Bidhi Chand Singhal vs. ITO (ITAT Delhi)- In our opinion, in the absence of definition of “eco-tourism” the hotel as added into the Item No.15 of Part C is to be construed to be hotel situated in the State of Himachal Pradesh or the State of Uttaranchal having a valid licence on the basis of No Objection from Pollution Department which can be treated to be a hotel eligible for deduction u/s 80IC as per provisions of Section 80IC. Therefore, we allow the claim of deduction u/s 80-IC to the assessee and the appeal of the assessee is allowed.
Henceforth all Show Cause Notices under Section 28 of the Customs Act, 1962 in respect of cases investigated DRI/Customs Preventive formations are required to be issued by jurisdictional Commissioners from where imports have taken place. Board also desires the field formations to examine the pending show cause notices and wherever the cases are not hit by limitation, show cause notices may be got issued afresh by jurisdictional Commissionerates in supersession of the earlier show cause notices and in the light of the Hon’ble Supreme Court judgement in the matter.
An NGO has urged Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to continue tax exemption for them in the proposed Direct Taxes Code in order to encourage non-profit organisations to undertake welfare activities. “Taxes will put a constraint resource generation of charitable bodies and reduce their ability to undertake welfare activities,” Tax Payers Protection & Welfare Society, said in a release.
A local court trying Satyam Computers multi-crore accounting scam today recorded the version of Company Secretary of Mahindra Satyam G Jayaraman. Incidentally, Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) has named Jayaraman as an accused in the Satyam scam. The case is separately being tried in another court.
Global software major SAP plans to develop and localise its enterprise applications in Hindi, the most widely-spoken Indian language, to enable its domestic customers leverage technology for speedy delivery, the company said Wednesday. ‘The Hindi version of various applications such as human capital management, employee self-service, enterprise resource planning (ERP) financials and logistics solutions will be made available soon to Indian customers familiar with the popular language,’ SAP globalisation services vice-president Yueting Zhou said in a statement here.
In a first-of- its-kind step, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) will be signing an agreement on Thursday under which they would be able to give credit and grants to each other in their own currency instead of dollars. The Summit, to be attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Chinese resort city of Sanya, will discuss a whole range of issues related to global financial and economic situation besides matters related to energy security, food security and challenges posed by terrorism.
Capital markets regulator Sebi has called for greater regulatory authority in the governance of listed companies. It has asked the ministry of corporate affairs to expand its ambit on all matters of regulating listed companies in the amendments to the Companies Act. In particular, it wants power to regulate matters related to issue and transfer of securities and non-payment of dividends by listed companies, said a senior official in the regulator.
The Reserve Bank has imposed penalties of Rs 9 lakh on three cooperative banks for violation of regulations and guidelines relating to anti-money laundering. Two of the banks, Ankola Urban Co-operative Bank and Kushtagi Pattana Sahakara Bank Niyanit, are based in Karnataka, while Salal Sarvoday Nagrik Sahakari Bank is a Gujarat-based lender, RBI said.
Allotment of Statutory audits of UCBs for the F.Y. 2010-11. Division wise list of allotment. Circular Dated 11th April 2011 for panel U/R 69 of MCS Rules, 1961 . Auditors on the panel U/R 69 of M.C.S. Rules, 1961 . Division wise list of Auditors. Association of auditors with UCBs. Auditors disqualified from empanelment. Circular Dated 11th April 2011 Regarding empanelment & allotment procedure.
Defing an oil ministry directive, Reliance Industries has refused to sell natural gas to power and fertiliser plants by cutting supplies to non priority sectors like steel and refineries saying the move has financial and legal implications. With output from Reliance’s eastern offshore KG-D6 fields dropping by over 20 per cent, a worried oil ministry had asked Reliance to first meet all the contracted demand of fertiliser units, plants extracting LPG from natural gas, power firms and city gas distributing companies selling CNG to automobiles.
