Shri Ajay Tyagi took charge as Chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India, today. Prior to this, Shri Tyagi was Additional Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, handling the portfolios of Capital Market Division, Investment Division, Infrastructure Division and Currency and Coinage Division.
Ballasts or boulders or chips being mineral as per Entry 117 of the taxable list are exigible to tax at the rate of 4% of taxable list. Moreover, the appeal has been purportedly filed before the Tribunal with proper perspective and there is no defect in raising any such plea before it.
This common judgment will dispose of a batch of writ petitions. They were heard together as they involve identical questions of fact and law as to the correct interpretation of Section 194-I of the Income Tax Act [hereafter the Act].
The proposed introduction of section 115BBG providing for a 10 percent tax on income from transfer of carbon credits is a welcome move. This would go a long way in helping to resolve the uncertainty and litigation over the taxability of income from the transfer of carbon credits going forward.
Two incidents from the South African years of Mahatma Gandhi stand out distinctly. The first is the worst kind of racial discrimination that he suffered on the first class compartment of a train. He was heckled and thrown out of the train by a snobbish European at Pietermaritzburg station.
The Finance Act, 2016 had inserted new Section 115BBDA to tax dividend income in excess of Rs. 10 lacs in case of an Individual, HUF and Firm at the rate of 10%.
Since TIPS were received from customers and not from employer these would be chargeable in the hands of employee as income from other sources and section 192 would not get attracted on facts of case.
The Finance Bill, 2017 proposes to amend section 79 to provide that where a change in shareholding has taken place in a previous year in the case of a company, not being a company in which the public are substantially interested and being an eligible start-up as referred to in section 80-IAC of the Act
Amounts shown as liabilities / Outstanding in the Balance Sheet cannot be deemed to be “cessation of liability” under Section 41(1) of Income Tax Act, 1961 merely because the liabilities are outstanding for several years. Assessing Officer has to bring on record any material evidence to establish that there was cessation of liability in respect of the outstanding creditors balances represented in the assessee’s Balance Sheet.
An issue arises as to whether the proposed amendment intends to take out sale of jewellery completely from TCS levy or intends to retain the TCS levy on jewellery but with lower threshold of Rs. 2 lakhs.
