Tag: Central Board Of Direct Taxes

New Delhi: The government on Thursday notified one-page simplified Income-tax Return Form-1 called “Sahaj” for Assessment Year (AY) 2018-19 that can be used by salaried employees having income up to Rs 50 lakh. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) had notified the Sahaj form for AY 2017-18 as well which benefited around three crore […]

New Delhi: The government on Saturday reported a growth of 14.4 per cent in direct tax collections for April-November, 2017-18. “Provisional figures of direct tax collections up to November 2017 show that net collections are at Rs 4.8 lakh crore which is 14.4 per cent higher than the net collections for corresponding period of last […]

New Delhi: The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has launched an online chat service for income taxpayers to enable them to seek answers to their queries relating to direct tax issues. The Income Tax Department’s website now hosts a “Live Chat” window which takes questions on tax matters from Monday to Friday between 10 […]

New Delhi: Accounts of those individuals and entities who have not provided self-certification by April 30 will be blocked by the Indian government from Monday, it has been announced. This would be done in order to comply with the provisions of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). “The account holders may be informed that, […]

New Delhi: In another move to improve ease of doing business in India, the Income Tax Department has tied up with the Corporate Affairs Ministry (MCA) to issue Permanent Account Numbers (PAN) and Tax Deduction Account Numbers (TAN) within a day, an official said on Tuesday. “The Central Board of Direct Taxes has tied up […]

New Delhi: In a last minute decision, the government today extended the deadline for filing Income Tax Returns (ITRs) till August 5, a top official said today. The official twitter handle of the department said the move was made “in view of difficulties faced by taxpayers.” A senior official of the department said the decision […]

New Delhi: The CBDT is mulling expanding the scope of its policy of “naming and shaming” of tax defaulters by sharing such data with banks and credit-rating agencies. The Board, which decides policy matters for the Income Tax Department, has ordered creation of a special committee to analyse the subject and review the existing mechanism […]

The Income Tax department, on directions of the Supreme Court in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation case, has found no instance of tax evasion after going through the entire range of intercepted conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia

New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs has released an order authorising security and intelligence agencies for purposes of interception, monitoring and decryption of any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer resource under the Information Technology Act. “Not just calls or emails, but any data found on a computer can be intercepted. […]

Even though the last date for the linking of Aadhaar and PAN card has been extended by sixth time till September 30, 2019, you may not get relief. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has said taxpayers would have to mandatorily quote and link Aadhaar number while filing the return of income. It is […]

New Delhi: The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on Monday refuted reports that e-filing of income tax returns (ITRs) had dropped in FY19, claiming that ITR e-filing figures of financial year 2018-19 were “not comparable” to those of 2017-18. “This is factually untrue, because the figures for FY 2017-18 and FY 2018-19 are not […]

Bhubaneswar: The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) today clarified that no changes have been made in the Income Tax Return (ITR) forms including ITR-2 and ITR-3. In a release, CBDT stated that no changes have been made since the notification was made on April 1, 2019, the first day of the assessment year 2019-20. […]

Bhubaneswar: The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) today extended the ‘due date’ for filing of Income Tax Returns (ITR). As per the latest announcement, the deadline of filing ITR has been extended from July 31, 2019 to August 31, 2019 in respect of certain categories of taxpayers who were liable to file their Returns […]

New Delhi: Clarifying on the shift from current to the new corporate tax regime, the tax department on Wednesday said that companies opting to pay for lower tax rate of 22 per cent would not be allowed to avail Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) credit. These companies would also not be able to carry forward the […]

New Delhi: The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has extended the validity of forms 15G and 15H by three months to June 30, 2020 and prevent banks from deducting TDS on interest income of individuals. No TDS on interest income is another relief for taxpayers. As per an order issued by the CBDT late […]