Pre-filling of Income-tax Returns: Good move or bad?

The finance ministry wants pre-filled income tax returns from AY 2020-201 onwards as announced in the budget yesterday. At first sight, this is appealing and convenient, but will it result in a host of new problems? The finance minister in her budget speech said, “Pre-filled tax returns will be made available to taxpayers which will…

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CPSE ETFs with Tax Saving benefit Introduced in Budget 2019-2020

The finance minister in her budget speech said: “ETFs have proved to be an important investment opportunity for retail investors and has turned out to be a good instrument for Government of India’s divestment programme. To expand this further, The government will offer an investment option in ETFs on the lines of the Equity Linked…

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Handling mismatch between salary income in return and Form 26AS (adjustments u/s 143(1)(a))

Did you receive an email from the income tax department that there is a mismatch or inconsistency between salary income in return and Form 26AS?I did and this is how I responded. I am not a taxation expert, but I thought sharing this might help others and in any case myself. First of all, I think…

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