In terms of the Comprehensive Marine Fishing Policy, the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, issues Letter of Permission (LOP) to wholly owned Indian Enterprises for acquisition of resource-specific fishing Vessels and regulates the operation of these Vessels. Since deep sea fishing involves continuous sailing outside the territorial limit, trans-shipment of catches takes place in the high sea leading to procedural constraints in regulatory reporting requirement viz. the Declaration of Export in terms of Notification No.FEMA.23/2000/RB dated May 3, 2000.
A bank acting as sponsor of IDF–NBFC shall contribute a minimum equity of 30 per cent and maximum equity of 49 per cent of the IDF-NBFC. Since in terms of Section 19 (2) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, a bank cannot hold shares in excess of 30 per cent of the paid up share capital of a company, unless it is a subsidiary, Reserve Bank would, based on merits, recommend to the Government to grant exemption from the provisions of Section 19(2) of the Act, ( i.e. under Section 53 of the Act ibid) for investment in excess of 30 per cent and upto 49 per cent in the equity of the IDF-NBFC.
The Finance Minister had in his budget speech for the year 2011-2012 announced the setting up of Infrastructure Debt Funds (IDFs), to facilitate the flow of long-term debt into infrastructure projects. The IDF will be set up either as a trust or as a company. A trust based IDF would normally be a Mutual Fund (MF) while a company based IDF would normally be a NBFC. IDF- NBFC would raise resources through issue of either Rupee or Dollar denominated bonds of minimum 5 year maturity. The investors would be primarily domestic and off-shore institutional investors, especially insurance and pension funds which would have long term resources. IDF-MF would be regulated by SEBI while IDF-NBFC would be regulated by the Reserve Bank.
The Hindus’ marriage ceremony is not a religious but a social function and various kinds of service providers, including those erecting tents for it, are not exempted from paying service tax, the Delhi High Court ruled today. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna gave this ruling dismissing a plea by All India Tent Dealers’ Welfare Organisation, contending they should be exempt from paying service tax for erecting tent for holding the marriage ceremony as it is primarily a religious function.
The service tax department is conducting surveys on nine leading developers and has found that Rs50 crore worth of (service) tax has not been deposited with it despite the sum being collected from buyers. The amount is due since five months. Service tax has to be deposited with the department by the first week of […]
Maxopp Investment Ltd vs. CIT (Delhi High Court) – Even for the pre-Rule8D period, whenever the issue of section 14A arises before an Assessing Officer, he has, first of all, to ascertain the correctness of the claim of the assessee in respect of the expenditure incurred in relation to income which does not form part of the total income under the said Act. Even where the assessee claims that no expenditure has been incuured in relation to income which does not form part of total income, the assessing officer will have to verify the correcteness of such claim.
We have attached herewith Income tax Calculator for Assessment year 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13. The user have to select A.Y. for which he want to calculate Tax, Type of Assessee and have to input this taxable income in field provided. Once he provide these details calculator automatically calculates his tax liability and also gives below the Income tax Rate Chart which is Applicable to such Assessee in that Assessment year.
Calculate Long term capital gain on sale of capital Assets other then shares with the help of Indexation.- We have given below the Cost Inflation (CII) Index calculator which automatically calculates Indexed cost of your asset. In the calculator You just have to fill the Year of Sale, Year of Purchase , Cost of Purchase/Acquisition/Improvement and Index if sale is made in financial year 2011-12 or later. Cost Inflation Index for financial Year 2011-12 is 785 and for financial year 2012-13 the Index will be announced somewhere in August 2012.
Atma Ram Properties Pvt Ltd vs. DCIT (Delhi High Court) – In the present case, as already noticed, the Income-tax Officer, Azamgarh, subsequent to the completion of the original assessment proceedings, on making an enquiry from the jurisdictional Income-tax Officer at Calcutta, learnt that the Calcutta company from whom the assessee claimed to have borrowed the loan of Rs. 50,000 in cash had not really lent any money but only its name to cover up a bogus transaction and, after recording his satisfaction as required by the provisions of section 147 of the Act, proposed to reopen the assessment proceedings.
Country’s second largest software exporter Infosys today announced the launch of XBRL filing solution to help companies file their financial statements in the format mandated by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
