Standing Committee on Finance Chairman Yashwant Sinha today suggested raising the income tax exemption limit from Rs 1.6 lakh to Rs 2 lakh in the Budget apparently to provide relief to common man reeling under the impact of high inflation.
The total income tax arrears in the country stood at Rs 2,48,927 crore on April 1, 2010, and the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is tasked to monitor all outstanding dues of above Rs 10 crore, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Finance S S Palanimanickam said the total outstanding arrears which stood at Rs 2,13,646 crore as on April 1, 2009, further increased to Rs 2,48,927 crore at the start of the current fiscal.
The government may raise the income tax exemption limit in the upcoming Budget to provide some relief to the taxpayer from inflation, Goldman Sachs said today. “Income tax relief can be provided to lower income brackets to compensate for inflation. This could take the form of raising the tax exemption limit from the current Rs 1.6 lakh,” it said in a report.
Design of the National Tax Headquarters has been finalized after holding an open competition in association with the Council of Architecture (CoA). Out of the 133 prequalified architects, 58 had participated in the competition. The entries were adjudged by an eminent jury comprising five architects and four non-architects. M/s Vistaar Architects & Planners, a Mumbai based architect firm finally won the design competition held by the Department of Revenue for the construction of National Tax Headquarters on Kasturba Gandhi Marg in the national capital. The results of the competition were announced yesterday by the Ministry of Finance.
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has suggested constituting a joint working group of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and UIDAI to work out the modalities for recognizing ‘Aadhaar’ as a proof of address and proof of identity for Know Your Client (KYC) purposes in the securities market.
Recently, the Delhi bench of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (the Tribunal) in the case of Whirlpool India Holdings Ltd. v. DDIT [201 1-TII-15-ITAT-DEL-INTL] held that Branch Office set up in India which merely remunerated employees seconded by US group company does not constitute a Permanent Establishment (PE) in accordance with Article 5 of India- USA tax treaty (the tax treaty) and therefore was not taxable in India.
Show cause notice was issued by the adjudicating authority to the tax payer alleging that the taxpayer is not entitled to avail/utilize the MODVAT/CENVAT credit in respect of units whose values stood written off. Hence it was proposed to be reverse such MODVAT/CENVAT credit
In exercise of powers conferred under paragraph 2.4 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-2014, the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby makes the following corrections in the Public Notice No. 33/(RE2010)/2009-14 dated 15.02.2011 and Public Notice No. 2/(RE2010)/2009-14 dated 23.8.2010.
When transactions with a particular party are over that party may not be ready to co-operate in giving information which are exactly asked by the Assessing Officer from the assessee, under these circumstances, the revenue authorities have ample powers under the Act to issue summons to the party and if they are not exercising such powers, the assessee cannot be blamed for concealing particulars and or furnishing inaccurate particulars of income.
DDIT(E)-II Vs. M/s. Rock Church Ministries (ITAT Hyderabad ) The purpose of section 13(1)(c) is to deprive a religious or charitable trust from exemption if it is found that its income is used or applied, directly or indirectly, for the benefit of the specified persons. Section 13(1)(c) carves out a general exception wherein the provisions of sections 11 and 12 will not operate on account of user or application of any income of the trust for any direct or indirect benefit of the any specified persons. It is an undisputed fact that the rent paid of Rs. 9,500 is not excessive even as per the old provisions of municipal. The assessee paid the rent as per the old municipal taxes. The present rental value would be much more than the rent paid by the assessee for the property having a building of 4000 sq. Ft. on a land admeasuring 15,000 sq. ft. that too in a prime locality in the city of Hyderabad. The market rent i.e., Rs. 80,000 per month as estimated by the Government Valuer is much more to the rent paid by the assessee. The Assessing Officer could not establish that the rent paid by the assessee is excessive and the rental value estimated by the Government valuer is incorrect. The contention of the Revenue that there is variation in the name in the municipal records and I.T. records is also baseless as the name in the municipal records is in abbreviated form.
