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The Union finance ministry is considering an increase in the central excise duty for some of the products that had benefited from the two rounds of reductions announced by the government as part of its fiscal stimulus measures last year. In December 2008, the government had reduced the general rate of central excise duty for [...] Full Article

Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed has said, contrary to expectation, the Budget will not address the taxation issue related to limited liability partnerships. The issue will be clarified only next year, he added. “It is too short a time for us to sort out the issue, but it is flagged,” Khursheed told. The Ministry of [...] Full Article

SUMMARY OF CASE LAW The making and sale of advertising materials for customers in the form of banner or hoarding or film-slide, etc. is `advertisement’ as defined under section 65(2); all commercial concerns engaged in any of the activities connected with advertisement, which includes making, preparing, displaying or exhibition of advertisement, answer the description of [...] Full Article

Freeing petrol and diesel prices from official control, restoring tax breaks on natural gas production and tax holiday for private oil refiners should be part of the government’s agenda in the first 100 days, industry wished. The Petroleum Federation of India, apex body of public and private oil firms, has submitted to the oil ministry a [...] Full Article

The tax authorities have been rapped by the Delhi high court for attempting to snoop on some companies, including Maytas, although they were not the suspected evaders. Terming a search and seizure operation conducted by the Income Tax department as a ‘serious invasion of the privacy and freedom of the citizen,’ the Delhi high court [...] Full Article

SECTION 120 OF THE INCOME-TAX ACT, 1961 – INCOME-TAX AUTHORITIES JURISDICTION OF – AMENDMENTS IN NOTIFICATION NO. SO 2022 (E), DATED 30-11-2007 NOTIFICATION NO. 47/2009 [F.No. 187/17/2007-IT(A-I) Part] , DATED 1-6-2009 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 120 of the Income tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the [...] Full Article

Accounting for taxes on income – Accounting Standard 22 – Treatment of deferred tax assets (DTA) and deferred tax liabilities (DTL) for computation of capital CIRCULAR No.DNBS.PD/CC. No. 142/03.05.002, dated 9-6-2009 NBFCs were advised vide DNBS (PD) C.C. No. 124/ 03.05.002/ 2008-09 dated July 31, 2008 that in terms of Accounting Standard 22, the tax [...] Full Article

The Income Tax Department will now mail to individual assessees the details of the tax deducted at source (TDS) on their Income from different sources like banks, employers or post offices.Officials said the move is aimed at preventing any discrepancy between the TDS actually deducted and the TDS received by the tax department. A circular [...] Full Article

The income tax department is set to start an online ‘judicial reference system’ in order to streamline thousands of departmental cases being fought in various courts and I-T tribunals across the country. The facility, to be used by I-T department officials initially, will put in place all the cases, petitions and Special Leave Petitions (SLPs) [...] Full Article

Genom Biotech vs. DIT (Bombay High Court) Search & seizure action u/s 132 was undertaken at the assessee’s premises. Thereafter an order of provisional attachment u/s 281B was passed. The assessee filed a writ petition challenging the validity of the search and the provisional attachment. HELD dismissing the Petition: (1) Search action u/s 132 can [...] Full Article