Mandatory e-filing of return if income exceeds Rs. 5,00,000 or assessee claims relief U/s. 90, 90A or 91 CBDT has vide notification No. 34/2013 dated 01.05.2013 has made it mandatory for the following category of the Assesses to file their Income Tax Return Online from A.Y. 2013-14 :- (a)  It is mandatory for every person [...]

Now shifting of registered office from one State to another State under the Companies Act, 1956, requires a petition to be filed with Regional Director, Ministry of Corporate Affairs with effect from 12-08-2012 and earlier the same was required to be made to Company Law Board. The procedure for making the petition under Section 17 [...]

CS Kiran Mukadam, ACS, M.Com, SET Hercules Hoists Limited, Mumbai Since the emergence of various corporate scandals in India over the past few years, there has been much attention and debate on the role of Company’s Directors. There has been a lot of focus on independent Directors. A Director must be acted honestly and with [...]

The Board of directors of the company shall have an optimum combination of executive and non-executive directors with not less than fifty percent of the board of directors comprising of non-executive directors.

1.      Reference to FEMA, 1999 in the place of FERA, 1973/ FERA, 1947 under the Income-tax Act, 1961 Even after repeal of Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973, the Income-tax Act, 1961 continued to make a reference to the said Act in many of its sections, for example, section 10(4)(ii), 10(4B), etc. In order to correct [...]

Sub-section (4) of 90 and 90A provides that treaty benefit will not be available to any Non Resident unless he furnishes TRC from the Government of his country of residence containing such particulars as may be prescribed. The Finance Bill, 2013 had proposed to insert sub-section (5) in sections 90 and 90A to provide that [...]

No requirement to obtain TAN by transferee deducting tax under section 194-IA Section 194-IA was proposed to be inserted by the Finance Bill, 2013 to provide for deduction of tax at source@1% on consideration for transfer of immovable property, other than agricultural land. However, no tax is to be deducted if the consideration for transfer [...]

The Commodities transaction tax is proposed to be introduced in a limited way by insertion of Chapter VII in the Finance Bill, 2013. The Finance Minister, in his budget speech, had clarified that trading in commodity derivatives will not be considered as a speculative transaction. However, no amendment was proposed to this effect by the [...]

Land classified as agricultural land in the records of the Government and used for agricultural purposes not an asset chargeable to wealth-tax Section 2(ea) of the Wealth-tax Act, 1957 is proposed to be amended to clarify the real intent of the law, i.e., the agricultural land in the records of the Government and used for [...]

TCS provisions under section 206C to also be attracted on sale of gold coins and articles weighing 10 gms The Finance Act, 2012 had inserted sub-section (1D) in section 206C to provide for collection of tax at source on sale of bullion or jewellery, if the consideration exceeds Rs.2 lakh and Rs.5 lakh, respectively.