Income Tax : Employee Stock Options Plans (ESOPs) and its different variants like Employees Stock Purchase Plans, Stock Appreciation Rights, St...
Income Tax : The Finance Bill (No.2), 2009 could be presented on Sixth of July, 2009 due to formation of new government but by that time many c...
Income Tax : New perk rules :- Under the new perquisite rules, a distinction is to be made between the car owned by the employer and the car ow...
Income Tax : Employee stock options (ESOPs) is a significant employer-granted benefit that too is subject to the above FBT /perquisite-based ta...
Income Tax : Valuation of Perquisites under Rule 3 of Income Tax Rule 1962 read with sub section 2 of section 17 of Income Tax Act, 1961 (As Re...
Income Tax : During the period April-November 2010, net direct tax collections stood at Rs.2,16,628 crore, up from Rs.1,83,822 crore during the...
Income Tax : Net direct tax collections during the period April-September 2010 stood at Rs.1,81,758 crore, up from Rs.1,52,625 crore in the sam...
Income Tax : Net direct tax collections during first four months of the present fiscal (up to July 2010) stood at Rs.85,647 crore, up from Rs.7...
Income Tax : Net direct tax collections during first eleven months of the present fiscal (up to February 2010) stood at Rs.2,78,373 crore, up f...
Income Tax : The fringe benefit tax (FBT) was strongly opposed by India Inc, but there is no doubt that it was beneficial to the employees — ...
Income Tax : In the case of Piramal Enterprises Ltd vs DCIT, ITAT Mumbai directed deletion of Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) addition on business pro...
Income Tax : Dive into Prakash Industries Ltd vs ACIT case dissected by ITAT Delhi, detailing FBT exemptions for transport services and medical...
Income Tax : Bilfinger Neo Structo Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Ahmedabad) As regards ground relating to Employees Welfare Expenses includible in va...
Income Tax : Delhi High Court directs rectification of Amex India's tax assessment, orders refund of Rs. 45.60 crore. Get insights into the ru...
Income Tax : Singareni Colleries Company Ltd Vs ACIT (ITAT Hyderabad) AR of the assessee submitted that the amount of electricity provided to t...
Income Tax : Net direct tax collections during first quarters of the present fiscal (up to June 2010) stood at Rs.68,675 crore, up from Rs.59,4...
Income Tax : Circular No. 2/2010-Income Tax The Finance Act, 2005 introduced a levy namely Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) on the value of certain fr...
Income Tax : Notification No. 1/2009 - Income Tax The Finance Act, 2008, w.e.f. from 1 April 2008, introduced a new concept of Electronic Meal...
Income Tax : NOTIFICATION NO 11/2008, Dated: January 18, 2008 Valuation of specified security not being an equity share in the company. 40D. Fo...
Income Tax : NOTIFICATION NO. 264/2007, DATED 23-10-2007 Valuation of specified security or sweat equity share being a share in the company. 40...
INTRODUCTION The proviso to section 17(2)(iii) has been omitted. So far the value of any benefit provided by the company free of cost or at a concessional rate to its employees by way of allotment of shares, debentures or warrants, directly or indirectly under any Employees Stock Option Plan or Scheme of the Company offered to […]
In the wake of the Satyam fiasco, the Income-Tax department now wants more manpower and technical assistance for its investigation wing and closer scrutiny for TDS returns. The department, in its recent report being prepared for cadre review and restructuring, being done after eight years, will submit these suggestions to the government. “With the recent […]
Though happy with the fact that troubled IT major Satyam Computer Services had paid income tax on unreal profits — as claimed by its chairman B Ramalinga Raju — the income-tax department is planning to re-examine the exemptions the company had claimed under the income tax regulations.
Notification No. 1/2009 – Income Tax The Finance Act, 2008, w.e.f. from 1 April 2008, introduced a new concept of Electronic Meal Cards (‘EMC’), for the purpose of Fringe Benefit Tax (‘FBT’) on hospitality expenses. Hospitality expenses do not include any expenditure incurred by an employer on provision of EMCs1, which fulfils the prescribed conditions. Accordingly, FBT will not be payable on expenditure incurred on such EMCs. Hospitality expenses are valued at 20% of the expense incurred for the purpose of FBT (except in case of certain industries).
It has been decided that in all the Corporate cases selected for scrutiny as per the guidelines contained in the Action Plan document 2008-09 which have returned income of Rs.5 crore or more and where provisions of FBT apply, assessment order shall also be passed under section 115WE after scrutiny of all such cases.
Foreign nationals working in India will be exempt from fringe benefit tax (FBT) on the cost of transportation from their residence to the workplace, according to a Supreme Court ruling. Responding to a petition filed by an Australian firm, R&D Falcon (A) PTY, the apex court overruled an earlier decision by the Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR), a quasi judicial body for resolving tax disputes involving foreigners.
Due Date of Tax Audit Preponed to 30th September. No change in ceiling of Rs. 40 Lacs under section 44AB. DIRECT TAXES -No change in corporate income tax rate. Income Tax exemption rates raised from 1.1 lakhs to 1.5 lakhs across the board. Exemption limit for women raised to 1.8 lakhs and for senior citizen raised to 2.25 Lakh. Fresh Facilities, Encouragement To Sports And Guest Houses Exempted From Fringe Benefit Tax.
NOTIFICATION NO 11/2008, Dated: January 18, 2008 Valuation of specified security not being an equity share in the company. 40D. For the purposes of clause (ba) of sub-section (1) of section 115WC, the fair market value of any specified security, not being an equity share in a company, on the date on which the option vests with the employee, shall be such value as determined by a merchant banker on the specified date.
The Finance Act, 2007 changed the taxation of securities issued by an employer to its employees from April 1, 2007 (assessment year 2008-2009), by levying fringe benefit tax (FBT) on the employer in respect of securities, defined in section 2(h) of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956, including Employees’ Stock Options (ESOP), and sweat equity shares, which may be allotted or transferred directly or indirectly to the employees (former or current) free of cost or at concessional rate for consideration other than cash for providing know-how, intellectual property rights or value additions.
THE Notification No. 264/2007 dated October 23, 2007 issued by the CBDT, specifying the Income-tax (12 th Amendment) Rules, 2007 seems to have brought in a lot of welcome clarity in terms of the methodology to be adopted for the determination of the Fair Market Value of ESOPs issued by Indian Companies, listed or unlisted. However, the question of levy of FBT, in respect of ESOP schemes given by foreign / overseas companies to employees working in their Indian Subsidiaries, seems to have gone unanswered.
