- Thursday, August 6, 2009, 19:14
- Income Tax
A mechanism may be on the anvil to help companies to reclaim the fringe benefit tax they had paid for the first quarter along with advance corporate tax, as the government goes about implementing the budget proposal to abolish the levy with retrospective effect from April 1, 2009. Companies may be able to seek a refund [...]
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- Saturday, August 1, 2009, 3:59
- CA CS ICWA
Dear CA Pariwar, The Union Budget for 2009-10 presented by honble Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee has now been analysed, debated and discussed. Contrary to market expectations, it has turned out to be more a budget for the common man. The main focus of the Budget has been on continuing the efforts to bring the [...]
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- Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 2:51
- Income Tax
The Lok Sabha has passed the Finance Bill for 2009-10 by a voice vote on Monday, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that economic recovery has begun and India would achieve 8-9 pc economic growth by the end of 2010. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has announced a slew of concessions, including one pc interest subsidy for [...]
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- Sunday, July 26, 2009, 9:16
- Income Tax
The Lok Sabha was informed, on Friday that the new direct tax code will be released for public discussion by August 20. The new code will be released along with a discussion paper, the Minister of State for Finance, Mr S. S. Palanimanickam, said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha. On July 6, [...]
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- Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 23:37
- Income Tax
Government has no plans to bring a new amnesty scheme for tax evaders and wants to amend the Indo-Mauritius tax treaty to curb its abuse by companies, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday. VDS schemes in the past offered amnesty to people declaring black money and paying tax. But VDS schemes cannot be hugely successful [...]
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- Friday, June 12, 2009, 2:20
- GST
Asking the state finance ministers to resolve the pending issues expeditiously, the Centre on Thursday said introducing Goods and Services Tax was critical for economic reforms. “We also need to focus on the introduction of GST from April 1, 2010. This is a critical part of our economic reforms,” Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said while [...]
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