In a bonanza for the loss making telecom PSU, state-run MTNL today received over Rs 177 crore as income tax refund for the year 2010-11. MTNL has received a refund order amounting to Rs 177.76 crore from the Income Tax Department pertaining to Assessment Year 2010-11, MTNL said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.
With inflation hovering much above the comfort zone, the Reserve Bank may raise key policy rates by 25 basis points in its first mid-quarterly review of the credit policy for FY’12 tomorrow. I think the RBI would take one more small step to curb inflationary expectations. Market is expecting a 25 basis points increase, Indian Overseas Bank Chairman and Managing Director M Narendra told PTI.
With the losses of oil firms mounting with each passing day, Oil Minister S Jaipal Reddy today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to push for an early decision on raising diesel and domestic LPG prices. An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, which decides on revising rates of the sensitive products, has not met since June last year even though crude oil prices have spiralled upward by about 50 per cent.
Vishal Tools & Forgings Private Limited v CIT (ITAT Amritsar)- DEPB is an incentive. It is given under Duty Exemption Remission Scheme. Essentially, it is an export incentive. No doubt, the object behind DEPB is to neutralize the incidence of customs duty payment on the import content of export product. This neutralization is provided for by credit to customs duty against export product. Under DEPB, an exporter may apply for credit as percentage of FOB value of exports made in freely convertible currency. Credit is available only against the export product and at rates specified by DGFT for import of raw materials, components etc..
In order to give an opportunity for fast track exit by a defunct company for getting its name struck off from the ROC, the Ministry Corporate Affairs (MCA), Government of India (GOI) has on 7 June 2011 decided vide General Circular No.36/2011 to modify the existing route through e-form – 61 and has prescribed the ‘Fast Track Exit mode Guidelines’ (the FTE Guidelines) for defunct companies under section 560 of the Act.
The Central Government has vide Notification dated 30 May 2011 issued new set of rules for passing of resolution by Postal Ballot called, the Companies (Passing of Resolution by Postal Ballot) Rules, 2011 (New Rules), which will supersede the Principal Rules. Definition of Voting by Electronic Mode- A process for recording votes by the members using a computer based machine to display an electronic ballot and to record the vote and also the number of votes polled in favour or against such that the entire voting gets registered and counted in an electronic registry in a centralized server.
Notification No. 38/2011 – Customs (N. T.), New Delhi, 30th June, 2011 S. O… (E) – In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Board, being satisfied that it is necessary and expedient so to do, hereby makes the following further amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 36/2001-Cus (N. T.), dated, the 3rd August 2001, namely: –
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against an Addl. Commissioner (IRS-90) of Income Tax, working in the office of Commissioner of Income Tax Guntur for allegedly amassing disproportionate assets approx Rs.4.56 crore. It was alleged that the Addl. Commissioner of Income Tax while working as public servant during the period 2000-2007 acquired assets in his name and in the name of his family members which were disproportionate to his known sources of income to the tune of Rs.4,56,63,105/-(approx).
In a bid to tackle tax evasion and check generation of illicit money, the government is considering classifying earnings from illegitimate sources like bribery and corruption as criminal offences under the income tax laws. ‘The income earned from illegitimate means could be classified as a criminal offence in the Income Tax Act’, said a senior Finance Ministry official.
All the stakeholders are hereby informed that Ministry of Corporate Affairs has opened all the work items filed prior to coming into force the amended Regulation 17 of The Companies Regulation, 1956 i.e. 15.02.2009 and are pending for user clarification / re-submission / under regulation 17(6). All ROCs have been directed to disposed off pending work […]
