Cost accountants fear their profession may become redundant as the budget has allowed chartered accountants to do excise audit, which was their exclusive domain. “Allowing chartered accountants to conduct excise audits under sections 14A and 14AA of the central excise act is unfair and an unjustified move, which discriminates against cost accountants, ” Kunal Banerjee, […]
The government has merged the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) for direct and indirect taxes, the two arms of Finance Ministry, where overseas firms and Non-Resident Indians can know their tax liabilities.To further enhance efficiency in tax administration, I intend to merge the two Authorities for Advance Rulings on Direct and Indirect Taxes by amending the relevant Acts, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said unveiling the budget for 2008-09.
Under the existing provision of clause (48) of section 2, only infrastructure capital company or infrastructure capital fund or public sector company are empowered to issue zero coupon bonds when they are authorized to do so. With a view to empower the scheduled banks including nationalized banks to issue zero coupon bonds to source their long term […]
According to the new proposal of the Union Budget 2009-10, any property received from a non-relative where the value is in excess of Rs 50,000 in a particular year will be considered as income in the hands of the recipient. Earlier, gifts in the form of cash from non-relatives were exempted up to a limit […]
G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 4A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do , hereby makes the following amendments in the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance
“24A. Return of records. – The books of accounts or other documents, seized by the Central Excise Officer or produced by an assessee or any other person, which have not been relied on for the issue of notice under the Act or the rules made thereunder, shall be returned within thirty days of the issue of said notice or within thirty days from the date of expiry of the period for issue of said notice.
For the purposes of this exemption, “packaged software or canned software” means software developed to meet the needs of variety of users, and which is intended for sale or capable of being sold off the shelf.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts parts, components and accessories of mobile handsets including cellular phones, from the whole of the additional duty of customs leviable thereon under sub-section (5) of section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), subject to the condition that the importer follows the procedure set out in the Customs (Import of Goods at Concessional Rate of Duty for Manufacture of Excisable Goods) Rules, 1996.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby directs that each of the notifications of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), specified in column (2) of the Table below, shall be amended in the manner specified in the corresponding entry in column (3) of the said Table, namely.
Provided that if the said input or capital goods is subsequently used in the manufacture of final products or the provision of taxable services, the manufacturer or output service provider, as the case may be, shall be entitled to take the credit of the amount equivalent to the CENVAT credit paid earlier subject to the other provisions of these rules.
