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Corporate Law - The Transfer of Property Act, 1982 came into force on the 1st July, 1882. In the first instance it extends to whole India, except some states at the time of independent of India. Section 5 defines transfer of property means an act by which a living person conveys property, in present or in future, to one or more other living persons, or t...
Read MoreCorporate Law - Service tax payable on long term lease of Immovable property under Renting of Immovable Property – not in sync with Service tax Act, Accounting Standard, Bombay Stamp Act & Income Tax Act ...
Read MoreCorporate Law - Section 56 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 provides for taxability of income which is not chargeable to income-tax under any of the heads specified in section 14, items A to E thereof. It provides for such income to be chargeable under the residuary head...
Read MoreCorporate Law - These FAQs seek to cover the broad spectrum of issues relating to acquisition and transfer of immovable property in India by a non-resident Indian (NRI) or a foreign national of Indian origin (PIO) or a foreign national of non-Indian origin as also by a person resident in India who is not a citizen of India. In case there are other issues...
Read MoreCorporate Law - After politicians and judges of the Supreme Court, now the assets of babus have also been prised open to public scrutiny by RTI. In a landmark order, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has said that disclosure of information such as assets of a public servant, routinely collected by the public authority,...
Read MoreCorporate Law - The Supreme Court has stayed an order of the Delhi High Court, which stopped the Centre from recovering service tax on renting of immovable property for commercial use, including shops and malls, from some firms. A Supreme Court bench comprising Just...
Read MoreCorporate Law - The government may lose over Rs 500 crore in service tax this year, as its decision to impose tax on eight new services and amend some existing ones has been challenged in three cases — copyright, immovable property and health check-up services provi...
Read MoreCorporate Law - A staggering 96.3 million square feet of residential space — or about 80,000 homes — is lying unsold in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), the highest-ever inventory pile-up for the area. Sales are down 38% over last year....
Read MoreCorporate Law - In this Budget a retrospective amendment has been introduced in respect of the service of renting out of property for commercial purposes. Amendment has been made in the definition of “Renting of immovable property service” to provide explicitly that the activity of renting itself is a renting service. The change has given retrospecti...
Read MoreCorporate Law - The Delhi High Court in the Home Solution Retail India case had held that renting of immovable property is not a taxable service. The Government as usual filed an appeal in the Supreme Court and the whole Department is under the impression that by mere filing an appeal in the Supreme Court, the High Court order has become inoperative. So ...
Read MoreSuraj Lamp & Industries Pvt. Ltd. Vs State Of Haryana (Supreme Court of India) - The Supreme Court today ruled in the case of Suraj Lamp & Industries Pvt Ltd Vs State Of Haryana that sale transactions carried in the name of general power of attorney will have no legal sanctity and immovable property can be sold or transferred only through registered deeds. “Transactions of ...
Read MoreM/s Shubh Timb Steels Limited Vs Union of India and Another (Punjab & Haryana High Court) - : It cannot be held that renting of property did not involve any service as service could only be in relation to property and not by renting of property. Renting of property for commercial purposes is certainly a service and has value for the service receiver. Even if it is held that transaction of ...
Read MoreTrent Limited Vs. DDIT (High Court of Andhra Pradesh) - TRENT Ltd and Future Value Retail Ltd have challenged before the AP High Court, the service tax with retrospective effect on renting of immovable property, brought in by the Finance Act, 2010....
Read MoreCIT Vs Krishi Utpadan Handi Samiti (Allahabad High Court) - Assessees who fulfill all the conditions are entitled to registration cannot be faulted. The contention of the Revenue that the assessees are not registered as an institution and hence not entitled for registration is also without any merit, because, there is no requirement under the Act that an ins...
Read MoreHiranandani Developers P. Ltd. Vs JCIT (ITAT Mumbai) - It depends on the facts of each transactions, whether the letting out of the property is incidental and subservient dominant object of selling the property or not. If the property has merely been let out b> the assessee then the same cannot be held to be exploitation of the property for commercial p...
Read MoreRBI/2009-10/ 286 A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No.25 - (13/01/2010) - Attention of Authorised Dealer Category-I banks is invited to clause (c) of Regulation 2 of Notification No. FEMA 21/2000-RB dated May 3, 2000 viz. Foreign Exchange Management (Acquisition and Transfer of Immovable Property in India), Regulations, 2000, as amended from time to time, in terms of whic...
Read MoreInstruction F.No 336/10/2009-TRU - (15/07/2009) - Kind attention is invited to the recent judgement of the Honourable High Court of Delhi in the matter of Home Solutions Retail India Ltd and Others Vs Union of India [2009] 20 STT 129 (Delhi) , wherein it is held (Para 36 of the order) that, "Section 65(105)(zzzz) does not in terms entail that the r...
Read MorePRESS RELEASE No.402/92/2006-MC - (30/09/2009) - The Income Tax Act 1961 (the Act) has been amended with effect from 1st October 2009 to provide that any gift-in-kind, being an immovable property or any other property, the value of which exceeds Rs.50,000 (rupees fifty thousand), will become taxable in the hands of the donee, being an individual o...
Read MoreNotification No. 37/2009 – Service Tax - (23/09/2009) - Legal Consultancy Services provided from outside India, in relation to immovable property shall be deemed to be import of services if the immovable property is situated in India. Legal Consultancy Services provided from outside India which are not in relation to immovable property shall be deemed t...
Read MoreNotification No . CR-53 dt.01/06/09 - (01/06/2009) - The cost of the land shall be determined in accordance with the guidelines appended to the Annual Statement of Rates prepared under the provisions of the Bombay Stamp (Determination of True Market Value of Property) Rules, 1995, as applicable on the 1st January of the year in which the agreement to ...
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Suraj Lamp & Industries Pvt. Ltd. Vs State Of Haryana (Supreme Court of India) -
M/s Shubh Timb Steels Limited Vs Union of India and Another (Punjab & Haryana High Court) -
Trent Limited Vs. DDIT (High Court of Andhra Pradesh) -
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