The additional liquidity support to scheduled commercial banks under the LAF to the extent of up to 0.5% of their net demand and time liabilities (NDTL) currently set to expire on July 2, is now extended up to July 16.
In partial modification of the announcement dated 30th June 2009 regarding transfer / termination of articles the Council in its recent meeting has decided that the transfer/termination of articleship in terms of Regulation 56(1) of the Chartered Accountants Regulations, 1988 shall be permissible on the grounds as stated below: –
The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday barred non-tax payers from filing a public interest litigation (PIL). “A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sushil Harkauli and DN Patel set the parameters for filing a PIL. The parameters include a term that only tax payers having a PAN (permanent account number) can file PIL,” Rajiv Kumar, a high court lawyer, said.
The Central Government has issued notifications relating to advance receipts and exemptions in respect of Port, Other Port and Airport Services. 1. No service tax on advances received before July 1, 2010 in respect of new services and amendments made in existing services by the Finance Act, 2010
authorise the said Commissioners of Income Tax, to issue orders in writing for the exercise of powers and performance of functions by all or any of the Income-tax authorities who are subordinate to them in respect of such territorial areas, or such persons or classes of persons, or such income or classes of income, or such cases or classes of cases, as may be specified in their orders, including orders transferring the areas/persons or classes of persons, incomes or classes of incomes, cases or classes of cases from one Range to another Range or from one Assessing Officer to another Assessing Officer.
The law ministry is likely to finalise the Constitutional Amendment Bill on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) by next week. It will send draft of the Bill to the finance ministry which will share it with the empowered group of state finance ministers on GST for its feedback.
The assessee manufactured cars using the brand name Maruti. It entered into an agreement with Suzuki, Japan, pursuant to which it began manufacturing cars using the brand name Suzuki. The TPO issued a show-cause notice in which he alleged that the substitution of the brand name Maruti for the name Suzuki meant that the assessee had soldthe Maruti brand to Suzuki. On that basis, he determined the arms length sale proceeds at Rs. 4,420 crores.
The income tax authorities have asked Rajasthan Royals, Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab-the three IPL teams co-owned by cine stars Shilpa Shetty, Shahrukh Khan and Preity Zinta, respectively-for information on the sources of their funding and ownership details.
Costs rise from 1st July 2010 for buyers of under-construction properties due to the imposition of a service tax on builders. Last week, the Central Board of Excise and Customs notified that a service tax of 10 per cent would be levied on the gross value (Excluding abatement) of a housing property under construction from July 1. Only properties built under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission and the Rajiv Awaas Yojana would not be taxed.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised Repo and Reverse Repo rates by 25 basis points each to 5.50 percent and 4.0 percent respectively. At the same time, some liquidity management measures have been extended.These measures are expected to contain inflation and anchor inflationary expectations without hurting recovery process.
