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Income Tax : ITAT Pune grants partial relief in cash deposit case during demonetization under Section 69A. Dispute centered on unexplained depo...
Income Tax : ITAT Pune quashes PCIT's Section 263 order against Shree Balaji Associates, stating AO made inquiries; no lack of inquiry found....
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held that as per circular no. 6 of 2016 dated 29th February 2016, it is clear that it is the assessee who decides whet...
Income Tax : Delhi High Court held that section 153C of the Income Tax Act doesn’t required AO to find or uncover a relationship or an associ...
Income Tax : ITAT Chandigarh held that ITO Ward-3(1), Chandigarh had no jurisdiction to issue notice to an NRI and hence consequently the asses...
Income Tax : CBDT introduces ITR-B for search and seizure cases under section 158BC of the Income Tax Act, effective from 1st September 2024....
Income Tax : CBDT sets 30 April 2025 as the last date to file declarations under the Direct Tax Vivad se Vishwas Scheme, 2024....
Income Tax : HUDCO bonds issued after April 1, 2025, notified as long-term assets under Section 54EC for capital gains exemption, usable for in...
Income Tax : CBDT grants tax exemption to Prayagraj Mela Pradhikaran under section 10(46A) of the Income-tax Act, effective from assessment yea...
Employees will now have to pay taxes on perquisites given to them by their employers as the Central Board of Direct Taxes has notified the much-awaited rules for valuation of the benefits. With these rules, the fringe benefit tax (FBT) being paid by employers for giving non-cash benefits, including cars and employee stock options (ESOPs), to employees will be abolished and replaced with a regime that will tax the perquisites in the hands of the employees. It could mean less take-home pay for employees.
Insurance companies, while settling third party insurance claims, cannot deduct tax at source (TDS) on the interest earned on the compensation amount, ruled Bombay high court. A division bench of justice Sharad Bobde and justice SJ Kathawalla, in an interim order, directed the New India Assurance Company not to deduct tax from the amount of interest to be paid over a compensation granted to a widow, her two children and her mother-in-law.
Notification No. 94/2009 – Income Tax For the purpose of computing the income chargeable under the head Salaries, the value of perquisites provided by the employer directly or indirectly to the assessee (hereinafter referred to as employee) or to any member of his household by reason of his employment shall be determined in accordance with the following sub-rules, namely:-
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The assessee purchased machinery which was not put to use during the year though it formed a part of the “block of assets”. On the question whether depreciation on the said machinery was allowable, the Tribunal held that once a particular asset falls within the block, it is added to the WDV and depreciation is to be allowed on the block.
The Finance Act, 2004 introduced section 111A in the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) prescribing a tax rate of 10 percent on Short Term Capital Gains (STCG) arising from sale of shares on or after 1 October 2004 on a stock exchange which are subject to Securities Transaction Tax (STT).
Conflicting decisions of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (the Tribunal) concerning similar payments in the case of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. v. DCIT [2003] 85 ITD 478 (Delhi ITAT) and DCIT v. Pan AmSat International Systems Inc. [2006] 9 SOT 100 (Delhi ITAT) led to the constitution of the Special Bench of the Delhi Tribunal. It was held that payments made by telecasting companies to satellite companies for telecommunication or broadcasting constitutes royalty under provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (‘the Act’) as well as various tax treaties.
Recently, the Delhi Bench of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (the Tribunal) in the case of Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. has held that the difference between the market price and the issue price of the shares offered to employees under the Employee Stock Option Scheme (ESOP) is not an allowable expenditure since the loss incurred due to issue of shares at a discount is a notional loss and such notional loss cannot be considered as an allowable expenditure under the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act). Though it was mandatory to record it as an expenditure as per the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) guidelines.
India Inc has informed the ministry of finance that the government can unlock a whopping Rs 50,000 crore in revenue if it fast-tracks cases related to direct and indirect taxes that are pending in various tribunals and courts. The Confederation of Indian Industry ( CII) senior director Marut Sengupta said this constitutes about one- fourth of the Rs 2,00,000 crore that has been held up for a long time in various disputes related to corporate and income tax, excise tax and services tax.
The Parliament has passed the the Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2009 which is to replace the Competition (Amendment) Ordinance, 2009 and to further amend section 66 of the Competition Act, 2002. Rajya Sabha passed it today, while the Lok Sabha had already considered and passed it on 14th December, 2009.
