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The Income Tax Act, 1961, and the Income Tax Rules, 1962, require citizens to file their tax returns with the Income Tax Department at the end of every financial year and this form is a part of the filing process as specified by the Government of India. The due date for filing return with the Income Tax Department of India is 31 July every year.
The Wealth Tax Act, 1957 was an Act of the Parliament of India that provides for the levying of wealth tax on an individual, Hindu Undivided Family or company. The wealth tax was levied on the net wealth owned by a person on a valuation date, i.e., 31 March of every year. The Act applies to the whole of India.
Tax deduction at source (TDS) has come into existence with the motive of collecting tax from different sources of income. As per this concept, a person (Payer) who is responsible to make payment of specified nature to any other person (Payee) shall deduct tax at source before making payment to such person (Payee) and remit the same into the account of the Central Government.
The existing general sales tax laws were replaced with the Value Added Tax Act (2005) and associated VAT rules. A few states ( Gujarat , Tamil Nadu , Rajasthan , Madhya Pradesh , Chhattisgarh , Jharkhand , Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh ) opted to stay out of VAT taxation system during the initial introduction of VAT but adopted it later.
When you prepare your 2024 tax return, you already have a good start on the documents you need.” Leave Notes for Yourself A year is a long time, making it easy to forget events that could impact ...
Tax expenditures are government revenue losses from tax exclusions, exemptions, deductions, credits, deferrals, and preferential tax rates. They are a counterpart to direct expenditures, in that they both are forms of government spending .
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 brought sweeping tax reform to the U.S. tax code, including lower tax rates, higher standard deductions, and a host of personal and business tax changes designed ...
Direct tax in the form of an income tax was introduced by the British in India in 1860 to overcome the difficulties created by the Indian Rebellion of 1857. [5] The organizational history of the Income-tax Department, however, starts in the year 1922, when the Income-tax Act, 1922 gave, for the first time, a specific nomenclature to various Income-tax authorities.