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Section 69 does not provide any guideline about the extent and length of the discretionary power given to AO in the matter of treating the investment as income which is unexplained or unsatisfactorily explained by the investor-assessee. Therefore, Assessing Officer is expected to appreciate the reasonable explanation offered to him, the evidences produced before him about the nature and source of investment and he can not make the addition merely on surmises, conjectures.. Full Article

UCBs – Accounting Procedure for investments – Settlement Date Accounting RBI/2010-11/373 UBD. (PCB).Cir. No. 34/09.80.00/2010-11 January 18, 2011 The Chief Executive Officers of All Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks Dear Sir, Accounting Procedure for investments – Settlement Date Accounting Please refer to Circulars UBD(PCB)/Cir.49/09.80.00/2004-05 dated June 20, 2005 on ready forward contracts in Government Securities and UBD(PCB) [...] Full Article

Under Section 80CCF, any individual or Hindu undivided family can invest up to Rs 20,000 in infrastructure bonds and avail of tax benefits. This will be over the Rs 1-lakh deduction allowed under Section 80C. So, an investor in the tax bracket of 30 Full Article

The market regulator SEBI on Monday asked mutual fund companies to make all the disclosures about market risks involved in the products more prominent in their communication. "To make these statements more prominent, it is advised that the disclosures as stated in the clauses 10, 13 and 14 of schedule VI of SEBI (Mutual Funds) Regulations of 1996 on Advertisement Code shall be printed in bold," the regulator said in a circular here today. Full Article

It is essential for the investors to be aware that the investments made in mutual funds are subjects to risk and that the scheme related documents should be read before investing. Hence it was mandated that statements appearing in Clauses 10, 13 and 14 of Schedule VI of SEBI (Mutual Funds) Regulations, 1996 on Advertisement Code should appear in all advertisements. However, it is noted that the advertisements issued are generally lengthy and hence these disclosures are n.. Full Article

...if it is intended to be ‘buy and forget'! The two bear markets that we have seen over the past ten years - first at its start in 2000 and then near its end in 2008 - have demonstrated exactly how dangerous buy and forget can be. In the first bear market, which went on from February 2000 through September 2001, the BSE-Sensex fell 56%. In the second bear market, that began in January 2008 and seems to have ended in March 2009, the index lost almost 61%. Full Article

It depends on the facts of each transactions, whether the letting out of the property is incidental and subservient dominant object of selling the property or not. If the property has merely been let out b> the assessee then the same cannot be held to be exploitation of the property for commercial purpose in view of the decision of the Hon'ble Shambhu Investment (supra). We. therefore, restore this issue to the file of the AC) for fresh consideration in the light of afor.. Full Article

The burden of proving an understatement or concealment is on the revenue; this burden may be discharged by the revenue by establishing facts and circumstances from which a reasonable inference can be drawn that the assessee has not correctly declared or disclosed the consideration received by him and there is an understatement or concealment of the consideration in respect of the transfer. Full Article