Renting of Immovable Property Services means any service provided or to be provided to any person, by any other person, by renting of immovable property or any other service in relation to such renting for use in the course of or, for furtherance of, business or commerce.
Health Services means any service provided or to be provided by any hospital, nursing home or multi-specialty clinic,- (i) to an employee of any business entity, in relation to health check-up or preventive care, where the payment for such check-up or preventive care is made by such business entity directly to such hospital, nursing home or multi-specialty clinic; or (ii) to a person covered by health insurance scheme, for any health check-up or treatment, where the payment for such health check-up or treatment is made by the insurance company directly to such hospitals, nursing home or multi-specialty clinic.
DCIT Vs. M/s. Aditya Music (I) Ltd. (ITAT Hyderabad)- Facts of the case in brief are that the assessee company is a manufacturer and seller of pre-recorded audio cassettes and CDs. In Profit and Loss A/c. for the years under consideration, the assessee-company claimed the expenditure of copyrights used for manufacturing at Rs. 4,49,95,728 for A.Y. 2006-07 and Rs. 6,34,20,231 for A.Y. 2007-08 as revenue expenditure. The Assessing Officer completed the assessment by making addition of the above expenditure treating it as capital expenditure and allowed depreciation on the same.
Hindon River Mills Ltd. Vs. IFCI Ltd. & Anr. (Delhi HC) – Notwithstanding IFCI Bank Ltd. owing a fiduciary obligation towards the Company in its capacity as an Operating Agency and notwithstanding Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. owing a fiduciary obligation, being appointed as a consultant, towards the’Company’; we find that there would be no breach of the said fiduciary obligation in law and additionally on facts, the former on account of the legal position as noted herein above and on facts, for the facts which we have noted in para 7 herein above i.e. that when Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. was discussing the terms on which it would be acting as an advisor to the’Company’,
Cost Accounting Standards Board, the standard-setting body of the Institute, has approved the release of Exposure Draft of Cost Accounting Standard – 14 on Pollution Control Cost (CAS – 14). The proposed standard may be modified in light of comments received before being issued as a standard in final form.
The Institute has already issued Three Frequently Asked Questions providing clarifications on questions raised by members and Industry in connection with the Companies (Cost Accounting Records) Rules 2011 and Companies (Cost Audit Report) Rules 2011. Some of the clarifications issued in the first two FAQs have undergone changes in view of the Master Circular No. 2/2011 dated 11th November 2011, General Circular Nos. 67/2011 and 68/2011 dated 30th November 2011.
The union government was asked today by the Delhi High Court to explain its stand on a plea challenging a statutory regulation limiting the number of short messages ( SMs) sent through a SIM a day to a maximum of 200. A bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw issued notices to the Ministry of Telecommunication and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) seeking their replies to the plea seeking the quashing of the curbs on sending more than 200 SMSs per SIM in a day.
Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has said that it is desirable to have a periodic international dialogue on economic concerns that affects lives in all our countries. He was inaugurating the 4th International Tax Dialogue Global Conference on “Tax and Inequality”. Shri Mukherjee said that the present phase of globalization has brought us closer to each other, than any point in the history of human civilization. Our opportunities are getting increasingly tied together and so are solutions to many of our common problems, he said. The Finance Minister said that the multifaceted integration of societies has created a collective destiny, unifying many of our development concerns.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday expressed the hope that the Direct Taxes Code ( DTC), which seeks to modernise tax laws in the country, will come into force from April 1, 2012. The proposed Direct Taxes Code brings together the policy initiatives on direct taxes. It is slated to come into force from the next financial year, he said while addressing an international conference on Tax and Equality’.
In exercise of the powers conferred by item (h) of sub-clause (iv) of clause (15) of Section 10 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) the Central Government has authorised Power Finance Corporation Ltd. to issue during the FY 2011-12, Tax Free Secured Redeemable Non-Convertible Bonds of face value of Rs. 1,000 each aggregating upto Rs 5,000 crores. The income by way of interest on these Bonds is fully exempt from Income Tax and shall not form part of Total Income as per provisions under section 10 (15) (iv) (h) of IT Act.
