The Reserve Bank of India today released the Macroeconomic and Monetary Developments Third Quarter Review 2011-12. The document serves as a backdrop to the Monetary Policy Statement to be announced on January 24, 2012.
Hon’ble Chief Justice Mr. Mohit S. Shah of Bombay High Court has administered oath to the following new Judges on 23/1/2012. 1. Hon’ble Justice Mr. M.S. Sanklecha 2. Hon’ble Justice Mr. R.D. Dhanuka 3. Hon’ble Justice Mr. S.P. Deshmukh
With the globalisation of the world trade and liberalisation of the Indian economy, the number of persons moving in or out of India in the exercise of their business, profession or employment is on the increase. As in most of the countries, the liability under the Indian Income tax law is also co-related to the residential status of the concerned tax payer. Section 6 of the Indian Income-Tax Act creates 3 categories as far as residential status is concerned.
The Internet Service Provider for website of the Maharashtra Sales Tax department is M/s Airtel Major fire broke out in one of the network centers of the said service provider on 27.12.2011. Due to the fire, the web site www.mahavt.gov.in was not available through internet from 27/12/2011 to 30/12/2011.
Whether assessing Officer has jurisdiction to rectify the original assessment u/s 154 of the Act, as it was change of opinion and the review of order passed by his predecessor was not permissible under law. Held – That assessing officer has a power to rectify the assessment by invoking the provisions of Section 154 of the Act. The rate of depreciation claimed by the assessee on trucks at 40% was wrongly allowed as the assessee was not plying trucks owned by it on hire but was utilizing the trucks for its own purposes and hence rate of depreciation applicable was 25%.
The income tax department may not go in for filing a review petition on the Supreme Court’s judgement on the Vodafone taxation case. Top sources in the department said that a 10-member ‘core committee’, which has been specially constituted, will go into the details of the order. But the department may take a view not to file a review petition against the order which was delivered by a three-member Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia on Friday, the sources said.
Vodafone International Holdings B.V. (VIHB), a Dutch based Vodafone entity, acquired a controlling stake in Hutchison Essar Limited [(HEL), now known as Vodafone Essar Limited VEL)], an Indian company, from Cayman Islands based Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited (HTIL) by acquiring shares of CGP Investment (CGP), a Cayman Islands company [which belonged to (HTIL)] in February 2007. CGP held various Mauritian companies, which in turn held a majority stake in HEL.
Smt. Amita Agarwal v. ACIT (ITAT Agra) -Assessee filed her return wherein income arising from sale of shares was shown as ‘Long-term Capital gain’ – Assessing Officer, however, brought said amount to tax under head ‘Income from other sources’ – On appeal before Tribunal, Judicial Member, allowed assessee’s claim in light of overwhelming evidences produced by her to prove genuineness of transaction – Accountant Member, however, in view of order passed in case of Baijnath Agarwal v. Asstt. CIT [2010] 40 SOT 475 (Agra)(TM) took a different view
If Act authorizes a designated authority to collect tax for State, the same Act always permits the said authority to rectify any proceedings, which has resulted in double taxation. When the income of Rs. 4,28,750 has been assessed for the assessment year 2008-09, the assessment of the same amount for the impugned assessment year 2007-08 is a mistake apparent from the records. The assessing authority could have corrected it and if not, the Commissioner (Appeals) could have given a direction to rectify such a mistake apparent from the records. There is no great question of law involved in this.
As an ongoing attempt to enable the members to keep pace with the latest developments in direct taxes, the Direct Taxes Committee of ICAI has entered into an arrangement with Taxmann, a reputed and a well known publisher, wherein Taxmann has agreed to provide all materials that are published and made available by it as a part of its standard practice and procedure on its website www.taxmann.com at a subsidized price of Rs. 3500/- p.a. vis-a- vis its market value which is Rs.7500/-. With this, the Committee has tried to make available, in a timely manner, relevant educational resources at a subsidized cost to the members, which in turn would enable them to discharge their functions in an effective manner.
