Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, TRAI, has extended the 100 sms per day limit to 200 sms per day, per sim. Earlier, TRAI had restricted the number of commercial non-commercial sms that can be send from a sim, to 100. TRAI received representations from some of the service providers and consumers to increase the limit of 100 sms per day, per sim. TRAI has decided that the New cap of 200 sms per day, per sim will be effective from today onwards.
The Special Judge for CBI cases, Delhi has sentenced Sh. Pramod Kumar Jain, the then Income Tax Inspector working in the Directorate of Income Tax(Exemption), Laxmi Nagar, District Centre, Delhi to undergo four years rigorous imprisonment with a fine of Rs.Four lakh and his wife Smt. Asha Rani Jain to undergo two years rigorous imprisonment with a fine of Rs.Two lakh in a disproportionate assets case. The Court has also ordered forfeiture of disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs.1,04,45,122/- to the State.
Conversion of free shipping bills to DEPB Shipping Bills were allowed by the Department of Revenue vide Customs Circular No.6/2003-Cus. dated 28.1.2003 whereby Commissioner of Customs were given powers to allow such conversions. In accordance with the instructions, conversions were done by Customs. Subsequently, vide Circular No.4/2004-Cus. dated 16.1.2004 the facility to allow the conversion of free shipping bills to export promotion schemes were withdrawn. In this background, instructions were issued to the Regional Authorities not to grant DEPB benefits against such shipping bills which were converted by the Customs authorities. Some of the exporters approached High Courts claiming that DEPB should be given in cases where the conversions have been allowed by Customs.
The Union Cabinet today approved the proposal of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for pursuing the Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Amendment Bill, 2010 pending in Rajya Sabha in Parliament for its enactment and also to move the official amendments in the Rajya Sabha. Cabinet also approved the action taken on the recommendations made in the Eighteenth Report on “Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Amendment Bill, 2010” of the Standing Committee on Information Technology.
Following is the text of the clarification issued by Central Board of Direct Taxes, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance: “A section of the press has reported today that some investigations relating to banking information received from overseas have been referred to the Directorate of Criminal Investigation by the Central Board of Direct Taxes for […]
In the context of formulating the proposals for the Union Budget of 2012-13, the Ministry of Finance would like to be benefited by the suggestions and views of your Association. You may like to send your suggestions for changes in the duty structure, rates and broadening of tax base on both direct and indirect taxes giving economic justification for the same.
Income Tax Rate Slabs for Assessment year 2001-2002,2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011 amd A.Y. 2012-2013 for Individual, Hindu undivided Family (HUF), Women Other Than Senior Citizen.
New Delhi: The Income Tax Department introduces a separate permanent account number (PAN)application form for non-residents in which NRIs, PIOs and entities having interest in India will have to provide additional information to the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). The new form–49AA— will help the department gather information on non-Indian entities and individuals, like […]
Whereas, M/s. Calica Constructions and Impex Private Limited, a private organisation, had proposed under section 3 of the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (28 of 2005), (hereinafter referred to as the said Act) to set up a sector specific Special Economic Zone for Information Technology and Information Technology enabled services at Village Ognaj, Taluka Dascroi, District Ahmedabad in the State of Gujarat;
In order to provide more flexibility, to authorised persons to decide the location of their branches, it has been decided to dispense with the criteria of 1:1 ratio between metro and non-metro branches. However, we expect branches to be diversified and to be meeting the demand of tourists, etc. All the other instructions shall remain unchanged. A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 41, Dated- November 01, 2011
