The government hopes to collect Rs 350 crore in taxes from the fourth edition of high voltage Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament beginning tomorrow. The revenue will accrue to the government as the organisations will be required to deduct tax at source (TDS) while making payments to players, umpires, coaches, commentators and others involved with the tournament.
National carrier Air India has introduced Mobile Check-In facility that will allow travellers to perform basic check-in functions through web-enabled mobile phones. The new facility, which will help in reducing queues at airports, will be available at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai,Kolkata, Hyderabad and Bangalore on domestic travel, the airline said in a statement.
After Nifty index futures, the Singapore Exchange will start trading in Nifty options in the next six months which will give investors one more avenue, a senior official said. “We have been doing Nifty futures and the next obvious thing is to give investors more options…there is a good interest in it,” SGX’s Senior Vice-President (Derivatives), Janice Kan told reporters on the sidelines of a conference here today.
EFTA Negotiations likely to be Concluded by Year End. Bilateral Trade Touches 20 Billion US $ . hri Anand Sharma, Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, in a business meeting with Mr. Johann Schneider-Ammann, Federal Councilor Minister for Economic Affairs of Switzerland, here today stated that, “India has always stood for an open, equitable, predictable, non-discriminatory and rule-based multilateral trading regime. India gives primacy to engagements in multi-lateral negotiations at the World Trade Organization. India is committed to successful conclusion of Doha Round and support multi-lateral and bilateral engagement with rest of the world”. He stressed that developed world is resorting to protectionist tendencies which hurt both developed and developing economies. The Minister informed, “In our lifetimes, we have seen a tectonic shift in global growth and investment patterns and while Europe and Americas dominated the economic discourse in the centuries we left behind, the 21st century is decidedly a different one in which emerging economies of Asia, Africa and Latin America are playing a much larger role. India which is home to a sixth of world’s population is finally beginning to realize its true potential on the global stage’.
MSME Minister Virbhadra Singh today said his ministry is in consultation with the Prime Minister office and other departments to make specific schemes for medium enterprises. The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Minister said enough schemes are there for micro and small industries, but there is no particular scheme for medium ones.
Sports Ministry has constituted a Committee under the chairmanship of Justice Mukul Mudgal, retired Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, to examine, in details, the comments and suggestions received from various quarters and make appropriate recommendations to fine-tune the draft National Sports Development Bill.
Ref. DBOD.No.Ret.BC. 84 /12.02.001/2010-11 – As set out in the Press Release issued by the Reserve Bank of India on April 08, 2011, the additional liquidity support to SCBs under LAF to the extent of up to one per cent of their NDTL, which was set to expire on April 08, 2011, has now been extended up to May 06, 2011. For any shortfall in maintenance of the SLR arising out of availment of this facility, banks may seek waiver of penal interest purely as an ad hoc, temporary measure. The liquidity support availed under this facility would, however, need to be reported on a daily basis.
The Mumbai bench of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal, (“Tribunal”) in a ruling’ in the case of Citicorp Banking Corporation, Baharain v. Addl. Director of Income Tax (I.T.)-Range 1-[2011-T11-40-1TAT-MUM-INTL] , held that losses arising on cancellation of foreign exchange forward contracts entered into by the assessee for protecting it against the risk of currency fluctuation would be characterised as capital loss and the said loss can be set-off against other capital gains under the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the “Act”). Further, the Tribunal also held that section 115AD provides for tax rates on income from securities or capital gains and it has nothing to do with determination of the nature of gain or loss i.e. capital or revenue.
Section 2(47) of Income-tax Act defines transfer, which, inter alia includes sale, exchange, relinquishment of the asset or extinguishment of any rights therein. In the case of Phulchand Sons Investments Pvt. Ltd. v. ACIT the Mumbai Bench of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal observed that the assessee had undertaken a loan transaction and not sale of shares during the subject assessment year. The revenue authorities were unable to bring any evidence on record to establish that the assessee had engaged in a sale transaction and not a loan transaction. Accordingly, the Tribunal held that lending of shares is not a ‘transfer’ within the meaning of section 2(47) of the Act, and hence, is not taxable.
VNU International B. V., AAR No. 871 of 2010, order dated 28 March 2011- Whether capital gains earned by the applicant on transfer of shares of the Indian company would be liable to tax in India as per the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961 („the Act‟) and the Tax Treaty between India and The Netherlands? If the capital gain is not taxable in India, whether the applicant is required to file any return of income under section 139 of the Act? Whether the transfer of shares by the applicant would attract transfer pricing provisions under sections 92 to 92F of the Act? Whether the purchasers were liable to withhold tax at source under section 195 of the Act and if so, on what amount should the tax have been deducted?
