A week after the Income Tax Department's much publicised new e-filing portal went live, users continued to face technical glitches ranging from longer than usual logging time, inability to respond to notices and not all features functioning yet, chartered accountants said on Monday. The new portal, "http://www.incometax.gov.in/"www.incometax.gov.in, was launched last Monday (June 7), which the tax department as well as the government said was aimed at making compliance more taxpayer-friendly. But users complained of technical issues facing the site from the very first day and not everything has been fixed even after a week, chartered accountants (CAs) said, adding that taxpayers are unable to view past e-filed returns and many features/ facilities continue to be marked 'coming soon'. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman herself had asked Infosys - the vendor which created the portal - and its Chairman Nandan Nilekani to fix the technical glitches.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday raided a dozen locations including the head office of the Congress party-owned National Herald newspaper in New Delhi as part of an ongoing money laundering probe, officials said.
NewsClick said that none of these investigations led to any chargesheets or complaints over the last three years."
The income tax department has repatriated Sunita Kejriwal, senior Indian Revenue Service officer and wife of Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal who was recently in the midst of a row with the government over pending service dues.
Mihir Tanna, Associate Director, S K Patodia & Associates, answers your tax queries.
Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal has been slapped with a fresh notice by the Income Tax Department, asking the former IRS officer to pay over Rs nine lakh in dues by this month-end.
Total number of income-tax returns filed in 2010-11, both electronically and manually, was around 29.6 million.
The Income Tax department is taking a hit of up to Rs 3,000 crore in tax collection following a Supreme Court-enforced ban on mining activity in Karnataka and Goa, a key IT department official said.
The federal probe agency has also called for documents and the recording of statements of some company executives under provisions of the FEMA, they said.
The Income Tax Department on Tuesday also raided 20 premises linked to Gitanjali Gems promoter Mehul Choksi and suspected shell firms in connection with an alleged tax evasion case against them, official sources said.
IT firm Mahindra Satyam is likely to approach the Andhra Pradesh High Court challenging the Rs 2,114 crore (Rs 21.14 billion) income tax demand raised by the I-T Department.
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Cairn India said it has always been fully compliant with all Indian income tax laws.
Tribunal ruling in I-T's favour may open floodgates to claims against other MNCs.
Taxpayers will have to disclose all bank accounts held by them in India.
The Income Tax department is expecting around Rs four crore from the dashing cricketer, who has already paid Rs 73 lakh as advance tax.
The new limits for filing appeals by the Income Tax department before the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), high courts and the Supreme Court have been revised to Rs 3 lakh, Rs 10 lakh and Rs 25 lakh, respectively, from Rs 2 lakh, Rs 4 lakh and Rs 10 lakh.
Contrary to the income tax department's hopes, many taxpayers continue to attach annexures (documents like tax deducted at source certificates etc) with the so-called annexure-less tax return forms introduced from this year.
Probe has allegedly found calculation errors by Amazon. The company paid higher GST but instead of claiming refund took wrong input tax credit.
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday attacked the Centre over the glitches in the new income tax portal, alleging that even after spending Rs 4,200 crore on it, the government had "failed" to make it user-friendly and created a "mess" instead.
The Income Tax Department has decided to scrutinise all returns filed by brokers and market players who seek rebate after paying the securities transaction tax (STT).
The income tax department has also launched a faceless e-assessment scheme to eliminate interface between an assessing officer and a taxpayer.
The letters contain summary of information about financial transactions along with customised response sheet with a view to know why the person has not filed the income tax return.
Tax department plans to link PAN with the bank account number to eliminate the scope of the amount being transferred to a wrong account number.
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The searches are linked to suspected movement of hawala money during the ongoing polls season and tax evasion, they said.
Claim could be over fee for guarantees given for loans to acquire Novelis.
The finance minister, in her Budget speech, should focus more on what she is directly responsible for, rather than on programmes where her role is largely supportive, notes Nitin Desai.
With this batch, the department has now issued letters in 210,000 high priority cases.
The Bombay High Court on Thursday deferred till August 2 the hearing on an appeal filed by Vodafone International challenging income tax department's decision to levy tax on the company for acquiring stake of Hutchison International in Hutchison-Essar in a $11.1 billion deal in February 2007.
Employers will now need to furnish detailed break-up of exemptions that an employee has claimed.
The trouble for Ashok Lavasa's family began a few months back when his wife, Novel Singhal Lavasa, came under the scanner of the income tax department on charges of alleged tax evasion.
Mihir Tanna, Associate Director, S K Patodia & Associates, answers your tax queries.
Mihir Tanna, Associate Director, S K Patodia & Associates, answers your tax queries.
Some of the notices are not only for taxes but for cancellation of the NGOs' registration as non-profit entities under the Income Tax Act.
The premises of Uttar Pradesh-based liquor baron and businessman Ponty Chadha were on Wednesday searched by the income tax department in the state and at locations in Delhi in connection with alleged tax evasion.
She had shown some cash and other assets as gifts from party men "given to her out of love and affection", an argument the department rejected.
The gross tax revenues have touched 65 per cent of the Budget estimates at Rs 17.81 lakh crore during the first eight months of the current fiscal till November, propelled by corporate and personal income tax mop-up, according to the Economic Survey 2022-23 presented in Parliament on Tuesday. The survey, authored by Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran, said the 'substantial reforms' in India's taxation ecosystem post-2014 and policy reforms have removed the distortionary incentives from the economy. Reforms like GST, reduction in corporate taxes, exemption of sovereign wealth funds and pension funds from taxes, and removing Dividend Distribution tax have reduced the tax burden on individuals and businesses.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes has suggested to income tax departments across the country to go slow on refunds for at least a fortnight.
Taxpayers might face several issues while filing returns this year.
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