FM Pranab Mukherjee on Friday moved a bill in the Lok Sabha to amend the Customs Act to validate the showcause notices given by different officials during the past several years. The bill, which seeks to validate notices rendered invalid by the Supreme Court on technical ground, will be taken up for discussion and passage next week.
Desiccant Rotors International Pvt. Ltd. Vs. CIT, Delhi (Delhi High Court)- Payment made by the assessee on settlement of dispute with a company of USA being neither a fine or a penalty for a proved offence nor an amount of Compensation of an offence but is merely a sum in settlement of an action charging the assessee was denied and not proved the same cannot be rendered to be inadmissible deduction while determining the assessee’s income from business.
Ankur Cm Food Products (Guj) Ltd vs Dy.CIT (ITAT Rajkot)- Ground No. 2 of appeal of revenue is in respect of deletion of addition of Rs.7,01,1 19 on account of excess stock of packing material. During the course of survey at factory premises empty bags and empty pouches numbers 1,02,98,914 were found against the book stock of 83,39,051. There was excess stock of packing material of 19,59,863 pouches valuing Rs.7,01,1 19. In the statement, Shri Ashok Parekh, director of the company while answering question No. 39 stated that packing material of outside parties for which the assessee is doing job work were also at the factory premises.
ITO Vs Gay Loard Industries Ltd (Ahmedabad ITAT)- Once the existence of the investor is proved, there is no further burden on the assessee to prove whether that person itself has invested the said money or some other person has made investment in the name of that person. Thus majority of the courts are of the View that once the shareholders are identified, no addition can be made for unexplained share capital.
Shri Pranab Mukherjee Hon’bl Finance Minister Govt of India inaugurated the Residential Quarter-cum-Guest House ‘Aayakar Abasan’ at Siliguri West Bengal on 13.08.2011 in the August presence of Shri M.C.Joshi Chairman CBDT and B.S.Sondhi Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (CCA) Kolkata other senior officer of the Department and local administration, as well as eminent citizen and taxpayer attended the function.
Policy Circular No. 39 (RE-2010)/2009-14 For the Premier Trading Houses and the Star Trading Houses (only for Gems & Jewellery exporters), the Certificate Holder shall be required to request to the concerned Regional Authority (RA) (who had issued the Status Certificate / the Registered office is located) enclosing therewith a self-attested copy of the valid Status Certificate. RA, in turn, shall issue a Certificate to the Status Certificate Holder in the format appended to this Policy Circular as Annexure I. This Certificate shall be valid for one year starting from 1st day of the Financial Year of filing application. This Certificate shall be renewed every year based on the validity of the Status Certificate, the performance of the Nominated Agency on annual basis and their submission of regular returns prescribed in the following paragraph.
Notification No. 78 /2011 – Customs In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 21/2002-Customs, dated the 1st March, 2002, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 118(E) dated the 1st March, 2002, namely :-
The Conclave is open to ICAI Members who have established themselves as successful Entrepreneurs or are engaged in Public Services such as those Working/Worked as a Public Servant i.e. MP/MLA, Associated with a Constitutional Authority i.e. Judiciary/Appellate Tribunal; Working with Regulatory bodies i.e. SEBI, RBI, IRDA etc; Civil Servant; Serving with any State Government, Members of Local Bodies, etc.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has increased the repo and reverse repo rates from time to time to contain inflation and anchor inflationary expectations. The following table captures the movement in repo and reverse repo rate since April 2010:
The Union Finance Minister, Shri. Pranab Mukherjee today reviewed the global economic situation with RBI Governor, Dr. Subba Rao, and the Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, Dr.C. Rangarajan. The discussions focused on the slow economic growth in the US and debt worries in the Euro zone. Europe’s debt problem and worries about the world economy had resulted in sharp fall in the US and European markets. Stocks that were particularly affected in the US were those of companies that have global presence.
