Books of account for salaried professional having F_O income
9 months ago
Dear Team, I am a salaried professional with income of 9 lakhs & I have F&O turnover of 4 lakhs with profit of 30 thousand. While filing ITR3 do I need to maintain books of account under 44AA or it will be a no account case. Plz confirm at the earliest.
A.Dear client,
Books of accounts/accounting records have to be maintained if the gross receipts are more than Rs. 1,50,000 in 3 preceding years for an existing profession. This also applies to a newly set up profession whose gross receipts are expected to be more than Rs. 1,50,000.
The accounting records to be kept have been prescribed in Rule 6F. The below professions are required to maintain Books of accounts/accounting records:
Legal
Medical
Engineering
Architectural
Accountancy
Technical consultancy
Interior decoration
Authorized representative — A person who represents another person for a fee before a tribunal or any authority constituted under any law. It does not include an employee of the person so represented or a person who is carrying on the profession of accountancy.
Film artist — This includes a producer, editor, actor, director, music director, art director, dance director, cameraman, singer, lyricist, story writer, screenplay or dialogue writer and costume designers.
Company secretary
If you are a freelancer pursuing any of these listed professions and your gross receipts are more than Rs. 1,50,000, these rules shall apply to you.
If the gross receipts of the Professions listed above are not more than Rs 1,50,000 in any one or more of the preceding 3 years for an existing profession or for a newly set up profession whose gross receipts are expected to be not more than Rs 1,50,000 – the professional is not required to maintain books of accounts as per section 44AA. In such a situation, a professional has to maintain books of accounts which would enable the AO to compute the taxable income of the professional from them.
Books of accounts/accounting records have to be maintained if the gross receipts are more than Rs. 1,50,000 in 3 preceding years for an existing profession. This also applies to a newly set up profession whose gross receipts are expected to be more than Rs. 1,50,000.
The accounting records to be kept have been prescribed in Rule 6F. The below professions are required to maintain Books of accounts/accounting records:
Legal
Medical
Engineering
Architectural
Accountancy
Technical consultancy
Interior decoration
Authorized representative — A person who represents another person for a fee before a tribunal or any authority constituted under any law. It does not include an employee of the person so represented or a person who is carrying on the profession of accountancy.
Film artist — This includes a producer, editor, actor, director, music director, art director, dance director, cameraman, singer, lyricist, story writer, screenplay or dialogue writer and costume designers.
Company secretary
If you are a freelancer pursuing any of these listed professions and your gross receipts are more than Rs. 1,50,000, these rules shall apply to you.
If the gross receipts of the Professions listed above are not more than Rs 1,50,000 in any one or more of the preceding 3 years for an existing profession or for a newly set up profession whose gross receipts are expected to be not more than Rs 1,50,000 – the professional is not required to maintain books of accounts as per section 44AA. In such a situation, a professional has to maintain books of accounts which would enable the AO to compute the taxable income of the professional from them.
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