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Finance : The scheme provides financial incentives for new, expanded, and upgraded hospitality projects. Key takeaway: investors can reduce ...
Corporate Law : This explains how stringent organized crime laws can conflict with due process rights like fair trial and liberty. It highlights t...
Corporate Law : The issue highlights constitutional protections alongside broad detention powers. The takeaway is that procedural safeguards must ...
Income Tax : The issue is whether foreign businesses without offices in China must comply with tax laws. The key takeaway is that activities an...
Corporate Law : The law granting special powers to armed forces was upheld, but courts emphasized that such powers are not absolute. Safeguards li...
Corporate Law : The law removes criminal penalties for minor compliance breaches and replaces them with monetary fines. It holds that reducing cri...
Finance : The Government clarified that despite rupee depreciation, strong forex reserves and export competitiveness offset risks. The overa...
Finance : The Government is actively reviewing the economic impact of the West Asia conflict on oil prices and supply chains. Coordinated me...
Corporate Law : The document outlines essential lease terms like rent, tenure, and obligations. The key takeaway is that LOI sets the foundation f...
Corporate Law : The reform addresses fraudulent activities in cooperative societies by introducing stricter governance and audit mechanisms. It en...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court of India invalidates State VAT amendments made post-GST, citing issues of legislative competence in Telangana, Gujar...
Corporate Law : Kharghar Co-op. Housing Societies Federation Ltd Vs Municipal Commissioner (Bombay High Court) Bombay High Court in the matter of ...
Corporate Law : Calcutta High Court held that computation of award amount without multiplying the amount with the multiplier 13 is unjustifiable....
Corporate Law : Ours being a Welfare State, the respondents who happen to be instrumentalities of the State under Article 12, cannot act arbitrari...
Corporate Law : Held that there is no infringement of copyright as some contents are bound to be similar as teaching given in the Holy Books Quran...
Corporate Law : The issue concerns revision of Dearness Relief rates for pensioners. The government increased DR from 58% to 60% effective January...
Corporate Law : The Coastal Shipping Bill, 2024, introduced in Lok Sabha, aims to regulate coastal trade, boost domestic participation, and enhanc...
Corporate Law : The Ministry of Agriculture announces revised guidelines for the AMI Sub-scheme of ISAM, effective from November 10, 2024, for new...
Corporate Law : The Central Government increases minimum wage rates by revising the Variable Dearness Allowance, effective October 1, 2024, aiding...
Corporate Law : MHA issues guidelines to ensure nondiscriminatory prison visitation rights for LGBTQ+ community, emphasizing equal treatment in al...
To curb illegal trading in commodity market, the regulator FMC has asked exchanges to impose a penalty of Rs 100,000-500,000, with effect from April 1, on brokers carrying unauthorised trading activities.Besides introducing a penalty for illegal trading, the Forward Markets Commission has announced a uniform penalty structure for all the commodity exchanges, while raising the penalty amount for various other offences.
The Cabinet today approved a proposal to introduce the Prevention of Torture Bill, 2010 in the Parliament. This is a step towards ratification of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 9th December, 1975 [resolution 3452(XXX)]. India had signed the Convention in October, 1997.
The government plans to introduce a separate legislation to speed up insolvency proceedings and help distressed firms wind up operations quickly. The new law will shorten the legal processes involving insolvency operations of small and medium entities. The government is keen to make bankruptcy proceedings a time-bound procedure.
The Law Commission of India, in its 128th Report (1988) examines the cost of litigation and suggested ways to compensate the wronged party so that cost of litigation does not become an impediment in the road to justice. This paper examines the cost of litigation in taxation matters, with special emphasis to taxation laws, reasons for frivolous litigation in these matters, its deleterious effect on the business environment of the country.
It is well known that exporters of services had faced serious problems in obtaining refunds of input taxes for a variety of reasons. In order to ameliorate the problem, the CBEC had issued Circular No. 120/01/2010-ST dated 19th January, 2010 to clarify several important points on exports of services from India and to also lay down a simplified procedure for grant of refunds.
The Ministry of Labour & Employment & Training has issued revised guidelines Vide notification no. DGE&T-M-26025/4/2009-MP (G) dated December 22, 2009 regarding eligibility criteria in respect of issuance of Employment Visas (EV) to foreign nationals coming to India for execution of projects in India.
The Finance Minister presented the Economic Survey 2009-10 before the Parliament. It is a report card of India’s economic performance which gives the current and expected direction of the Government Policies. The key highlights of the same are given below:
The committee constituted to review the acquisition procedure of the security features for currency notes; review the relevant procurement manuals and suggest a roadmap for progressive indigenization of various inputs including high end machinery and security features submitted its report to the Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee in his North Block Office in New Delhi today.
The Central Vigilance Commission disposed of 541 cases during December 2010 referred to it for advice. The Commission advised imposition of major penalty against 135 officers including 33 from M/o Railways, 30 from MCD, 25 from Public Sector Banks, 6 each from Ministry of Labour and Department of Defence Production,
1.0 In any civilised society, a taxing statute is expected to be prospective i.e. levying the tax on the income / transaction which will take place in future. This is for the reason that, at the time of entering into the transaction, the tax payers (TP) must have knowledge of the taxes which he is expected to pay. It also provides an opportunity to the TP of carrying out cost-benefit analysis of the proposed transaction and to decide whether to enter into such a transaction or not.