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...
With effect from A.Y. 2005-06, a concept of levying income-tax on the gifts received by an individual or HUF was introduced in Section 56 (2) of the Act. This was done to combat certain misuse of the provisions where the gift was received from a non-relative. At first the said concept was introduced for taxing gift in cash alone. However, consistently the scope of the said gifts has been enlarged.
The Chief Minister (Finance Minister) presented the State Budget for the Year 2010-11 on Tuesday 09th March 2010 in the State assembly for the second time in his second tenure. There was not much for the trade and industry in the budget except some changes in the rate structure and the much awaited simplification of the quarterly return.
The Budget 2010-11 has not done away with most excise or customs exemption notifications but, contrary to the need of the hour, added more exemptions, each with its own set of conditions that entail more paperwork and transaction costs. However, a couple of procedural improvements will bring some relief to select importers and exporters.
Addition or reduction of exemptions in various services. Renting Service – Retrospective amendment to supersede decision of Delhi High Court in case of Home Solutions Retail India Ltd. Now activity of ‘Renting’ made taxable. Construction Service – receiving any amount from prospective buyer before completion certificate would be considered as service.
Large business entities willing to convert into Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) will have to wait for some more time with the government saying that it would consider raising the limit for capital gains tax exemptions as part of the Direct Taxes Code.
As per Memorandum on Finance Bill, 2010 a source rule was inserted in section 9 of Income-tax Act in 1976 with an intention of bringing to tax fees for Technical Services by creating a deeming fiction that even in cases where services are provided by a non-resident outside India, consideration for such services will be taxable in India so long as services are utilised in India. The source rule effectively means that the situs of the rendering of ser-vices is not relevant.
The Income Tax department has got the power to cancel any charitable organisation’s registration that accords it the benefit of tax exemption. The department can annul the registration and the exemption emanating from it if the organisation is found to violate the norms for registration, according to Budget 2010-11.
When the finance minister in his budget speech acknowledged that the film industry has been experiencing difficulties while discussing the proposals relating to customs duties, it appeared that the industry was finally going to get a respite from controversies relating to the valuation of imported content. While the FM did rationalise the customs duty structure, on the flip side, he has imposed a service tax on transactions entailing licensing of copyright.
Last year’s budget had introduced an investment linked tax incentive for specified business including the business of laying and operating a cross country natural gas or crude or petroleum oil pipeline network for distribution, including storage facilities being an integral part of such network. One condition for availing this benefit was that not less than one–third of the total pipeline capacity is available for use on common carrier basis.
Increase in customs duty on crude petroleum from Nil to 5%. Decision on Kirti Parikh recommendations will be taken in due course. Weighted deduction on expenditure incurred on in-house R&D enhanced from 150% to 200%. Also weighted deduction on payments made to National Laboratories, research associations, colleges, universities and other institutions, for scientific research increased from 125% to 175%
