Section 54EC of the Act having given the respondent a choice of investing either in the bonds of Rural Electrification Corporation Limited or the National Highway Authority, the revenue cannot insist that the respondent ought to have invested its capital gain on sale of property in the bonds of the National Highway Authority.. The statue itself provides that the assessee, who is subject to long terms capital gain tax, can avail of exemption under Section 54EC of the Act if he invests in bonds of either the National Highway Authority of India or the Rural Electrification Corporation Limited.
In the context of section 47(i) and (iii), this gift referred to therein, is a gift by an individual or a Joint Hindu Family or a Human Agency. Section 47(iii) speaks of ‘any transfer of a capital asset under a gift, or will or an irrecoverable trust’. Execution of a will involves a human agency. Cannot the expression gift take its colour from a will with which it is juxtaposed, especially in the background of clause (i) of section 47 and clause (ii) which earlier existed.
1. Register online to view your EPF Account Passbook. 2. The facility at present is only for the members for whom the employer has uploaded the Electronic Challan Cum Return for the wage month of May 2012 onwards. 3. There is no need to create and remember any user id and password. You have to use your mobile number and any of your following identification proof number such as PAN, AADHAR, NPR (National Population Register), Bank Account, Voter ID, Passport or Driving License to register and thereafter to login.
On one hand where inflation is not coming under control and on the other, economic slowdown, globally as well as domestically, resulting in curb on income streams, it becomes imperative for people to work out for some additional source of income to either bridge the gap or earn more to continue to live the life as usual. This calls for some extra sources of income over and above regular sources.
According to the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of England, Cost Audit is defined as the verification of Cost Accounts and a check on the adherence to the Cost Accounting plan. The cost audit therefore comprises: (a) the verification of the cost accounting records such as the accuracy of the cost accounts, cost reports, cost statements, cost data, costing techniques and (b) examining these records to ensure that they adhere to the cost accounting principle, plans, procedures and objectives. Generally, Cost audit is an audit process for verifying the cost of manufacture or production an article on basis accounts as regard utilization of material or labour or other cost
This article aims to discuss few essential issues that require to be addressed in light to the changes brought by negative list provisions, the jeopardy created by the board’s circulars and complexity of structures adhered to in this industry. Broadly the article shall cover the aspects as mentioned hereinafter: – (Strictly relevant to real estate only)
Whether the applicant is required to file its return of income under section 139 of the Act, in case, its capital gains is not chargeable to tax in India is question no.6 posed. It has been found that though the applicant would be chargeable to capital gains tax on the proposed sale of shares under the Act, it has been ruled that in view of the benefit available to the applicant by the invocation of section 90(2) of the Act and the DTAC between the two countries, the authorities under the Act cannot tax the income in view of paragraph 4 of Article 13 of the DTAC.
What is FDI? – FDI refers to Foreign Direct Investment in `equity share or fully and mandatorily convertible preference shares or fully and mandatorily convertible debentures’ (FDI Instruments) of an Indian company by non resident entities.
If the assessee treats expenditure on acquisition of assets as application of income for charitable purposes under section 11(1)(a) and if the assessee claims depreciation on the value of such assets, then in order to reflect the true income to be available for application for charitable purposes, the assessee should write back in the accounts the depreciation amount to form part of the income to be accounted for application for charitable purposes.
