State governments stuck to their demands of higher threshold for central Goods and Services Tax and keeping local body taxes and electricity duty out of it, threatening the total implementation of what is touted as the biggest tax reform since independence.
The next time you plan to buy an insurance policy through a corporate agent, please check whether the agent is legally authorised to sell the policy or not. This has become necessary because the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority has said that 4,261 corporate agents out of 7,000 in the country were not authorised to sell policies from March 31, 2010.
In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (aa) of sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 12/97-Customs (N.T.), namely:-
The Central Government, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of Section 4 of the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (28 of 2005) and in pursuance of rule 8 of the Special Economic Zones Rules, 2006, hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Department of Commerce, number S.O. 1626(E) dated 7th July, 2008 with respect to sector specific Special Economic Zone for engineering sector by M/s. Ansal Kamdhenu Engineering SEZ Limited at Village Bhagan, Tchsil-Ganaur (Sonepat) and village Kurar Ibrahimpur, Tchsil-Sonepat on NH-1, Haryana,
Instances have come to the notice of the Authority that a large number of firms were floated by the same set of individuals under different or similar names to act as Corporate Agents. Some of corporate agents were observed to utilize the services of a large number of people not having requisite Licence/Certificate to solicit or procure the insurance business, and paid remuneration for procuring the insurance business.
Income Tax Welfare Fund with a Corpus of Rs.100 Crore Operationalised after 12 Years. Finance Minister asks CBDT to Address the Issue of Unwanted Litigation with Taxpayers and Realise Locked up Revenue in Appeals.
With the draft direct taxes code being criticised for its proposal to tax long-term savings among others, the finance ministry on Wednesday said a revised draft will be put for public comments within a month for addressing the concerns of all stakeholders.
AFTER months of job search and multiple interviews, you get an offer letter. You think it’s the pay off time for all the efforts that have gone into the job search. But at this stage, you have to exercise extreme caution to read the fine print and evaluate the offer.
The Bombay High Court today issued a stay order on the showcause notice sent by the Income Tax (I-T) Department to British telecom major Vodafone. The I-T Department had asked the company to pay Rs 12,000 crore as tax on its acquisition of a majority stake in Hutchison Essar Ltd in 2007. The court fixed July 8 for the next hearing.
THE Indian tax authorities had advised British telecom major Vodafone to pay tax on its $11-billion acquisition of Hutchison Essar before it sealed the transaction, according to a recent income tax order. In a letter on March 23, 2007, the Income Tax (I-T) department had asked Vodafone to pay withholding tax, nearly one-and-a-half month before the telco made the payment to Hong Kong-based Hutchison International for buying two-third stake in Hutchison Essar.
