Individuals as well as corporates may have fewer occasions to meet the taxmen in future. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is thinking of putting in place a system in which taxpayers do not meet the assessing officer or any tax official for routine assessments. In the system being envisaged by the country’s tax regime, the tax payer would not know who his assessing officer is. Assessments will be centralised at one place where a set of officers will supervise the assessments. Each officer will be specialising in certain segment of the assessment process, such as giving credit, refunds, etc.
Section 26. There may be in the case of public company limited by shares and there shall in the case of an unlimited company or a company limited by guarantee or a private company limited by shares, be registered with the memorandum, articles of association signed by the subscribers of the memorandum, prescribing regulations for the Company.
Recently in one of the cases of educational institutions, the Assessing Officer (AO) issued a show-cause letter calling for an explanation from the assessee, as to why it should not be treated as an association of persons (AOP), engaged in a profit making business. In support of the aforesaid allegation, the Assessing Officer excluded the expenditure on land, building, equipment, furniture, etc., from the income applied towards the objects of the trust and thereby worked out surplus,
S. O… (E) – In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Board, being satisfied that it is necessary and expedient so to do, hereby makes the following further amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 36/2001-Cus (N. T.), dated, the 3rd August 2001, namely: –
No acquirer shall acquire shares or voting rights which (taken together with shares or voting rights, if any, held by him or by persons acting in concert with him), entitle such acquirer to exercise fifteen per cent or more of the voting rights in a company, unless such acquirer makes a public announcement to acquire shares of such company in accordance with the regulations.
employee of a foreign company or a citizen of India employed by a foreign company outside India, and in either case on deputation to the office/ branch/ subsidiary/ joint venture in India of such foreign company, may open, hold and maintain a foreign currency account with a bank outside India and receive the salary payable to him by credit to such account subject to the conditions mentioned therein, which inter alia, include that the amount to be credited to such account shall not exceed 75 per cent of the salary accrued to or received by such person from the foreign company.
Reference has been received from field formations stating that though certain activities including connectorising, testing, repacking and relabeling of feeder cables, cutting of HR/CR coils into sheets or slitting into strips do not amount to manufacture, such processors are taking Cenvat credit and justifying their Cenvat availment on ground that they are paying duty on final products.
Further, supply of goods required for the expansion of existing mega power project as specified in Sl. no 400A of DoR Notification 21/2002- Customs dated 1.3.2002, as amended shall also be eligible for deemed export benefits as mentioned in paragraph 8.3 ( a), (b) and (c) of FTP, whichever is applicable.
section 30 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (15 of 1992), the Board hereby makes the Regulations to further amend the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Employees’ Service) Regulations, 2001,
In one of the largest seizures of cash in an income-tax raid on an individual, the department on Tuesday recovered Rs 7.5 crore from the premises of a reputed nutritionist based in Vile Parle. Nutritionist Sarita Davare is known to have helped several high-profile Bollywood personalities , including Farah Khan, Sonu Niigaam and Hariharan, shed extra pounds in just one sitting.
