The law ministry is likely to finalise the Constitutional Amendment Bill on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) by next week. It will send draft of the Bill to the finance ministry which will share it with the empowered group of state finance ministers on GST for its feedback.
The assessee manufactured cars using the brand name Maruti. It entered into an agreement with Suzuki, Japan, pursuant to which it began manufacturing cars using the brand name Suzuki. The TPO issued a show-cause notice in which he alleged that the substitution of the brand name Maruti for the name Suzuki meant that the assessee had soldthe Maruti brand to Suzuki. On that basis, he determined the arms length sale proceeds at Rs. 4,420 crores.
The income tax authorities have asked Rajasthan Royals, Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab-the three IPL teams co-owned by cine stars Shilpa Shetty, Shahrukh Khan and Preity Zinta, respectively-for information on the sources of their funding and ownership details.
Costs rise from 1st July 2010 for buyers of under-construction properties due to the imposition of a service tax on builders. Last week, the Central Board of Excise and Customs notified that a service tax of 10 per cent would be levied on the gross value (Excluding abatement) of a housing property under construction from July 1. Only properties built under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission and the Rajiv Awaas Yojana would not be taxed.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised Repo and Reverse Repo rates by 25 basis points each to 5.50 percent and 4.0 percent respectively. At the same time, some liquidity management measures have been extended.These measures are expected to contain inflation and anchor inflationary expectations without hurting recovery process.
Exemption from Cess {Notification No. 28/2010-Central Excise and 29/ 2010-Central Excise dated June 22, 2010.}Central Government has exempted goods subjected to Clean Energy Cess from levy of Education Cess and Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Cess.
The Central Government has issued various notifications regarding levy of Service Tax and exemptions therefrom, to be effective from July 1, 2010 (except as specified herein below). The details of the same are as under:
The solitary issue urged in these two appeals is that Whether the Learned CIT(A) is right in law in confirming the action of the Assessing Officer in invoking the provisions of section 50C in the case of both the assessees.
Abatement Provisions – Specified activities rendered in port/other port/airport – Corrigendum to Notification No.40/2010-ST, dated 28-6-2010 In the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 40/2010-Service Tax dated the 28th June, 2010 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 561(E), dated the 28th June, 2010,
Corrigendum, dated 30-6-2010.In the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 39/2010-Service Tax, dated the 28th June, 2010 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 560(E), dated the 28th June, 2010,