What is Section 194C of Income Tax Act? As per section 194C of the Income Tax Act, 1961 if any person pays an amount to any resident contractor in pursuance of a contract between the contractor and a specified person...

What is Section 194A of Income Tax Act, 1961? According to section 194A of income tax act, every assessee is liable to deduct tax at source on interest other than interest on securities. Here, every assessee includes taxpayers who are...

Standard Deduction u/s Section 16 of Income Tax Act, 1961 Section 16 of Income Tax Act, 1961 provides deduction from income chargeable to tax under the head ‘salaries’. It provides deductions for the standard deduction, entertainment allowance, and professional tax....

Sometimes, it is possible that once the taxpayer files their income tax return, the assessing officer finds some errors in the assessment. In such cases, the mistakes that are apparent from the record can be rectified by the taxpayer under...

The income tax department has the power to reassess or re-compute an individual’s previously filed income tax returns. The Assessing Officer (AO) has the power to pick your ITR for reassessment subject to fulfilment of prescribed conditions. The AO will...

Letter of intimation under section 143(1) of Income Tax Act For a particular assessment year, once a return is filed by the assessee, it goes for processing to the department. Once the income tax department processes the return, it sends...

What is Section 112A? Section 112A provides for long term capital gains on the sale of listed equity shares, equity-oriented mutual funds, and the units of a business trust. The said section was introduced in Budget 2018 after the removal...

What is Section 10 of Income Tax Act? Section 10 of Income Tax Act, 1961 includes such income that does not form part of the total income while calculating the total tax liability of any person. These incomes are also...