Archive for February, 2010

Class 8 and 9 students at 26 schools all over the country are taking lessons in investor education these days, courtesy the capital market regulator. The optional three-month course teaches these students the importance of money, how to manage it and concepts of budgeting and saving. Full Article

S. 10 (38) inserted w.e.f. 1.10.2004 provides that long-term capital gains (LTCG) on which security transaction tax (STT) is paid shall not be included in total income. The assessee earned long term capital gain (LTCG) of Rs. 33,01,57,200 on sale of shares after 1.10.2004 in respect of which STT was paid. The LTCG was exempt u/s 10 (38). Full Article

In the case of TRF Limited vs. CIT (Supreme Court) Supreme Court had to consider whether after the amendment to s. 36 (1) (vii) w.e.f. 1.4.1989, an assessee had to establish, as a matter of fact, that the debt advanced by the assessee had, in fact, become irrecoverable or whether writing off the debt as irrecoverable in the accounts was sufficient. HELD deciding in favour of the assessee: Full Article

The Income-Tax (I-T) department in Mumbai is summoning CEOs and CFOs of mid-size companies with the objective to communicate to them that anything less than the full payment of advance taxes will not be acceptable. I-T department sources said a face-to-face interaction helps in gauging the exact amount of tax payable by companies. Full Article

The Income Tax (IT) department's decision to collect IT from the land losers getting compensation above Rs one lakh from Essar Steel for the company's pelletisation project at Paradeep has paralyzed the land acquisition process. Land losers have threatened not to concede even an inch of land if the collection of IT is not stopped. Full Article

Many of the biggest names in Corporate India are telling the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) not to clamp down on currency derivatives — financial products that have baffled firms that never understood the risks and sparked court feuds with banks which sold them. Full Article

Every domestic company is liable to pay a Dividend Distribution Tax @15% on the amount declared, distributed or paid by such company by way of dividends. The effective rate of tax works out to16.995%. The proposed Direct-tax Code also contains similar provision. The only exception is when the dividend is received by a domestic company from its subsidiary. Full Article

What is the Budget? Why is it so important? Why does it affect all of us? And, above all, how does one interpret the budgetary lingo flying around? Union Budget is the annual report of India as a country. It contains the government of India's revenue and expenditure for the end of a particular fiscal year, which runs from April 1 to March 31. Full Article