With a view to impart greater efficiency, transparency and accountability, the idea of group assessment of income has been proposed over the last few decades. In the course of the re-structuring of the department, in 2001, a system of group assessment was sought to be introduced by way of setting up of assessment range, where Joint Commissioner of Income-tax, Assistant Commissioner of Income-tax and Income-tax officer were given concurrent jurisdiction over the cases.
The invoking by Assessing Officers of the recently promulgated Black Money Act has its first brushes with the Courts of Law with the Hon’ble Delhi High Court and later on The Apex Court rendering almost diametrically opposite judgements. The author attempts a critical analysis of the issue and the various facets of the judgements.
Central Government appoints 9 day of January, 2020, as the date on which the provisions of Part I of Chapter IV related to Amendments to Indian Stamp Act, 1899 which were notified by Finance Act, 2019 (7 of 2019). Also Read- Amendments to Indian Stamp Act, 1899 applicable from 09.01.2020 MINISTRY OF FINANCE (Department of […]
Md. Tajal Hussain Vs State of Assam (Guwahati High Court) The appellant took the stand that under Section 67 of the Assam Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (for short, AGST Act 2017), the search and seizure can be made only upon the proper officer, being not below the rank of Joint Commissioner, having reason […]
Appointing the date for enforcing section 88 (b) of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 2019 to bring out the changes in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 vide Notification No. 89/2019 – Customs (N.T.) Dated 10th December, 2019. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE (CENTRAL BORD OF INDIRECT TAXES […]
Advance Paints (P) Ltd. Vs Commercial Tax Officer (Madras High Court) Admittedly, before the Assessing Authority himself adequate proof of movement of goods from Tamil Nadu to Kerala had been produced by the Assessee. In support of the branch transfer/ stock transfer made by the Assessee, the prescribed Form “F” were also furnished by the […]
Post-demonetization in FY 2016–17, there has been large scale cash deposits in bank accounts, out of which a substantial portion could be unexplained u/s 69A. Such income in nature of Ss. 68 to 69D has been made liable for being taxed at higher rate @ 60% u/s 115BBE from AY 2017–18, irrespective of whether such unexplained income is suo moto offered by an assessee as income in the return of income filed u/s 139(1) or in response to notice u/s 142(1)/ 148/ 153A/ 153C, etc.
Clause 5 of the Bill seeks to insert a new clause (eei) in sub-section (2) of section 18 of the Citizenship Act, 1955 so as to empower the Central Government to make rules to provide the conditions, restrictions and manner for granting certificate of registration or certificate of naturalisation under sub-section (1) of section 6B of the said Act.
Since assessee acquired only a right to use the software and there was no enduring benefit acquired by the assessee on account of the license promoted by it on payment of annual fee, the expenditure incurred towards installation of such software would qualify as revenue expenditure.
Pr. CIT Vs M/s Secure Meters Ltd. (Rajasthan High Court) As far as the question relating to trading profit is concerned, the record shows that the assessee derived this income from the sale of boxes manufactured by it to house electric meters. It is not disputed that the deduction under section 80 IB/IC was for […]
