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Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
Central Board of Direct Taxes
New Delhi, 17th November, 2022
PRESS RELEASE
Income Tax Department conducts search actions in Karnataka
Income Tax Department initiated Search & Seizure actions on 20.10.2022 and 02.11.2022 on certain individuals who had executed Joint Development Agreements (JDAs) with various real-estate developers. The search action covered more than 50 premises spread across Bengaluru, Mumbai and Goa.
During the course of the search operations, a large number of incriminating evidences, in the form of documents and digital data have been found & seized. Evidences regarding the sale agreements, development agreements and occupancy certificates (OCs) have also been seized. These evidences revealed that the land owners had not disclosed income accrued to them from capital gains on transfer of the land given for development through JDAs to various developers, even after issue of the OCs from the authorities.
It was also unearthed that in many instances, the land owners suppressed income from capital gains for various years by artificially inflating the cost of acquisition & various other costs, and by not disclosing full value of consideration on transfer land. It was also found that some of the land owners didn’t even file their ITRs for various years, where capital gains income had accrued to them. When confronted , the assessees concerned admitted their lapses and agreed to disclose income from capital gains detected in their respective cases, and pay due taxes thereon.
So far, the search actions have led to detection of unaccounted income of more than Rs. 1300 crore. Further, undisclosed assets in the nature of cash and gold jewellery worth more than Rs. 24 crore have also been seized.
Further investigations are in progress.
(Surabhi Ahluwalia)
Pr. Commissioner of Income Tax
(Media & Technical Policy)
Official Spokesperson, CBDT
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
(Central Board of Direct Taxes)
New Delhi, 1st November, 2022
Sub: Draft common Income-tax Return-request for inputs from stakeholders and the general public- reg.
Presently, taxpayers are required to furnish their Income-tax returns in ITR-1 to ITR-7 depending upon the type of person and nature of income. The current ITRs are in the form of designated forms wherein the taxpayer is mandatorily required to go through all the schedules, irrespective of the fact whether that particular schedule is applicable or not. This increases the time taken to file the ITRs and in turn may create avoidable difficulties for taxpayers.
2. The proposed draft ITR takes a relook at the return filing system in tandem with international best practices. It proposes to introduce a common ITR by merging all the existing returns of income except ITR-7. However, the current ITR-1 and ITR-4 will continue. This will give an option to such taxpayers to file the return either in the existing form (ITR-1 or ITR-4) or the proposed common ITR, at their convenience.
3. The draft ITR aims to bring ease of filing returns and reduce the time for filing the ITR by individuals and non-business-type taxpayers considerably. The taxpayers will not be required to see the schedules that do not apply to them. It intends the smart design of schedules in a user-friendly manner with a better arrangement, logical flow, and increased scope of pre-filling. It will also facilitate the proper reconciliation of third-party data available with the Income-tax Department vis a vis the data to be reported in the ITR to reduce the compliance burden on the taxpayers.
4. The scheme of the proposed common ITR is as follows:
(a) Basic information (comprising parts A to E), Schedule for computation of total income (Schedule TI), Schedule for computation of tax (schedule TTI), Details of bank accounts, and a schedule for the tax payments (schedule TXP) is applicable for all the taxpayers.
(b) The ITR is customized for the taxpayers with applicable schedules based on certain questions answered by the taxpayers (wizard questions).
(c) The questions have been designed in such a manner and order that if the answer to any question is ‘no’, the other questions linked to this question will not be shown to him.
(d) Instructions have been added to assist the filing of the return containing the directions regarding the applicable schedules.
(e) The proposed ITR has been designed in such a manner that each row contains one distinct value only. This will simplify the return filing process.
(f) The utility for the ITR will be rolled out in such a manner that only applicable fields of the schedule will be visible and wherever necessary, the set of fields will appear more than once. For example, in the case of more than one house property, the schedule HP will be repeated for each property. Similarly, where the taxpayer has capital gains from the sale of shares taxable under section 112A only, applicable fields of schedule CG, relating to 112A, shall be visible to him.
4.1. As evident from above, the taxpayer is required to answer questions which apply to him and fill the schedules linked to those questions where the answer has been given as ‘yes’. As a result, the time and energy of the taxpayer will be saved and he will be relieved of the additional burden of going through all the parts of the ITR as is the requirement under the existing ITRs. This will increase ease of compliance.
5. The draft ITR, based on the above scheme, is enclosed in Annexure A. Further, a sample ITR illustrating the step-by-step approach for filing the ITR in Annexure B and two customized sample ITRs for the firm and company in Annexure C and Annexure D respectively are also enclosed for illustrative purposes. Annexure A is a consolidated document containing all the questions, schedules, and detailed instructions thereon. It is reiterated that only relevant questions/schedules will apply to a taxpayer. Once the common ITR Form is notified, after taking into account the inputs received from stakeholders, the online utility will be released by the Income-tax Department. In such a utility, a customized ITR containing only the applicable questions and schedules will be available to the taxpayer.
6. The inputs on the draft ITR may be sent electronically to the email address dirtpl4@nic.in with a copy to dirtpl1@nic.in by 15th December 2022.
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
Central Board of Direct Taxes
New Delhi, 01 st November, 2022
PRESS RELEASE
CBDT condones delay in filing Form No.10A for which the extended due date was 31.03.2022
As per the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961, Form 10A was required to be filed electronically by 30.06.2021, which was extended to 31.08.2021 and further extended to 31.03.2022 by Circular No. 16/2021.
In view of the representations received by Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and with a view to avoid genuine hardship to taxpayers, the CBDT condones the delay in filing of Form 10A up to 25th November, 2022 in respect of certain provisions of section 12A / section 10(23C) / section 80G / section 35 of the Income-tax Act, 1961.
CBDT Circular No.22/2022 dated 01.11.2022 issued. The said Circular is available on www.incometaxindia.gov.in.
(Surabhi Ahluwalia)
Pr. Commissioner of Income Tax
(Media & Technical Policy)
Official Spokesperson, CBDT
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Dated: 27 OCT 2022
CBDT extends due date for filing of TDS statement in Form 26Q for the second quarter of Financial Year 2022-23
Considering the difficulties in filing of TDS statement in the revised and updated Form 26Q, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has extended the due date of filing of Form 26Q for the second quarter of Financial Year 2022-23 from 31st October, 2022 to 30th November, 2022.
CBDT Circular No. 21/2022 in F.No.275/25/2022-IT(B) dated 27.10.2022 issued. The said Circular is available on www.incometaxindia.gov.in.
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
Central Board of Direct Taxes
New Delhi, 26th October, 2022
PRESS RELEASE
CBDT extends due date for furnishing Return of Income for the Assessment Year 2022-23
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has extended the due date of furnishing of Return of Income under sub-Section (1) of Section 139 of the Income- tax Act, 1961 (the Act) for the Assessment Year 2022-23, for the category of assessees for whom the due date is 31st October, 2022, to 07th November, 2022.
CBDT Circular No. 20/2022 in F.No.225/49/2021/ITA-II dated 26.10.2022 issued. The said Circular is available on www.incometaxindia.gov.in.
(Surabhi Ahluwalia)
Pr. Commissioner of Income Tax
(Media & Technical Policy)
Official Spokesperson, CBDT