On 6th October, 2017, the GST council under the Chairmanship of the Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Arun Jaitley held a meeting to review the impact, concerns and progress of the tax regime. The meeting also focused on bringing in necessary changes for the benefit of tax payers.
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 (Code), which became law in May 2016, is looked upon by both the business and the professionals with a lot of expectations. It is natural that like many new things, this code too is to settle down and it is one of its kinds.
Accountancy, more-often-than-not, is erroneously sighted as a static science. It is a common belief that the principles of accountancy do not change, sans their operating environment, or the circumstances which confront them. You always debit the receiver and credit the giver, whether you are on Earth or Mars.
In the year 2011, a search conducted on the premises of the residence of the assessee resulted in recovery of certain documents on the basis of which, the department made some addition on account of undisclosed income arising out of appearance fee in ICC Awards function, unexplained expenditure etc.
Where on account of an inadvertent error, PAN of the deductee was wrongly mentioned by assessee, in TDS return, AO was not justified in not permitting the assessee to correct PAN of the deductee, putting the limitation of permitting corrections of only four characters. The case was, therefore, remanded.
A division bench of the Bengaluru ITAT, on Tuesday held that the distribution fee paid by Google India to Google Ireland for use of its Ad words programme is taxable in India as royalty under the provisions of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
Provided also that in case the officially valid document presented by a foreign national does not contain the details of address, in such case the documents issued by the Government departments of foreign jurisdictions and letter issued by the Foreign Embassy or Mission in India shall be accepted as proof of address.
Whether on the facts and in the circumstances of the case the interest paid on money borrowed to bring into existence a show room (according to the revenue an income earning apparatus) is a revenue expenditure?
Neither the State Legislature nor the State Government would have the power to make laws/ rules to govern interstate movements of goods in the course of trade, and for the purposes of levy of tax,
A division bench of the Bombay High Court, on Monday, held that insurance charges and carrying charges do not form part of the sale price under section 2(29) of the Bombay Sales Tax Act, 1959. A bench comprising Justices R.K Deshpande and Manish Pitale was hearing a departmental appeal against the order of the Maharashtra Sales Tax Tribunal wherein the Tribunal held that insurance charges and carrying charges do not form part of the sale price under section 2(29) of the Bombay Sales Tax Act, 1959.
