The decision to hike Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) rate to 20% from 18% now is being seen as a retrograde step by tax experts. However, the Direct Tax Code (DTC) as a whole, which the government plans to introduce in Parliament on Monday, is being seen as a step towards taking the Indian direct taxation system to global standards, tax practitioners and top company officials said.
The Reserve Bank of India, has said a bank will have to honour a fixed rate contract, even if interest rates move up in future. The clarification has removed doubts that some banks had over introduction of fixed rate home loans.
The Supreme Court on Monday asked former Satyam managing director B Rama Raju and four others, accused in Rs 14,000-crore (Rs 140-billion) accounting fraud in Satyam, as to why their bails should not be cancelled. The Supreme Court bench comprising Justice Deepak Verma and Justice Dalbeer Bhandari issued notices to the five accused on a petition filed by CBI.
Under pressure from India and other countries for sharing account details of suspected tax offenders, Swiss banks have said any information exchange would be according to the conditions set out by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the grouping of mostly developed nations.
One of the most challenging issues in TP is the taxation of income from intangible property. The issues may arise in several contexts, such as the appropriate royalty to be charged to a licensee of intangibles or the appropriate inter-company transfer price for goods manufactured and sold to a controlled distributor when the manufacturer owns the trademark for the finished goods in the distributor’s jurisdiction. The OECD has also recently announced that it is considering starting a new project on the TP aspects of intangibles that could result in a revision to the existing guidelines.
Board deserves thanks from taxpayers for advance intimation & invitation for suggestions in respect of Point of Taxation rules that would be made applicable for charge of service tax. These Rules can provide useful inputs in the process of drafting of Time & Place of Supply of Service Rules that would be required to be framed under proposed GST regime.
