The government has served notices on 50 people for stashing black money abroad and evading taxes. Sources told that the government is proceeding against the 50tax evaders on the basis of documents received from Germany in April last year.
The assessee, a tenant in a flat, sold tenancy rights for Rs. 30 lakhs and offered long-term capital gains on the basis that the said sum was the consideration. The AO took the view that as the market value adopted the Sub-Registrar was Rs. 33,11,200, the said market value had to be adopted as the consideration u/s 50C.
The ministry of corporate affairs is looking to amend the disgorgement clause under Companies Act, 1956 to strengthen the mechanism for compensating duped investors by recouping funds from wrong-doers and paying them back to investors.
Scope of Work:- The Companies (Second Amendment) Act, 2002 suggested the creation of a national tribunal would look into most corporate matters in the country. It will be responsible for handling all pending matters before the Company Law Board, the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) and the corporate benches of the High Courts, apart from handling new cases.
New guidelines on private firm’s share do not provide guidance on the use of DCF method, be it in terms of discount rates or to compute cash flows into perpetuity. A series of regulatory and tax changes has completely changed the rules for transacting in shares of a private company in the country.
Establishment of Connectivity with both depositories NSDL and CDSL – Companies eligible for shifting from Trade for Trade Settlement (TFTS) to normal Rolling Settlement. It is observed from the information provided by the depositories that the companies listed in Annexure ‘A’ have established connectivity with both the depositories during February and March 2010.
Your city has lost income tax worth Rs 35,000 crore in the last five years. This is because 11.4 crore “pieces of information” pertaining to unaccounted income collected by the Income Tax (I-T) department’s Central Information Branch (CIB) was not sent out to the field officials concerned for further action.
One of the most significant features of GST would be the taxation of financial services. No country in the world has been able to design a model for inclusion of financial services within the VAT/GST framework. India, if successful, will chart a new course, which could well become a model for the rest of the world to emulate.
The government notified the Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Act, 2010 on May 18, 2010, which increases the limit of gratuity payment to employees in the specified sectors/establishments covered under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 (“Gratuity Act”). After the amendment, these employees are eligible to receive gratuity up to Rs 10,00,000, which was earlier restricted to Rs 3,50,000. Thus, crores of workers will be benefited in establishments covered by the Gratuity Act.
Sebi’s proposal to tighten the norms for investment in derivatives has run into opposition from mutual funds with the industry lobby arguing that fund managers need access to some of the products the regulator wants to ban.The Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi), the industry lobby, has sent its detailed response to the mutual funds advisory committee of the Sebi, which will take up the proposal at its next meeting on May 31.
