Taxpayers who claim exemption from tax on capital gains by furnishing a residency certificate of Mauritius had better watch out. Now, income-tax (IT) authorities can ask for evidence from Mauritius government to examine the authenticity of a taxpayer who claims exemption on capital gains tax provided under the Indo-Mauritius Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement( DTAA).
Net direct tax collections during first quarters of the present fiscal (up to June 2010) stood at Rs.68,675 crore, up from Rs.59,465 crore in the same period last fiscal, registering a growth of 15.49 percent. Growth in Corporate Taxes was 21.65 percent (Rs.43,439 crore as against Rs.35,709 crore), while Personal Income Tax (including STT, and residual FBT and BCTT) grew at 1.24 percent (Rs.24,075 crore as against Rs.23,780 crore).
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), said it will not initiate proceedings against S Gopalakrishnan, ex-partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), for his alleged involvement in the multi-crore Satyam accounting scandal until the Delhi High Court’s stay on Srinivas Talluri, ex-partner, PwC, is lifted.
In a move that will make it difficult for large companies to have a pyramid-like holding structure, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs plans to prohibit a subsidiary company from floating a 100 per cent owned company of its own.In a string of new changes proposed to the Companies Bill, 2009, the Ministry has told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance that a company would be permitted to have only one investment company.
India Inc has reason to cheer with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs making it mandatory for the competition regulator, the Competition Commission of India, to clear M&A (mergers and acquisitions) proposals in just 180 days compared with 210 days specified earlier.
Twenty-year old Sharma did not know that a small negligence in keeping track of his credit would mean a bill of Rs 18 lakh, especially, since his credit limit was only Rs 55,000. A call, however, to the customer support of the bank confirmed the amount.Sharma swung into action immediately and filed a police complaint. He even informed the issuer about the unfortunate event.
Wallfort Shares & Stock Brokers, a Five Member Special Bench of the Tribunal (96 ITD 1 (Mum) (SB)) and the Bombay High Court (310 ITR 421 (Bom)) held that the ‘loss’ incurred by an assessee in ‘dividend-stripping’ transactions cannot be disallowed on the ground that it was ‘tax-planning‘. The department’s SLP against the said judgement has been dismissed by the Supreme Court today, 6th July 2010.
Earlier, when Manjusha Wadhawa, counsel for the petitioner, said the accounts should be audited by the CAG for the transparent functioning of the BCCI as it represented the Indian team, Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia asked her whether at present the board’s accounts were not being audited as per the Companies Act. Counsel said the BCCI did not come under the RTI Act.
The world’s four biggest accounting firms are to appoint non-executive directors after coming under growing pressure from regulators over governance.Ernst & Young, which along with law firm Linklaters has been been accused of providing window dressing for Lehman Brothers’ risky financial structures, today became the first of the big four auditors to announce its intention to appoint in non-executive directors to its global advisory board.
In a ruling affecting the way multinational companies use brand names in India, and the tax demands raised on payments in this regard, the High Court here has laid down some principles in this regard. It did so while setting aside an order by Income Tax authorities to disallow as a deductible expense the royalty paid by Maruti Suzuki India to its Japanese parent, Suzuki Motor Corporation, for using the latter’s ‘S’ logo on cars sold in India.
