For most of the individual income tax assessees, last date for filing of income tax return for the assessment year 2013-14 (financial year 2012-13) is just few weeks away, i.e., 31st July, 2013.
Chief Commissioner of Income-tax, Mumbai, has ordered transfer and posting of 148 officers in the grade of Assistant/ Deputy Commissioners of Income-tax (Mumbai Region) with immediate effect vide Order No. 1 dated 18.06.2013. Download Order No. 1 dated 18.06.2013
In exercise of the powers conferred under section 30 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (15 of 1992), the Board hereby makes the regulations to amend the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Mutual Funds) Regulations, 1996,
Notification No. 46/2013 – Income Tax Payment of commodities transaction tax. ─ Every recognised association, who is required to collect and pay commodities transaction tax under section 119 of the Act, shall pay the amount of such tax to the credit of the Central Government by remitting it into any branch of the Reserve Bank of India or of the State Bank of India or of any authorised Bank accompanied by a commodities transaction tax challan.
Notification No. 45/2013 – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 115 of the Finance Act, 2013 (17 of 2013), the Central Government hereby appoints the 1st day of July, 2013 as the date on which Chapter VII of the said Act shall come into force.
G.S.R. 590 (E), dated the 13th August, 2008 and was last amended vide notification number 19/2013-Customs, dated the 2nd April, 2013, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R. 198 (E), dated the 2nd April, 2013.
Restructuring proposal of the Income-tax Department has been approved by Government on 23.05.2013 for the creation of a total 20,751 additional posts, and various measures to increase the effectiveness of the Department.
Notification No. 44/2013 – Income Tax Whereas the annexed Agreement between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain for the Exchange of Information with respect to taxes signed in New Delhi on the 31st May, 2012 shall come into force on the 11th day of April, 2013, being the date of later of the notifications after completion of the procedures as required by the respective laws for the entry into force of this Agreement, in accordance with the provisions of Article 11 of the said Agreement.
In terms of Section 66B of the Act, service tax will be leviable on all services provided in the taxable territory by a person to another for a consideration other than the services specified in the negative list. Due to Section 66B, the regime of service tax from taxable 119 services to 17 services under negative list. Meaning thereby that except these 17 Services, all Services will be taxable under Service tax. In all, there are seventeen heads of services that have been specified in the negative list.
Some recent amendments have been introduced by the Income Tax Department for filing Income tax Return by the assessees for the Assessment Year 2013-14. These rules have substituted old Income Tax Return Forms with new Income Tax Return Forms .
