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Taking a step forward against black money, the Finance Ministry has asked the Income Tax Department to launch immediate prosecution action in tax evasion cases wherein tangible assets and investments are located in foreign shores. The department has been asked to do away with the norm of taking permission from higher authorities to initiate legal action and begin proceedings against tax evasion.
Union Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahay will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tomorrow to seek his intervention in reducing taxes in the tourism sector. Sahay along with senior officials including four secretaries from the Ministries of Finance, Civil Aviation, External Affairs and Surface Transport will meet Singh to ensure rationalisation of the tax structure for development of the tourism sector in a coordinated manner with the involvement of all ministries concerned.
Market regulator Sebi is likely to make it mandatory for mutual fund players to declare their assets under management (AUM) and details of new schemes to ensure that retail investors take informed decision before investment. SEBI is working towards making MF industry disclose their AUM for a retail investor to understand. If you are making a particular scheme, it is important for a retail investor to know what has been the track record of the fund manager. We see no problem in disclosing that, Sebi chairman U K Sinha said at a CII meet.
The government has invited views of the stakeholders to revise the deemed export policy, aimed to avert the misuse of the scheme. Deemed exports refer to those transactions in which goods supplied to the users do not leave the country and payment for such supplies is received in any currency. Stakeholders’ comments would be accepted till June 28. The revision of the existing scheme was necessitated as there have been incidents of multiple interpretations of late.
The UAE has no plans to raise the 49 per cent foreign ownership cap for companies, a senior economy ministry official has said. Economy Ministry Undersecretary Mohammed Al Shihhi”s statement has dashed hopes of a company law that would allow overseas investors to fully own firms outside of the country”s free zones.
The introduction of big-ticket tax reforms through the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime seems unlikely from next April with the BJP-ruled states today stating that they would not like to be reduced to ‘municipality or corporations. The kind of draft that they [central government] have presented…I do not think it could be passed. Which state will agree to become a municipality or corporation? To hand over all the powers to the Centre and then beg before it for money is against the spirit of the Sarkaria Commission report, Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister Raghavji told reporters here.
NOTIFICATION NO. S.O. 1433(E) [F. NO. 11/21022/9(1)/2008-FERA-III], DATED 22-6-2011 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-clause (ii) of clause (j) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010, the Central Government hereby specifies that the following international organisation shall not be treated as foreign source for the purposes of the said Act-
Raytheon Company v Dy CIT (ITAT Delhi) – In a turnkey contract, in which the assessee was under an obligation to supply the equipment and software as well as install them, the profit should be taxed on the completion of each milestone or at the time of handing over the functioning system to the contracting party. The supply of the equipment and software constituted a milestone in the contract and the income therefrom arose in the year of shipment, which was in a previous year.
Notification No. 51/2011 – Customs This notification shall be valid in respect of the Duty Entitlement Pass Book Scrips issued by the Licensing Authority against exports having Let Export Order up to and inclusive of the 30th day of September, 2011. Let Export Order, means an order which permits clearance and loading of the goods for exportation by the proper officer in accordance with section 51 of the said Customs Act.’
Notification No. 50/2011-Customs Whereas, in the matter of import of the Sewing Machine Needles (hereinafter referred to as subject goods), falling under sub-heading 8452.30 of chapter 84 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) (hereinafter referred to as the said Customs Tariff Act) and originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China (China PR) (hereinafter referred to as the subject country) into India, the designated authority in its final findings vide notification number 14/10/2010-DGAD, dated the 6th May, 2011, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 6th May, 2011, had come to the conclusion that-
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