During the NEFT operating hours, originating banks should endeavour to put through the requests for NEFT transactions received by them, either online or across the counters, preferably in the next available batch but, in any case, not exceeding two hours from the time of receipt of the requests. In the likelihood of any delay / possible delay in adhering to this requirement, the originators / customers should be informed of the delay / possible delay and the reasons for the same.”
The Direct Taxes Code (DTC) Bill proposes to raise the exemption limit for imposing wealth tax to Rs 1 crore from Rs 15 lakh at present, a move that will help a lot of taxpayers avoid the levy. The Rs 1 crore limit proposed in the Direct Taxes Code Bill, however, is much less that the exemption of Rs 50 crore proposed in the original draft.
With a view to rationalize the present arrangements relating to portfolio investments by Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs)/Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), Foreign Venture Capital Investor (FVCI) and Private Equity entities etc., the Government had set up a working group to look at various types of foreign fund flows, which take advantage of arbitrage across the respective stand-alone regulations and also make recommendations to the Government.
The new tax code offers a little extra in terms of your take-home salary by tweaking tax brackets and increasing tax deductions. But you will have to rework your investing habits a bit in the financial year 2012-13 (when the Direct Tax Code gets functional) and change the way you invest in order to get the maximum benefit that the government plans to offer.
G.S.R. 723 (E). – In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby directs that each of the notifications of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), specified in column (2) of the Table below, shall be amended or further amended, as the case m
The Supreme Court will hear on September 10 the impleadment petition filed by the Forex Derivatives Consumers Forum along with the Special Leave Petition filed by Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India (FIMMDA). Forex Derivatives Consumers Forum is a registered association of exporters from across the country, a majority of them from Tamil Nadu’s Tirpur district.
The Supreme Court has directed the Income Tax department to freshly decide the issue on whether telecom operators Bharti Airtel and Vodafone would have to deduct TDS while paying BSNL for sharing network of the state-owned firm. A bench comprising Chief Justice S H Kapadia and Justice K S Radhakrishnan directed the IT department to adjudicate freshly over the issue with the help of technical experts within four months.
As you are aware, the ‘Cheque Return Memo’ that should accompany a cheque dishonoured / returned for any reason is a critical document, more so in case recourse to legal action is necessitated. The procedure for handling dishonoured cheques including
Once the Direct Taxes Code (DTC) 2010 get approved by both houses of the Indian parliament, and receives the President’s assent, it would be enacted as law. Significantly, while it was earlier envisaged that as per the original proposal the DTC would be effective from 1 April 2011, the start date of DTC 2010 has now been deferred by a year to 1 April 2012.
This is to bring to the notice of trade that a large number of online registrations filed are pending issuance in various Ranges/Division offices due to non submission of required documents. It is noticed that while the registration are filled online, either no hard copy of documents is submitted or the documents are submitted after considerable lapse of time. This results in substantial delay in granting registration. In fact, in a very large number of cases (more than 1,000), no documents have been submitted at all.
