With the boom in the economy witnessed over the past five years, many salaried individuals and businessmen are left with surplus cash. It is not uncommon for people to invest in properties and to dispose them off when the value appreciates significantly. One has to pay short-term or long-term capital gains tax on the profits made on the sale of a house, depending on how long the property was owned before the sale. A house refers to a residential property and does not include commercial property and plots of land.
Procedure for e-payment- 1. To pay taxes online the taxpayer will select the relevant challan i.e. ITNS 280, ITNS 281, ITNS 282 or ITNS 283, as applicable. 2. Enter its PAN / TAN as applicable. There will be an online check on the validity of the PAN / TAN entered. 3. If PAN/ TAN is valid the taxpayer will be allowed to fill up other challan details like accounting head under which payment is made, name and address of TAN and also select the bank through which payment is to be made, etc.
Shares bought for Rs 5.25 Cr sold for Rs 52.5 lakh in same yr – capital loss allowed by AO – CIT can review order only if it is erroneous and prejudicial to interest of revenue; both ingredients should be present – ITAT
VALUATION of perquisites has always been a bone of contention. To overcome many of such irritants, the Finance Minister in the Finance Act, 2007 had inserted a deeming provision to define concession in the matter of rent for the purpose of determining the perquisite value. It has also reduced the rate of valuation of perquisite in the nature of concessional rent accommodation and leased accommodation with retrospective effect from 1 st day of April, 2006, that is with effect from assessment year 2006-2007. This had necessitated similar reduction of rates in case of both rent-free and concessional rent accommodations and leased accommodation in Table I of rule 3 with retrospective effect from 1 st day of April, 2006, that is in relation to assessment year 2006-2007 and subsequent years.
THE main point raised in this appeal is against the reduction in the claim of deduction u/s. 80HHC. The facts are that the return of income was filed claiming deduction u/s. 80HHC at Rs. 7,38,416/-. During the course of assessment proceedings the Assessing Officer noted that there was a net profit of Rs. 14,54,272/- on total export turnover of Rs. 2,48,26,964/ -. The net profit included Duty draw back turnover of Rs. 21,10,298/- and DEPB of Rs. 6,63,942/-. The Assessing Officer on verification of export in Form No. 10CCAC observed that the assessee has Loss on export turnover at Rs. 10,19,985/-.
Disallowance of travel by employees: the assessee had calculated the disallowance under Rule 6D with total number of travels undertaken by each employee during the year. This means that the disallowance was worked after setting off disallowables on one trip against the deficit in another trip in respect of each employee. However, the Assessing Officer observed that this disallowance under Rule 6D has to be computed with respect to each travel and ultimately, made an addition of Rs.2,00,000/ – which was confirmed by the ld. CIT(A).
Provided that exemption contained in this notification shall not apply in the cases where castor oil cake falling under item 23069017 and castor de-oiled cake falling under item 230690 27 of the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act are manufactured out of inputs on which duty drawback or benefit under Duty Entitlement Passbook (DEPB) schemes or any other export benefit as admissible under the Foreign Trade Policy has been availed of either by the unit in special economic zone or by the supplier of inputs, as the case may be.
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. 116/2007-Customs (N.T.), dated, the 3rd December, 2007 (S.O.2074 (E) dated 3rd December, 2007).
Those vehicles which are purely off-highway construction equipment vehicles designed and adapted for use in enclosed premises, factories or mine other than road network and are not equipped to travel on public road on their own power, shall not be deemed as motor vehicle and as such fall outside the purview of Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989.
The Reserve Bank of India has issued a circular dated 14 December 2007, laying down the directions for issuance of shares under Foreign Direct Investments and refund of advance remittances. With effect from November 29, 2007, equity instruments should be issued or advance remittances should be refunded within 180 days of receiving the money.
