Leading developers across the country are likely to meet Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and top officials of his ministry on the continuation of tax benefits for special economic zones, or SEZs.The developers, including Raheja Ltd, Ascendas, L&T and GMR, among others, are in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry’s Export Promotion Council for Export Oriented Units and Special Economic Zones (EPCES).
A sharp cut in corporate tax rate proposed in the direct taxes code is likely to be done in stages to ensure that tax collections do no plummet, derailing the government’s attempts to bring the fiscal situation under control. The direct taxes code, or DTC, has proposed a cut in corporate tax rate to 25% from the current 30%, but will withdraw most tax exemptions available to companies.
The income tax department today said it will open 264 special counters from July 21-31 in the Capital and national capital territory region, to accept returns from individual taxpayers. “The income tax department would set up 264 special counters to receive income tax returns at Mayur Bhawan and Pragati Maidan for the benefit of taxpayers,” Income Tax Delhi Circle-I chief commissioner Meenakshi Singh told reporters.
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India’s efforts at retrieving the black money its corrupt citizens have stashed abroad are being helped by some countries. The Income Tax has made a list of 135 individuals and entities, who received payments of more than Rs 1 crore from companies abroad, and sent it to the Director General of Investigation in cities where they are supposed to be residing for further investigation.
As part of efforts to attract more retail investors to the stock market, regulator SEBI is considering making applications forms simpler and shorter for public offers, including IPOs. Concerned over the lukewarm and ever-falling retail response to the primary market, SEBI is mulling over ways to win over small investors in this segment and one of the steps under consideration is a simpler investment process.
Life insurance agents may lose their licences if the annual persistency ratio of their clients’ policies is less than 50 per cent. In an exposure draft on persistency in life insurance policies announced on Saturday, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority proposed norms for enhancing the performance of agents.
Foreign direct investment in new form of business, limited liability partnerships (LLPs), could be allowed without a cap, a highly placed source said.”The officials have reached a consensus for 100 per cent FDI in LLPs,” he said. Officials in the ministries of industry, finance and corporate affairs have been in regular consultations on the issue of allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) since the LLP form of business was notified in 2009.
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The wait is now over for the US investors who wants to bet on the Indian stock markets, with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange starting the trade in Nifty Futures from Monday. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is introducing two new contracts — E-mini and E-micro S&P CNX Nifty (Nifty 50) Futures — designed to access the Indian market opportunities.
