Sir,
An assessee earning income in the nature of commission (on which tax is deducted under section 194D or section 194H) is generally required to maintain books of account and file the Income-tax Return accordingly.
However, in practice, returns are also being filed without preparing books of account in certain cases, particularly where the assessee also has income from salary, bank interest (including fixed deposit interest), or other non-business sources.

Kindly clarify:
Is there any provision under the Income-tax Act, 1961, or the Income-tax Rules that permits filing the return without maintaining books of account where the assessee has commission income along with salary and interest income?
Is there any monetary threshold of commission income up to which books of account are not required to be maintained?
If yes, kindly specify the relevant section, rule, CBDT circular, or notification governing the same.

I am traveling from flight from kolkata to Coimbatore and vice versa . I have booked flight by giving my gst no . Can I claim input tax credit of gst charged by airlines and airlines showed that in gstr returns.please clarify with examples now.

Dear Sir,
I have initiated online EPF transfer using UAN portal from EPFO to my company trust. Claim was settled on 23 April but Trust is showing the credit on 8 May. EPFO has paid interest till 31st Mar and on raising grievance to EPFO, they said, Trust should interest from 1st April onwards. But Trust is showing credit date on 8th May, although transfer actually happened in 23 April. As transfer in amount contains my entire service life's EPF amount of 25 years, I'll lose out approximately 59,000/- per month in interest at present interest rate of 8.25%.
In these circumstances, who is responsible for paying interest for the month of April?
Also, raising grievance on EPFO, they point to connect with company Trust and company trust does bother to respond. Please advise what can be done under this situation.
Warm Regards,
Sujit Dey

Dear Experts & Members,

I am seeking your technical insights on a client tax computation for FY 2025-26 (AY 2026-27) involving a mid-year job switch and a let-out property.

Here is the anonymous summary of the facts:
Client Summary & Income Details:

Employer 1 (Resigned Mid-Year): Gross Salary ₹11,24,960 (Includes Leave Encashment ₹1,10,180 exempt u/s 10(10AA) & HRA ₹2,02,958). TDS Deducted: ₹1,24,817.

Employer 2 (Joined Mid-Year): Gross Salary ₹27,15,326. TDS Deducted: ₹3,86,983.

House Property (Let-out): Gross Rent Received ₹96,000. Interest Paid on ICICI Home Loan u/s 24(b) ₹8,56,044. Net Loss: ₹7,88,844.

Chapter VI-A Inputs: Sec 80C Principal ₹1,55,230, Sec 80D Self/Spouse ₹25,000, Sec 80D Senior Citizen Parents ₹47,000, Bank Savings Interest ₹3,438, STCG on MF ₹2,406.

Residential City: Pune (Non-Metro).

Current Tax Working & Issue:

New Tax Regime:

Taxable Income: ₹36,60,950 (Gross Salary ₹38.40L less ₹1.10L Leave Encashment, ₹75k Std. Deduction, plus ₹5.8k Other Income).

Note: Home loan loss is capped at ₹0 against salary income under the New Regime (only offsets rental income down to zero).

Total Tax Payable (incl. Cess): ₹7,05,416

TDS Already Paid: ₹5,11,800

Net Outstanding Payable: ₹1,93,616

Old Tax Regime:

Taxable Income (after ₹2L House Property Loss set-off + ₹2.25L VI-A deductions): ₹32,60,510.

Total Tax Payable: ₹8,22,279 (Higher by ~₹1.16 Lakhs compared to New Regime).

Queries for Members:

Minimizing Net Liability: Is there any legitimate tax-saving angle, exemption, or reporting mechanism under the New/Old Regime that we might be missing to bridge this ₹1.93L tax gap?

HRA Optimization (Old Regime): Since she was living in rented accommodation in Pune during her tenure at the first employer, if rent receipts/agreements are introduced now, would the Old Regime become competitive against the New Regime? What threshold of HRA exemption would be required to break even with the New Regime savings?

House Property Loss Strategy: Is opting for the New Regime to save ₹1.16L immediately better than taking the Old Regime to carry forward the remaining ₹5.88L unabsorbed house property loss for future years?

Looking forward to your valuable opinions and suggestions.

Thanks & Regards,

Fellow Professional / Member

can anyone share offline uttilty tool for tds return for foe tax year 2026-27

Builder has deducted TDS on rent paid on reallocation on account of redevelopment of building u/s 194IC as joint development agreement resulting in capital gains income.
However this is not capital gain and this rent is not taxable under income tax act.

My question is how to claim tds as prepaid tax and show this rent income as exempt u/s 10 because there is no specific sub clause u/s 10 to show this.

I am preparing ITR for Housing society, i have the following question..
The society Have only Maintenance charges receipt and having deficit of 20k. i have shown the receipt and expenses in p&l section in ITR5.. for the deficit of 20k, where can i show this in ITR?. .. i am using genius software

Builder has deducted TDS u/s 194IC from Rent paid on relocation. The building is under redevelopment
This rent comes under hardship compensation and not chargeable to tax. However there is no specific section u/s 10 to claim this rent as exempt income.
How to show this amount in ITR and claim credit for TDS ?

Hi,
I want to specifically file the Indian income tax return under UK-India DTAA. Unfortunately the Indian income tax portal is computing the tax as zero on income chargeable under DTAA. Form 10F was submitted earlier with TRC attached.
1) Are we supposed to be computing the tax and manually update in Schedule SI, Row 40 (Other source income chargeable under DTAA rates) ?
2) If we have to manually update, what is the correct process of computing the tax under UK-India DTAA? Say Dividend is 3 lakhs and Interest is 14 lakhs. Do we compute tax as (10% of Div 3 lakhs and 15% on Int 14 lakhs ?) OR use progressive slabs on total income of 17 lakhs with a cap on maximum tax rate 15% (till 4 lakhs zero, 5% on 4-8 lakhs, 10% on 8-12 lakhs, 15% on 12-16 lakhs, 15% capped on 20% tax rate (16-17 lakhs))
3) As per UK-India DTAA treaty, the tax on interest is 15%. Is cess of 4% payable on the 15% tax on interest?

Assessee sold flat for 1 cr which was jointly held with wife. Consideration was received Rs.50L each in both accounts. However the purchaser has shown tds payment of Rs.1L in Husband PAN and is reflected in his Form 26AS.
AIS of both shows sale of immoveable property at Rs.1 Cr each instead of Rs.50L each
My question is how to show capital gains in their individual return of income so that TDS is claimed in full and also there is no query from Income Tax Department