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This article summarizes a recent ruling of the Mumbai Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) [2009-TIOL-707-ITAT-MUM] in the case of Cipla Investments Ltd. (Taxpayer) on taxability of waiver of loan. The ITAT held that since the loan received was on capital account, its subsequent waiver too was on capital account. Hence, the loan waived was not liable to be taxed as profits and gains from its business (business income) under the provisions of the Indian Tax Law (ITL). The ITAT also held that waiver would not be taxable as business income if a taxpayer was not allowed deduction of the loan amount earlier.
As per section 17 of the Indian Registration Act, 1908 any documents related to immovable property exceeding worth Rs.100/- needs to be compulsorily registered. This being a central Act and is being implemented by the state government as per the special power given to the state government. Further, the state government is also empowered to levy the registration fees by issuing necessary notifications. The registration fee is charged as a service charge and not as a part of taxes to increase the revenue.
These alerts relate to related party transactions, non-payment of deposits, etc. In reply to an unstarred question in the Lok Sabha today, Minister of Corporate Affairs, Shri Salman Khurshid said that the Registrars of Companies and the regional directorates, have also been involved in this exercise. He also informed the House that strengthening of MCA-21 System is an on-going exercise and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs takes steps on regular basis to update and modify the system according to requirements.
Notification No. 84/2009 – Income Tax 13. Rectification of mistake or error.- After the issue of directions under rule 10, if nay mistake or error is apparent in such direction, the panel may, suo motu, or on an application from the eligible assessee or the assessing officer, rectify such mistake or error, and also direct the assessing officer to modify the assessment order accordingly.14. Appeal against Assessment Order, – Any appeal against the Assessment Order passed in pursuance of the directions of the panel shall be filed before the Appellate Tribunal in Form No. 36B.
We have considered the rival contentions, relevant record and various decisions relied upon by both the parties. The undisputed factual position emerging out of the record is that in the case of first assessee in ITA Nos.826 & 827/09 the return of income for the assessment year 2003-04 was filed on due date but the return of income for
Section 46(2) provides that when a shareholder receives money or any other asset from a company on its liquidation, then such shareholder shall be charged to capital gains tax. This capital gain is on account of transfer of shares effected by extinguishment of rights in the shares. The section further provides
TDS rates in case of Section 194-C and 194-I gets simplified this year. With several deductors requesting the department to ease the rates in these cases, department has finally take a call to streamline these rates.Contract Payments:Earlier, contract payments were attracting 2% TDS rate. If such contract is an advertisement contract then it was charged at 1%. Also all sub contracts were charged at 1% TDS rate.
Finance Act (2) of 2009 comes with major amendment in TDS provisions, where it withdraws additional deductions of surcharge and cess for Non-Salaried, Resident Payments. This would give a slight relax to the deductors in calculating the rate of tax. Applicable only on Non-Salaried, Resident Payments.The withdrawal of Surcharge and Cess is applicable only for Non Salaried payments, made to Indian Residents.
In the present scenario, tax is a burden imposed by law. Since our present state rest on the Principles of Rule of Law, the tax administration does not remain a mere revenue collection exercise, it take the shape of administration of a branch of law. Thus the ideal taxation is execution of a well defined law with defined burden, legal-procedural-financial, on the subjects. When such law is administered by an inefficient and corrupt institution, it does not result in merely less collection of revenue but erosion of subject’s faith in the existence of Rule of Law.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and 926 computerized branches of public and private sector banks will receive advance income tax in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, apex bank said in a statement.These arrangements have been made for the convenience of the income tax assesses. Of the 926 bank branches 862 branches are public sector bank branches, 35 HDFC bank branches, 10 ICICI bank branches and 19 AXIS bank branches.
