In the said notification, A. In the opening paragraph, -(a) in clause (i), the word “and” wherever it occurs shall be omitted;(b) for clause (ii), the following shall be substituted, namely:-“(ii) chewing tobacco falling under tariff item 2403 99 10 of the said Tariff Act; and(iii) Jarda scented Tobacco falling under tariff item 2403 99 30 of the said Tariff Act,” (c) for the words, brackets and figure “column (6)”, the words, brackets and figures “column (6) or column (7)” shall be substituted;
The committee set up by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is considering various options to retain minimum alternate tax (MAT) with the new proposed base of gross assets. The Direct Taxes code, proposed last year, had recommended shifting the base for calculation of MAT from book profit to gross assets, to make it an investment-linked, and not profit-linked, tax. However, stiff opposition from industry has led to reworking of MAT.
A day after conducting a search operation at the Indian Premier League (IPL) headquarters in Mumbai, the income tax (I-T) department has decided to expand the net and bring all 10 IPL teams under its scanner. The department will now examine who owns and funds all the teams. On Friday, a team of five I-T officials, including two deputy directors, visited the Punjab Cricket Association office in Mohali which houses the IPL franchise Kings XI Punjab. A similar exercise was undertaken at Rajasthan Royals office in Jaipur.
The team of income tax (I-T) officials who, on Thursday, had gone to the office of Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi on the 33rd floor of the Four Seasons luxury hotel at Worli were in for a shock. They did not find relevant documents or computer files related to the IPL, its franchises or Modi.
Entities are awarded a certificate of lower deduction or non-deduction of tax at source on receivables under Section 197 of the Income-tax Act, 1961. “This is generally for cases where the tax payee is not profitable or there is likely to be no tax liability on him at the end of the year. However, we have found several cases of misuse,” the source said.
Delhi High Court on Thursday said the National Stock Exchange was a public authority and was bound to reveal information under the Right to Information Act. Justice Sanjiv Khanna dismissed NSE’s plea that it could not be forced to disclose information under the transparency law since it was an autonomous body and not controlled by the government.
Capital Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India said on Friday that it was working together with the insurance watch dog to expeditiously find a “legally binding” resolution to who controls unit linked products and there are no restrictions on investment in existing schemes.
The Government of Himachal Pradesh has introduced a new Entry tax legislation wef 7 April 2010. The new Entry tax legislation (The Himachal Pradesh Tax on Entry of Goods into Local Area Act, 2010) seeks to levy Entry tax on specified goods brought into a local area for the purpose of use, consumption or sale therein.
Notification No. 23/2010-Income Tax As per section 56(2)(vii)(c)(ii) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) if an individual or a Hindu undivided family receives any property other than immovable property on or after 1 October 2009 for a consideration which is less than the Fair Market Value (FMV) of the property by an amount exceeding fifty thousand rupees then aggregate fair market value of such property exceeding such consideration will be treated as income of the receiver.
A five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court decided on Friday to refer to a larger bench the issue of imposition of entry tax on goods coming into jurisdiction of the respective states, involving financial implications to the tune of Rs 30,000 crore (Rs 300 billion).
