Survey group Speak Asia Online (SAOL) today said it has worked for companies such as Bata, Nestle,Airtel, ICICI and ING Vysya but has not provided commissioned services to them amidst media reports that the company had falsely claimed them as their clients.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s reputation with women earned him the nickname “the great seducer,” and not even an affair with a subordinate could knock the International Monetary Fund leader off a political path pointed in the direction of the French presidency. All that changed with charges that he sexually assaulted a maid in his hotel room, a case that generated shock and revulsion, especially in his home country.
International Monetary Fund pays for all business-related hotel bills of its chief, but incumbent Dominique Strauss Kahn’s stay in a luxury suite of Sofitel here does not qualify for any such reimbursement. It was during his stay at this Sofitel hotel that Kahn, who was appointed IMF Managing Director in 2007 with a salary in excess of USD 5,00,000 per year, was accused of indulging in sexual assault on a chambermaid.
Discontinuation of the tax rebate scheme DEPB from June will make exports uncompetitive, thus affecting its growth momentum, industry body CII has said.Exporters get refund of duties on import content of their export products under which they have been given several extensions. It costs the exchequer about Rs 8,000 crore per annum.
Income Tax department on 16.05.2011 releases downloadable Online Income Tax Return Preparation / Filing Software- ITR-3 Applicable to Individual and HUF who are Partner in a Partnership firm and not having any other business Income except from the Interest and Remuneration from Partnership. You can download the same from the link given below. Before filing do read Instructions for filling out New Income Tax Return Form ITR-3 for assessment year 2011-2012. Those who do not wish to file online Return can use the manual excel form.
Giving relief to 4.71 crore subscribers of EPFO, the government has allowed tax exemption on the 9.5% interest income on PF deposits for 2010-11. The finance ministry notification last week raises the income tax exemption to 9.5% interest income from 8.5%. The decision clears the air for the EPFO subscribers who were given increased interest rate by one percentage point for 2010-11, but the finance ministry had not matched the interest hike with a commensurate tax exemption.
The Income Tax Department (ITD) today said that it had issued notices to former Sebi chairman C B Bhave to furnish information in support of his return filed for the 2009-10 assessment year. The ITD has also initiated enquiry against two serving members of the Security and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), said a CBDT release.
Indian firms outsourcing routine work to their overseas subsidiaries would not have to deduct withholding tax on the payments made to them. In a landmark ruling, the Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) ( A.A.R. No.883 of 2010 dated 16.05.2010 – Applicant R.R. Donnelley India Outsource Private Limited) held that firms are exempted from deducting the withholding tax on the payments made for services like transcription and data processing.
The Supreme Court today pulled up the Income Tax department for not taking timely action against the companies involved in the 2G spectrum scam and said had it not intervened, the officials would have “slept over it” and the oversees probe would not have proceeded.
Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee has welcomed the substantial decline in core inflation from 9.19 per cent in March 2011 to 7.97 per cent, along with drop in inflation for food articles from 9.47 per cent in March to 8.71 per cent in April 2011. Beside it, the Finance Minister said that there is decline in year-on-year overall inflation to 8.66 per cent from 9.04 per cent in March 2011.
