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There will be no service tax on cashless health insurance transactions, reports CNBC-TV18 quoting sources from Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC). It is learnt that the changes will notified by the board soon. The Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Budget 2011-12 had proposed levying 5% tax on all services provided by private hospitals having at least 25 beds with central air-conditioning facility and also on all diagnostic tests. Full Article

The Reserve Bank on Thursday said it will consider allowing corporates in hotel, hospital and software sectors to raise overseas debts beyond $ 100 million, the stipulate limit now. "...it has now been decided to consider applications from the corporates in the hotel, hospital and software sectorsto avail of ECB beyond $ 100 million under the approval route, for foreign currency or rupee capital expenditure for permissible end-uses," RBI said in a notification. Full Article

As a rule, if the terms of the trust permit its operation 'for profit' they become, prima facie, evidence of a purpose falling outside charity. They would indicate the object of profit-making unless and until it is shown that the term of the trust compel the trustee to utilize the profits of business also for charity. This means that the test introduced by the amendment is "Does the purpose of a trust restrict spending the income of a profitable activity exclusively or p.. Full Article

But now, we have to consider the alternative claim of the assessee, whether the assessee is entitled for deduction u/s.37(1) of the Act, of donation made in lieu of appeal made by the GOG as the abovementioned amount was paid because Gujarat State was reeling under severe drought and one of the most important assets of the poor people of Gujarat i.e., cattle would be lost which would result in permanent loss to a large number of farmers and others, whose dependence on ca.. Full Article

Cashless hospitalisation schemes offered by health insurers and insurance companies are under the income-tax net.The CBDT has now made it clear that Third Party Administrators (TPAs) must deduct tax at source on payments made to hospitals for settling insurance/medical claims under various schemes including cashless schemes. Full Article

The services rendered by hospitals to various patients arc primarily medical services and, therefore, provisions of 194J are applicable on payments made by TPAs to hospitals" etc. Further for invoking provisions of 194J, there is no stipulation that the professional services have to be necessarily rendered to the person who makes payment to hospital. Therefore TPAs who are making payment on behalf of insurance companies to hospitals for settlement of medical/insurance cl.. Full Article

THIRD Party Administrators (TPAs), which process health insurance claims and make payments to hospitals for treatment of subscribers in cashless systems, may soon have to deduct tax from the payments they make to hospitals. The apex direct tax body, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), is likely to issue a directive to this effect, said an [...] Full Article