Presently, the guidelines for sectoral exposure in debt oriented mutual fund schemes put a limit of 25% at the sector level and an additional exposure not exceeding 5% (over and above the limit of 25%) in financial services sector only to HFCs. In light of the role of HFCs especially in affordable housing space, it has now been decided to increase additional exposure limits provided for HFCs in financial services sector from 5% to 10%.
Imagine having a dream in your life, but you find that your education, your profession and your life have taken you down on a totally different path. Do you chuck everything you’ve built thus far so that you can pursue your passion? Or you just stay on course and vow to go after the dream later
The introduction of Goods and Services Tax (GST) would be a very significant step in the field of indirect tax reforms in India. By amalgamating a large number of Central and State taxes into a single tax, it would mitigate cascading or double taxation in a major way and pave the way for a common national market.
Section 79:-According to the income tax provisions, a closely held company is not eligible to carry forward and set off its losses if 51 % or more of the voting power in the year in which the set-off is claimed is not beneficially held by the same shareholders who beneficially held 51% or more voting power on the last day of the previous year in which the loss was incurred.
You have decided to opt a Home Loan Balance Transfer and worried about the procedure, what are the steps involved? Most of us consider Home Loan Balance Transfers to enjoy reduced interest rates. Consider the pros and cons before you take the leap.
From April 1st 2016 onwards, banks and NBFCs have been instructed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to shift to a new system of setting loan rates. Termed as Marginal Cost-of-funds-based Lending Rate (or MCLR) system, under this system, the lending institutions link their loan rates to marginal funding costs.
As per the Black’s Law Dictionary, to Compound means to settle a matter by a money payment, in lieu of other liability. This meaning clearly defines the concept of Compounding as a mechanism that provides the offender an opportunity to avoid prosecution from the offence committed by him after paying off monitory payment.
In a recently pronounced judgment in the case of Hewlett Packard Financial Services vs The State of Karnataka, The Deputy Commissioner of Commercial Taxes (Audit) (‘Revenue’), the Karnataka High Court dealt with the issue relating to entitlement of VAT exemption by virtue of Section 5(2) of the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 (‘CST Act’).
1. (1) These rules may be called the Income-tax (20th Amendment) Rules, 2016. (2) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In the Income-tax Rules, 1962, in the Appendix II, in Form 10A,—(i) for item 4, following item shall be substituted, namely:—
Hon’ble High Court of Kerala has stayed the disciplinary proceedings initiated by ICAI against CA Shaji Poulose for exceeding the limit on number of tax audits. IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM Present: THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.B.SURESH KUMAR Wednesday, the 3rd day of August 2016/12th Sravana, 1938 WP(C) .No.25662/2016(G) PETITIONER/ SHAJI POULOSE, CHARTERED […]
