Sec. 194H – Ad agencies are not agent of newspaper; hence TDS is not required to be deducted on commission paid to such agencies. Where tax has not been deducted at source, the short deducted tax cannot be realised from the deductor and the liability to pay such tax shall continue to be with the assessee direct, whose income is to be charged and a person who fails to deduct the tax at source, at best is liable for interest and penalty only. The above issues thus, are decided in favour of the petitioner. Sec. 194H – Ad agencies are not agent of newspaper; hence TDS is not required to be deducted on commission paid to such agencies
Internship Programme of Foreign Tax & Tax Research Division, Department of Revenue – The CBDT has launched an internship programme in the Foreign Tax & Tax Research Division. The objective of the programme is to enable the department to critically analyze various aspects of International Taxation, Transfer Pricing, Advance Pricing Agreements etc on the basis of refreshing ideas from the filed of academics. Applications are invited from eligible candidates. A stipend is payable. The terms and conditions are stated in the Circular Dated 28.03.2012.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 9 of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 (Mah. IX of 2005), the Government of Maharashtra hereby amends SCHEDULE A appended to the said Act, as follows, namely:—
The assessee had filed and furnished all details and particulars relating to the royalty payment including agreements, calculation and the approval before the Ld. AO during assessment proceedings. There was no failure on the part of the assessee to furnish true and correct all material facts. The facts were available before and were within the knowledge of the AO. The new AO as per the reasons recorded on the basis of the same facts, has observed that royalty payment should have been disallowed as it was capital in nature. This is a question of legal inference or interpretation which has been drawn from the same material facts on record. Therefore, the case falls in the category of change of opinion as at the time of original preceding the AO examined and gone into the question of royalty. Even if there was any legal error or illegality the same cannot be rectified and be made the subject matter of reassessment proceedings u/s 147/148 of the Act. The re-assessment order is also quashed.
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (“MoEF”) has taken the first step towards reducing the alarmingly growing menace of pollutants from the information age. The E –Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011 framed under the Environment Protection, Act 1986 were published on May 30, 2011 and have come into effect on 1st May 2012. This step is significant in the light of the fact that India generates about 400,000 tonnes of e waste annually of which 19,000 tonnes are getting recycled. The Rules puts the onus on the producers and the consumers for reducing e-waste.
From the above note, it is clear that the above equipment primarily include the routers, switches, modems, etc. which are in the nature of input and output support devices which performs the functions including communication and control and, thus, they are computer hardware when they are used along with computer and when their functions are integrated with `computer’. Such devices used as part of the computer in its functions and, thus, it can be termed as `computer’ only, therefore, eligible for depreciation @ 60%. Therefore, also we find no infirmity in the claim of the assessee of depreciation @ 60% of ITG networking equipments.
When the statements made by the assessees here, later retracted, do not have any evidentiary value, there is no basis in holding that there are materials available before the Assessing Officer to make out cases of escapement of income. A reason must be formed by the Assessing Officer to reopen an assessment on the basis of material or information recognized under law.
G.S.R. 409 (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby rescinds the following notifications of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i),as specified in column (2) of the Table below, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such rescission, namely:-
Proof of the name, address and activity of the concern, like registration certificate (in the case of a registered concern), certificate/licence issued by the Municipal authorities under Shop & Establishment Act, sales and income tax returns, CST / VAT certificate, certificate / registration document issued by Sales Tax / Service Tax / Professional Tax authorities, Licence issued by the Registering authority like Certificate of Practice issued by Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Institute of Cost Accountants of India, Institute of Company Secretaries of India, Indian Medical Council, Food and Drug Control Authorities, etc.
Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the biggest office building of the Income tax Department in India tomorrow. The building will house the offices of salary charges, non-corporate charges, International Taxation, Exemption and other allied charges, accommodating approximately 800 Officers and 1500 staff. It will also have an assessee friendly ASK (Aayakar Sewa Kendra) Centre. Pratyaksh Kar Bhawan at Civic Centre is a ‘green’ building.
