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Cooperative sugar mills in Maharashtra have appealed to the Union finance ministry to stop the insistence on tax deduction at source on the income of cane harvesting and transport contractors. The Federation of Cooperative Sugar Mills in Maharashtra says the income tax authorities refuse to recognise that these labour contractors don’t even have PAN cards and were earlier exempted from the tax deduction at source (TDS) rule. It has asked the ministry to intervene and get a ‘No TDS’ certificate to these people.
In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court has ruled that taxpayers can legally reduce their liability through dividend-stripping, a term used for selling mutual fund units at a discount post-dividend. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice SH Kapadia has said there is nothing wrong in dividend-stripping after getting the tax benefits. The bench further said such dividend stripping after availing of the tax rebates cannot be termed as abuse of law.
The Central Government have specified bonds to be issued by (i) Industrial Finance Corporation of India; (ii) Life Insurance Corporation of India; (iii) Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited; and (iv) a Non-Banking Finance Company classified as an infrastructure finance company by the Reserve Bank of India; as “Long-term Infrastructure Bond” for the purpose of section 80CCF of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
The guidelines on credit card operations cover various aspects such as issue of credit cards, interest rates and other charges, wrongful billing, use of Direct Sales Agents (DSAs)/Direct Marketing Agents (DMAs) and other agents, protection of customer rights covering among other things right to privacy, customer confidentiality and fair practices in debt collection, redressal of customer grievances, internal control and monitoring systems, fraud control etc.
July 9, 2010 The results of the Chartered Accountants Final and Final (New Course) Examinations held in May, 2010 and Common Proficiency Test (CPT) held in June, 2010 are likely to be declared on Monday, the 19th July, 2010 around 2:00 PM and the same as well as the merit list (candidates securing a minimum of 55% and above marks and upto the maximum of 50th Rank in the case of Final Examination and candidates securing a minimum of 60% and above marks and upto the maximum of 10th Rank in the case of Common Proficiency Test) on all India basis will be available on the following websit
The Commissioner Co-operation, Pune has intimated to the WIRC, vide letter dated 19th May, 2010 to prepare fresh panel for the Audit of Urban Co-operative Banks having deposit exceeding Rs.25 Crores. The Division-wise and District-wise panel shall be prepared by September, 2010 and the Co-operative Department will notify the panel by November, 2010.
One can feel the excitement in Infoscian Yojita Pai’s voice. This 23-year-old will soon be the proud owner of seven shares of Infosys Technologies. Last week, the company, to mark its 30th anniversary, allocated a minimum five equity shares to every eligible employee. In addition, every employee will get an incremental share for each year of service.
The Cabinet is likely to consider the changes in the new Foreign Trade Bill to give a leg-up to exports. The Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, which was introduced in the Rajya Sabha in 2009, was later referred to the standing committee of commerce.
The assessee, a fishing company, obtained two fishing vessels on charter from a foreign company based in Hong-Kong. The charter fee of $ 600,000 was payable from the earning from the sale of fish and for that purpose 85% of the gross earnings from the sale of fish was to be paid to the foreign company. The trawlers were delivered to the assessee at Chennai Port.
The following Order No. 81 of 2010 dated 9th July 2010 has been issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes to direct transfers / postings of officers in the grade of Commissioner of income-tax. Order No. 81 of 2010 dated 9.7.2010 issued by CBDT for transfer / posting of CITs (18 Pages)