INTRODUCTION ‘Public revenue’ (or Government revenue) is concerned with the Income of the Government through various sources. The Government collects/earns money through various forms of tax and non-tax revenue, and use this money to meet its administrative and other expenditures. Tax revenue are the ones which are derived by the process of direct and indirect […]
Over the period of time, a business grows and expands itself. Companies can either internally restructure the company, or amalgamate with some other company, in order to bring about a change. This growth can be organic or inorganic depending on the way the business chooses to grow.
A cross border merger is a merger of two companies which are located in different countries resulting in a third company. It could involve an Indian company merging with a foreign company or vice versa. The local company can be private, public, or state-owned company. Earlier only those cross-border mergers were allowed, where the transferee company was an Indian company and the transferor company was a foreign as per Indian law.
Mergers and acquisitions involve huge financial recourses so it becomes important to evaluate the viability of the deal. Therefore, buyers undertake a process known as due diligence, though it is not an insurance but it provides assurance against the bad deal. The term more commonly applies to voluntary investigation but in some cases, it is used to mean a required legal obligation.
Fraud can be defined as, ‘a deliberate act of omission or commission by any person, which has been carried out in the course of a banking transaction or in the books of accounts maintained manually or under computer system in banks, thereby resulting into wrongful gain to any person for a temporary period with or without any monetary loss to the bank’.
Globalization can be defined as the mixture of individual national economies into the international economic environment via different participation means. Globalization spurred two other revolutions– low-cost mass-transit facilities and international telecommunications (i.e., the Internet).
Only when the capital assets is sold off/transferred, capital gain arises. As per section 2(14) of Income Tax Act, 1961, any kind of property held by the assesse, or any kind of securities held by a foreign Institutional Investor who has invested in such securities as per SEBI Guidelines.
Section 22 of the Income tax Act, 1961 is the charging section for head Income from House Property. As per this section, the assessee must be the owner of the property which is subject to income under the head House Property. Property can be any building or land not necessarily residential.
Understand the concept of Previous Year under the Income Tax Act, 1961. Learn about its definition, calculation, and implications for tax payment.
An assessee is subject to taxation on the basis of his/her residential status. Residential Status is not subject to citizenship. For example, a person who has received his income outside India can be subject to taxation in India on the basis of his residential status. Even the taxability of income earned by a foreigner in India depends on his residential Status in India.
