The last date for receipt of the Applications called for vide reference cited for empanelment of persons from the Retired Additional / Joint Commissioners of the Income tax Department who had during their tenure in the department had served in the Income tax Appellate Tribunal for representation of departmental cases before the Income tax Appellate Tribunal, Chennai in respect of tax matters, is extended till 10.10.2011.
The Income Tax department has sent notices for scrutiny to two NGOs associated with former IPS officer and Team Anna member Kiran Bedi, who said she is open to any investigation. The I-T notices to NGOs Navjyoti and India Vision Foundation sent yesterday pertain to certain exemptions enjoyed by them under various provisions of the Income Tax Act, sources said.
Sandvik Asia Limited Vs. DCIT (ITAT Pune)- The Issue before the tribunal was whether interest paid on income tax due can be set off against interest received on income tax refunds under the Income Tax Act, 1961. Before the Division Bench (DB) of the Pune Tribunal, there was a difference of opinion between the Members and, accordingly, the issue was referred to the Third Member for a majority opinion. The Third Member held that the interest paid and interest received from the Tax Authority cannot be set off against each other and the whole of the interest received is taxable under the Income Tax Act, 1961.
Facts- The taxpayer is a tax resident of Mauritius. BG Exploration & Production India Ltd (BG) is a co-venturer with ONGC Ltd and Reliance Industries Ltd, who are party to the production sharing agreement for Panna, Mukta and South Tapti contract areas.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed Bombay High Court decision that upheld service tax on the commercial rentals.Bombay High Court had earlier extended the stay upto 30.9.2011 after it upheld the provisions with retrospective effect from 01.06.2007.
Procedure for e-Payment: (i) To pay Excise Duty and Service Tax on-line, the assessee has to enter the 15 digit Assessee Code allotted by the department under erstwhile SACER/SAPS or the current application ACES. (ii) There will be an on-line check on the validity of the Assessee Code entered. Only if the assessee has been registered in ACES (either in Central Excise or in case of Service Tax), will be validation be successful. (iii) If the Assessee Code is valid, then corresponding assessee details like name, address, Commissionerate Code etc. as present in the Assessee Code Master will be displayed.
The assesses can electronically file statutory returns of Central Excise and Service Tax by choosing one of the two facilities being offered by the department at present: (a) they can file it on-line, or (b) download the off-line return utilities which can be filled-in off-line and uploaded to the system through the internet.
To transact business on ACES a user has to first register himself/herself with ACES through a process called ,Registration with ACES,. This registration is not a statutory registration as envisaged in Acts/Rules governing Central Excise and Service Tax but helps the application in recognizing the bona fide users. Described below are steps for taking registration by a new assessee, existing assessee, non-assessee and a Large Taxpayer Unit (LTU).
rejected by the application, the date of uploading of the rejected return will not be considered as the date of filing, rather the date of uploading of the successfully filed, return (after the assessee carries out necessary corrections and uploads it again) will be considered as the actual date of filing.
The current contractual obligation imposing the condition that the claims shall be intimated to the insurer with prescribed documents within a specified number of days is necessary for insurers for effecting various post claim activities like investigation, loss assessment, provisioning, claim settlement etc. However, this condition should not prevent settlement of genuine claims, particularly when there is delay in intimation or in submission of documents due t0 unavoidable circumstances. The insurers’ decision to reject a claim shall be based on sound logic and valid grounds. It may be noted that such limitation clause does not work in isolation and is not absolute. One needs to see the merits and good spirit of the clause, without compromising on bad claims. Rejection of claims on purely technical grounds in a mechanical fashion will result in policyholders losing confidence in the insurance industry, giving rise to excessive litigation.
