Duty evasion to the tune of more than Rs 1,900 crore was detected today during raids conducted by commercial tax department on gutkha and pan masala units in different parts of Uttar Pradesh, an official here said.
Government today said the recent US legislation imposing a two per cent tax on foreign procurement and extending the present visa fee till 2015 will create a bias against the Indian IT sector. The US government has recently passed a bill –James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act– that will impose two per cent tax on the US government procurement from foreign companies and also extend the present visa fee on certain categories by one more year from 2014 to 2015.
The Central Government, Ministry of Finance has notified on December 20, 2010 to call in from circulation the coins of denomination of 25 paise and below, issued from time to time, with effect from June 30, 2011. From this date, these coins shall cea
Early this month, FM Pranab Mukherjee had okayed the setting up of a high-level multi-disciplinary panel to study black money at home and abroad, and another panel to suggest counter-measures against tax havens. These actions are likely to reflect in the Budget for 2011-12.
The government is likely to usher in the New Year with some important policy reforms. Important foreign direct investment (FDI) policy announcements is likely to be made in January 2011, reports sources. It is learnt that FDI policy is likely to be
U.S. bank Citigroup said on Tuesday it was investigating a set of suspicious transactions based on what it said were forged documents by an employee at a branch in India. The bank did not say how much money was involved, but a person familiar with th
Cricketer Harbhajan Singh, currently spinning misery on the South African team, seems to have been caught by the central excise and service tax department for defaulting on service tax. The department has found that he owes nearly Rs 1 crore as servi
The revenue department of the finance ministry estimates that Corporate India could have evaded over Rs 20,000 crore in taxes in 2007-08 had it shown mark-to-market losses on forex derivative transactions. According to the income tax department, in t
CBI yesterday detained a Joint Commissioner of Income tax and an inspector of the Income Tax department here in an alleged corruption case. CBI sources said Arun Gurjar, a 1999 batch Indian Revenue Service officer, and Baljit Singh, inspector, were detained following a complaint from a grain merchant.
G.S.R. (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, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No.152/2009-Customs, dated the 31st December, 2009 published in th
