Vineetkumar Raghavjibhai Bhalodia vs. ITO (ITAT Rajkot)- HUF is a relative inasmuch as HUF is a collective name given to group consisting of individuals, all of whom are relatives under Explanation to Proviso to section 56(2) of the Act. The ld.AR submitted that the term individual would include a group of individuals, hence, an HUF would be covered by the term individual.
Madras High Court has stayed the Registration of Lawyers For Service Tax. The Court has passed an order of interim injunction dated 24.06.2011 restraining the Ministry of Finance from compelling the members of the Petitioner from registering themselves with the service tax authorities and collecting service-tax from them until further orders in response to writ petition filed by The Revenue Bar Association, Madras.
Atul G. Puranik Vs. ITO (ITAT Mumbai) – Where the assessee acquired rights in plot in exchange of plot owned by his father, then the market value of the land so received on the date of acquisition will be the cost of acquisition of such land.
Indian Railway Finance Corpn Ltd Vs Addl.CIT (ITAT Delhi) – Whether the lease equalisation charges which represented the recovery of fair value of leased assets are rightly added to the net income as per the profit and loss account while computing the book profits u/s 115JB – Whether the bond issue charges are revenue in nature – Whether the assessee is entitled to depreciation on the assets which were in its possession and it cannot be denied merely on the ground that the registration formalities were pending – Assessee’s appeal allowed.
CIT v Volpak Securities Ltd. (Gujrat High Court)- With respect to the portion of penalty, which the CIT [A] confirmed, the same was deleted by the Tribunal observing that the assessee was liable to make payment of Rs. 1,53,000/ on 23rd June 1997 in respect of mark-to-market settlement for which purpose Rs. 1,50,000/ was accepted from Shri Ashok Patel, Director in cash. However, since some funds were available in the books on that date, only Rs. 75,000/ was deposited in the Bank on 23rd June 1997 and the balance, after meeting certain other payments, was returned to the Director.
CIR/MRD/DP/ 8 /2011 June 30, 2011 Exchanges are advised to a) make necessary amendments to the relevant bye-laws, rules and regulations for the implementation of the above decision. b) bring the provisions of this circular to the notice of the member brokers/clearing members of the Exchange and also to disseminate the same on the website. c) communicate to SEBI, the status of the implementation of this circular in the Monthly Development Report.
Relatives of jailed former Union minister A Raja including his wife and brother were today questioned by the Income Tax department. Raja’s wife Parameswari and his brother A Ramachandran besides two other relatives were quizzed at the regional I-T office for about three hours.
Nearly 121 central government employees, including one from CBI, are under Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) scanner for their alleged involvement in corrupt practices. Railway ministry topped the list with 23 officials under CVC scanner, 17 are from DoT, 12 from Bureau of Indian Standards, seven from Central Board of Excise and Customs, six each from DDA and MCD among others, a CVC report said.
In a bid to minimise the impact of recent fuel price hike on consumers, the Maharashtra government today reduced Value Added Tax (Vat) on diesel and kerosene by two per cent. Chief minister Mr Prithviraj Chavan told reporters here after the Cabinet meeting that the new rates of Vat on diesel in Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai would come down to 24 per cent from the existing 26 per cent. While in rest of the state, the Vat rate will decrease from 23 to 21 per cent.
Terming the $2.6 billion tax liability on the company as ‘inequitable’, UK-based Vodafone today questioned the Indian authorities for not raising the tax claim on the party (Hutchison) which made profit by selling its stake. Vodafone exuded confidence that there was no tax payable on its deal for buying majority stake of Hutchison in Indian telecom firm Hutchison-Essar for over $11 billion in 2007.
