Close to five lakh demat accounts have been frozen by the Central Depository Services Ltd (CDSL) and the National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) for want of PAN details. This makes up for about three per cent of the total number of demat accounts i
Whenever we talk about the delay in Courts and the solution, many will be in dilemma as to how to deal with this issue comprehensively. The issues highlighted by many, including public, professionals and the eminent judges, in my opinion, on legal reforms are as follows:
The new feature of downloadable e-forms has been made available on the LLP Portal. Users may now download the e-forms required to be filed and upload the same once filled at their end.
In a recent ruling in the case of ACIT v. Fiat India Pvt. Ltd. [2010-TII-30-ITAT–MUM-TP], the Mumbai Bench of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal, while deciding the case in favour of the assessee, accepted various adjustments made while determining arm’s length price, as they had been sufficiently explained and evidenced by the assessee. The Tribunal also ruled that for an asset intensive industry, the appropriate Profit Level Indicator (“PLI”) shall be Profit Before Interest and Tax and not Profit before Depreciation Interest and Tax
The Mumbai Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (‘the Tribunal’), in the case of ITO v. Zydus Altana Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. [2010-TI I-29-ITAT–MUM-TP], while deciding the case in favour of the assessee, ruled that the determination of arm’s length price should be based on the functional and asset profile of a company and profit margins earned by comparable companies should be adjusted for functional differences between the tested party and the comparables. The Tribunal also ruled that in case an assessee’s income is exempt from tax (and taxable in the overseas jurisdiction), this factor should be considered by the revenue authorities while undertaking a tax assessment since in such a situation, there is no benefit to the assessee in charging its associated enterprise a lower mark-up.
If you fail to carry out any transaction for 24 months through your bank account, it can be frozen. This is in line with the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) mandate, that a bank account automatically gets classified as inoperative or dormant if there a
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has proposed to set up a Centre for Excellence in Bhubaneswar. “ICAI currently has around 600 members in Orissa and we intend to set up a Centre of Excellence in Bhubaneswar. We have sought the c
The Supreme Court on Monday directed Vodafone to deposit Rs 2500 crore ($550 million) within three weeks in relation to the $2.5 billion tax dispute, a Vodafone spokesman said. The Supreme Court has also fixed Feb 05 as final date of hearing. Vodafon
The Dutch government has approached India on behalf of Vodafone’s Netherlands unit to settle a three-year-old tax dispute involving a Rs 11,000 crore claim, an Indian newspaper reported on Monday. The Netherlands has asked India to consider an alternate dispute resolution that will run parallel to the ongoing court process, the paper said, quoting unnamed tax and government officials.
The high court of Bombay at Goa recently held that an amount of 3.5 crore received by some shareholders of Colfax Laboratories India Limited (CLIL) to give up marketing right of the ‘Old Spice’ range of products to Procter and Gamble (India) Limited
