The cheque writing will not be so easy and casual again. All of us do write cheques and issue the same to our creditors, suppliers or to those whom we owe some money – loan to friends, investment in shares, payment of salary, payment of hotel bills or even medical bills or tax payment, cheque comes as a handy tool to pay the money.
Continuous rise in pendency of refund claims cost the exchequer interest of a whopping Rs 5,785 crore during 2008-09, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India said today.
The revised draft of the Direct Tax Code (DTC), that will replace the Income Tax Act, will be available for comments soon before it is finalised and placed before Parliament for its approval, possibly in the winter session.
UOI vs. R. Gandhi (Supreme Court – 5 Judges). Parliament is competent to constitute Tribunals for special Acts. However, the failure to ensure independence of judiciary and separation of judicial and executive power renders the Company Law Tribunal unconstitutional. Suggestions given on how to remedy the defects.
The direct tax collection for 2009-10 is likely to be around Rs 3.80 lakh crore, missing the revised target by Rs 7,000 crore (Rs 70 billion). “The final figure will be available in mid-May when all the transactions are compiled. As on date it is somewhere around Rs 3.78 lakh crore…it may be Rs 3.80 lakh crore,” Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) chairman S S N Moorthy said at an Assocham seminar.
Generally marine containers are temporarily brought into a customs territory and have to be re-exported within a specified period. Normally, a Full Container Load is taken out of the port and the activity of stuffing or de-stuffing takes place at the premises of the exporter/importer.
EBI has received feedback from investors and Investors’ Associations to improve transparency in the ‘grievance redressal mechanism’. Based on the same, transparency in ‘grievance redressal’ is identified as a key area to augment investor protection.
We do not find that on all the four counts, demand was raised on the ground of clearance of goods with intent to evade payment of duty. Demand relating to third count and relating to samples was clearly demand on account of legal issues so it cannot be held that there was intention to evade payment of duty. So penalty in respect of these two counts is not sustainable.
For the purpose of sub-clause (ii), the expression “controlling interest” means an interest, whether direct or indirect, to the extent of at least fifty-one per cent of voting rights in the body corporate.
Attention of Authorised Dealer Category-I (AD Category-I) banks is invited to Foreign Exchange Management (Current Account Transactions) Rules, 2000 notified vide Notification No.G.S.R.381(E) dated 3rd May 2000, as amended from time to time.
