As per Income-tax (Ninth Amendment) Rules, 2007 notified vide No.238/2007, Dated 30-08-2007, the following persons are mandatory required to file TDS / TCS returns electronically on quarterly basis: The deductor is an office of Government, or The deductor is a company; or The deductor is a person required to get his accounts audited under section 44AB in the immediately preceding financial year; or
Making things easier for the business process outsourcing (BPO) units, other call centres and the manufacturing sector, the government is likely to amend Section 66 of the Factories Act, 1948 to enable these entities to put women on night shifts, particularly between 7 pm and 6 am, which is otherwise prohibited under the Act.
The government is likely to introduce biometric PAN cards soon to address the problem of duplicate cards. A joint working group in the ministry of finance has given its report after obtaining technical and commercial proposals from leading biometric solutions providers, finance minister P Chidambaram said in the Lok Sabha during Question Hour. “The report is at present under consideration,” the minister said. He said the number of individuals suspected to have duplicate PANs is estimated to be 13,10,127 throughout the country.
For the purposes of this notification, rate of exchange applicable for the purposes of calculation of anti-dumping duty shall be the rate which is specified in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), issued from time to time, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-clause (i) of clause (a) of sub-section (3) of section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) and the relevant date for determination of the rate of exchange shall be the date of presentation of the bill of entry under section 46 of the said Customs Act.
While obtaining RCMC, an exporter has to declare his main line of business in the application. The exporter is required to obtain RCMC from the Council which is concerned with the product of his main line of business.
In exercise of powers conferred under paragraph 2.4 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2004-09, the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby makes the following amendments in the Handbook of Procedures.
In exercise of powers conferred under Paragraph 2.4 of the Foreign Trade Policy 2004-2009, the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby makes the following amendments in Handbook of Procedures.
The Principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide Notification No.36/2001 – Customs (N.T.), dated, the 3rd August, 2001 (S.O.748 (E), dated, the 3rd August, 2001) and was last amended vide Notification No. 83/2007-Customs (N.T.), dated, the 16th August,2007 (S.O.1413(E) dated 16th August,2007).
Employees’ Stock Option Plan or Scheme (ESOP or ESOS, for short), was not liable to fringe benefit tax (FBT) upto the assessment year (AY) 2007-08, relevant to the financial year (FY) 2006-07. The reason for the same is that though under the provisions of section 115WB(1)(a) of the Income-Tax Act, 1961 (the Act), ESOP could be considered as a privilege and accordingly, chargeable to FBT, yet in the absence of specific valuation provisions in this regard in section 115WC,
The approved organization shall maintain a separate statement of donations received and amounts applied for scientific research and a copy of such statement duly certified by the auditor shall accompany the report of audit referred to above.
