CBDT has also lauded the Mumbai IT department on April 19, which released a book aimed at plugging tax avoidance or evasion techniques by India Inc. The CBDT has further indicated that pending corporate refunds are no longer a matter of concern.
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The Finance Ministry favours re-negotiation of the tax treaty with Mauritius so that India could have access to banking details, besides tax-related information. With a view to prevent generation of black money and stop re-routing of funds through Mauritius, the Finance Ministry has recently asked the Ministry of External Affairs to tighten the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) between the two countries.
What is United Stock Exchange of India? United Stock Exchange of India Limited (USE) is India’s newest stock exchange and has been promoted by 21 Indian public sector banks, private banks and corporate houses. USE is the trading platform for Currency Futures now.
Advocate M L Sharma and others have moved the court contending that inclusion of five civil society members in the committee, which also has five ministers, is constitutionally flawed as a parliamentary committee must comprise only members of parliament and no one else.
After having made 8.23 lakh refunds already in the first half of this month, the Income Tax Department today said it will settle all the pending claims in April itself. Refunds of Rs 78,000 crore to about 85 lakh assesses were made in 2010-11.
Recently, the Chennai bench of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal in the case of Wheels India Ltd. v. ACIT I.T.A No. 1793/Mds/2006 (Chennai) held that payment made to US companies for ‘developing tooling’ and ‘validating new process for manufacture’ of wheels for commercial vehicle was ‘fees for included services’ as per Article 122 of the India-USA tax treaty.
The Supreme Court today said the right to property is a constitutional right and government cannot deprive a person of his land in an arbitary manner. A bench of justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly said in a judgement that courts should view with “suspicion” the action of the government in acquiring land for private parties in the name of urgency.
NOTIFICATION NO. LAD-NRO/GN/2011-12/02/12648, DATED 19-4-2011 – Section 4 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 – Recognized Stock Exchanges – Grant of recognition to stock exchanges – Renewal of recognition to Ludhiana Stock Exchange Ltd.
Pannalal Kejriwal Vs CIT (Calcutta High Court)- Whether in the facts of the present case the transactions relating to the shares of ITC Ltd. and Tata Tea Ltd. on behalf of the two partners where the assessee-firm apparently acted as broker could be said to be the transaction on behalf of the assessee-firm itself and the profit of the two partners can be added to the income of the assessee-firm.
