In order to check flow of black money into real estate sector, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said stamp duty needs to be reduced, a step that realty players welcomed, stating it will bring in more transparency.
The Supreme Court Friday asked the government to consider the option of setting up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the black money stashed away by Indian citizens in foreign banks. An apex court bench of Justice B Sudershan Reddy and Justice SS Nijjar asked Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniun to get back with the government’s response by March 28.
Circular no. 36/2010-Cus dt. 23.09.2010 was issued for simplifying the procedure related to conversion of shipping bills. It was issued as a consequence of series of Tribunal judgments which held that the conversion of free shipping bills to export promotion scheme is allowed as there is no such bar in the section 149 of customs act, 1962. But this prime need is also not fulfilled by this circular. Indeed, the process of conversion of shipping bills from one scheme to another has also been made complicated. Prior to issuance of this circular, conversion from one scheme to another was freely allowed but now conversion can also be made to schemes that require equal level of examination of documents or that require lower level of examination of documents. Thus, the actual purpose of issuing this circular is mislead and has opened another door of litigation.
What do the words ROTI & MAKAN mean to a common man is very well known. These two basic needs of a common man are today very uncommon, thanks to the very high rate of food inflation and extra super inflation in the prices of need based House. What was left to the common man was perhaps, KAPDA i.e. Fabric. But the eagle eye of the central government has eventually fallen on this last lame duck pray so as to smoothen the beginning of the end of the common man. The reason: An expected VAT on FABRIC @ 5% .
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India organized a Workshop on Indirect Proposals of the Union Budget 2011-12 at its Headquarter in New Delhi on March 17,2011. The Workshop was addressed by Shri S. Dutt Majumder, Chairman, Central Board of Excise and Customs. Shri Y.G. Parande, Member, CBEC, Shri V. K. Garg, Joint Secretary (TRU), CBEC and Shri Roopam Kapoor, Officer on Special Duty, CBEC were also participated in the Workshop and interacted with the members and experts of the field of indirect taxes.
The Supreme Court has ruled that private companies cannot complain about violation of their contractual rights by government when national interest is involved in awarding contracts for public projects involving taxpayers’ massive money. A bench of justices V S Sirpurkar and T S Thakur in a judgement expressed anguish at the manner in which the Tehri Pump Storage Plant could not be taken up for the past three and half years due to the legal battle involving two MNCs–Voith GMBH (respondent No.1) and Alstom (respondent No.2).
With day-to-day living turning costlier, companies have raised salaries to as high as 40 per cent especially at the junior levels, say experts. In recent times, inflation has been at high levels due to soaring prices of essential commodities. “Inflation has affected the salary hikes towards the higher side,” executive search firm GlobalHunt’s director Sunil Goel said.
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The second meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) on inflation was held today under the Chairmanship of Dr Kaushik Basu, Chief Economic Advisor (CEA), Ministry of Finance. The IMG was set-up at the suggestion of the Prime Minister on 2nd February,2011 in order “to review the inflation situation and suggest corrective measures.” The IMG has been entrusted with the task of studying and proposing policies pertaining to (a) food article inflation and (b) macro-economic demand management.
India plans to open income tax offices in eight countries including United States, Britain, Germany and the UAE to trace tax evaders, parliament was told Friday. The government has taken steps to operationalise eight new Income Tax Overseas Units in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Cyprus, US, Britain, United Arab Emirates, and Japan in the next financial year, Minister of State for Finance S.S. Palanimanickam told the Lok Sabha in a written reply.
