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...
Earlier, SEZ unit holders and developers had raised concerns regarding continuation of tax benefits like income tax holiday after the Direct Tax Code comes into effect, replacing the existing Income Tax Act. The Minister informed the reporters that the Finance Minister in his Budget speech has said that the government is committed to ensuring continued growth of SEZs to draw investments and boost exports and employment.
Tax slabs liberalized :-The most significant and far reaching change proposed is the amendment in the income tax slabs. This move is a definite step towards taking the tax slabs to the proposed Direct taxes code (DTC) to be implemented in next year.
Fraudsters would soon find it difficult to raise multiple loans against the same property with the budget setting aside Rs 25 crore for a Central Electronic Registry. The Central Electronic Registry (CER) would be a database of all all mortgages and the banks that have a charge. So in future when a borrower seeks to avail a loan against an apartment or a house, the lender will be able to verify whether anyone has already got a charge on the property.
Real Estate sector which is slowly coming out of the Mid 2008 slump, has received good support from Union Budget 2010-11. While the budget has encouraged affordable housing below Rs 20 lakhs with 1% interest subvention for housing loan upto 10 lakhs and extension of benefits available under section 80IB by one more year, extension of some services are extended so as to bring under service tax impacting the industry in difficult times.
Following eight new services are proposed to be introduced: Services of promoting, marketing or organizing of games of chance, including lottery [Section 65 (105) (zzzzn)]. Health services, namely, health check up undertaken by hospitals or medical establishments for the employees of business entities; and health services provided under health insurance schemes offered by insurance companies.[Section 65 (105) (zzzzo)]
Section 56(2) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 inter alia deals with receipts without considerations. Since most of such receipts tantamount to gifts, the provisions are popularly named as those of gifts and deemed gifts. Till 30 09 2009 only sum of money received without consideration was treated as income in the hands of the recipient being either an individual or a HUF.
All the Excise duty Notification including Tariff and Non Tariff issued by Custom department in respect of budget proposals/provisions in Union Budget 2010-11. Read our earlier Post on Major Amendment in Excise Duty made in Budget 2010-11 at the Link given below:- Budget 2010-11: Major Amendment in Central Excise Duty. . Notifications are as given below: – Please click the Notification No. to view the Notification.
All the Custom duty Notification including Tariff and Non Tariff issued by Custom department in respect of budget proposals/provisions in Union Budget 2010-11. Read our earlier Post on Major Amendment in Custom Duty made in Budget 2010-11 at the Link given below:-Budget 2010-11: Summary of Major Amendment in Custom duty Laws
The Union Budget 2010-11 proposes to rationalize the differential custom duty structure for importing digital masters of films for duplication or distribution in electronic medium and in cinematographic film. Henceforth custom duty would be charged only on the value of the carrier medium.
Outright exemption from special additional duty provided to goods imported in a pre-packaged form for retail sale. This would also cover mobile phones, watches and ready-made garments even when they are not imported in pre-packaged form. The refund-based exemption is also being retained for cases not covered by the new dispensation.
