Under Section 72 of the Income Tax Act, to give to the amalgamated company the benefit of the loss or, as the case may be, allowance for depreciation of the amalgamating company for the previous year in which the amalgamation was effected for the purposes of the Income Tax Act, the Central Government must, upon the recommendation of the specified authority, be satisfied that the amalgamating company was not, immediately before the amalgamation, financially viable by reason of its liabilities, losses and other relevant factors, and that the amalgamation was in the public interest.
Where a benefit of deduction is available for a particular number of years on satisfaction of certain conditions under the provisions of the Income Tax Act, then unless relief granted for the first assessment year in which the claim was made and accepted is withdrawn or set aside, the Income Tax officer cannot withdraw the relief for subsequent years. More particularly so, when the revenue has not even suggested that there was any change in the facts warranting a different view for subsequent years.
AAI had let out/given on licence or lease certain premises to the petitioners therein for the purpose of running a counter or for parking and the Service Tax Department, invoking Section 65 (105) (zzm) of the Finance Act, 1994 was claiming service tax on the rental/licence fee which was being paid by the petitioners therein to the AAI. It was the contention of the petitioners therein that Section 65 (105) (zzm) does not entail renting out of immovable property and the same does not constitute a taxable service and is not exigible to service tax. Reliance was placed on clarification issued by Central Board of Custom and Excise vide Circular No.80/10/2004-S.T., dated 17.9.2004.
Circular no. 8/2012-Income Tax The present Circular contains the rates of deduction of income-tax from the payment of income chargeable under the head Salaries during the financial year 2012-13 and explains certain related provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (hereinafter the Act) and Income-tax Rules, 1962 (hereinafter the Rules). The relevant Acts, Rules, Forms and Notifications are available at the website of the Income Tax Department- www.incometaxindia.gov.in.
G.S.R (E) In the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Corporate Affairs published in the Gazette of India vide G.S.R (E) dated 21st September, 2012 relating to amendment of the Companies (Central Governments) General Rules and Forms (6th Amendments Rules, 2012) for Forms 23AC and 23ACA, in page number 7, in table number C and page number 8, table number E. In the said Rules, for the word ‘to Directors’ appearing after the word loans and advances shall be substituted by word ‘by Directors.’
The Companies Bill, 2011, on its enactment, would allow the country to have a modern legislation for growth and regulation of corporate sector in India. The existing statute for regulation of companies in the country, viz. the Companies Act, 1956 had been under consideration for quite long for comprehensive revision in view of the changing economic and commercial environment nationally as well as internationally.
The Authority in order to streamline the preparation of the financial statements of General Insurance Business, have been issuing various Circular/Guidelines. In order to enable the Insurers to have a one stop document of all such directions issued, this Master Circular has been prepared. This Master Circular essentially consolidates all directions/Circulars issued by the Authority upto 30th September, 2012 as indicated in the Appendix and will have the effect of superseding such earlier circular(s) of the Authority
Due to paucity of accommodation in some Zones opted by the candidates in the cities of Chennai, Indore and Mumbai some of the candidates have been allotted examinations centres in the zone other than the zone opted in the said cities. In view of this, it is not possible to accede to the requests of the candidates for transfer to an examination centre in a particular zone of the city opted by them.
CIT Vs. Surya Educational & Charitable Trust (P&H HC) – Section 10(23C) of the Act are the provisions of the Act in substitution of the earlier provisions of Section 10(22) of the Act as to which income shall not be included in computing the total income of any person. Therefore, the provisions of Sections 11, 12 or Section 10(23C) of the Act, deal with the income of a Trust or of the Institution and the circumstances as to when such income is to be excluded for computing the total income, but the basis of such benefit is the registration under Section 12AA of the Act.
The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to further amend the Competition Act, 2002, with a view to fine tune it and to meet the present day needs in the field of competition, in the light of the experiences gained in the actual working of the Competition Commission of India in the last few years.
