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Section 54/ 54F: no requirement of investment in new residential house in India prior to 01/04/2015

May 22, 2017 3657 Views 0 comment Print

Undoubtedly, prior to the amendment made by Finance (Nos.2) Act, 2014 w.e.f. 01/04/2015, the language of section 54 of the Act required the assessee to invest the capital gain in a residential property.

Trust Corpus Fund cannot be taxed despite non registration u/s 12AA

May 22, 2017 13209 Views 1 comment Print

Corpus fund which is meant for specific purpose to meet out capital expenditure could not be part of annual receipts of educational institution, even if no registration u/s 12AA have been granted.

In absence of Original WhatsApp Forward Can’t be treated as Document

May 22, 2017 1776 Views 0 comment Print

What they believe to be information is a post circulated on WhatsApp platform or an alleged translation in a website. The alleged information is not claimed to be true to their knowledge. It is not even stated in the petition as to how the petitioners have formed a reasonable belief that the alleged post or the translation could be true or have any basis.

Bogus share capital: AO must scrutinise documents produced by assessee, addition cannot be done merely on report of investigation wing

May 21, 2017 2799 Views 0 comment Print

The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal’s (ITAT) order upholding the Appellate Commissioner’s opinion that the additions made in the course of reassessments were unsustainable, were challenged by the Revenue. The reassessment notice was issued to the assessee for AY 2002- 03 on the ground that information received from the Investigation Wing pointed to its being the beneficiary of the accommodation entries that were subjected to addition under Section 68.

No TDS On Salaries Reimbursed Under Secondment Agreement

May 21, 2017 3093 Views 0 comment Print

1] We have heard Mr. Pinto appearing on behalf of Revenue in support of this appeal. 2] In paragraphs 4.1 and 4.2 of this memo of appeal, the Revenue says that the facts are as under:- “4.1 The Assessing Officer, from the records noted that the Respondent Company had made payment of a sum of […]

Director of Visakhapatnam hotel arrested for failure to pay Service Tax

May 21, 2017 2574 Views 0 comment Print

Managing Director of a popular hotel of Visakhapatnam was arrested and remanded to judicial custody today for the failure to remit to the government an amount of Rs. 3 crores of service tax which was collected during the years 2011-16.

Comments/ Suggestions Invited for Existing Virtual Currencies Framework

May 20, 2017 573 Views 0 comment Print

The circulation of Virtual Currencies which are also known as Digital/ Crypto Currencies has been a cause of concern. This has been expressed in various fora from time to time. Reserve Bank of India had also cautioned the user’s, holders and traders of Virtual currencies (VCs), including Bitcoins, about the potential financial, operational, legal, customer protection and security related risks that they are exposing themselves to vide it’s press releases dated 24th December, 2013 and 1st February, 2017.

Have new NPA norms for Wholesale Long Term Finance Bank: ASSOCHAM to RBI

May 20, 2017 1002 Views 0 comment Print

ASSOCHAM has approached the RBI with a plea that the provisioning criteria for the non-performing assets (NPAs) in the case of proposed Wholesale Long- Term Finance (WLTF) banks should be based on stress tests of each of the funded projects, unlike the present standard provisioning norms due to a different nature of the long term, big ticket industrial or infrastructure projects to be covered by WLTF lenders.

Reverse Charge Mechanism (RCM) for Services: What Has Changed??

May 20, 2017 23502 Views 10 comments Print

The fitment of rates of services were discussed on 19th May 2017 during the 14th GST Council meeting held at Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir. The Council has broadly approved the GST rates for services at Nil, 5%, 12%, 18% and 28%. The information will be subject to further vetting after which the list may undergo some changes. The decisions of the GST Council are being communicated for general information and will be given effect to through gazette notifications which shall have force of law.

Attaining Freedom from Coal Shortages Transparent Mineral Auctions

May 20, 2017 1071 Views 0 comment Print

From the era of experiencing major coal shortages, India presently boasts of surplus coal as production of coal increased to 554 million tonnes in 2016-17 from 462 million tonnes in 2013- 14. The significance of this increase of 92 MT of coal production in three years can be gauged from the fact that the same quantum of increase during the UPA regime was achieved in almost seven years.

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