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Curbing the Black Money A Priority Concern for the Government; Number of Proactive Steps To Tackle the Malaise Announced; White Paper to be Laid in Current Session Itself: FM
The Union Finance Minister ShriPranab Mukherjee while presenting the Union Budget for 2012-13 has announced to reduce basic customs duties on plant and machinery imported for setting-up of iron ore pellet plants or iron ore beneficiation plants from 7.5 percent to 2.5 percent. In his Budget Speech in LokSabha today, the Finance Minister proposed to reduce basic customs duty on coating material for manufacturing of electrical steel from 7.5 percent to 5.0 percent. On nickel ore and concentrate and nickel oxide/ hydroxide, the duties have been reduced to NIL from 2.5 percent or 7.5 percent. In other proposals, export duty on chromium ore has been enhanced from Rs. 3,000/- per tonne to 30 percent ad valorem. Basic customs duty on non-alloy, flat rolled steel has been proposed to enhance from 5 percent to 7.5 percent.
The Finance Minister in his budget speech proposed to raise basic exemption limit from Rs.1.8lacs to Rs.2lacs resulting in tax savings of Rs.2000. For the income above the basic exemption limits, new tax slabs have been announced too. Rs. 2 Lacs to Rs. 5 lacs – 10% , Rs. 5 lacs – Rs.10 Lacs – 20% and above Rs.10 lacs – 30%.
It is proposed to insert a new section 546B so as to provide rollover relief from long term capital gains tax to an individual or an HUF on sale of a residential property (house or plot of land) in case of re-investment of sale consideration in the equity of a new start-up SME company in the manufacturing sector which is utilized by the company for the purchase of new plant and machinery.
Considering general increase in salary and inflation since revision of this limit, it is proposed to increase the existing threshold of gross salary from five lakh rupees to ten lakh rupees for the purpose of levying wealth-tax on residential house allotted by a company to an employee or an officer or a whole time director.
With a view to remove the cascading effect of DDT in multi-tier corporate structure, it is proposed to amend Section 115-O of the Act to provide that in case any company receives, during the year, any dividend from any subsidiary and such subsidiary has paid DDT as payable on such dividend, then, dividend distributed by the holding company in the same year, to that extent, shall not be subject to Dividend Distribution Tax under section 115-O of the Act.This amendment will take effect from 1st July, 2012.
NC Notification No. 31/2012-Income Tax Whereas by notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) number S.O. 1124(E), dated the 29th September, 2003, issued under sub-section (1) read with clause (b) of the Explanation to section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government had notified at serial number 6, “Maintenance and running of Shri K.K. Shah Sabarkantha
NC Notification No. 30/2012-Income Tax Whereas by notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) number S.O.458(E) dated the 30th March, 2006, issued under sub-section (1) read with clause (b) of the Explanation to section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government had notified at serial number 2, “Unnati, a vocational guidance centre for the underprivileged”
It is proposed to amend the provisions to provide that the deduction for life insurance premium as regards insurance policies issued on or after 1st April, 2012 shall be allowed for only so much of the premium payable as does not exceed 10% of the actual capital sum assured.
Currently, there is no provision in either of the aforesaid sections specifying the mode of payment of money. Therefore, it is proposed to amend sections 80G and 80GGA so as specify therein that any payment exceeding a sum of ten thousand rupees shall only be allowed as a deduction if such sum is paid by any mode other than cash.
