Advocate Mohammad Kamran
- 10+ Years of Legal Experience
- Enrolled with the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh
- Certificate of Practice holder
Income Tax Assistance in Lucknow
Income-tax work for individuals and businesses in Lucknow, from planning a transaction to answering what comes back from the department.
Tax and GST
What this covers
Income-tax matters divide into work done before a transaction and work done after the department has raised a question. The first is advisory: how a sale, a gift, a partnership reconstitution or a business restructuring will be treated, and what documentation will be needed to support the position taken. The second is contested: a notice, an assessment, a demand, an appeal.
Both rest on the same foundation, which is the paper trail. Most adverse assessments are not disagreements about law; they are situations where the taxpayer could not produce a document that explained a credit, a payment or a valuation. Advice given while a transaction is being documented is worth considerably more than advice given once a notice has arrived.
Scope of assistance
What this work involves, and what it does not
Different parts of a matter of this kind are different kinds of work. This is how they divide.
- Legal advisoryAdvice on the legal position, the options open and the consequences of each.
- Document draftingPreparation and review of the agreements, deeds and written replies the matter requires.
- Return preparationCarried out with, or coordinated with, a chartered accountant. Audit and any certificate that only a chartered accountant may sign is their work.
- Response and representation before an authorityWritten replies and appearance before the authority concerned, where an advocate may act as authorised representative.
- Coordination with other professionalsWhere a matter requires audit, or a certificate or filing that only a specified professional may sign, it is coordinated with a chartered accountant or company secretary.
Nothing on this page is an offer to audit accounts or to issue any certificate that only a chartered accountant or company secretary may issue. No professional designation is claimed for anyone at the firm beyond enrolment as an advocate, and no undertaking is given that any particular person will certify, audit or appear in a given matter.
Who this may assist
Who this service may assist
If your situation is not listed, it does not mean it cannot be dealt with. It means it should be discussed.
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Individuals with a large transaction
A property sale, a gift or an inheritance raises a question you want settled before it is filed.
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Businesses and firms
The tax treatment of a transaction, a restructuring or a partner's exit needs to be worked out.
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Anyone who has received a notice
Correspondence from the department has arrived and has to be answered.
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Taxpayers facing a demand
An assessment has been completed against you and the options need assessing.
Scope
Assistance available
- Advice on the tax position of a proposed transaction, and on the documentation it will require
- Review of agreements and deeds so that what they record supports the position to be taken
- Replies to notices and to requisitions for information issued by the department
- Representation in assessment and reassessment proceedings as authorised representative
- Appeals against assessment orders, and applications connected with recovery and stay of demand
- Coordination with a chartered accountant on return preparation, computation and any audit or certificate required
Process
How the work generally proceeds
The sequence varies with the facts and the forum. This is the usual shape of it.
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Step 01
Understanding the transaction or the notice
What actually happened, on what documents, and in which year — before any position is advised.
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Step 02
Assembling the paper trail
Agreements, bank records, valuation material and correspondence that support the treatment claimed.
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Step 03
Settling the position
What the law provides, what is arguable and what is not, and where the risk sits.
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Step 04
Responding or filing
The reply, the submission or the appeal is drafted, with the supporting documents indexed rather than merely attached.
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Step 05
Following the matter
Through the assessment or appellate stage, with return work coordinated with a chartered accountant where required.
Preparation
Documents commonly required
Bringing what you have makes the first discussion considerably more useful. Missing items can be obtained later.
- Permanent account number and the return filed for the year in question
- The notice, intimation or order received, complete with every annexure
- Agreements, deeds or invoices relating to the transaction under examination
- Bank statements for the relevant period, and records of any loan or advance
- Valuation reports, where a valuation is in issue
- Any earlier correspondence with the department on the same matter
Cautions
Common mistakes
- Answering a notice without reading the provision it is issued underWhat is required, and how long you have, depend on the provision. A reply drafted for the wrong kind of notice does not help.
- Producing documents piecemealAn indexed set produced once is treated very differently from documents dribbled in over several dates.
- Explaining a credit orallyEvery credit and every payment relied on should be traceable to a document. An explanation with nothing behind it usually fails.
- Letting the appeal period runAppeal periods are short and run from the date of the order. Waiting to see whether recovery is pursued can cost the remedy.
- Taking a position that contradicts the documentsWhere the agreement says one thing and the tax filing another, both are weakened.
See also
Related legal and tax services
Reading
Related Guides
General information notes on this area. They are not legal advice.
The practice
Advocates
Each advocate of the firm is enrolled with the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh and holds a Certificate of Practice.
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- 15+ Years of Legal Experience
- Enrolled with the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh
- Certificate of Practice holder
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- 20+ Years of Legal Experience
- Enrolled with the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh
- Certificate of Practice holder
Questions
Frequently asked questions
A legal practitioner is among the persons who may act as an authorised representative before the income-tax authorities. Much of assessment and first appeal is now conducted electronically rather than in person, and the current position on how a particular proceeding is conducted is confirmed when the matter is taken up.
Return preparation and computation is carried out with, or coordinated with, a chartered accountant. Audit, and any certificate that only a chartered accountant may sign, is their work. The legal advisory, drafting and representation side is handled here.
The sale deed and the deed by which you acquired the property, the dates and amounts of both transactions, records of improvement costs, and the bank trail of what was received. Where an exemption is being claimed, the documents supporting it should be assembled at the time, not reconstructed later.
There are several — for filing, for revising, for responding to a notice, for appealing — and they differ by provision and are sometimes extended by notification. No period is stated on this website because it would be unreliable. The limit applicable to your matter is worked out from your papers.
Where the firm works
Lucknow and Uttar Pradesh Coverage
The firm's office is in Lucknow. Matters arising in other districts of Uttar Pradesh are conducted from Lucknow before the court, tribunal or authority that has jurisdiction over them. There is no branch office elsewhere. Which forum will hear a particular matter depends on its subject, its value and where the cause of action arose, and is confirmed before anything is filed.
This page is general information about an area of practice. It is not legal advice, and it is not an advertisement or a solicitation of work. Reading it creates no advocate–client relationship.
Procedures, limitation periods, court fees, stamp duty and government charges change, and what applies depends on the facts of the particular matter. Nothing here should be acted on without advice on your own documents, and no outcome is promised or predicted.
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