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Which ITR form you should opt for? Every year CBDT notifies new income-tax return (ITR) forms. In 2016 the CBDT had notified the ITR Forms at the end of March, 2016 and it deviated from its past practice of notifying ITR Forms in the month of May or June. This time also the CBDT has notified the ITR forms in the month of March, 2017. As per the assurance given by the Finance Minister in his Budget Speech the CBDT had finally prescribed simplified ITR 1 Form with fewer columns. However, such ITR 1 is applicable only for individuals having income up to Rs 50 lakhs. Further, Individual taxpayers either having dividend income above 10 lakhs or having unexplained credit (taxable at 60% under Section 115BBE) can't opt for ITR-1. The CBDT has scrapped ITR- 2A. Now all assessees (other than those earning salary income and business income) would be required to file ITR-2 only. Earlier taxpayers opting for presumptive taxation were required to file ITR-4S. But now they are r

Form 16 is important document which you must have at the time filing your Income Tax Return because it contains all your income details which your employer pay you during the financial year and how much TDS is deducted. Form 16 : Form -16 is a kind of statement which is issued by the employer. It is the proof of TDS (Tax Deducted at Source) from your salary income. Form 16 contains the details of tax deduction which is made by your employer out of your salary. Sometimes, it is also called salary TDS certificate. Therefore, it is a prerequisite to cross-check the amount deducted by your employer with form 16 so as to know whether properly deducted tax has been deposited by the employer with the government. If your employer doesn’t give Form 16: Sometimes, the payer deducts the tax and tells you that he has deposited the tax to the Income Tax department. So, should you trust him or not? No way, because payer sometimes doesn’t deposit the deducted tax and as a

Most of time a question is asked what is expiry of an stamp paper. Is it six month or less? But, there is no such expiry prescribed in Indian Stamp Act which is discussed in following case also. SOURCE OF CONFUSION: The Trial Court and the High Court have doubted the genuineness of the agreement dated 5.1.1980 because it was written on two stamp papers purchased on 25.8.1973 and 7.8.1978. The learned counsel for the first respondent submitted that apart from raising a doubt about the authenticity of the document, the use of such old stamp papers invalidated the agreement, as the stamp papers used in the agreement of sale were more than six months old, they were not valid stamp papers and consequently, the agreement prepared on such 'expired' papers was also not valid. WHAT COURT DECIDED Apex Court held that that the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 nowhere prescribes any expiry date for use of a stamp paper. Section 54 merely provide that a person possessing a stamp paper f