CIT vs Bhiwani Synthetics Ltd.- Citation 199 Taxation 204 Validity of Return – Return signed by General Manager of Company The return of the assessee company was signed by the General Manager (Finance). The CIT(A) and the Tribunal directed the A.O. to give an opportunity to the assessee to cure the defect. The company had given a power of attorney to the said General Manager to sign the return. The company had not disowned the return. The order of the Tribunal was not prejudiced to Revenue. No question of law arose.
Life Insurance Corporation of India will file its maiden health insurance product with the insurance regulator by next month. The product will be a long-term policy and have a savings element, said Mr D.D. Singh, Executive Director (Health), LIC. It will have a unit-linked component and be issued as a family floater policy.
Q1 : Whether the Income-tax Act, 1961 is applicable to all the Voluntary Organisations who are engaged in socio-economic development programmes in India ? Please clarify. Ans : The Income Tax Act, 1961, is applicable to Voluntary Organisations which are engaged in public charitable or religious activity. Hence, Voluntary Organisations which carry out socio-development programmes […]
Data from service tax department and state value-added tax (VAT) departments may now come handy for the I-T sleuths to catch those evading taxes. Traders have to register with the state VAT departments once their annual turnover crosses Rs 5 lakh. Similarly, service providers register themselves once they reach Rs 7 lakh in annual turnover. […]
Worryingly for taxpayers, there is confusion in the air about AIR (annual information return) ever since the taxman issued an FAQ relating to ITR (income-tax return) forms. FAQs are supposed to clarify things but what is causing puzzlement to assessees is the `limit’ relating to financial transactions for AIR, specified in one of the `frequently asked’ questions, posted recently on www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in. Question number 64, the last in the list, reads: “In schedule of AIR of all ITRS relating to financial transactions whether the limit fixed is for aggregate or single in each category as shown in the following transactions:
IT is now an axiomatic law that Board circulars are binding on the Department, even if they are wrong or against decisions of the Supreme Court. But our Boards do not have the habit of tracking down the multitude of circulars they issue and considering whether they are relevant after the Law has been amended and the Apex Court had already ruled on the issue. In the Dhiren Chemicals case (2002-TIOL-83- SC-CX), the Supreme Court had held that if there was a Board Circular which was not in tune with the views of the Supreme Court, the Board Circular would prevail. The whole idea is that the Department should not be seen arguing that the Board was wrong – even if it is wrong, the Departmental officers should be bound by it.
DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH THE BUILDER This Agreement is made here at New Delhi on this ….th day of ………, 200…., between ………………………………………………….. through its…………………………………………………….. s/o ……………………………………… r/o ………………………………………………………., hereinafter called the Owner, the First Party and M/S ………………………………………, ……………………………………… through its Director ……………………………………… s/o ……………………………………… r/o ………………………………………………………, hereinafter called the Developers, Second Party.
(i) These Regulations shall be called the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Any Foreign Security) (Amendment) Regulations, 2007. (ii) These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into effect from the dates specified in these Regulations.
All precautions may please be taken to ensure that only the correct amount gets credited into the exporters’ accounts. Sample cases may be taken up for manual checking and validation. It may also be ensured that in cases where the exporters have already taken the differential drawback by filing supplementary claims, the EDI system does not again credit the differential drawback amount into exporter’s accounts.
An ‘Explanation’ has been added to Rule 12 (erstwhile Rule 10A), which relates to rejection of declared value, to bring more clarity and objectivity in exercising the authority for rejection of declared value. The Explanation clarifies that this rule as such does not provide a method for determination of value, and that it merely provides a mechanism and procedure for rejection of declared value in certain cases.
