Indian professionals and website owners are joining a list of their global peers in earning income through sale of advertisements via Google’s AdSense program. But being a new income head, there has been confusion over the tax treatment of such earnings.

Foremost thing of AdSense receipts for Indian residents is that the income is taxable in India. It can be shown either under the head “Income from Business or Profession” or under “Income from other sources”. The deciding factor in this case shall be the nature of work of AdSense publisher … read more