A senior income tax department official in the know of the discussions to have taken place in the finance ministry said the ministry was looking into the issue as a possible option.
CBDT on Thursday put out a special and detailed 10-point mannual, which includes several annexures to ensure a speedy disposal of litigations.
July 31 is still a fortnight away. Here are answers to top 10 questions often asked about filing tax returns.
Don't feel miserable if you missed the cut-off date for filing income tax returns for financial year 2013-14, which was, July 31, 2014. You have another chance to e-file your tax return before March 31, 2015. Don't miss this one.
The Income-Tax Department has written to more than 1,000 employers in the past few months on complying with rules on tax deducted at source and advance tax depository.
The government said it has identified a few more cross-border merger and acquisition cases, including Barclays-Intelnet deal, for possible tax evasion after slapping Rs 11,000-crore (Rs 110 billion) tax notice on Vodafone for Hutchison Essar deal.
This follows a recommendation by the Income Tax department after the Satyam accounting fraud issue broke in January following founder Ramalinga Raju's confession. I-T officials said since the returns were e-filed, there was no provision to check whether or not the tax audit reports were certified by the chartered accountant.
Alternative Investment Fund refers to any fund established or incorporated in India which is a privately pooled investment vehicle that collects funds from sophisticated investors, whether Indian or foreign.
The SC's dismissal of the Income-Tax department's plea that companies cannot claim deductions against tax liabilities on account of losses due to foreign exchange rate fluctuations legitimises the way companies were accounting for these forex losses.
By setting up Central Technical Committee, the Central Board of Direct Taxes aims to bring clarity on contentious legal issues and reduce litigation by adopting a consistent approach on them.
Delay raises doubts about govt's tax reform plans.
All entities operating in India must fully comply with relevant laws, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Wednesday told his British counterpart James Cleverly, who raised the BBC tax surveys issue during a meeting with him.
In a major crackdown on Chinese mobile companies, the Income Tax department is conducting searches on leading Chinese mobile companies across the country. Mobile companies including Oppo, Xiaomi and One Plus are being covered in this search, sources told ANI on Wednesday. More than two dozen premises are covered in the search which started on Tuesday. "Raids are ongoing in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Greater Noida, Kolkata, Guwahati, Indore and some other places," sources told ANI.
The Income Tax department which is probing all financial transactions of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has advised all foreign players to obtain PAN cards, failing which they will have to pay penal tax on their cricket related earnings in India.
Notably, Pakistani journalist Ali, cited the BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots and said he "regretted" that no US official had criticized it, while the US State Department highlighted the close relationship between the two countries, especially over shared values.
The Income Tax department will investigate over 60,000 individuals under the second phase of the 'Operation Clean Money'.
The Income Tax department will soon start training the second batch of 5,000 tax return preparers (TRPs) across the country. Launched in 2007, the programme aims at assisting tax payers file returns. The TRPs have also been asked to bring in more people under the tax net. They charge existing tax payers Rs 250 for each return, while the department pays them 3 per cent, 2 per cent, and 1 per cent of the tax paid by a new assessee in the first three years, respectively.
At present, the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015, covers only resident Indians. The Finance Bill has expanded the definition of assessees to include NRIs.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes has brought out a notification in this regard recently, which stipulates that any interest earned beyond Rs 3,500 (in case of individual accounts) and Rs 7,000 (in case of joint accounts) will be taxable from the running fiscal.
The tax payers base is just over 4 crore (Rs 40 million).
The Income Tax department is still in the process of assessing assets and income of Kadapa Member of Parliament Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and the group of companies owned by him as well as that of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, a senior official said in Hyderabad on Friday.
A questionnaire sent to Price Waterhouse was not answered.
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia asked the company to file its representation before the IT department.
However, the extension leaves the salaried taxpayers with a limited time-frame of just 20 days to file their income tax returns.
The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed displeasure over the tardy pace of probe by the Income Tax department into the tax evasion cases linked to 2G spectrum case, saying it wanted "results".
Tax practitioners said that the move will help salaried individuals meet the cost of some of the surgeries since the present limit was low and was mostly used up by consultation fees and cost of medicines.
The taxman carried out a total of 677 search, survey and enquiry operations
The I-T department on Monday cautioned the public against responding to emails originating from private addresses as tax personnel send communication only through official email addresses.
Tax consultants and chartered accountants have started receiving a flurry of calls from their clients - both corporate and individuals - seeking clarity over changes in the reassessment regime made during the recently concluded Budget Session of Parliament. Tax experts apprehend the amendments may lead to the income-tax (I-T) department sending out more notices. The new provisions, effective from April 1, have extended the scope for tax sleuths to reopen the past assessments.
A day after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman flagged technical glitches on the income tax department's new e-filing website, IT major Infosys said it expects the system to stabilise in the course of this week. On Tuesday, Sitharaman had asked Infosys and its chairman Nandan Nilekani to fix technical glitches being encountered on the income tax department's new e-filing website, after users flooded her Twitter timeline with complaints.
Almost all verification and assessments of returns selected for scrutiny are being done electronically through an anonymous back office, manned by tax experts and officials, without any personal interface between taxpayers and officers.
The purported letter, which is believed to be the final note by the late promoter and widely circulated on social media, contained statements alleging harassment on VG Siddhartha by the Income Tax department.
The Income Tax Department has slapped a Rs 1,067-crore demand notice on telecom giant Bharti Airtel for non-payment of TDS dues in the last four financial years in connection with its overseas operations, even as the company said it was fully compliant with all the provisions.
Simply put, tax evasion occurs when any trust, individual, or firm, seeks to avoid paying taxes by illegal and unfair means, by, for example, deliberately hiding income from the tax authorities to reduce the tax liability.
The income tax department on Monday launched a new portal e-filing 2.0, which will make online filing of returns and tax payment easier. The new portal -- www.incometax.gov.in -- replaces the 'http://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in' site, and can be accessed by taxpayers in various regional languages. The income tax department also asked taxpayers to re-register their DSC (Digital Signature Certificate), update personal mobile number and email ID under 'primary contact', act on 'pending action', if any, and respond to 'outstanding demand'.
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