Income Tax : As the Financial Year 2017-18 is nearing completion, individual tax payers are having hardly one month time to save tax. For indi...
Income Tax : The Finance Bill 2018, has proposed to cover deemed dividend u/s 2(22)(e) of Income Tax Act, also for levy of dividend distributio...
Income Tax : The Union Budget of 2018-19 has changed the tax treatment of all equity and equity-oriented mutual funds. This change was by way o...
Income Tax : This article brings out the contradiction over the intention and implementation of amendment in section 11 so as to bring the disa...
Income Tax : As we all are aware that Finance Act, 2018 brought major amendment in the field of Medical Reimbursement Allowance and Mediclaim. ...
Income Tax : POST-BUDGET MEMORANDUM – 2018 1. INTRODUCTION 1.0 The Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India considers it a ...
Finance : Budget Session 2018 of Parliament concludes The Budget Session, 2018 of Parliament which commenced on Monday, 29th January, 2018 h...
Income Tax : The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has clarified that the pension received by a taxpayer from his former employer is taxable...
Custom Duty : With the enactment of the Finance Act, 2018, CBEC is renamed as the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC). The change...
Income Tax : The Lok Sabha on March 14, 2018 passed the Finance Bill 2018 after the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley moved as many as 21 amendm...
Corporate Law : In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 146, 178 and 191 of the Finance Act, 2018 (13 of 2018), the Central Government her...
Income Tax : CBDT releases Explanatory Notes to Provisions of Finance Act, 2018 vide Circular No. 8/2018 dated 26th of December, 2018 and expla...
Income Tax : CBDT has omitted provision related to exemption of transport allowance of Rs. 1,600 per month granted to an employee other than an...
Income Tax : Since the introduction of the Finance Bill, 2018 on 1st February, 2018, several queries have been raised in different fora on vari...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 12/2018-Central Excise Seeks to exempt 10% ethanol blended petrol from additional duty of excise (road and infras...
The Finance Act 2017 has inserted a new provision by way of section 271J which provides that where the Assessing Officer (AO) or Commissioner (Appeals) {CIT(A)}, in the course of any proceedings under the Income-tax Act 1961, finds that an accountant or a merchant banker or a registered valuer (hereinafter referred to as professional)
Sales and purchases of shares exceeding a specified amount respectively in the case of day traders. This information can be filed by the concerned brokers who are dealing with the day traders.
Under section 276B, the consequence of failure to comply with the provisions of Chapter XVII-B is rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three months but which may extend to seven years and with fine.
The Finance Act, 2016 introduced a tax rate of 29% of total income to (domestic) company assessees provided its total turnover or the gross receipts in the previous year 2014-15 does not exceed five crore rupees.
Section 282A provides for issue of any income tax notice or other document without it being signed by the requisite authority. Although, the said section has been provided in the context of computerized generation of notices and other documents
Section 281B empowers Assessing Officer to invoke bank guarantee wholly or in part if demand raised on the assessee is not paid within time limit provided in the demand notice served. Very wide powers are conferred upon Assessing Officer.
The definition of accountant was amended vide the Finance Act, 2015. The reason for introducing the amended definition of an accountant as per the Explanatory Memorandum to Finance Bill 2015 was to avoid conflict of interest and for better governance.
The purpose behind introduction of MAT was to bring all zero tax companies within the tax net and to neutralize the impact of certain benefits/ incentives. The Finance Minister while introducing the Finance Act, 2015 announced to reduce the rates of corporate tax from 30 per cent to 25 per cent in a phased manner.
The Finance Minister while introducing the Finance Bill, 2015, proposed to reduce the rate of corporate tax from 30 per cent to 25 per cent over the next 4 years.
In India, separate entities are incorporated based on their specialization in various lines of businesses (like manufacturing, trading, retail, infrastructure etc.) by the parent company.