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The finance minister retained most of his other proposals, providing only marginal relief to industries such as automobiles, garments, personal computers and printers. On direct taxes, the biggest concession was in the norms for a concessional 15% tax on dividends received from overseas subsidiaries. As against the minimum 50% India holding in such subsidiaries to be eligible for the tax sop, the finance minister has suggested a lower threshold of 26%, benefiting several.. Full Article

Our tax laws are replete with instances where taxpayers are required to do acts which are near impossible, which are beyond their powers, or for which they have to go to extraordinary lengths. Not only that, failure to comply with such provisions attracts additional taxes, interest or penalties. Full Article

Opposition on Thursday sought changes in the present income tax procedures to make it people-friendly and said it would help check tax evasion. Participating in the resumed debate on the Finance Bill in the Lok Sabha, Anant Geete (Shiv Sena) said people are more interested in evading tax than paying it for development. 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

Union Budget is the Annual Financial Statement of India presented every year on the last working day of February. This time, however, the Union Budget will be presented on February 26, as February 28th is a Sunday. Also, since the stock market is closed on Saturday (Feb 27), the finance ministry decided that the Budget should be presented on a day when the markets are open so as to gauge the reaction of the market players. Thus, Budget will be presented on February 26 th.. Full Article

The Finance Bill (No.2), 2009 could be presented on Sixth of July, 2009 due to formation of new government but by that time many corporate assessees had already paid the first instalment under the belief that the Finance Bill has yet to be accorded consent by the President and is not final. The advance tax in respect of FBT which was payable for the quarter ending 30th of June, 2009 by 15th of July, 2009 was paid erroneously by many of them. Full Article

Amendment of section 90 :-The Finance Bill (No. 2) 2009 proposes to replace the existing Section 90 with a new section 90. The new section 90 is substantially the same as earlier section 90 except that the proposed amendment seeks to empower the Central Government to enter into an agreement with the Government of any country outside India or a specified territory outside India, inter alia, for avoidance of double taxation of income. Full Article

Definitions – Manufacture – Clause 3 - S 2 (29BA):- Clause 3 of the Finance Bill 2009 has sought to introduce sub section 29BA in section 2 of the Income Tax Act wherein the manufacture is defined for the first time The amendment is to take effect retrospectively from 1st April, 2009 and would apply in relation to Assessment Year 2009-2010 and subsequent years. . The amendment read as follows: Full Article