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...
This section provides for adoption of stamp duty value in case of transfer of land or building or both held as stock-in-trade. Several issues have cropped up due to implementation of this section in its present form and suggestions thereof are as under
Section 43A was inserted in the Income-tax Act, 1961 by Finance (No. 2) Act 1967, which permitted Capitalization of Foreign Exchange Fluctuation Loss in the borrowing used for acquisition of assets outside India.
In many cases, assessees engaged in the business of financing assets, acquire such assets which were used by the borrower for the purpose of his business or profession. Post-acquisition of such assets, the finance companies lease out the same to another person under operating lease.
Section 43D of the Act provides that income by way of interest in relation to bad and doubtful debts of a public financial institution or a scheduled bank or a cooperative bank or a state financial corporation or a state industrial investment corporation or a housing finance company
Currently, bill payments related to electricity consumption made to electricity companies are not allowed through cheque in case payment is made after a certain date or delayed/late payment after due date. Assessee in such situations is left with no option but to pay in cash.
In relation to section 40(a)(ia), Explanatory Memorandum to Finance (No.2) Bill 2014/CBDT Circular No. 1 of 2015 explained that disallowance of whole of the amount of expenditure in case of payments to residents for whom TDS
In many cases, a consortium may be formed by two or more members to jointly bid for big projects wherein each of the members brings in his own expertise and resources. If the consortium is assessed as AOP
Section 40(a)(ia) is amended via Finance (No. 2) Act, 2014 to restrict the amount of disallowance for non-deduction of tax to 30% of expenditure. The proviso is also amended to the effect that 30% of such sum shall be allowed as a deduction in computing the income of the previous year in which tax has been paid.
Corporates are currently involved in various areas of social responsibility / community development as part of nation building. Further, the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility Costs has been introduced under Companies Act, 2013. The expenditure is mandatory in its nature and as such it is a statutory levy. Accordingly it deserves tax deduction.
specified under the relevant legislation of the fund. The employees contribution credited to the employees account in the relevant fund after the due date specified under section 36(1)(va) are disallowed to the employer. Further, any payments made by the employer after the due date is also NOT allowed as a deduction in the year of payment.
