CIRCULAR NO. 37 OF 2015-16 A considerable number of refund cases are lying pending with department and many representations are being received in this regard. In order to streamline the disposal of refund cases, at the first stage, it has been decided that all refunds pending upto the tax period ending 31st March, 2015 and having amount upto ₹ 10,000 in a tax period, would be processed expeditiously.
Recently, I had an occasion to deal with a case, where no notice under section 143(2) of the Income‑Tax Act, 1961 (the Act), was served on the assessee, within the stipulated period of twelve months. But after the expiry of the aforesaid period, the Assessing Officer (AO) issued a notice under section 148 read with section 147 of the Act. We requested the AO to supply us the reasons recorded under section 148, which the AO did.
F. No. 312/109/2015-OT Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes Room No. 281, Hotel Samrat Kautilya Marg, Chanakya Puri New Delhi – 110021 Telefax : 011-24101573 Mail – Salil.mishra@nic.in New Delhi, 29th January 2016 OFFICE MEMORANDUM Sub : Issue of refunds – procedure to be followed in other […]
Notification No. 16/2016-CUSTOMS (N. T.) In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise & Customs, being satisfied that it is necessary and expedient so to do, hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 36/2001-Customs (N.T.),
Of late, we have been witnessing a new and different trend in relation to the real estate development. Earlier, a builder would go for outright purchase of a piece of land from the landlord and develop the same at his own cost and risk. The scenario in this regard is undergoing a change. Now the landlord also desires to have a share in the profit of the project being undertaken by the builder and developer.
CDMRD/DMP/CIR/32/2016 Overall position limit for a particular commodity shall be restricted to numerical position limits as mandated from time to time. For the present, the numerical position limits as existing shall be continued. It is clarified that client level position limit equal to 5% of market wide open interest permitted earlier, is hereby discontinued.
As is well known income-tax is deducted at source in respect of income from ‘Salaries’. As the income of salaried tax-payers is fixed, they are more susceptible to inflationary pressures. Therefore, there have been progressive attempts on the part of the Legislature to grant more and more relief to salaried tax-payers. In order to subserve the aforesaid objective, a number of exemptions and deductions in respect of various allowances and other receipts,
lndo Stosec (P.) Ltd. vs. ITO (ITAT Mumbai) Assessee has converted the stock in trade into investments only in the current year and immediately sold the shares after such conversion. Accordingly, the Ld D.R submitted that the assessee has entertained the idea of conversion, only to avail the exemption u/s 10(38) of the Act and also to avail concessional rate of tax in respect of short term capital gains.
ACIT vs. M/s. Superior Financial Consultancy Services (ITAT Mumbai)- Ld.CIT(A), for the purpose of deciding the case has elaborately discussed three main issues, namely (i) whether the assessee can legally convert its stock-in trade into investments
After enactment of Companies Act, 2013, the concept of payment of dividend is very liberalized. This is because when we compare the provisions of Companies Act, 1956 with the provisions of Companies Act, 2013 various relaxations regarding payment of dividend are provided in Companies Ac, 2013 Act.
