About Rs 200 crore of unaccounted income has been detected in the past week in surveys conducted by the income tax authorities in Ahmedabad and Surat, an official said Tuesday. Two builders of Ahmedabad disclosed unaccounted income of Rs 100 crore after a survey by the department that ended Monday.
he Bombay High Court ruled on Wednesday that no part of an ancestral family property can be ‘gifted’ away. The court in a landmark order while resolving the dispute over a 69-year-old gift deed declared as void the document dating back to 1941, which said that Miraj resident Mallapa had gifted a portion of his ancestral property to his second wife Chandrabai ‘out of love’.
The only reason which has been given seeking reopening of the assessment for the years 1997-98 and 1998-99 is that suppression of sales have taken place on account of the fact that when average price of the closing stock is multiplied with the quantity of the sales in the year then the value of the sales would be at a higher figure than that as declared by the assessee.
It is a settled principle that the power of levying penalty or not is discretionary and not mandatory. The law requires that whenever the AO is to exercise his discretion then it is the AO alone who is to exercise that discretion and the appellate authority cannot exercise that discretion on the part of the AO.
Registration of trust was governed by Section 12A of the Act prior to the introduction of Section – 12AA vide Finance Act, 2007. Section – 12AA(3) empowers the commissioner to cancel the registration of trust, if the registration is granted u/s. 12AA. However, the provision is silent for cancellation of registration, where the registration is granted u/s. 12A.
Organisations which are existing for charitable purpose are entitled to seek exemption from the tax liabilities under the Act. However, the institutions which were engaged in charitable activities other than relief to poor, education, medical relief, preservation of environment, monuments or places of artistic or historic interest, or religious institutions [i.e. institutions which were having object of general public utilitiy] were denied exemption,
Under the existing section 80D, deduction upto a sum of Rs. 15,000 on premium paid for insurance on the health (Mediclaim) of the assessee and his family. A further deduction of Rs. 15,000 is admissible if the medical insurance is taken for parents of the assessee. It is also provided in the existing provision that if the insured is a senior citizen, the said limit will become Rs. 20,000.
Under the existing provisions, there is a limit of Rs.1,00,000 u/s. 80CCCE which is for specific deductions in computing the total income under section 80C, 80CCC & 80CCD; a new section has been inserted for granting deduction to individual or HUF in computation of its total income.
Rights Issues (RIs) were out of favour with corporate India in 2009. Reason for such situation was due to depressed sentiments in the capital market. In 2008 ,companies raised Rs 29,786 Cr through RIs which reduced in 2009 to Rs 2,525 Cr . Reduction was to the extent of Rs 27,261 Cr over the previous year. Promoters prefer RI route to raise fund as it is a cheaper mode of obtaining fund from the market without disturbing the shareholding pattern.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has issued a very useful Circular (number 6/2010-Cus dated March 19, 2010) re-iterating its earlier instructions that rebate of excise duty paid on goods supplied from domestic tariff area (DTA) to a special economic zone (SEZ) should be granted under Rule 18 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002.
