The Central Board of Direct Taxes has notified the valuation rules for gifts over Rs 50,000 which includes gift in kind too, and these will come into effect retrospectively from October 1, 2009. The transaction value of warrants, preference shares and other such instruments transferred to another individual or a company will now have to be certified by a category-I merchant banker according to CBDT’s new fair market value (FMV) norms for gifts.
GST will also replace abevy of other levies like excise, sales tax, value added tax, entertainment tax and luxury tax. Under GST, there will be no distinction among manufacturers, traders and service providers. At present, traders don’t get credit for anything other than state VAT.
The Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI) further questioned the issue of service tax being brought out at a time when the goods and service tax is expected to be introduced in 10-12 months and has submitted to the Ministry of Finance, a representation on the provisions of the Finance Bill, 2010.
The Government has extended tax concession on interest paid for educational loan to all streams of studies including vocational courses, benefiting students from all economic strata opting for higher studies, from this academic session onwards.
LIFE Insurance Corporation is likely to gain market share if the dispute between Sebi and Irda over Ulip regulation is not resolved. Insurers say the finance minister’s decision asking both regulators to refer the dispute to a court would turn prospective Ulip buyers wary.
The disbursement of reallocation amount to 12.75 lac investors from the amount disgorged in the matter of IPO irregularities commenced today. The first set of cheques were handed over by Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Hon’ble Finance Minister of India at a function held on SEBI Foundation Day atNew Delhi today in the presence of Shri Salman Khursheed, Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI) and Central Board of Excise & Customs have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on 13th April, 2010 to set up ACES Certified Filing Centres (CFCs) across the country. These CFCs can be set up and operated by the Members of ICWAI, who have valid certificate of practice issued by the ICWAI.
It has been represented before us by various organizations of the refund claiming dealers that there are huge amounts of refunds generated every year and the same dealers who claim refunds in one year have to pay dues the very next year. Sometimes it is difficult for the dealers to pay dues into the government treasury when they themselves are eligible for refund. So, they have requested to either grant the refund at the earliest or allow the dealers to carry forward the refund to the next financial year.
A day after the finance ministry brokered a truce between two financial sector regulators, SEBI today said any new ULIP scheme launched after April 9, 2010 by insurance companies will remain covered by its earlier ban order.
Industry body Assocham today suggested that Indian companies’ earning from overseas firms, in which they hold over 10 per cent stake, should be exempted from income tax. The move, the chamber said, would help Indian entrepreneurs bring back their foreign exchange income earned outside India and invest it domestically.
