The Finance Act, 2016 has inserted section 115BBF to tax royalty income derived from worldwide exploitation of patents developed and registered in India @ 10%. It is a welcome move and would greatly boost the research and innovation environment in the country.
Since block assessment has been discontinued, there is litigation as regards the year of tax ability of certain income/ assets discovered in search.
The ICAI had pursuant to the issuance of the Revised SA 700, Forming an Opinion and Reporting on Financial Statements, prescribed a revised format of the auditors report on financial statements. As per SA 700 an auditor shall modify the opinion in the audit report
Currently, every Registrar or Sub-Registrar appointed under section 6 of the Registration Act, 1908 has to report through AIR/SFT, the data related to every purchase or sale by any person of immovable property valued at thirty lakh rupees
As per the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 read with Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Rules 2011 as amended, any contribution received above the specified amount (INR 1 crore) needs to be reported by the recipient bank on behalf of assessee registered
It is suggested that the automated process of PAN Migration applicable to individual assessees may also be provided to other assessees as well so that they do not have to face hardships due to delay in PAN migration.
The Assessee has to file voluminous objections in form 35A, within 30 days of receipt of the order. There is no rule to file a paper book or raise additional arguments or grounds. 30 days is very short time to compile and file before the DRP. There are many mistakes and further many arguments are also missed out.
Presently, interest paid by the Government to an assessee is chargeable to tax. However, interest paid by the assessee to the Government under various sections is not allowed as deduction while computing the total income.
Form No. 60 are used by persons who do not have a Permanent account number and who have entered into transactions specified under Rule 114B of the Income-tax Rules, 1962.
Under the general arrangement of the provisions in the Act under each head of income, normally the charging provision is accompanied by a set of provisions for computing the income subject to that charge.
