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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

Amid concerns by medical community on the proposed service tax on healthcare, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said in the Rajya Sabha that he would respond to the representations on tax issues next week.Following the reply of Mukherjee on general discussion on the Budget, the Rajya Sabha returned the Appropriations Bills, completing the first phase of the three-stage exercise for passage of the budget. Full Article

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the income tax department has recovered undisclosed income of Rs 25,000 crore in the last two years during its search and seizure operations. In Income Tax Act there is regular provision for search and seizure. And this year search and seizure when we intensified, we have got undisclosed income of Rs 25,000 crore in last 24 months and out of that Rs 7,000 crore additional taxes have been realised," Mukherjee said while replyin.. Full Article

Market regulator SEBI will soon come out with guidelines for foreign investors undertaking direct investments in mutual funds, a senior official said today. "SEBI will issue the guidelines allowing foreign investors to invest in mutual funds shortly...We are working with the Reserve Bank and the Finance Ministry (for allowing FIIs entry into mutual funds)...it is a matter of weeks and not months," SEBI Executive Director of institutional investment management K N Vaidyan.. Full Article

The government today said the proposal to impose service tax on healthcare will not hurt the common man as only services provided by the centrally AC hospitals with more than 25 beds would attract the new levy. Full Article

Describing the committed taxpayers as engines of economy, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today exhorted the young IRS probationers to treat them as their clients and not as adversaries. The assessee is no longer considered an adversary, committed taxpayers are the engines of our economy and therefore important clients of Revenue Department, Mukherjee said, while addressing the Indian Revenue Services (IRS) probationers at Parliament House complex here. Full Article

In a good sign, the government will depend less on borrowing to finance budgetary proposals in 2011-12 than in the ongoing 2010-11 financial year.Borrowings will comprise 27 paise out every rupee that the government plans to spend in 2011-12, compared to 29 paise in the current financial year, as per the proposals presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Parliament on Monday. Full Article

The Union Budget 2011-12 proposes to amend the Indian Stamp Act. Presenting the Budget in Lok Sabha Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that a bill will be introduced shortly to amend Indian StampAct, 1899. Full Article