Post COVID-19, there are many corporate entities which are allowing employees to work on Complete Work From Home (WFH) basis or on hybrid basis, i.e., Employees are required to come to office on selected days. This approach has reduced occupancy of physical premises by corporate offices and caused vacation of various rented premises.

GIFT City is a acronym for “Gujarat International Finance Tech-City”. GIFT City is a central business district established in Ahmedabad District in Gujarat, India. This is a government promoted greenfield project inaugurated in 2015. GIFT City is the India’s first Operational smart city.

While processing Income Tax returns of FY 2022-23, most of the taxpayers faced issue of delayed refund, refund put on hold on account of outstanding demand, refund adjusted against outstanding demand etc. During FY 2022-23, due to digitalisation of Income tax records of earlier year, the department uploaded various demands of earlier years (much prior to the years when Income tax return was started filing online).

Transfer of shares of listed entities is quite a simple and fair process as the price of shares are available on the stock exchange and shareholders have no option to transfer shares at value other than price available on stock exchange. However, what about the unquoted or unlisted equity shares. Whether shareholders can transfer such shares at any price or is there any mechanism specified for the same?

During the year of the Central Election, Our present government has come up with an Interim Budget for FY 2024-25. All the financial schemes or Plans proposed in the Interim Budget are temporary until the final budget is presented by the new Government post elections.

For the last many years the government has provided various benefits for MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) to boost their business. A separate portal is provided for the entities to register themselves as MSME. MSMEs are encouraged through various benefits such as collateral free loans, subsidy on patent registration, Free ISO certification etc. To take data of dues outstanding to MSME, The Companies Act also introduced Form MSME-1 wherein every company is required to disclose funds outstanding to MSME for more than 45 Days.

Finance Act, 2020 requires e-commerce operators to deduct TDS @ 1% on transactions made through e-commerce platforms. E-commerce operators are required to make such deduction at the time of credit of such amount to the account of e-commerce participant or at the time of payment, whichever is earlier. The Central Board of Direct Taxes has earlier issued Guidelines for deduction of TDS under section 194-O(4) vide Circular no.17 of 2020 dated 29th September, 2020 and vide Circular No. 20 of 2021 dated 25th November, 2021.

“Safe Harbour” means circumstances under which Income-tax authorities shall accept the transfer price declared by the assessee himself. Thus, 'safe harbour rules' specifies the various circumstances under which transfer price declared by the Assessee with respect to International transactions shall be accepted by Income tax authorities. Safe Harbour rule is given under Rule TD of Income Tax Rules, 1961.

The Appellant is engaged in providing domain name registration service, website design and web hosting. The Appellant charges a fee for facilitating domain name registration and a part of such fees is kept by the Appellant and a portion is shared with ICANN and the registry. Ld. The Assessing Officer considered such a fee as royalty and issued a demand order accordingly. View of Ld. AO is upheld by DRP and Tribunal. The Appellant contented that the domain name is not owned by the Appellant. Rather, the same is owned by the customer itself. The Appellant is only an intermediary and only renders registration services. The Appellant does not have any right in the property or trademark in the domain name. There is a difference between domain name registration and Trademark. The services offered by the Appellant are similar to those provided by other professionals to their respective clients who seek registration of a company's name with the RoC or registration of patents and trademarks with the concerned registrars appointed under the relevant statute.

After filing of Income tax return, processing of Income tax return under section 143(1) is the first step wherein return is electronically processed by the Department system and action is taken as per the prima facie validations such as TDS is granted as per information available in Form 26AS irrespective of amount claimed in ITR, computation of interest etc. Refund claimed in Income tax return is processed only after processing under Section 143(1) of Income Tax Act.