Central Government hereby notifies for the purpose of the said clause, the Competition Commission of India, a Commission established under sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Competition Act, 2002 (12 of 2003), in respect of the following specified income arising to the said Commission, namely:-
For the upcoming reporting in March 2015 and May 2016, all reporting has to be done in INR. For the reporting in 2017, Form 61B and Schema will be suitably modified to include a field for capturing type of currency
1. Re-introduction of Standard Deduction to Salaried / Pensioner Income Tax Payees. 2. Enhancement of deduction u/s 80C to Income Tax Payees from present Rs.1-50 lac / Rs.2.00 lac to Rs.3-00 lac, if not Rs.5-00 lac a year. 3. Enhancement of deduction u/s 24 to Income Tax Payees from present Rs.2-00 lac to Rs.3-00, if not Rs.5-00 lac a year.
The ITAT bench of Mumbai in the above cited case held that investment in share capital of a subsidiary being an international transaction on capital account does not result in income as defined under section 2(24) of the Act, the Transfer Pricing provisions a would not be applicable to such transaction. Further, in the absence of thin capitalization rules, re-characterization of debt capital into equity or vice versa not allowed.
Central Government hereby notifies the ‘Atal Pension Yojana (APY)’ as published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, vide number F. No. 16/1/2015-PR dated the 16th October, 2015 as a pension scheme for the purposes of the said section.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has today arrested an Assistant Director, posted at Directorate General of Customs & Central Excise (Intelligence), Dehradun (Uttarakhand) while demanding & accepting an alleged bribe of Rs. 10 Lakh from a complainant.
Government has vide Notification No. 07/2016-ST provided Service Tax exemption wef 01.04.2016 on Services provided by Government or a local authority to a business entity with a turnover up to rupees ten lakh in the preceding financial year.
All services provided by the Government or local authority to a business entity, except the services that are specifically exempted, or covered by any another entry in the Negative List, shall be liable to service tax. The date from which this amendment would come into effect is notified as 01.04.2016 vide Notification No. 06/2016- Service Tax Dated : 18/02/2016.
Notification No.29/2016 – Customs (N.T.) Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby determines that the rate of exchange of conversion of each of the foreign currencies specified in column (2) of each of Schedule I and Schedule II annexed hereto, into Indian currency or vice versa, shall, with effect from 19th February, 2016, be the rate mentioned against it in the corresponding entry in column (3) thereof, for the purpose of the said section, relating to imported and export goods.
In order to curb the erstwhile lacuna in the language of the Act and to prevent formations of various foreign shell companies, which are eventually controlled and managed from India, the Government of India amended the provision of clause (ii) of sub-section 3 of section 6 of the Act vide Finance Act, 2015 to avoid future revenue losses and prevent tax abuse.
