Shri Rajeev Kumar Jain Vs ITO (ITAT Kolkata)- Assessee stated that the assessee during the year under consideration took loan of Rs. 3,00,000/- from one Shri Amit Kr. Jain, a close relative, by account payee demand draft. The assessee furnished copies of P&L Account, Balance Sheet, I. T. Returns, bank statement for FY 2006-07 relevant to Assessment Year 2007-08 along with confirmation from Shri Amit Kr. Jain.
IRDA has twin objectives of development of the industry as well as protection of the policyholder. Both the objectives are interlinked and unless the policyholders’ interests are protected the industry cannot achieve the required penetration. The policyholder protection acquires much more significance for IRDA as the rural population is either totally illiterate or financially illiterate. The role of the agent becomes crucial in educating the rural policyholders about the features of the product and the consequences of taking certain protection and not taking certain protections from the insurance. Further, the agents are supposed to educate the policyholders about the risks involved in complex products like ULIPs.
The recommendations of the Pension Implementation Committee (PIC) of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation to increase the minimum pension amount to Rs. 1000 per month is to be placed before Central Board of Trustees, Employees Provident Fund {(CBT(EPF)} in its ensuing meeting for its consideration.
This paper examined the operation of credit channel of monetary policy rate transmission in India during the post-LAF period of 2001:3 to 2011:3. Drawing on the literature, two reduced form equations, one representing nominal bank credit and the other real bank credit was estimated. The regression estimates were carried out after transforming the variables to stationary form and following an approach similar to Hendry’s general-to-specific method. Stability and structural break tests were performed, and rolling regressions were estimated to confirmed robustness of the results.
International Customs Day is celebrated on 26th January every year all over the world. This being the Republic Day of India, it is celebrated in India on either the previous or next working day. It has been decided that the International Customs Day 2012 shall be celebrated on Friday, the 27th January, 2012. The main function would be held at New Custom House, New Delhi. Chief Commissioner of Customs, Delhi is requested to organize the ‘International Customs Day’ function in New Delhi on this day. As part of the celebrations, members of the trade and office bearers of CHA Associations, senior level officers of the other departments associated with Customs and other stakeholders may also be invited to the function.
Attention of Authorised Dealer Category-I (AD Category-I) banks is invited to A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 53 dated December 2, 2011, wherein the Rupee value of the special currency basket was indicated as Rs. 71.668914 effective from October 25, 2011.
The Home Ministry has a proposal to issue every adult resident in the country an identity card. The Government has decided to create a National Population Register (NPR) by collecting information on specific characteristics of all usual residents in the country.
.P.G. Ramasamy Nadar & Sons Vs. ACIT (ITAT Chennai) – The ground raised by the assessee is that the Commissioner of Income Tax(Appeals) has erred in confirming that cash assistance is taxable in the hands of the assessee. It is the case of the assessee that the Commissioner of Income Tax(Appeals) himself has allowed the claim of the assessee for the earlier assessment year and he is taking inconsistent view as far as the impugned assessment year is concerned. It is also the grievance of the assessee that the alternative plea that cash assistance is not to be taxed under the head “business” as it represented a capital asset which had no cost.
THANE: Information comes at a price, but Thane resident Omprakash Sharma learnt that the cost could be prohibitive when the information concerns public issues and is to be given by a public body like the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). The state-run agency has told Sharma to pay Rs 50,000 for copies of a study report on transportation strategies in Thane and Raigad districts.
State-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC) has sought a two-year extension of tax breaks available for refineries so that its delayed Rs 29,777 crore Paradip refinery can avail of the benefit. Exemption or holiday, under section 80IB(9) of Income Tax Act, from payment of income tax on revenues earned from refining of crude oil is available to units that are commissioned by March 2012.
