Notification No. 24/2010-Income Tax S.O. (E).-In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (48) of section 2 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), read with clause (ii), clause (iii) and clause (v) of sub-rule (3) and sub-rule (6) of rule 8B of the Income Tax Rules, 1962, the Central Government hereby specifies the bond with the following particulars as zero coupon bond for the purposes of the said clause (48) of section 2 of the said Act, namely :—
Notification No. 23/2010-Income Tax valuation of shares and securities.-(a) the fair market value of quoted shares and securities shall be determined in the following manner, namely;-(i) if the quoted shares and securities are received by way of transaction carried out through any recognized stock exchange, the fair market value of such shares and securities shall be the transaction value as recorded in such stock exchange;
Over 150 countries have implemented or announced plans to migrate to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). India proposes to adopt IFRS from the accounting period starting April 2011 or later. The uniformity in accounting and disclosure standards will enable all stakeholders to understand the performance of entities and make comparisons across sectors and countries. However, the challenges cannot be underestimated as some countries that adopted IFRS took over two years for complete convergence.
Applications are invited from ISA qualified members having working experience of five years to review the functioning of ITT centres of the ICAI. The member should preferably be from Proprietary firms/ Partnership firm with a maximum of three members.
If there was a surplus of agricultural income in the hands of the assessee for these impugned assessment years, there would have been no question of claiming expenses by way of deduction or question of allowing the same as deduction in computing the business income of the assessee company. The expenses relating to agricultural operations cannot be allowed as expenditure in computing the business income for the simple reason that agricultural income does not form part of the total income under the IT Act.
Notification No. 22/2010-Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by Explanation 2 to section 90 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) the Central Government hereby notifies the following areas outside India as the ‘specified territory’ for the purposes of the said section, namely:- Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman lslands, Gibraltar..
The Income Tax (I-T) department sleuths conducted simultaneous raids on 45 sugar mills spread in 17 places across the country on Wednesday. The I-T department cracked the whip following a recent Headlines Today report that showed how sugar mills were illegally raking in profit by artificially jacking up prices.
Need for having separate laws meant for the securities market surfaced in the late eighties which became a reality in early nineties. Orderly development and protection of investors became the objective of the Government without which the capital market would not develop.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued Notification no. FEMA 205/2010-RB dated 7 April 2010 (Notification), which has amended the regulation in connection with pricing norms for issue of shares by an Indian company to a person resident outside India. This Notification comes into force from 21 April 2010 (i.e. the date of its publication in the Official Gazette). Given below are the amended pricing norms for rights issue and issue of shares (other than rights issue).
Mumbai bench of Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (the Tribunal) in the case of DCIT v. Bombay Diamonds Co. Ltd. (ITA no. 7488/Mum/07) held that if the books of accounts of the taxpayer which are not prepared in accordance with part II and part III of schedule VI to the Companies Act, 1956, the Assessing Officer (AO) can make adjustment in the book profits under section 11 5JB of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) even if the books of accounts are audited or certified by the auditors and accepted by the shareholders.
