To prevent recurrence of Satyam-like frauds, the ICAI on Monday tightened the auditing standards by introducing new guidelines which will enable auditors interlink information and reports of other stakeholders and evaluate them. The two new standards on auditing, said Atul Kumar Gupta, member of the regional council of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), […]
If you are in the armed forces, pay your taxes on time or you may be asked to hang up your boots. The Supreme Court has upheld a decision of the Indian Air Force (IAF) to retire an officer for delayed payment of property tax. A bench headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat did not find […]
Some of country’s top telecom companies are being accused of deducting lower amounts of tax at source on payments made to each other for roaming and interconnection charges, but the companies deny any wrongdoing. Interconnect charges, which include call termination fees, port charges and carriage fees, account for about 30% of the tariff charged to […]
In order to restore credibility in the Satyam-tainted work of auditors, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the apex body that regulates the profession of chartered accountancy in India, is considering various options, including demanding more powers for itself. “The institute needs to have more teeth and there is need to make changes […]
In terms of the Board’s clarification dated 28-2-2006, the service rendered namely outsourcing of spot billing work by APCPDCL would come within the ambit of business support service which is liable to service tax only with effect from 2006.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has approached the Finance Ministry and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), seeking a reversal of their decision to liberalise the system for appointment of statutory branch auditors by public sector banks (PSBs). Until three years ago, RBI allotted such branch auditors, based on a panel of […]
7. It is the first contention of the appellant that the amount in issue is not an income within the definition of the term `income’ set out in section 2(24) of the said Act. We are unable to accept this contention of the appellant and we agree with the findings rendered in this regard by all the lower authorities, including the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal by its impugned order dated 26th July, 2006
19. We have given careful thought to the rival submissions of the parties and examined them in the light of material available on record, statutory provisions and case law cited at the Bar. At the very outset, we may state that the basic contention of the assessee that he is and should be considered as an agent under clauses (a), (b) & (c) u/s 163(1) of the Act, is misplaced
6. Section 54EC provides that where the capital gain arises from the transfer of a long term capital asset and the assessee has at any time within a period of six months after the date of such transfer, invested the whole or any part of capital gains in the long term specified asset, the capital gain shall be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of this section, that is to say, if the cost of the long term specified asset
60. Consider that what sections 2(14)(iii)(a) and (b) of the Income tax Act obviously envisage is one single municipality and not two. When the land under consideration admittedly falls outside the Phagwara municipality, as notified by the Central Govt. in accordance with section 2(14)(iii)(b) of the Act. There is no question of it being considered within the limits of the Jalandhar City municipality
