With Service Tax regime migrating to negative list approach w.e.f. July 1, 2012, almost all the services except those in negative list (section 66D) and exempted services (Notification No. 25 2012-ST dated 20.06.2012) have become exigible to service tax .
I am directed to refer to this Ministry’s letter of even no. dated 31-7-2012 on the subject cited above and say that wherever fee on pending cases under sections 17, 18, 19, 141 and 188 of the Companies Act, 1956 have already been paid by the companies/stakeholders at the time of filing of petition, consequent upon the transfer of applications/petitions from Company Law Board to the concerned Regional Directors,
The TDR premium is liable to be paid by a member of the society who desires to utilize additional FSI in the form of transferable development rights. The principle of mutuality would clearly apply to instant case. In the context of the payment of non-occupancy charges by a member of a co-operative housing society to the society, a Division Bench of this Court held in Mittal Court Premises Co-operative Society Ltd. v. ITO [2010] 320 ITR 414, that the principle of mutuality would apply.
In our view, the judgement of this Court in the case of Modi Industries Limited v. Commissioner of Income Tax, 1995 (6) S.C.C. 396 = (2002-TIOL-446-SC-IT) correctly holds that Advance Tax or TDS loses its identity as soon as it is adjusted against the liability created by the Assessment Order and becomes tax paid pursuant to the Assessment Order.
Notification No.40 /2012-Customs (ADD) Seeks to levy anti-dumping duty on imports of Metronidazole, originating in, or exported from People’s Republic of China, for a further period of five years
Representations have been received from trade as well as the field formations regarding the applicable rate of additional duty of customs (CVD) on Fertilizers when imported into India. Doubts have arisen in view of the fact that in Notification No. 12/2012-Customs, dated 17-03-2012, except for Serial Number 200(ii) [where the CVD rate of 1% is mentioned in column (5)] the entry in this column for all other Serial Nos. is
Notification No. 36/2012-Income Tax In the Income-tax Rules, 1962 (hereafter referred to as the principal rules), – (a) after rule 10E, the following rule shall be inserted, namely.- Advance Pricing Agreement Scheme- 10F. Meaning of expressions used in matters in respect of advance pricing agreement.—For the purposes of this rule and rules 10G to 10-I,-
The vehicles imported under this scheme shall be registered either as a tourist vehicle or shall have an appropriate registration specific to a particular state enabling the vehicle to be used for tourist purpose. A copy of the Registration certificate should be submitted to the concerned Licensing Authority as a confirmation of the vehicle having been imported and capital good installed.
It is important to check the status of Private Limited Company, if the shareholder of such Private Limited is Body Corporate incorporated outside India. It is also important from the audit point of view since if the status of such Private Limited Company is established as Subsidiary of Public u/s 4(7) of Companies Act, 1956 then all the Compliances under Companies Act, 1956 has to be been taken care as it is a Public Company.
It has been observed that a large part of litigation in the Direct Taxes matters involves interpretation of legal provisions. Lack of desired clarity on a contentious legal issue, amongst the officers of the department, sometimes leads to inconsistent approach on the same issue giving rise to further litigation. With a view to provide clarity on contentious legal issues, promote consistency of approach on a given issue and reduce litigation, it has been decided to set up the following institutional mechanism to formulate ‘Departmental View’ on contentious legal issues:
