India income tax

CBDT allows taxman to widen certain 'limited scrutiny' cases; orders no roving enquiries

The CBDT has said that it only picks less than 1 percent cases, out of the total returns filed, for scrutiny every year.

Nov 29, 2018, 17:27 PM IST

Now, income tax e-notices to have official phone number, email of taxman

The department has recently launched a first-ever pilot project to begin an email based scrutiny assessment of taxpayers in select cities.

Dec 24, 2015, 13:12 PM IST

Govt will have to forget direct tax of Rs 6.73 lakh crore

A paper presented during the recently held All India Conference of Chief Income Tax Commissioners stated that the department might recover 19% of Rs 8 lakh crore. But there's a rider: even this is going to be a 'tough task'.

Jun 08, 2015, 13:31 PM IST