Direct Taxes (including International Taxation) | By ALOK PATNIA | Jun 21, 2011
Dividends declared by domestic companies are exempt from tax in the hands of shareholders. This is so because as per the income tax, an i...
Direct Taxes (including International Taxation) | By ALOK PATNIA | Jun 21, 2011
Salaried individuals adopts various ways to reduce taxes by opting new age tax saving tools, which sounds good but may not yield the desi...
Direct Taxes (including International Taxation) | By ALOK PATNIA | Jun 20, 2011
Capital Asset & Personal Effects – Capital asserts is a property of any kind held by the person, but specifically excludes the fol...
Direct Taxes (including International Taxation) | By ALOK PATNIA | Jun 19, 2011
As per the Income Tax Act, 1961 where a person dies, his legal representatives shall be liable to pay any sum which the deceased would ha...
Direct Taxes (including International Taxation) | By ALOK PATNIA | Jun 17, 2011
If you are a salaried individual, you may be exempted from filing return of income. However this exemption is available to a certain sect...
Direct Taxes (including International Taxation) | By ALOK PATNIA | Jun 17, 2011
One can not plan medical expenses, both in terms of timing and amount and cannot avoid or control such expenses, but the fact that medica...
Direct Taxes (including International Taxation) | By ALOK PATNIA | Jun 16, 2011
Generally in the minds of individual tax payers, there is lack of clarity with regard to audit requirements and also sense of apprehensio...
Direct Taxes (including International Taxation) | By ALOK PATNIA | Jun 16, 2011
As per the Income Tax Act, 1961 following income shall be deemed to be received in the previous year and hence will be included in the ta...
Direct Taxes (including International Taxation) | By ALOK PATNIA | Jun 15, 2011
These are the common mistakes people make when filing their returns. These mistakes cause you a few headaches like delays in your refund ...
Direct Taxes (including International Taxation) | By ALOK PATNIA | Jun 14, 2011
Section 80D of the Income Tax Act provides for a deduction of Rs. 15,000 to an assessee, being an individual or a HUF. The deduction is a...
Direct Taxes (including International Taxation) | By ALOK PATNIA | Jun 14, 2011
Tuition fees deduction can be claimed by an individual under section 80C of the Income Tax Act, 1961. Any sum paid as tuition fees (not i...
Direct Taxes (including International Taxation) | By ALOK PATNIA | Jun 13, 2011
Form 16 or the salary certificate provides details of the salary income of the employee along with the TDS (Tax deducted at Source) and n...