Opposing the government’s decision to levy service tax on rentals, several retailers and multiplexes across cities have obtained stay orders against the move from their respective high courts over the last one month. The Union Budget for 2010-11 had brought the rental income from immovable property under the purview of service tax with retrospective effect from June 1, 2007 by treating the renting of immovable property as a service.
The rebate will also be allowed for bonds issued by Industrial Finance Corporation of India, Infrastructure Development Finance Company and any other non-banking finance company classified as an infrastructure finance company. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently classified L&T Infrastructure as an infrastructure finance company.
The recent imposition of service tax on residential properties will have only a minimal impact on the demand for residential properties in the real estate sector as most buyers in the market are end-users than investors. This service tax of 10.3 per cent on 25 per cent of the home value, which will translate into a close to 2.6 per cent of the home value on projects under construction, was proposed in the Union Budget of 2010-11.
Although the revised draft Direct Taxes Code (DTC) has suggested the continuation of profit-linked incentives for existing SEZ units and developers, they are likely to come under the ambit of Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT). The revised draft of DTC has recommended the rate of MAT at 2 per cent of the value of gross assets as the final tax. The provision, if adopted, would negate the very objective of the SEZ policy, as the developers and units would then end up paying MAT, based on their book profits, which will be a final tax.
The tax-free infrastructure bonds proposed in this year’s budget will have a minimum tenure of 10 years and a lock-in period of at least five years, allowing lenders to raise the much-needed long-term funds for the sector. The guidelines issued by the government on Friday said that only a select financial institutions will be allowed to issue these long-term infrastructure bonds.
Audit firm Price Waterhouse has moved the Bombay High Court challenging the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s jurisdiction to investigate its role in the multi-crore Satyam fraud.The audit firm filed a petition in the Bombay High Court on Thursday, seeking a stay on the SEBI proceedings on the grounds that the capital market regulator has no jurisdiction over audit firms.
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E-filing Mandatory for Individual and HUF who required to furnish the return in Form ITR-4 and to whom provisions of section 44AB are applicable
Indirect tax collections grew by a whopping 43% in the first three months of the current fiscal, providing further testimony to a recovery in industrial activity that prompted International Monetary Fund (IMF) to raise its 2010 growth estimate for the country.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India through its Board of Studies imparts compulsory 100 Hours Information Technology Training (ITT) to its students as a part of their education and training for the Chartered Accountancy Course at its 150 ITT Centres established at its Regional/ Branch Offices all over the country.
