Central Government hereby amends with immediate effect Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-2014 (RE 2012) and introduces a new para 4A.16A for setting up of Private/Public Bonded Warehouses for Gems and Jewellery sector.
The credit given for TDS in an order passed under Section 155(14) read with Section 154 cannot be construed as a relief given in the original assessment order. Section 155 of the Act provides for various situations under which an order can be amended because of developments taking place subsequent to the date on which the order was originally passed.
Notification No. 9/2013 – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (22AAA) of section 2 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby makes the following scheme for approval of electoral trusts, namely:-
In the recent past, instances of some officers of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) being subjected to searches investigations by Anti-Corruption Branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have been reported.
BIG FOUR tax partners are to appear before the Public Accounts Committee as it continues its investigations into tax avoidance. Witnesses from PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and Ernst & Young will appear on 31 January and will include KPMG’s UK head of tax Jane McCormack, Deloitte’s head of tax policy Bill Dodwell, PwC’s head of tax […]
The New Service Laws as amended by Finance Act, 2012 has made some radical changes in the entire structure of service tax laws.One of such area is introduction of Reverse Charge Mechanism (RCM) on some of the services, in which liability has been casted on service receiver to pay service tax even though it has nothing to do with service tax laws.
In continuation of MCA’s General Circular Nos. 8/2012, dated 10-5-2012 [as amended on June 29, 2012], 18/2012, dated 26-7-2012 and 43/2012, dated 26-12-2012, it has been decided that all cost auditors and the companies concerned are allowed to file their Cost Audit Reports and Compliance Reports for the year 2011-12
Income Tax is a code in itself and for levying taxes certain terms have been defined in a particular manner and they carry special meanings. Word ‘person’ is one among them. So, in our humble opinion, State Government is a person for purposes of collecting tax at sources as per the provisions of Sec 206C of the Act.
On going through the order of the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals), it can be seen that the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) came to the conclusion that the assessee is entitled to deduction under sec.80IB of the Act since the assessee unit is located in an industrially back-ward State specified in VIII Schedule and is governed by the provisions of sub-sec. (iv) of Sec.80IB of the I.T. Act. Further, the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals), by analyzing the provisions of the Act held that the assessees,
Since the Second Quarter Review (SQR) of Monetary Policy in October 2012, headwinds holding back the global economy have begun to abate gradually, although sluggish conditions prevail. In the US, activity gathered momentum in Q3 of 2012 but this is unlikely to have been sustained in Q4. While a political consensus to avert the ‘fiscal cliff’ has calmed financial markets,
