RBI held a meeting of its Central Board on November 8, 2016. The agenda of the meeting, inter-alia, included the item : Memorandum on existing banknotes in the denomination of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 – Legal Tender Status
Budget 2017: It has been decided by the Government to merge the Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR) for income-tax, central excise, customs duty and service tax. Accordingly, necessary amendments, have been made to Chapter XIX-B to allow merger of these AARs.
In order to protect the interest of the revenue in cases where tangible evidence(s) are found during a search or seizure operation (including 132A cases) and the same is represented in the form of undisclosed investment in any asset, it is proposed that section 153A relating to search assessments be amended to provide that notice under the said section can be issued for an assessment year or years beyond the sixth assessment year already provided upto the tenth assessment year if—
It is proposed to amend section 133C to empower the Central Board of Direct Taxes to make a scheme for centralised issuance of notice calling for information and documents for the purpose of verification of information in its possession, processing of such documents and making the outcome thereof available to the Assessing Officer for necessary action, if any.
The existing provisions of section 1 33A empower an income-tax authority to enter any place, at which a business or profession is carried on, or at which any books of account or other documents or any part of cash or stock or other valuable article or thing relating to the business or profession are kept, for the purposes of conducting a survey.
The existing provisions of section 133 empower certain income-tax authorities to call for information for the purpose of any inquiry or proceeding under the Act. The second proviso to the said section provides that the power in respect of an inquiry, in a case where no proceeding is pending
Section 132 of the Act provides the power of search and seizure subject to fulfilment of conditions specified therein.
The existing provisions of section 204 of Act, has defined the meaning of ‘person responsible for paying’ to include employer, company or its principal officer or the payer. Further clause (iii) of section 204 of the Act, inter alia, provides that in the case of credit or payment of any sum chargeable under the provisions of this Act
Finance Act, 2012 with effect from 1st April, 2013 amended the provisions of section 112(1)(c) to provide concessional rate of taxation of ten per cent for long-term capital gains arising from the transfer of unlisted securities in case of non-resident.
Central Government notified the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) which are converged with International Financial Reporting Standards(IFRS) and prescribed the Companies( Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015 which laid down a roadmap for implementation of these Ind AS.
