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From the third quarter of 2008, the dollar, which was sliding against almost all currencies, suddenly found itself on an escalator. Policy mechanics, and not market economics, explains the greenback's rise, says S. GURUMURTHY. Full Article

ACIT vs. Bright Star Investment (ITAT Mumbai) - Where the assessee had converted stock-in-trade into investments at their book value and later sold them and offered to tax the difference between the indexed book value and the sale proceeds as capital gains and the AO took the view that the difference between the book value and the FMV on the date of conversion had to be assessed as business income, Held: Full Article

Central Government, having regard to seventy-five per cent of the average rise in the Consumer Price Index for the Financial Year commencing from the 1st day of April, 2007 and ending on the 31st day of March, 2008 for the urban non-manual employees, hereby specifies the Cost Inflation Index for the Financial Year commencing from the 1st day of April, 2008 and ending on the 31st day of March, 2009 Full Article

The Budget 2008-09 could bring some cheer to a host of self-employed professionals, like engineers and architects, with the likely increase in the threshold for tax deducted at source (TDS) for these professionals. The existing ceiling for deduction of tax at source is Rs 20,000. As per section 194J of the Income Tax Act, 1961, if the fee for professional or technical service contract undertaken by any of these professionals is more than Rs 20,000, the contract awardee h.. Full Article

(a) Paper Books must be legibly written or type-written in double space of printed. (b) Each paper filed should be certified as true copy by the party filing the same, or by his authorized representative. (c) Each paper should be indexed in such a manner as to give the brief description of the relevance of the document, with page numbers stating the authority before whom it was filed. (d) Xerox copy of a document should be legible. Full Article

When investors make profits on sale of assets like land, shares and mutual fund units, it is termed as capital gains. The investor has to pay tax on the resulting gains that is commonly referred to as capital gains tax. The amount of money outflow from your pocket depends on how long you held the property. If a residential property is held by the seller for more than 36 months, it is considered a long-term investment. For investments over the short term, the short-term c.. Full Article