The Chief Minister (Finance Minister) presented the State Budget for the Year 2010-11 on Tuesday 09th March 2010 in the State assembly for the second time in his second tenure. There was not much for the trade and industry in the budget except some changes in the rate structure and the much awaited simplification of the quarterly return.
The CA institute favours a regime where depreciation rates for company law purposes are based on the useful life of an asset. The depreciation rates should also be indicative and not prescriptive as is the case now, Mr Amarjit Chopra, President of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), has said.
In all the returns filed in ITR-1 and ITR-2 for the A. Y. 2008-09, where the aggregate TDS claim does not exceed Rs four lakh and where the refund computed does not exceed Rs.25,000; the TDS claim of the tax payer concerned should be accepted at the time of processing of return.
Notification No. 18/2010 – Service Tax In the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 17/2010-Service Tax, dated the 27th February, 2010 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section [More…] 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 161 (E), dated the 27th February, 2010, at page 159, in line 28, for “the buyer”,
The last examinations under SYLLABUS 2002 would be held in June 2010. From December 2010 term onwards, examinations shall be held only under the REVISED SYLLABUS, 2008
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), in a bid to save time and money of students pursuing the Chartered Accountancy programme as they complete their course is planning to provide them with coaching classes taught by the faculty members through virtual and physical medium.
Health services undertaken by hospitals or medical establishments for the employees of business organizations and health services provided under health insurance schemes offered by insurance companies.
Under the existing provisions of section 44AD of the Act, a person carrying on any business is entitled to opt for a scheme of presumptive tax scheme, provided its turnover or gross receipts do not exceed Rs. 40.00 lacs. In such type of assessees, the assessee is required to presume its income at 8% of the turnover or gross receipts and pay tax accordingly.
The existing provisions contained in the aforesaid section provide that if any person fails to get his accounts audited in respect of any previous year relevant to an assessment year or furnish a report of such audit as required under section 44AB, the Assessing Officer may impose a penalty equal to one-half per cent, of the total sales, turnover or gross receipts, as the case may be, in business, or of the gross receipts in profession, in such previous year or a sum of one lakh rupees, whichever is less.
Persons carrying on business / profession are required to get their accounts audited, if their turnover exceeded the threshold limit of Rs. 40.00 lacs for business and Rs. 10.00 lacs for profession. These limits were fixed w.e.f A.Y. 85-86.
