The assessee credited its P&L A/c with an amount of Rs. 149.77 crores being the profit on sale of assets to its wholly owned subsidiary. As the said profits were not chargeable to tax u/s 47(iv), the assessee took the view that the same had also to be reduced from the “book profits” u/s 115JB. The Special Bench had to consider whether exempt income could be excluded from the computation of “book profits” u/s 115JB. HELD deciding against the assessee:
Accounting regulator the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has asked the government to make outsourcing of internal audit functions mandatory for companies to prevent a Satyam-like fraud from happening again. The suggestion is part of the recommendations by a high-powered committee of ICAI to the Corporate Affairs Ministry in the aftermath of a Rs 10,000-crore scam in Satyam Computer and is intended to strengthen the internal audit system of companies.
As per the letter dated 17.09.75, tolerance of 0.5% is allowed on account of breakage of bottles due to handling in the course of movements from the manufacturing area to bonded store rooms and breakages during storage and clearance there-from. It has also been observed that in some judicial pronouncements, this benefit has been allowed to the parties, on the limited ground that the said instruction has not been rescinded/ modified by the Board and further the cenvat credit taken on bottles as input have been allowed to be retained by the assessee.
The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari has said that the RTI Act imposes new obligations on all stakeholders. The government is called upon to be more transparent and accountable in decision and policy making, and manage its records better. Addressing at the launch of “RTI Portal developed by Institute of Management in Government (IMG)” at Thiruvananthpuram (Kerala) today
It’s raining bonus shares on Dalal Street, with nearly two dozen companies offering free shares to their stakeholders in the past few weeks. Apart from leading companies like ITC, Edelweiss Capital and state-owned MMTC, the list includes many other relatively small- and medium-sized companies across sectors.
In terms of the third proviso of para 18 of the Non-Banking Financial (Non- Deposit Accepting or Holding) Companies Prudential Norms (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2007, any systemically important non-deposit taking non-banking financial company not accessing public funds, either directly or indirectly, may make an application to the Bank for modifications in the prescribed ceilings with regard to Concentration of credit / investment norms.
CBEC has notified 8 new taxable Services w.e.f. 1.7.2010 vide Notification No.24/2010-Service Tax dated 22.6.2010. The following are the new taxable Services introduced w.e.f. from 1.7.2010. 1. Games of chance (zzzzn),2 Health services (zzzzo), ,3 Maintenance of medical records (zzzzp)
Notification No. 49/2010-Income Tax In a recent Notification No. 49/2010 dated 9 July 2010 (Notification) issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes, modifying the permitted modes of filing return of income (ROI) for (i) companies and (ii) individuals and Hindu Undivided Families (HUF) which are liable for tax audit.
Notification No. 49/2010-Income Tax “(a) a firm required to furnish the return in Form ITR-5 and to whom provisions of section 44AB are applicable shall furnish the return in the manner specified in clause (ii) or clause (iii); (aa) an individual or HUF required to furnish the return in Form ITR-4 and to whom provisions of section 44AB are applicable shall furnish the return for Assessment Year 2010-11 and subsequent Assessment Years in the manner specified in clause (ii) or clause (iii); (ab) a company required to furnish the return in Form ITR-6 shall furnish the return for Assessment Year 2010-11 and subsequent Assessment Years in the manner specified in clause (ii)’
The Commerce Ministry is likely to come out with strict norms for SEZ units engaged in recycling of plastic next week in wake of the Environment Ministry’s concern on illegal import of the hazardous waste. Businesses interested in setting up new plastic recycling units in Special Economic Zones (SEZs), would have to invest a minimum of Rs 1 crore in plant and machinery and export 80 per cent of the turnover by the fifth year of their operations.
