If you receive a gift from any of your relatives or friends for Christmas or New Year or Pongal or any festival, worth more than Rs. 50000, as per income tax laws, it may be taxable income on your hands in certain situations.

Very soon, companies in India shall be governed by a new piece of legislation to be known as Companies Act, 2013 which shall replace the longest legislation of the country, the Companies Act, 1956 which is now over 56 years old.

The Delhi High Court has upheld the dismissal of a 1973-batch IPS officer on the ground of misconduct and for being habitually in debt as he did not repay after taking loans from various banks.

As per General Circular number 43/2012 dated 26.12.2012, time limit to file Cost Audit Report and Compliance Report for the year 2011-12 [including the overdue reports relating to any previous year(s)] in XBRL mode, without any penalty has been extended upto January 31, 2013 or within 180 days from the close of the company´s financial year to which the report relates, whichever is later.

Keeping in view of the ongoing requests from different quarters, MCA has extended the date of filing of Cost Compliance Reports and Cost Audit Reports upto 31st Jan 2013 vide General Circular No. 43/2012 dated 26 dec 2012.

High Court of Bombay had upheld the decision of the Tribunal in the case of Gopal Purohit (supra), on the ground that there was no substantial question of law involved. Even before Hon’ble High Court there was no question raised that all delivery based transactions have always to be treated as investment activity. Thus the decision of the Tribunal as well as the Hon’ble High court in case of Gopal Purohit (supra), cannot be considered as a precedent for the proposition that all delivery based shares have to be treated as investment activity.

The limitation period prescribed under section 11B for filing the refund claim is one year from the relevant date. The term ‘relevant date’ in the case where the duty becomes refundable as the consequences of judgment, decree, order or direction of the Appellate authority, appellate Tribunal or any Court has been defined in Explanation (B)(ec) of section 11B as the date of such judgment, decree or direction.

In this case initially the bank guarantee furnished, was not a duty deposit in advance, but a security. After the duty was determined, the encashment of bank guarantee will amount to duty paid as the encashed bank guarantee lost its character of security.

Whether the transportation service, provided in the factory of the M/s. Tata Auto Comp. Systems Ltd., to their staff for pick up and drop from their residence to the factory and vice versa, was an input service, in or in relation to manufacture, whether directly or indirectly of the final products within the meaning and comprehension of Rule 2(1) of the Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004?

Learned DR contended that for providing the said services, managerial skill was also required and even the knowledge of local law was also used by the concerned service provider. In our opinion, merely because some managerial skill is required to render the services, it would not make the services to be managerial services as envisaged in Explanation 2 to section 9(1)(vii).