Finance

CBDT to validate UDIN generated from ICAI portal for Tax Audit Reports

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, in its gazette notification dated 2nd August 2019, had made a generation of UDIN from ICAI website www.icai.org mandatory for every kind of certificate/tax audit report and other attests made by their members as required by various regulators. This was introduced to curb fake certifications by non-CAs misrepresenting themselves as Chartered Accountants. […]

Finance

CBDT refunds Rs. 71,229 crore

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has issued refunds worth Rs 71,229 crore in more than 21.24 lakh cases upto 11th July, 2020, to help taxpayers with liquidity during COVID-19 pandemic, since the Government’s decision of 8th April, 2020 to issue pending income tax refunds at the earliest. […]