Income Tax : The Union Budget 2011-12 will revolve around fiscal consolidation, inflation control, administrative checks and inclusive growth. ...
Goods and Services Tax : 1st April 2011 is proposed as new date for its implementation. He recognized several developments in the field of computerization,...
Income Tax : The existing provisions contained in subsection 3 of Section 203 states that there is no requirement to issue a certificate by the...
Income Tax : As per existing provision, in case of TDS deducted as per Chapter XVII-B but the payment of the same not deposited with the Govern...
Income Tax : Section 10AA was inserted in the Income-tax Act, 1961 (“the Act”) by the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (“the SEZ Act”) ...
Income Tax : Under the existing provisions of section 56(2)(vii), any sum or property received by an individual or HUF for inadequate considera...
Income Tax : This section empowers the assessing officer to refer the matter to the valuation officer for the purposes of ascertaining the fair...
Income Tax : The Finance Act, 2012 had inserted a new section 54GB to exemptlong-term capital gains on transfer of a residential property, bein...
Income Tax : With difficulties being faced by the Real Estate Sector business (due to delay in clearances, nonavailability of finance and a slu...
Income Tax : Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is set to present his sixth national budget Monday, with people hoping for measures that will he...
Income Tax : on or after the 1st day of April, 2010, where the specified business is in the nature of developing and building a housing project...
Custom Duty : All the Custom duty Notification including Tariff and Non Tariff issued by Custom department in respect of budget proposals/provis...
Under the existing provisions, benefit of any deduction Under Chapter VIA is denied to the businesses which are specified businesses, irrespective of any claim being made and / or allowed. The Finance Bill 2010 proposes to amend section 35AD(3) and Section 80A to provide that the deduction Under Chapter VIA will be denied for the specified business only if the deduction U/s. 35AD is claimed and allowed. The proposed amendment by the Finance Act, 2010 substituting sub-section (3) may give rise to certain interpretational issues.
The Finance Bill, 2010 proposes that the assessee is required to make available such proportion of its total pipeline capacity as specified by regulations made by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board established under Section 3(1) of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Act, 2006 instead of 1/3rd of its total pipeline capacity. It may be mentioned that the concerned authority has provided in its regulation that gas pipeline network should have 1/3rd of the common carrier capacity, whereas petroleum pipeline network should have 1/4th common carrier capacity.
This Financial Year began on the backdrop of economic recession. Lower tax receipts were expected due to global recession. Even the Central Government had reduced its target of tax receipts. Considering this situation, the tax receipt target for 2009-20 10 of the Sales Tax Department was fixed at Rs. 3 1,346/- Crore. I am happy to inform the house that the sales tax target has been achieved. The signs of global economic recession receding are visible and I hope that in the next financial year, the revenue receipts would get a boost.
The Meghalaya budget 2010-11, presented in the Assembly today, proposed to hike the VAT rate on all items, barring wheat and rice, from four per cent to five per cent. Presenting the budget, Finance Minister Mukul Sangma proposed to raise the royalty rate on coal to realise Rs 42 crore. The tax on luxuries will be amended to rationalise the room tariffs, he added.
VAT rates of various commodities in Delhi, which are less than the rates suggested by the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers, are termed as deviations. A number of deviations have been done in the past. On account of these deviations we have incurred losses in our revenue collection as well as reduced compensation from the Central government. I propose to remove such deviations on items / commodities and levy VAT as follows :
he Budget proposal to charge 10 per cent service tax on air travel may not be rolled back, as the government expects to raise between Rs 600 and Rs 1,000 crore annually through the measure. Maintaining that the government plans to explore new avenues to mop up resources, a top official said, “at the moment it seems highly unlikely that there will be any roll-back on the service tax issue”.
Under the provisions of section 35, a person carrying on business or profession, is entitled to the deduction of the expenditure (revenue as well as capital) incurred by it on scientific research. In specified cases, the weighted deduction is given to the person incurring the expenditure. For providing further impetus to the activities of research, the weighted deduction has been enhanced as mentioned below:
Extensive provisions have been made in the Finance Bill, 2010, for expanding the scope of benefits given to the research so as to embrace non-scientific research (social science) and statistical research. Parity has been provided for the social science and statistical research with scientific research.
Presently, the corporate entities are liable to pay 15% tax on its book profits u/s. 115JB of the Act, if the said amount is more than the tax computed under the other normal provisions of the Act. Due to the effect of surcharge, education cess and secondary and higher education cess, the effective rate of MAT worked out to be 16.995%.
As per existing provisions of Section 40(a)(ia) of the Act, certain payments made to residents were not allowable as deduction where tax was not deducted or after deduction, was not paid before end of the year. In case where the tax was deducted in the last month of the year, then no disallowance u/s. 40(a)(ia) would be made, so long as the tax was deducted during the year and paid before the due date of filing the return of income.
