« Top Headlines » Open DEMAT Account in 24 hrs  ITR Filing 2025: These individuals are exempt from paying tax. Do they need to file returns?  Full List Of Trump's Reciprocal Tariffs Announced Wednesday  Top 5 tax-saving investment options for salaried individuals to consider before March 31, 2025  5 lesser lesser-known avenues of tax saving you can use to save income tax before March 31, 2025  March 15 is deadline for last advance tax installment: Know if you must pay «  ITR could well prove irksome tax return... Govt may hike DEPB, drawback rates only for select exporters... » CIC: Info on I-T dept probe exempted from RTI Act July, 12th 2007 The Central Information Commission (CIC) has held that the Income-Tax department need not furnish information to aggrieved parties on action taken by it till the investigations are completed.   It rejected appeals of Shankar Sharma and Devina Mehra of a Mumbai-based stockbroking firm, M/s First Global, who had sought information about the basis for conducting searches on their premises by the Income-Tax department on the grounds that investigation in the matter was completed.   There is a strong case that information connected with such law enforcement work by a public authority must be provided requisite protection from disclosure in view of its uncontested impact on the functioning of the public authority, Information Commissioner AN Tiwari said.