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Simplify ITR filing for silent partners

As per the new Income-tax Act, 2025, the CBDT plans to simplify and introduce new ITR forms.

At present, if there is partnership income by way of remuneration, interest and other one-line details, the assessee has to file ITR-3, which runs to more than 80 pages. Instead, all such partnership details, as mentioned above, should be allowed in ITR-1, which is a simple return of just 2“3 pages.

Some assessees are only silent partners and have income only under the head “other sources” like dividend, interest, pension and salary. Why does the CBDT require all other business details when there is no such business activity?

Please do not simply copy what Americans do. We are still Indians, and every assessee cannot go to a chartered accountant every time to file an ITR and spend a lot of time and money.

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Credibility of Tejas fighter jets at stake

AF Nazareth, Alto Porvorim
Published Nov 22, 2025, 11:17 PM IST
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This is with reference to the news report ‘Indian fighter jet crashes during Dubai air show, pilot loses life’ (TGE, Nov. 22). The crash of the indigenously developed Tejas Mark-1 fighter jet at the recent Dubai air show is unfortunate and comes as a severe blow to the manufacturer, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).It is also the second crash in 20 months, which puts a question mark over the fighter jet’s credibility and its superiority over its predecessor, the MIG-21,…

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