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Opposing the government’s decision to levy service tax on rentals, several retailers and multiplexes across cities have obtained stay orders against the move from their respective high courts over the last one month. The Union Budget for 2010-11 had brought the rental income from immovable property under the purview of service tax with retrospective effect from June 1, 2007 by treating the renting of immovable property as a service.
The guidelines issued on 26 April 2010 are measures taken by the Government to counter the adverse effects of the employment visa notification of December 2009. In terms of the new guidelines, E-visa applications sponsored by qualifying Indian IT companies will be processed by the Indian missions abroad and will not be subjected to any quota restrictions.
Exclusive Benches will be set up in all High Courts to deal with commerce matters, Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said on Saturday. The Bill on setting up commerce Benches was already passed by the Lok Sabha. It would now have to be passed by the Rajya Sabha. Once Parliament adopted the measure, courts would be set up to fast-track trade and commerce cases.
Effective July 1, 2010, the Government of India has levied a Service Tax that will be applicable on domestic air travel. Kindly note, the applicable Service Tax will be INR 103 per passenger, per sector inclusive of cess.
Citizens across the 28 states will be able to avail of all government services, including payment of utility bills and applying for a driving licence, through common Internet portals being developed as part of a Rs 2,000-crore state portal project, senior government officials told.
Indian has become a full-fledged member of Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an inter-governmental body, responsible for setting global standards on anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT).
Domestic and international air fares would rise by Rs 100 and Rs 500 respectively from July one with the government issuing a notification to bring air travel into the service tax ambit.
Sports events such as Indian Premier League will attract service tax but tax exemption has been allowed to tournaments and championships organised by certain bodies such as national sports federations or federations affiliated to them. These include School Games Federation of India, Association of Indian Universities and Olympic Committee of India, among others.
The government has decided to exempt distribution of electricity, services provided within ports and airports, international passengers in transit and those travelling to and from the North-East from the ambit of service tax while bringing in more services in the tax net from July 1.
Women fighting legal battles to re-enter the shared household can enforce their right to cohabit against estranged spouses and not against in-laws under the Domestic Violence Act, a court has said. If the interpretation (that the Act provides right to share house with husband’s relatives) is accepted, all houses of the husband’s relatives will be shared households and the wife can well insist in living in them merely because she had stayed there with her husband for some time in the past.
