The Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by Certain Establishments) Act, 1988 presently provides for exemption by way of allowing ‘very small’ establishment (employing up to 9 workers) to maintain only one register and submit one return and ‘small establishments’ (employing 10 to 19 workers) to maintain three registers and submit one return. The passage of the Amendment Bill will benefit establishments employing up to 40 workers in maintaining registers and submitting returns electronically under 16 Labour Laws.
Circular No. 6/2010-Income Tax 2.As Regional Rural banks (RRB) are basically corporate entities (and not cooperative societies, they were considered to be not eligible for deduction under section 80P when the section was originally introduced. However, as section 22 of the Regional Rural Bank Act provides that a RRB shall be deemed to be cooperative society for the purposes of the Income tax Act 1961, in order to make such banks eligible for deduction under section 80P, CBDT issued a beneficial Circular No. 319 dated 11-1-1982, which stated that for the purpose of section 80P, a Regional Rural Bank shall be deemed to be a cooperative society.
Accounting regulator Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is arranging easy financing schemes for its members through public sector banks, as it looks to help domestic audit firms enhance infrastructure and resource base to ward off competitio
Peeved by rejection of claim, top Chartered Accountant Bansi Mehta wants winding up of New India Assurance. Despite winning a case against the insurer at a Consumer Forum, Mr Mehta’s claims still remain to be settled. If the insurer does not pay with
Mahesh Bhupathi, best known for his winning ways on court, has claimed that he had reimbursed his tennis-trainer father C G Krishna Bhupathi the Rs 28.5 lakh he spent on him for the period 1989-90 and 1993-94—four years in total. The tennis ace has c
Indian-listed shares:-Long-term capital gains on transfer of the above securities (where securities transaction tax is payable) would continue to be eligible for a 100% deduction, and remain exempt from tax. The DTC has reduced the tax burden substantially for short-term small investors. Short-term capital gains on such securities (taxable at 15.45%) would be eligible for 50% deduction and thereafter taxed as per the normal slab rates applicable. Effectively, the tax under DTC would range between 5% and 15%, depending on the tax bracket in which an individual falls. Small investors (with an income between Rs 2 lakh and Rs 5 lakh) would pay only 5% capital gains tax.
Next time you are investing in mutual funds, make sure you issue a cheque from your own bank account, as fund houses will soon start rejecting third-party payments. The move is part of efforts to check fraudulent activities by mutual fund agents and
The Finance Ministry will decide on whether to bring out yet another revised draft of the Constitutional Amendment Bill, needed for the roll out of the new indirect taxes regime GST, after it has received inputs from state finance ministers who are t
Hundreds of listed companies regulated by SEBI may be paying crores of rupee in a year as salary to their CEOs, but the next chief of the market watchdog is going to get only Rs 3 lakh a month. The government has proposed a consolidated monthly salar
Upset over sharp reduction in the rates of duty drawback, or tax refund, exporters today said the move will have adverse impact on employment in sectors like apparel, leather, handicraft and metal.
