Partnership Firm Tax Return Filing

Overview

Partnership firms in India can be divided into two categories namely, registered partnership or unregistered partnership. Registered partnership firms are those firms having a registration certificate from the Registrar of Firms. All other partnerships that do not have a registration certificate would be classified as an unregistered partnership firm. Under Income Tax Act, a partnership firm is defined as “Persons who have entered into a partnership with one another are called individually “partners” and collectively “a firm”, and the name under which their business is carried on is called the “firm name”.