The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has brought all the dispute resolution panels (DRP) under the supervision of the Director-General of Income-Tax (International Taxation).Budget 2009-10 had introduced the concept of DRPs to provide an alternate dispute resolution mechanism to facilitate expeditious resolution of disputes on a fast track basis. This facility was made available only to foreign companies.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd (REC) have kept their targets to raise funds in the current financial year through tax-free infrastructure bonds unchanged, at a total of Rs 6,500 crore. Analysts feel it is a wise step not to raise the target now, as the market is yet to pick up in a big way.
An insurance inspector posted at the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) here has been arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000 from a complainant. The CBI laid a trap and the accused inspector Om Prakash was caught red-handed while demanding and accepting the bribe of Rs 15,000 from the complainant, a CBI spokesperson said here today.
Apex auditor CAG today lamented that private telecom operators are not providing their account books to it, despite request from the government. “In the telecom sector, we have still not got access to records of private service providers despite the request for such audit coming from the government itself,” Comptroller and Auditor General of India Vinod Rai said at a conference on accountants general here.
The Board of Approval of the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) met here today to consider proposals for setting up of Special Economic Zones and also to approve other miscellaneous requests pertaining to SEZs. Addressing the Board of Approval members, the Chairman informed that so far 574 formal approvals have been granted for setting up of SEZs out of which 353 have been notified.
For the first time in the history of the stock market, investors who lost out on allotment of shares due to a scam will receive compensation from money recovered from scamsters. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will on Monday hand over the cheques to investors who lost out because scamsters cornered the shares meant for retail investors in initial public offerings (IPO) during 2003-05.
Over 4.7 crore (47 million) employees are likely to get an interest of 8.5 per cent in 2010-11 on their provident fund deposits of about Rs 2.5 lakh crore (Rs 2.5 trillion), a return authorities have been giving for the past five years. The decision is likely to be taken on Friday at the meeting of the Central Board of Trustees (CBT), the apex decision making body of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (FPFO), turning down the trade unions’ demand for 8.75 per cent as it would result in huge deficit.
Please find below the details of Online Income Tax return filed during the period from 01.04.2009 to 31.03.2010.
The contracts for export of cotton yarn shall be registered with the textile commissioner prior to shipment, the notification said. Clearance of cotton yarn consignments would be cleared by the Customs after verifying that the contracts have been registered, it added.
Prasad Production Ltd. (“Taxpayer”) was awarded a contract by the Government of the State of Andhra Pradesh to establish IMAX Theatre at Hyderabad. The Taxpayer entered into an agreement with IMAX Ltd., Canada for purchase of the system (which included supply of equipment, installation, testing and initial training) as well as transfer of technology. As per the agreement, the total consideration for purchase of the system was US$ 1,365,000 and US$ 950,000 was towards technology transfer fee.
