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Notification No. 93/2009 – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by clauses (a) and (b) of Explanation 2 to section 90A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby notifies the following as specified territory and specified association respectively for the purpose of the said section, namely :-
A remedy by way of appeal from the orders of ITAT is provided both u/s.260A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 and u/s.15 (w.e.f. 6-1- 2006) of the N.T.T. Act, 2005. Although appeals from the orders of ITAT are supposed to be filed only in the National Tax Tribunal from 6-1-2006, yet appeals are being filed in the High Court for good reasons. Hence, wherever reference is made to N.T.T, it may be taken/understood that the date of filing the appeal would have to be on or after 6-1-2006.
All taxpayers are assessed u/s.143, u/s.147, u/s.148 and u/s.153 of the Income-tax Act, 1961. After filing of return, when an asses see is being assessed by an Assessing Officer, he/she is required to file his/her submissions before the respective authority during the course of assessment. All these assessments are popularly known as ‘Scrutiny’ assessments. In case of these assessments, the authority before whom these proceedings are going on is supposed to form his opinion after verifying books of accounts, documents, submissions, proofs, evidences, statement of cross-examination of the parties concerned, etc. by bringing on record all or some of these things from the assessee, his/her representative and also by collecting independent evidences, proofs, documents, etc. To collect information, the assessing authority also can call outsiders by taking his/her statement on oath u/s.131 or u/s.133.
Notification No. 92/2009 – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 120 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following amendments to the Notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, Central Board of Direct Taxes number S.O. 732(E), dated 3rd July, 2001, namely:-
Notification No.91/2009 – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (39) of section 10 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby notifies, – (a) the Organising Committee Commonwealth Games, 2010 Delhi, India as the person;(b) the following income as specified income arising to Organising Committee Commonwealth Games, 2010 Delhi, India from the organising Commonwealth Games, 2010 Delhi, India:-
The applicant is a non-resident shipping Company incorporated under the laws of Switzerland and is in the business of shipping contracts for the transportation of cargo worldwide. During the financial years 2007-08 and 2008-09, the applicant entered into a shipping contract for transportation of cargo from Indian ports to China. The amount of freight for transportation of cargo from the Indian port to a port outside India was invoiced and received by the applicant.
Special Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, New Delhi holds that expenditure relating to exempt income to be disallowed even if assessee has not earned any tax-free income.
The reasons in support of and also against the issue under consideration have been set out above. The reasons in support of the argument that, amalgamated company can claim MAT credit of amalgamating company after merger, appears to be reasonable. Such conclusion would also be in accord with the purposive interpretation of the relevant provision. However, the tax authorities may be reluctant to allow MAT credit of the amalgamating company to amalgamated company. This may entail a tax demand and other consequences such as levy of interest and penalty on the amalgamated company. To avoid the levy of interest, one may take a pro-revenue stand while paying taxes, but adopt the liberal view while filing returns.
Officials at Icwai have been lobbying the government to include cost accountants under the definition accountant as defined in the subsection 2 of Section 288 of the Income-tax Act. The finance ministry has ignored calls by cost accountants that they be treated at par with chartered accountants and be allowed to sign off on the financial statements of companies.
Industry body Assocham today asked the government to raise the tax exemption limit on personal income from Rs 1.6 lakh per annum to Rs 4 lakh per annum and for senior citizens up to Rs 5 lakh per annum. The industry body was giving its proposals on the draft direct taxes code which has been put in public domain by the government for comments.
