Income Tax : Understand TDS on immovable property transactions. Section 194-IA mandates TDS deduction at 1% for sale consideration exceeding Rs...
Corporate Law : 1. Movable Property – Movable property means property; the location of which can be changed, including things growing on, affix...
Goods and Services Tax : Analysis of Supreme Court Decision in Mother Superior Adoration Convent relating to interpretation of Exemption provisions Introdu...
Corporate Law : Transfer of Property Act is a general law related to transfer of property. It generally deals with immovable property only. Object...
Corporate Law : The word ‘property’ has been derived from a Latin word ‘properietate‘ which means a thing that is owned. T...
Service Tax : The Supreme Court has stayed an order of the Delhi High Court, which stopped the Centre from recovering service tax on renting of ...
Service Tax : 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 ...
Finance : A staggering 96.3 million square feet of residential space — or about 80,000 homes — is lying unsold in the Mumbai Metropolita...
Service Tax : In this Budget a retrospective amendment has been introduced in respect of the service of renting out of property for commercial p...
Service Tax : The Delhi High Court in the Home Solution Retail India case had held that renting of immovable property is not a taxable service. ...
Service Tax : CESTAT Kolkata rules that service tax is not applicable to rent received for immovable property services prior to June 2007. Detai...
Goods and Services Tax : whether the petition filed for disposal of notice for demanding property tax without waiting for disposal of same case by Municipa...
Income Tax : whether section 50C can be invoked in respect of the right to receive compensation on compulsory acquisition of land & the TDR rig...
Corporate Law : Laying of underground cable by the mobile service provider is exigible to property tax being a levy for use of land for laying of ...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court today ruled in the case of Suraj Lamp & Industries Pvt Ltd Vs State Of Haryana that sale transactions carried ...
Corporate Law : Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) order on the new rates of the property tax 1. New property tax rates and conditions will be a...
Corporate Law : From the 1st January 2022, the Mumbai Municipal Corporation shall not levy any tax component of property tax specified in sub-sect...
Corporate Law : Date of payment of property tax for Financial Year 2021-22 on lump sum payment 0f Property Tax with 15% rebate along with 3% (thre...
Fema / RBI : Attention of Authorised Dealer Category-I banks is invited to clause (c) of Regulation 2 of Notification No. FEMA 21/2000-RB dated...
Service Tax : Kind attention is invited to the recent judgement of the Honourable High Court of Delhi in the matter of Home Solutions Retail Ind...
A special court on Wednesday granted bail to arrested income tax c o m m i s – sioner from N a g p u r, Ajoy Singh, his wife, Mrinalika and two other relatives arrested in Hyderabad. While Singh was released on a bail amount of Rs 5 lakh, the others were released on Rs 1 lakh each.
Fed up of being made to run around for 15 years, the Income Tax (I-T ) department has been quick to seize an opportunity to extract its dues totalling Rs 114.17 crore from the Bhagats. The department recently filed a plea before the special MCOCA court, requesting it not to defreeze the bank accounts of Hitesh Bhagat who along with his mother Jaya Chheda allegedly plotted his father Matka king Suresh Bhagats murder until it gets a chance to recover its dues.
From now on, when you get a gift in kind, valued at more than Rs. 50,000, from your parents or other relatives, make sure you have a sworn affidavit declaring the donor your kin.The Central Board of Direct Taxes has ruled that any such gift will be taxable for the donee unless it is from relatives or given during occasions such as marriage or by way of inheritance.
The Budget 2009-2010 amended the Income Tax Act so as to tax notional income resulting from transactions in immovable properties under section 56 i.e. Income from other sources. Our focus in this write-up will be only on newly inserted provisions in section 56 pertaining to Immovable Property which is bound to result in more questions than their answers.
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 or a Hindu Undivided Family […]
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 to be import of services if the services are received by a recipient located in India for use in relation to business or commerce.Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery Services and Transportation of Coastal Goods and Goods Transported Through National Waterways and Inland Water Services shall be deemed to be import of services if such services are wholly or partly performed in India.
In all the appeals before us, the specific case of the assesses is that the BSE card acquired by them on or after 1/4/1998 is an intangible asset covered under the expression ‘licences’ or alternatively covered under the expression ‘any other business or commercial rights of similar nature’ enumerated in section 32(1)(ii) of the Act and therefore, depreciation is allowable on the BSE card acquired by them.
The Division Bench of the Delhi High Court comprising of Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed and Justice Rajiv Shikader gave a milestone judgment on 18th April, 2009, in the case of Home Solution Retail India Ltd and Others Vs. UOI and Others (2009-TIOL-196-HC-DEL-ST). The issue involved in this case related, to a batch of Writ Petitions challenging the legality, validity and vires of Notification No.24/2007 dated 22.05.2007 and Circular No.90/1/2008 dated 04.01.2008, issued by the Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, Government of India.
Former Central Excise Commissioner , Pralhad Kumar alias P K Ajwani arrested by CBI in 2004 after wads of cash were seized from his south Mumbai house was chargesheeted on corruption charges by CBI last week.
The Centre has changed the definition of ‘income’ under the Income-Tax law to ward off litigation on a Budget proposal on taxation of property passed on as gifts. The gifting route was hitherto used to escape the tax net, but this Budget sought to plug this loophole by bringing to tax, at the hands of […]
