According to section 68 of Income Tax Act 1961, where any sum is found credited in the books of an assessee maintained for any previous year, and the assessee offers no explanation about the nature and source of the same or the explanation offered by him is not satisfactory in the opinion of A.O., the sum so credited may be charged to income tax as the income of the assessee of that previous year.
Finance Act, 2010 has expanded the scope of service tax of legal consultancy services w.e.f. 1st May, 2011 . It may be noted that representational services provided to individuals will continue to be exempt form levy of service tax. Also services provided by individuals to other individual shall remain outside the scope of taxable services. As a latest update, Delhi High Court has granted an interim stay on 29.4.2011 on levy of service tax individual lawyers rendering services to business entities on a Writ Petition No 2792 filed by Delhi based lawyers till next date of hearing ,ie, 23rd May, 2011. This may just be the beginning of long legal battle. Gauhati high court has also granted interim stay.
In exercise of the powers conferred by article 150 of the Constitution of India, the President of India, on the advice of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, hereby makes the following accounting standards, namely, – Indian Government Accounting Standards (IGAS)2,- Accounting and Classification of Grants- In- Aid.
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has issued clarification on loan to Public Limited Companies under Section 295 of the Companies Act. A circular issued by the Ministry in this regard says that it has come to the notice of the Ministry that some Companies are making applications for getting prior approval of Central Government when they propose to make any loan to, or give any guarantee or provide any security in connection with a loan made by any person to a Public Limited Company of which any such Director is a Director or a member even when the proposal does not fall under Section 295 (d) and Section 295 (e) of the Companies Act 1956.
Reference is invited to point no. 5.1 of Guidelines on Outsourcing of Activities by Insurance Companies (Circular No: IRDA/Life/CIR/GLD/013/02/2011 dated 01st February, 2011) wherein it is prescribed that entities engaged for the activities referred at Column (4) of Sl. No. 3 of Annexure – 1 (Cheque pick and Banking) shall be only a Company registered under Indian Companies Act, 1956 with a net worth of atleast Rs 10 Cores.
The Delhi High Court today dismissed a petition seeking its intervention in deciding the maximum limit for expenses in marriage functions. “I am of the considered opinion that this court cannot venture into the issue and hence the petition stands dismissed,” a division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna said.
Taxmen have seized black money to the tune of a whopping Rs 30,000 crore in the country in the past two years, said the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) which is set to get investigative powers to boost its drive against wrong-doers. The CBDT is in the process of creating a Directorate of Criminal Investigation after getting approval from Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee last week.
An unmarried Hindu woman is entitled to equal share in ancestral or coparcenery property along with other male members under the amended Hindu Succession Act, the Supreme Court has held. Coparcenary refers to equal inheritance which was restricted only to male members of the Hindu Undivided Family but after succesive amendements several states have chosen to extend the benefit to unmarried female members too.
Shri Anand Sharma, Union Minister for Commerce & Industry will lead Indian side in a special Meeting of India-Africa Trade Ministers to be held on May 21, 2011 in Addis Ababa. The meeting precedes 2nd Africa- India Forum Summit and will be involving Trade & Industry Ministers from all the member States. 2nd Africa- India Forum Summit is being convened on 24th – 25th May, 2011 at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The outcome of the Trade Ministers’ Meet will feed into the Summit Declaration of the leaders. The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, will visit Ethiopia on May 23-26, 2011 to participate in the Summit.
Amit Mitra, who is tipped to become the next Finance Minister of West Bengal in the Trinamool Congress-led government, has resigned as Ficci Secretary General. Mitra, 63, emerged as a ‘giant killer’ by defeating CPI(M) veteran and state Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta by a big margin from the Khardah Assembly constituency.
