Hon’ble Union Minister of Finance has proposed a Service Tax Voluntary Compliance Encouragement Scheme, 2013 in Finance Budget 2013. The Scheme is applicable for the tax dues not paid for the period 1st October 2007 to 31st December 2012.

When the value declared by the assessee as on 01.04. 1981 is supported by valuation report of a registered valuer and the A.O. has taken different valuation without obtaining valuation report from the DVO, such value taken by the registered valuer cannot be substituted by the A.O. merely on the basis of general inquiries without [...]

Indexed cost of gifted assets has to be determined with reference to previous owner s. 55(1)(b)(2)(ii) provides that where the capital asset became the property of the assessee by any of the modes specified under s. 49(1), not only the cost of improvement incurred by the assessee but also the cost of improvement incurred by [...]

A bench of justices B S Chauhan and Dipak Misra  has observed as follows in  CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 2322 of 2010 dated 20.05.2013 :-  Rape is the most morally and physically reprehensible crime in a  society, as it is an assault on the body,  mind  and  privacy  of  the victim. While a murderer destroys the [...]

Having perused the documents on record with the assistance of the learned counsel for the revenue, we notice that the Tribunal had though confirmed the view of the revenue authorities with respect to the rejection of the books of account of the assessee, did not accept the  re-computation of higher rate of gross profit on [...]

In the judgment of Hon’ble Karnataka High Court rendered in the case of CCI Ltd. (supra) it was held that if the assessee is a dealer of shares and securities then it cannot be said that such purchases of shares and holding of shares were for the purpose of earning of dividend income and hence, [...]

Attention of Authorised Dealer Category-I (AD Category-I) banks is invited to A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 52 dated November 20, 2012 extending the enhanced period for realization and repatriation to India, of the amount representing the full value of goods or software exported, from six months to twelve months from the date of export. This relaxation was available up to March 31, 2013.

Traders in cities from Maharashtra are rightfully agitating over proposed introduction of LBT because of their concerns about multiplicity of indirect taxes and related compliances.

The nature of processing of loose cotton into cotton bales after   sprinkling   water and mechanically pressing the same is similar to processing camphor powder into camphor cubes. Loose cotton in bulk quantity with lighter density is as a result of pressing converted intocotton bales and to that limited extent it certainly undergoes a change. In [...]

Question No.(i) pertains to addition of Rs.33.33 lakhs (rounded off) made by the Assessing Officer towards the commission paid to related parties. The Assessing Officer made such addition despite the assessee pointing out that the parties to whom such commissions were paid were associated with the associated company since its inception. The commission was paid [...]