Income Tax Return Filing: Why Relying On Deadline Extension Can Be A Costly Mistake
ITR 2025-26: Tax professionals advise reviewing Annual Information Statement and Form 26AS in advance.
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ITR 2025-26: Tax professionals advise reviewing Annual Information Statement and Form 26AS in advance.
Government data shows 576 individuals disclosed over Rs 100 crore income in FY2024-25. This number includes 161 new high-income earners added during the past year. Most of these super-rich taxpayers are non-salaried, reflecting past income trends. Direct tax collection's share in total revenue has significantly increased over time. The number of income tax filers has also grown substantially since 2013-14.
Despite asset wealth, IITian cannot pay tax liability and borrows money to avoid penalties.
Taxpayers must report all residential property income while filing their Income Tax Return. Self-occupied properties have a Nil annual value, but deductions are claimable. Rented properties require reporting gross rent and municipal taxes paid. Vacant properties may be treated as deemed let-out, requiring notional income calculation. Accurate reporting prevents discrepancies and ensures eligible deductions are claimed.
CA in Pune generates Rs 12 lakh filing 400 ITRs during tax season, hiring interns for help.
ITR refund status: A refund arises when the income tax that you have paid exceeds your final tax liability. This can be due to excess TDS, TCS, advance tax, self-assessment tax, deductions, exemptions, or treaty-based relief claimed in the return.
The shop owner said that deposited cash had come from sales generated by his pharmacy and had been properly recorded for in the concerned business books. To support his explanation, he submitted an audited balance sheet, VAT (value-added tax) returns and sample sales invoices. The Assessing Officer (AO), however, did not accept his account.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the Bloomberg News Economy Forum in New Delhi.
A woman purchased 60,000 shares of a company Ltd between March 3 and March 15, 2011, for Rs 13,52,850, at Rs 22.55 per share. The company subsequently issued bonus shares in a 1:1 ratio, which increased her holding to 1.2 lakh shares. The woman sold the shares between August 31 and December 24, 2012, and got around Rs 77,47,600.
The man had purchased a 510-square-foot flat in a housing society in Mumbai, during FY 2006-07, where he lived with his wife. Many years later, in FY 2012-13, the housing society entered into a redevelopment agreement with a builder. The builder handed over the redeveloped flat to the man after the two parties entered into an Agreement for Permanent Alternate Accommodation in 2018.
A woman retired from Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) on June 30, 2020 after more than 30 years of service. She received Rs 9.04 lakh as leave encashment, in addition to her other retirement benefits. While filing her income tax return (ITR), she claimed a tax exemption on the entire leave encashment amount.
The man in this case failed to file his income tax return, and the Income Tax Department issued him a notice. He subsequently responded by filing an ITR for assessment year (AY) 2018-19, reporting an income of Rs 12.9 lakh. However, the Income Tax Assessing Officer (AO) took the view that this income would have remained outside the tax net had the department not issued the notice to the man.
A woman, who originally hails from Beawar, and now resides in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), decided to put money into investments in India. She along with her husband invested Rs 3.41 crore in two Foreign Currency Non-Resident (FCNR) term deposits. The husband’s name appeared as the first holder of both deposits, with the woman listed as the second holder.