Under the Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (EPF & MP Act, 1952), certain specified employers are required to comply with the Employees Provident Fund Scheme, 1952 (EPFS). However, these employers are also permitted to establish and manage their own private provident fund (PF) scheme subject to fulfillment of certain conditions. The provident…
Recently in Thomas George Muthoot vs. Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax, it was held that the assessee partner shall deduct TDS on the interest amount paid to the partnership firm, if such payment was before 1.4.2013. Facts of the case: The assessee was partner in a firm. The assessee borrowed loan from the partnership…
Dear Deductor, Section 234E of the Income-tax Act, 1961 inserted by the Finance Act, 2012 provides for levy of a fee of Rs. 200/- for each day’s delay in filing the statement of Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) or Tax Collected at Source (TCS). The provision for Levy of Late filing fee was introduced to…
CPC (TDS) has issued a follow up communication for the payment of outstanding late etds filling fees u/s 234E. In the communiation, CPC (TDS) has also mentioned about the action to be taken by the TANs associated with your PAN, in case of levy intimated u/s 234E. The issued communication has been given below: Dear…
SECTION 138 OF THE INCOME-TAX ACT, 1961 – DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION RESPECTING ASSESSEES TO SPECIFIED OFFICER, AUTHORITY OR BODY PERFORMING FUNCTIONS UNDER ANY OTHER LAW – DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION ABOUT TAXPAYERS TO MEDIA OFFICE MEMORANDUM [F.NO.DIR.(HQRS.)/CH.(DT)/29/2014], DATED 1-1-2015 Instances have come to the notice of the Board where information pertaining to individual taxpayers has been…
CPC (TDS) has issued an advisory communication in which it has stated about the release of a new feature on TRACES where a Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) can be used for availing various services offered by TRACES. The issued communication has been given below: Dear Deductor, The Centralized Processing Cell (TDS) has released a new…
The Income Tax Department has released the following new File Validation Utilities on 20th December 2014: FVU version 4.5-For Statements pertaining to FY 2010-11 onwards. FVU version 2.141-For Statements upto FY 2009-10. Click here to view the key features of FVU version 4.5.
CBDT has released Circular no. 17/2014 which contains the rates of deduction of income-tax from the payment of income chargeable under the head “Salaries” during the financial year 2014-15 and explains certain related provisions of the Act and Income-tax Rules, 1962. The released circular has been given below: CIRCULAR NO : 17/2014 F.No. 275/192/2014-IT(B) Government of…
Dear Deductor, (TAN: ___________), Please refer the subject above. As per the records of the Centralized Processing Cell (TDS), there is an outstanding demand in different years from 2007-08 onwards on account of defaults identified in TDS statements. Table below shows year wise outstanding demand on account TDS defaults as on October 23rd 2014. Intimation…
CPC (TDS) has issued a communication to all deductors who have filed TDS Statements for Q1, FY 2014-15 but not filed yet for Q2 as of November 1, 2014. The issued communication has been given below: Dear Deductor, As per the records of the Centralized Processing Cell (TDS), you have filed TDS Statements for Q1, FY…