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Employing muscle power to recover vehicle loans cannot be permitted in a civilised society where there is effective rule of law - procedure of law may be slow, but that is no excuse for use of force: National Consumer Commission. It is well known that the private banks use muscle power to recover loans. The National Consumer Redressal Com...

The government is likely to introduce biometric PAN cards soon to address the problem of duplicate cards. A joint working group in the ministry of finance has given its report after obtaining technical and commercial proposals from leading biometric solutions providers, finance minister P Chidambaram said in the Lok Sabha during Question ...

The Income Tax Department has moved the Supreme Court against the ruling by a quasi-judicial body which held that foreign firms are not liable to pay tax on assignment amount charged from their Indian subsidiaries if contracts are signed outside the country. The I-T department challenged the decision of Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) i...

Hope all of you are familiar with efiling of ITR - 1, 2, 3, 4, &5. I have a message for you.... IT people (You may call them Income Tax People or Inefficient Taxman) are not very clear about Circular No. 5 - 2007. I find it very difficult to convince them that their department has enabled efiling and it is also sufficient to submit a veri...

Fixed deposit holders will not be allowed to avail any credit against taxes paid on their interest earnings if banks do not quote their PAN numbers. Many fixed deposit holders could be left in lurch as income tax department has tightened rules on TDS or tax deducted at source. Banks are supposed to cut tax at source for interest income ab...

The court ruled that a duty may be enjoined on the taxpayer to make correct disclosure of income but if such a disclosure is based on opinion of an expert, (a registered valuer in this case) only because his opinion is not accepted or another expert gives a contrary opinion, same by itself may not be sufficient for arriving at conclusion ...

The Central Board of Direct Taxes have further extended the last date of filing of income tax returns due by 31 July 2007 to 15 September 2007 in the state of Bihar in view of the continued disruption caused by floods in the state....

Minister of State for Finance Shri S.S. Palanimanicham affirmed in the Lok Sabha that the income tax department has issued revised guidelines for allotment of Permanent Account Number (PAN) to Indians living abroad, foreign citizen or a company, trust or firm not having an office in India. The requirement of having a representative assess...

starting from April 1, 2008, the deductors of TDS are not required to give TDS certificates to the recipients of income or payment in respect of which tax has been deducted. It is one thing to abolish the requirement to attach TDS certificates with the returns filed by the taxpayers but quite another to abolish the very requirement of fur...

The office of the Andhra Pradesh Chief Commissioner of Income Tax today informed that e-payment of Direct Taxes was mandatory for Corporate Tax payers and those coming under the purview of Sec 44 AB, with effect from January 1, 2008....