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Income Tax - If one looks at the trend in economic growth, it is seen that gross value added in the economy has been slowing down with 7.9% in 2015-16, 6.6% in 2016-17 and just 5.6% in Q1 of 2017-18. On the same lines, industrial capacity utilization as well as industrial production has been slipping. Not only this, fiscal deficit and interest rates h...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Specific Audit Requirement W.r.t to Section 143(3)(d) of companies Act 2013 read with rules 11(8) of Companies (Audit and Auditors) Amendment Rules, 2017 Audit Procedure W.r.t specific reporting u/s 143(3) over financial statements . Obtain the following information during the Audit engagement performance 1. Closing Cash in hand As on 8...
Read MoreIncome Tax - What need to be disclosed- Every company shall disclose the details of Specified Bank Notes (SBN) held and transacted during the period 08/11/2016 to 30/12/2016 as provided in the Table below:-...
Read MoreIncome Tax - This document presents the strategy and current status of Operation Clean Money. It intends to explain the Income-tax Department's approach to verification of cash deposits as a means to promote and enhance voluntary compliance. It also contains a section on the different modus operandi adopted by tax evaders as observed and documented by...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Article Provide an overview of share of cash deposits (during the period 9thNov to 30thDec 2016) for various taxpayer and business segments....
Read MoreIncome Tax - Aadhar Legislation will stand the test of constitutionality; Demonetisation helped in reducing the volume of cash transactions and increase in digital payments, widening of the tax base and more formalization of the economy among others; No reverse in financial inclusion process possible for policy makers. ...
Read MoreIncome Tax - The Government launched a concerted drive against black money with Demonetization being an important step in that direction. Among the main objectives of Demonetization was the flushing out of black money and also conversion of the non-formal economy into a formal economy to expand the tax base. The impact of Demonetization on black money...
Read MoreIncome Tax - The Government of India decided to cancel the Legal Tender Status of Rs. 1000 and Rs. 500 denomination currency notes on 8th November 2016 with several objectives: (i) flushing out black money, (ii) eliminate Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN), (iii) to strike at the root of financing of terrorism and left wing extremism, (iv) to convert n...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Taking into consideration, the value of SBNs now reported to have been counted, approximately 98.96% of SBNs in value terms have come back to the RBI after demonetization. In other words, only an estimated Rs. 16000 crore worth of SBNs have not come back to the RBI so far....
Read MoreIncome Tax - Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Finance 07-August-2017 17:13 IST 25% growth noin number of Income Tax Returns filed in current fiscal Advance Tax (Personal Income Tax) collections up by 41% As a result of demonetization and Operation Clean Money, there is a substantial increase in the number of Income Tax Returns ...
Read MoreVictory Logitrans Pvt Ltd & Anr Vs Union of India & Ors (Supreme Court of India) - In a new affidavit filed before Supreme Court on 17th July 2017 Central Government made it clear that it cannot give more time to deposit old currency notes, as in case a fresh opportunity is offered for exchange of SBNs, it would lead to rampant illegal trading of these SBNs (that is, the SBNs ...
Read MoreRamswaroop Vs PIO, Department of Posts (Central Information Commission) - The CIC, in the case of Ramswaroop Vs PIO, Department of Posts, has directed the authority concerned to provide information regarding the number of currency notes exchanged during the demonetization period to the petitioner since demonetization had a huge impact on the everyday life of every citize...
Read MoreAbhishek Shukla Vs Union of India & Ors. (Supreme Court of India) - Abhishek Shukla, who was discharged by the trial court in 2013 IPL spot-fixing case in July 2015, has moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to accept demonetised Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 currency notes with a face value of Rs. 5 lakh, which was seized by the spe...
Read MoreVictory Logitrans Pvt & Anr Vs Union of India & Ors (Supreme Court of India) - The Central Government on 07th April informed the Supreme Court vide a 27-page affidavit that there is no need to open the window allowing all categories of people to deposit old demonetised notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 after December 31, 2016 under some special circumstances as no justifiable reason...
Read MoreVishal Jain vs. State of Punjab (Punjab & Haryana High Court) - In case, the petitioner submits any application to the Income Tax Department, the authorities can look into matter for the purpose of declaration of undisclosed income by availing the remedy under the PMGKY Scheme....
Read MoreG.S.R. 611(E) - (21/06/2017) - MINISTRY OF FINANCE (Department of Economic Affairs) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 20th June, 2017 G.S.R. 611(E).-In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of Section 11 of the Specified Bank Notes (Cessation of Liabilities) Act, 2017 ( 2 of 2017), the Central Government hereby makes the ...
Read MoreG.S.R. 460(E) - (12/05/2017) - Where specified bank notes have been confiscated or seized by a law enforcement agencies or produced before a court on or before the 30th day of December 2016, such specified bank notes may be tendered, at any office of the Reserve Bank specified under subsection (1) of section 4 of the Act or a nat...
Read MoreCircular No. 14/2017-Income Tax - (21/04/2017) - CBDT vide Circular No.14 of 2017 dated 21st April, 2017 has extended the date of filing of declaration under PMGKY to 10th May, 2017 in cases where tax, surcharge and penalty under PMGKY has been paid on or before the 31st March, 2017,...
Read MoreRBI/2016-17/187 IDMD.CDD.No.1453/14.04.050/2016-17 - (20/04/2017) - The Government of India has vide the notification no. S.O. 4061 (E) dated December 16, 2016 announced the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Deposit Scheme (PMGKDS). This Scheme shall be applicable to every declarant under the Taxation and Investment Regime for Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana, 2016....
Read MoreG.S.R. 307(E) - (30/03/2017) - Auditors to report whether the company had provided requisite disclosures in its financial statements as to holdings as well as dealings in Specified Bank Notes during the period from 8th November, 2016 to 30th December, 2016 and if so, whether these are in accordance with the books of accounts main...
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