Under the existing provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (‘the Act’), tax holiday is available to an undertaking which has commenced providing telecommunication services on or before 31 March 2005 (Section 80-IA of the Act). Such benefit is availabl
The DTC 2010 seeks to provide that the Central Government may enter into an agreement with the Government of any country or specified territory for the granting of relief or avoidance of double taxation (‘DTAA’), for exchange of information
It is interesting to note the path of the Direct Tax Code from the 2009 Bill to the 2010 one. The promises of a lower corporate tax rate have not crystallised. However, relief has been given to SEZ developers & SEZ units by way of grandfathering clau
GST, when implemented, will replace many of the taxes and will obviously reduce the paper work, man power and money. Further, there are no. of ambiguities in certain cases which makes it difficult to ascertain as to which law is applicable. For eg. s
In 2010 Budget, infrastructure bonds were announced as one of the tax saving options to assessees whereby under section 80CCF of the Indian Income tax Act, investment upto Rs 20,000 in notified infrastructure bonds was allowed tax benefit by way of reduction from total taxable income. This is over and above Rs one lakh tax benefit available under sections 80C, 80CCC and 80 CCD.
Since Direct Taxes Code Bill, 2010 has already been introduced in the Parliament, it is, expected that the Finance Bill to be introduced in February, 2011 would not make significant policy changes at this stage.
With reference to a news item appearing in a certain section of the print media today, it is clarified that there is no move in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India for any change of financial year from April – March to January – December or
The Companies Bill 2009 has dealt with independent directors quite extensively. The Standing Committee has spent significant time on issues relating to independent directors as evident from the report of the Committee. This shows the criticality of the effectiveness of independent directors in corporate governance.
India’s largest distribution network with 1.55 lakh offices has been thrown open to the insurance industry with the industry regulator allowing IndiaPost to sell policies of multiple insurance companies. This opens a new distribution channel for insurers who have been desperately trying to poach bank distributors from rivals to increase their reach.
A district consumer forum recently brought to book a bank that made a couple run from pillar to post after they had expressed their willingness to close their housing loan account before maturity. Stating that the complainants experienced financial l
