Rahmat Ullah Malik's Computerized Direct Tax Law (CDTL)

This software consists of DIGEST, INDEX, SEARCH, MANUAL and UPDATE Centre.

DIGEST

The Digest facility provides the search of cases and statutes based on the followings:

2001 ORD -- Income Tax Ordinance 2001

You can study case laws of Supreme Court, High Courts, FTO and Appellate Tribunal by entering Section number or schedule of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001. Sub-section, clause or sub-clause must be fed, if necessary with the section.

For Example: 122, 122(5A), SCH-1-3

Note: Searching is case sensitive. 122(5A) should not be written as 122(5a) or 122(5-A) and SCH-1-3 should not be written as sch-1-3.

1979 ORD -- Income Tax Ordinance 1979

You can study case laws of Supreme Court, High Courts, FTO and Appellate Tribunal by entering Section number or schedule of Income Tax Ordinance, 1979. Sub-section, clause or sub-clause must be fed, if necessary with the section.

For Example: 66A, 136, 16(2)(a)(iii), 80D, SCH-2

Note: Searching is case sensitive. 66A should not written as 66(A) or 66a and SCH-2 as sch-2.

1963 Act -- Wealth Tax Act 1963

You can study case laws of Supreme Court, High Courts, FTO and Appellate Tribunal by entering Section number or schedule of Wealth Tax Act, 1963. Sub-section, clause or sub-clause must be fed, if necessary with the section.

For Example: 16, 14, 17, 27, 17B, 2(hhh)

Note: Searching is case sensitive 17B should not be written as 17b.

1922 Act -- Income Tax Act 1922

You can study case laws of Supreme Court, High Courts, FTO and Appellate Tribunal by entering Section number of Income Tax Act, 1922. Sub-section, clause or sub-clause must be fed, if necessary with the section.

For Example: 34, 67, 23

Note: Searching is case sensitive.

1961 IND -- Indian Income Tax Act 1961

You can study case laws of Indian Supreme Court and Indian High Courts by entering Section number of Indian Income Tax Act, 1961. Sub-section, clause or sub-clause must be fed, if necessary with the section.

For Example: 11, 12, 217, 246, 13, 139, 144, 184

Note: Searching is case sensitive.

CDTL -- Citation of CDTL (this software)

We have given four digit number to every case law in our database starting from 0001 and every court has its own code.

Court Code (nnnn is a 4 digit number like 0001)
Pakistan Supreme Court DTPSCnnnn
Pakistan High Courts DTPHCnnnn
Appellate Tribunal DTAT nnnn
Federal Tax Ombudsman DTFTOnnnn
Indian Supreme Court DTISCnnnn
Indian High Courts DTIHCnnnn

Taxation -- Citation of Taxation

You can search Income Tax, Wealth Tax Cases of Supreme Court, High Courts, Appellate Tribunal of Pakistan,FTO, Indian Supreme Court, Indian High Courts, Circulars, Circular Letters, Original and Amending Notifications and Finance Acts/Ordinances by entering volume number and page number of Taxation Journal. Data is available from Vol. 1 to 95 and up to date.

For Example: 1TAX318, 2TAX45, 95TAX205, 22TAX33, 95TAX158, 94TAX256

Note: if you want to see exact result you have to enter correct volume number and page number like vol. 2 and page 45 should not be written as 02 and 045.

PTD -- Citation of Pakistan Tax Decisions

You can search Income Tax, Wealth Tax Cases of Supreme Court, High Courts, Appellate Tribunal of Pakistan,FTO, Indian Supreme Court, Indian High Courts, Circulars, Circular Letters, Original and Amending Notifications and Finance Acts/Ordinances by entering volume year and page number of PTD Journal. Data is available from year 1960 to 2007 and up to date.

For Example: 1960PTD1112, 1968PTD1, 1979PTD303, 2003PTD1913, 2007PTD1094, 1999PTD26

Note: if you want to see exact result you have to enter correct year and page number like year 1968 and page 1 should not be written as 68 and 001.

PLD -- Citation of Pakistan Law Decisions

You can search Cases of Supreme Court, High Courts by entering volume year and page number of PLD Journal. Data is available from year 1951 to 2003 (2004-2007 are not available right now). Very small numbers of Cases are reported by PLD on TAX LAWS as compare to Taxation and PTD.

For Example: 1971PLD1, 1954PLD32, 2001PLD37, 1951PLD311, 1951PLD271, 1966PLD524,  1986PLD436, 2003PLD614

Note: if you want to see exact result you have to enter correct year and page number like year 2001 and page 32 should not be written as 01 and 037 or 0037.

PTCL -- Citation of Pakistan Tax & Corporate Laws

You can search Income Tax, Wealth Tax Cases of Supreme Court, High Courts, Appellate Tribunal of Pakistan, Indian Supreme Court, Indian High Courts, Circulars, Circular Letters, Original and Amending Notifications and Finance Acts/Ordinances by entering volume year and page number of PTCL Journal. Data is available from year 1983 to 2007 and up to date.

For Example: 1984PTCL156, 1986PTCL240, 1983PTCL64, 1990PTCL1111, 1999PTCL835, 2007PTCL1

Note: if you want to see exact result you have to enter correct year and page number like year 1999 and page 395 should not be written as 99 and 0395.

ITR -- Citation of Income Tax Reports (Indian)

You can search Cases of Indian Supreme Court, Indian High Courts by entering volume number and page number of ITR Journal. Data is available from volume number 18 to 255 (after volume 255 data is not available right now).

For Example: 18ITR516, 77ITR505, 122ITR55, 183ITR1, 202ITR584, 225ITR458, 255ITR45

Note: if you want to see exact result you have to enter correct year and page number like vol. 18 and page 516 should not be written as 018 and 0516.

SCC (Tax) -- Citation of Indian Supreme Court Cases (Tax)

You can search Cases of Indian Supreme Court by entering volume year and page number of SCC(Tax) Journal. Data is available from year 1973 to 1990 (after year 1990 data is not available right now).

For Example: 1990SCC(Tax)396, 1990SCC(Tax)268, 1980SCC(Tax)230, 1973SCC(Tax)19,      1973SCC(Tax)618, 1975SCC(Tax)5

if you want to see exact result you have to enter correct year and page number like year 1973 and page 19 should not be written as 73 and 019.

NAME

You can search Cases of Supreme Court, High Courts, Indian Supreme Court, Indian High Court by typing a word out of the subject of judgment or parties name. it contains alphabetic or numbers but not other characters and spaces. First letter should be in Upper Case (Capital letter) and other letters should be in Lower Case (small letters). You can not search common words like "v., CIT, ITO, CBR, of, (Pvt.)" etc.

Note: if you will enter incomplete words like "Co" it will also search matching words like Commissioner, Collector, Cooking, Cotton, Company, Corporation

NUMBER

You can search Cases of Supreme Court, High Courts, Appellate Tribunal of Pakistan, FTO, Indian Supreme Court, Indian High Courts by entering digital portion of the number of judgment allotted by the court like Civil Appeals No, File No, P.T.R. No, C.T.R. No, Stay No, Income Tax Reference No, Tax Cases No, Civil Miscellaneous Writ No, Writ Petition No, I.T.A No, I.T.C No, I.T.R No, Wealth Tax Appeal No, Complaint No. and any other number allotted by court.

DATE

You can search by Decision date of the case of Supreme Court, High Courts, Appellate Tribunal of Pakistan, FTO, Indian Supreme Court, Indian High Courts or Issuance date of Circulars, Circular Letters, Original and Amending Notifications and Finance Acts/Ordinances.

Note: the format of date is dd/mm/yyyy and 03/12/1999 should not be written as 3/12/1999

YEAR

You can search by Decision year of the case of Supreme Court, High Courts, Appellate Tribunal of Pakistan, FTO, Indian Supreme Court, Indian High Courts or Issuance year of Circulars, Circular Letters, Original and Amending Notifications and Finance Acts/Ordinances.

Note: Here year is a decision year or issuance year not a year in which any Law Journal reported the particular case or any document.

 There can be some cases which have no subject or party names and are not reported by Taxation, PTD, PLD, PTCL or ITR but reported by other Journals like Tax Forum these type of cases can be searched by entering number allotted by court like 3, by entering CDTL Citation number like 1667 or by date like 03/12/2003

INDEX
The Index centre provides the Subject-Index A-Z on Direct Tax Laws alphabetically and upon selection of any subject one can study the case law of Supreme Court, High Courts, Appellate Tribunal, FTO, Indian Supreme Court and Indian High Courts.

SEARCH
The Search menu is available to study complete library or selective part. You will get the word or words highlighted in the result information.

MANUAL

You can search by entering one or two words or one or two subjects in statutes part i.e. Income Tax Ordinance 1979 and 2001 (Definitions, Sections and Schedules) ,Wealth Tax Act 1963 (Definitions, Sections and Schedules), Wealth Tax Rules 1963,Capital Value Tax, Circulars, Circular letters, Original Notifications, Amending Notifications and Finance Acts/Ordinances.

DIGEST

You can search by entering one or two words or one or two subjects in Head notes (short notes) for the cases of Supreme Court, High Courts, Appellate Tribunal, FTO, Indian Supreme Court and Indian High Courts.

CASES

You can search by entering one or two words or one or two subjects in Actual complete text of the Judgments of Supreme Court, High Courts, Appellate Tribunal, FTO, Indian Supreme Court and Indian High Courts.

MANUAL
 
The Manual is available through three channels i.e. CURRENT, DATE-WISE and SPECIFIC.

CURRENT

  Through this option you can study current law.

  • Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 - Definitions - Chapter I (Section 1,2 and 3)
  • Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 - Sections - Chapter II to XIII (Section 4 to 240)
  • Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 - Schedules - Schedule First to Seventh
  • Income Tax Rules, 2002 - Part I to XI (Rule No 1 to 232)
  • Capital Value Tax, CAT, FEF, FIF etc.
  • Direct Tax Circulars for the current financial year - Current Year
  • Direct Tax Circular Letters for the current financial year - Current Year
  • Income Tax Appellate Tribunal Rules - Current
  • Double Taxation Agreements
  • Finance Act/Ordinance  - Current Year

DATE-WISE

   Through this option you can study date-wise history of law.

  • Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 - Definitions - Chapter I (Section 1 and 3)
  • Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 - Sections - Chapter II to XIII (Section 4 to 240)
  • Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 - Schedules - Schedule First to Seventh
  • Income Tax Rules, 2002 - Part I to XI (Rule No 1 to 232)
  • Capital Value Tax, CAT, FEF, FIF etc.
  • Direct Tax Circulars - 1940 to 2007
  • Direct Tax Circular Letters - 1963 to 2007
  • Direct Tax Original Notifications -
  • Direct Tax Amending Notifications -
  • Finance Act/Ordinance  - 1964 to 2007
  • Income Tax Ordinance, 1979 - Definitions - Chapter I (Section 1 and 2)
  • Income Tax Ordinance, 1979 - Sections - Chapter II to XIV (Section 3 to 167)
  • Income Tax Ordinance, 1979- Schedules - Schedule First to Seventh
  • Income Tax Rules, 1982 - Part I to XI (Rule No 1 to 217)
  • Capital Value Tax, CAT, FEF, FIF etc.
  • Wealth Tax Act, 1963 - Definitions - Chapter I (Section 1 and 2)
  • Wealth Tax Act, 1963 - Sections - Chapter II to VIII (Section 3 to 46)
  • Wealth Tax Act, 1963 - Schedules - Schedule First to Second
  • Wealth Tax Rules, 1963 - Part I to XI (Rule No 1 to 13)

SPECIFIC

     Through this option you can study law specifically by entering their section number, Rule no., Year or Date.

UPDATE

Updating facilities are provided once in two months basis. Update option can be used to go through the updating made on two months basis

available from 1995-96 to 2007-2008.