Section 282B was inserted by the Finance Act (No. 2) Act, 2009, with effect from the 01-10-2010. Under this provision, an income tax authority is required to allot a computer generated Document Identification Number before issue of every notice, order, letter or any correspondence to any other income tax authority or assessee or any other person and such number shall be quoted thereon.

Under the existing provisions, appeal u/s. 260A of the Act against the order of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal can be filed with the High Court within a period of 120 days from the receipt of the order of the ITAT. Prior to introduction of the appeal provisions u/s. 260A w.e.f. 1st October, 1998, there were provisions of filing reference application before the High Court u/s. 256 of the Act, which also provided for similar period of 120 days from the receipt of the order of the ITAT.

Finance Act, 2009, introduced several provisions in the Act to treat LLP as a partnership firm for the tax purposes in all respects. The Finance Bill, 2010, takes the process of amendment further, primarily for small companies having turnover of Rs. 60.00 lacs or less, by amending sections 32, 35DDA, 43, 47, 47A, 49, 72A and section 115JAA , primarily aimed at providing tax neutrality for conversion of the private limited companies and unlisted public companies into LLP.

The Income Tax Act, 1961 provides an incentive for units in SEZs under section – 10AA. The exemption is required to be calculated based on profits earned by such units from their export. The provision of Sec – 10AA(7) provides the way in which the exempted profit is required to be determined as under:

This section was introduced by the Finance Act, 2007, for encouraging investment in the hotels and convention centers in the National capital territory of Delhi and the districts of Faridabad, Gurgaon, Gautam Budh Nagar and Gaziabad. This provision was introduced specifically for giving impetus to investment for ensuing common wealth games.

Section 80IB(10) allows 100% of the profits as deduction from a housing project, provided it complies with various conditions stipulated therein. The said section provided that the housing project should be completed on or before the 31st March, 2008 (for projects for which the approval was granted prior to 1.4.2004) or before expiry of a period of 4 years from the date of approval (in cases where the approval was granted after 1.4.2004).

Under the existing provisions, benefit of any deduction Under Chapter VIA is denied to the businesses which are specified businesses, irrespective of any claim being made and / or allowed. The Finance Bill 2010 proposes to amend section 35AD(3) and Section 80A to provide that the deduction Under Chapter VIA will be denied for the specified business only if the deduction U/s. 35AD is claimed and allowed. The proposed amendment by the Finance Act, 2010 substituting sub-section (3) may give rise to certain interpretational issues.

The Finance Bill, 2010 proposes that the assessee is required to make available such proportion of its total pipeline capacity as specified by regulations made by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board established under Section 3(1) of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Act, 2006 instead of 1/3rd of its total pipeline capacity. It may be mentioned that the concerned authority has provided in its regulation that gas pipeline network should have 1/3rd of the common carrier capacity, whereas petroleum pipeline network should have 1/4th common carrier capacity.

This Financial Year began on the backdrop of economic recession. Lower tax receipts were expected due to global recession. Even the Central Government had reduced its target of tax receipts. Considering this situation, the tax receipt target for 2009-20 10 of the Sales Tax Department was fixed at Rs. 3 1,346/- Crore. I am happy to inform the house that the sales tax target has been achieved. The signs of global economic recession receding are visible and I hope that in the next financial year, the revenue receipts would get a boost.

The Meghalaya budget 2010-11, presented in the Assembly today, proposed to hike the VAT rate on all items, barring wheat and rice, from four per cent to five per cent. Presenting the budget, Finance Minister Mukul Sangma proposed to raise the royalty rate on coal to realise Rs 42 crore. The tax on luxuries will be amended to rationalise the room tariffs, he added.