New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Friday backed the BJP’s demands for clarity on the “funding” of Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi’s foreign trips as well as the “unaccounted” income that was being spent on facilitating the same. Speaking to the media, Rijiju also stated the ‘opaqueness’ around certain foreign visits by the Congress MP was worrisome as it amounted to a violation of Parliamentary protocols.“The questions being r…
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The Income Tax Department on Friday said that it enabled the filing of Income Tax Returns (ITRs) for the financial year 2025-26 (assessment year 2026-27) with the release of Excel utilities for ITR-1 and ITR-4 forms on e-filing portal.Announcing the update on social media platform X, the department said taxpayers can now access both the Excel utility and online filing options for the two forms.With the announcement of the offline utilities, the ITR filing process for AY …
Chandigarh, May 9 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government over repeated Enforcement Directorate raids on Aam Aadmi Party leaders, asserting that Punjab would never surrender before “politics of intimidation and vendetta” being carried out through central agencies. Pointing out that the Enforcement Directorate had raided Sanjeev Arora’s residence three times within a year and twice within a month without recovering …
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky attributed a global wave of phishing attacks to the SilverFox threat group masquerading as tax related files and warned the campaign now deploys a Python backdoor it has named ABCDoor.Kaspersky said the campaign began in December 2025 with emails in India that closely mimicked notices from the Income Tax Department, and later the same group conducted phishing attacks in Russia in January.Further, attacks were reported in Indonesia, South Afric…
Chennai, May 6 (IANS) A writ petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking the registration of a First Information Report (FIR) against actor and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) President C. Joseph Vijay in connection with alleged income tax irregularities linked to the 2015 Tamil film “Puli”. The petition, which was numbered by the High Court Registry on Wednesday, is expected to be listed shortly under the caption “For Maintainability.” Though the plea had originally been filed l…
Jaipur, May 5 (IANS) The Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee (RPCC) on Tuesday welcomed the party’s return to power in Kerala after a decade, while launching a sharp attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the alleged misuse of institutions during the recently concluded Assembly elections in five states. Addressing the media in Jaipur, State Congress Chief Govind Singh Dotasra said the Congress-led alliance’s decisive victory in Kerala was the result of sustained efforts by the party le…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) India’s net direct tax collections recorded steady growth in the financial year 2025–26, rising 5.12 per cent year-on-year to Rs 23,40,406 crore, according to data released by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on Monday.Gross direct tax collections for the fiscal stood at Rs 28,11,936 crore, registering a 4.03 per cent increase compared to Rs 27,03,107 crore in FY25.The rise was supported by higher inflows from both corporate and non-corporate tax segments, ref…
Chennai, April 21 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K. Selvaperunthagai on Tuesday faced a sharp rebuttal from the Income Tax Department, which termed his allegations of harassment by officials as “entirely baseless and factually incorrect.” In a detailed press release, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said it had examined claims made by Selvaperunthagai in a social media post dated April 20, in which he alleged that Income Tax officials, under the pretext of searchi…
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) The government on Tuesday organised an outreach programme here to promote financial literacy and create awareness about the newly-introduced Income Tax Act, 2025, with particular focus on provisions relating to educational institutions and charitable trusts.Pallavi Agarwal, Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (Exemptions), highlighted the key features of the Income Tax Act, 2025 and emphasised that the new legislation seeks to simplify procedures, reduce ambigui…
Chennai, April 21 (IANS) Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said that the people of Tamil Nadu will deliver a massive victory to the NDA to teach a lesson to “Mr Stalin.” Speaking to IANS, Goyal said, “I am at least glad that finally Udhayanidhi Stalin and his father M.K. Stalin have realised that by hurting Tamil culture, Tamil pride, Tamil tradition, and Tamil heritage, and by calling Sanatan Dharma — which is a way of life for Tamil Nadu and for Indians, something that should be e…