT order on March 12

    On March 8, the court dismissed Congress' plea seeking a stay on IT lien on its bank accounts. The party had sought an urgent hearing of the appeal against ITAT order at the Delhi High Court on March 11

  • No demand for tax deposition: Shree Cement clarifies on report of receiving Rs 4,000 cr final IT notice

    No demand for tax deposition: Shree Cement clarifies on report of receiving Rs 4,000 cr final IT notice

    The cement-maker said it received a notice from the taxation body last month, asking it to "sum-up and summarise its response on the inquiry being made" by the I-T department.

  • SC asks Madras HC to decide Cognizant plea over Rs 9,400-cr tax demand in 6 weeks

    SC asks Madras HC to decide Cognizant plea over Rs 9,400-cr tax demand in 6 weeks

    In December 2023, a division bench of the Madras High Court granted an interim stay against the Income Tax department's demand from Cognizant. In lieu of the stay, the court had asked the company to deposit of Rs. 1,500 crore in addition to giving property security for the balance tax liability with interest and penalty.

  • ITR Filing: Record 8.18 crore returns filed in AY 2023-24, up 9% YoY

    ITR Filing: Record 8.18 crore returns filed in AY 2023-24, up 9% YoY

    The total number of audit reports and other forms filed during AY2023-24 stood at 1.60 crore against 1.43 crore in the preceding assessment year

  • Odisha cash haul set to be 'highest-ever' with Rs 290-crore seizure

    Odisha cash haul set to be 'highest-ever' with Rs 290-crore seizure

    Besides these, more vehicles have also been requisitioned by the department to transport the seized cash to government banks in the state.

  • Recovery of cash: Congress says it's in 'no way connected with businesses of Dheeraj Sahu'

    Recovery of cash: Congress says it's in 'no way connected with businesses of Dheeraj Sahu'

    The Income Tax department recovered over Rs 225 crore cash during a series of raids on an Odisha-based distillery group on charges of tax evasion.

  • Vodafone Idea up 2.5% as Bombay High Court orders Rs 1,128 crore tax refund

    Vodafone Idea up 2.5% as Bombay High Court orders Rs 1,128 crore tax refund

    The income-tax department was directed to refund Rs 1,128 crore paid by Vodafone Idea in taxes during 2016-2017

  • I-T unearths Rs 30,000-crore tax evasion by insurance companies, intermediaries

    I-T unearths Rs 30,000-crore tax evasion by insurance companies, intermediaries

    To recover the dues, the I-T department is in the process of issuing tax demand notices to these entities. Additionally, the total amount owed may escalate with the imposition of interest and penalties in due course.

  • Alkem Labs says I-T Dept conducting survey at some offices and subsidiaries

    Alkem Labs says I-T Dept conducting survey at some offices and subsidiaries

    The company added that this action has has no impact on the operations of the company.

  • CBDT signs 95 advance pricing agreements in FY23, highest ever since launch

    CBDT signs 95 advance pricing agreements in FY23, highest ever since launch

    The APA programme of CBDT is one of its foremost initiatives for promoting an investor-friendly and non-adversarial tax regime in India.

  • Net direct tax mop-up grows 17% to Rs 5.84 lakh crore so far this fiscal, 32% of full year target

    Net direct tax mop-up grows 17% to Rs 5.84 lakh crore so far this fiscal, 32% of full year target

    On a gross basis, direct tax collection grew 15.73 per cent to Rs 6.53 lakh crore till August 10 in the current fiscal.

  • Inoperative PAN is not inactive PAN, clarifies I-T Dept amid concerns on ITR filing

    Inoperative PAN is not inactive PAN, clarifies I-T Dept amid concerns on ITR filing

    The inoperative PANs, however, will lead to higher deduction of TDS and higher levy of TCS, the taxation body said, adding that pending refunds and interest on ITRs will not be issued.

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