Facing tax liability and penalty of around Rs 9,000 crore, Vodafone today accused the Indian tax authorities of interpreting the law in a new way and said there was no example of such taxes being imposed on overseas share transfer like the way it is done in its case.
Jayant Agro Chemicals Ltd v ITO and Others – As per the proviso to s 147 of the Act, the assessment can be reopened beyond four years from the end of the relevant assessment year, only if there is failure on the part of the assessee to disclose fully and truly all material facts. In the present case, the assessment is sought to be reopened beyond the period of four years and there is no material on record to suggest that there was failure on the part of the assessee to disclose fully and truly all material facts. From the reasons recorded for reopening of the assessment, it cannot even remotely be said that there is failure to disclose fully and truly all material facts. Presumption on the part of the AO that the assessee has failed to achieve 82% value addition is not even case of the licensing authority who has imposed the condition regarding value addition. The notice impugned in the petition for reopening of the assessment cannot be sustained.
Addl. CIT v Weizmann Ltd. ITAT, Mumbai * As long as the assessee has sufficient interest free funds, the presumption to be taken is that the investments are made out of such interest free funds. Mere fact of allowing interest free advance at a rate lower than the rate on which borrowings are made, cannot justify the disallowance of interest on borrowed funds. The CIT(A) was justified in making ad-hoc disallowance on account of foreign travelling expenses since the complete details of expenses were not provided by the assessee.
India’s foreign exchange reserves rose by $2.71 billion to $308.2 billion on the back of an increase in foreign currency assets. The reserves had stood at $305.5-billion the week before. Foreign currency assets, the biggest component of the foreign reserves, went up by $2.7 billion to $277 billion for the week-ended April 8, the Reserve Bank said in its weekly data released this evening.
Rajaswa Bhawan, the proposed national tax headquarters being set up on 5.65 acre-plot at Kasturba Gandhi Marg here, is likely to be ready in the next 24-30 months, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said today. “I hope we will stick to the schedule,” Mukherjee said while giving aways prizes to the successful architects in the National Architectural Design Competition.
Vide Order No. 67 of 2011 dated 16.04.2011 issued by the CBDT, officers in the grade of Additional Commissioner / Additional Director of Income-tax have been promoted to the grade of Commissioner of Income-tax. Promotion from Addl.Commissioner Of Income Tax(Addl.CIT) to Commissioner Of Income Tax (CIT), ORDER NO. 67 OF 2011 Ad.VI
From the desk of Chairman,CBDT S.N. 35/April 15 ,2011. CBDT compliments one & all for their profound sincerity & deep commitment in issuing record number of refunds in the first 14 days of April 2011 & is confident that the remaining refunds would be issued by 20th April 2011. Status of refunds issued from April 1 to 14 2011
At the moment field formations are preparing around 30 statistical/ progress reports. CBDT realizes that substantial time is consumed in preparing these reports. It is, therefore, decided to reduce the number of these reports to two or three. For the same a Committee comprising of officers from Directorates of O&MS, Systems & the Board under the Chairmanship of Mr. Anjani Kumar CCIT (Central) Delhi has been appointed. The Committee would give its report by April 20, 2011.
Direct Taxes Committee of ICAI is compiling the difficulties faced by the assessees in claiming credit of Tax deducted at source. I request you to kindly send the issues, if any, being faced by your goodself or by members or by any assessees of your region/branch in claiming TDS credit. The issues so received will be compiled and considered by the Committee for making appropriate representation to the Central Board of Direct Taxes.
Due to paucity of accommodation in some Zones opted by the candidates in the cities of Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Indore and Kolkata, some of the candidates have been allotted examinations centres in other zones of the said cities where the accommodation is available. In view of this, it is not possible to accede to the requests of the candidates for transfer to an examination centre in a particular zone of the city opted by them.
