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Maximum Marginal Rate Vs. Maximum Rate of Surcharge – A new Controversy

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai resolves the controversy on surcharge for trusts/AOPs taxed at MMR. Learn about the decision favoring slab-based rates...

April 11, 2025 7629 Views 1 comment Print

Audit Requirements & Criterion for Business & Profession (Section 44AB) Assessment Year 2024-24

Income Tax : Understand tax audit requirements under Section 44AB for AY 2024-25. Detailed analysis for businesses and professionals, including...

June 7, 2024 218706 Views 2 comments Print

PMLA with particular reference to Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)

Corporate Law : Explore the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in India, ED powers, and significant Supreme Court rulings impacting anti-mo...

May 31, 2024 3366 Views 0 comment Print

Rules of Inheritance of Coparcenary Property

Corporate Law : Understand the Hindu Succession Act's rules of inheritance for coparcenary property, including amendments for daughters' rights. L...

April 30, 2024 4296 Views 0 comment Print

Revamping SME Growth: An Overview of New Manufacturing Norms In India

Corporate Law : Explore the new manufacturing norms (NMN) in India aimed at boosting SME growth. Learn about eligibility criteria, investment thre...

April 4, 2024 972 Views 0 comment Print


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Representation for extension of Income Tax due dates to Finance Ministry

Income Tax : Synopsis of the Representation by ‘Bhayandar CA Social Group’ made for extension of due dates – To the Finance M...

December 25, 2021 33780 Views 3 comments Print

Members Regional Convention on International Taxation-2012

CA, CS, CMA : Vasai Branch of WIRC of ICAI is hosting  Members Regional Convention on International Taxation-2012 to share knowledge of Basic P...

December 14, 2012 1264 Views 0 comment Print


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Sundry Creditors arising out of Hawala-Linked Bogus Purchases: Income Tax Treatment 

Income Tax : Explore ITAT Mumbai's order on sundry creditors from bogus purchases. Learn about tax implications, sections 68 and 41(1), and the...

January 5, 2024 8109 Views 0 comment Print

Consider extension of Income Tax Due dates: Gujarat HC to UOI

Income Tax : All Gujarat Federation of Tax Consultants Vs Union of India (Gujarat High Court) High Court held that respondent No.1 – Union of...

January 8, 2021 25983 Views 0 comment Print

MAT on depreciation on write back of excess depreciation provided in earlier 10 years & credited to P&L A/c of current year

Income Tax : ACIT Vs M/s. Rational Handloom Co. Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Mumbai) MAT on depreciation on write back of excess depreciation provided in ea...

August 25, 2019 4542 Views 0 comment Print

S. 271(1)(c) No Penalty if returned and assessed income are same

Income Tax : Armoury International Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) In this case, the assessee was observed to have made bogus purchases as per informatio...

January 16, 2019 11031 Views 1 comment Print

Penalty u/s 271E may not be imposed where circumstances compels assessee to make repayment in cash

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held In the case of Jayantilal Vaishnav HUF vs. JCIT that the reasonable cause u/s 273B need to be seen from the conte...

December 9, 2015 1361 Views 0 comment Print


Service Tax on Restaurant & Short Time Accommodation

May 2, 2011 26037 Views 0 comment Print

Service tax on Restaurant Service and Short term accommodation Service. Restaurant Service has been made taxable to service tax w.e.f. 1st May 2011. This levy is covered by section 65(105)(zzzzv) read with notification No. 1/2006-Service Tax, dated the 1st March, 2006, as amended by Notification No.34/2011 – Service Tax 25th April, 2011. The scope of the service is defined as services provided to any person, by a restaurant, by whatever name called, having facility of air-conditioning in any part of the establishment, at any time during the financial year, which have license to serve alcoholic beverages, in relation to serving of food or beverages, including alcoholic beverages or both, in its premises.

Synopsis of amendments to Service Tax effective from 01.05.2011

April 27, 2011 4826 Views 0 comment Print

1) The amendments to the provisions of Finance Act, 2011 pertaining to Service Tax shall come into force from 1st day of May 2011. Notification No. 29/2011 – Service Tax the 25th April, 2011. 2) Service tax on Medical Services : EXEMPT FULLY from service tax w.e.f. 1st day of May, 2011.Section 105(65)(zzzzo) was inserted by Finance Bill-2011 which provided for levy of service tax on taxable services provided to any person (i) by a clinical establishment; or (ii) by a doctor, not being an employee of a clinical establishment, who provides services from such premises for diagnosis, treatment or care for illness, disease, injury, deformity, abnormality or pregnancy in any system of medicine. Notification No. 30/2011 – Service Tax the 25th April, 2011

All about Excise duty on Branded Jewellery

April 18, 2011 6017 Views 0 comment Print

Shri P. Chidambaram recommended an excise duty of 2 per cent on such branded jewellery and clarified that there was no levy on unbranded jewellery, including unbranded gold jewellery. Accordingly an exemption notification 05/2006 CE dated 1-03-2006 was issued which exempted full duty in excess of 2% on article of jewellery on which brand name or trade name was indelibly affixed or embossed on the articles of jewellery itself.

Value Based Exemption Scheme for SSI – Garments – Clarifications and Simplification

April 12, 2011 3785 Views 0 comment Print

The issue of excise duty on readymade garments, the applicability of SSI exemption notifications and many such other issues were discussed in my last article VALUE BASED EXEMPTION SCHEME FOR SSI – GARMENTS . Since the time of publication of this article many clarifications were issued and many procedural aspects were simplified. In this article I propose to discuss these clarifications. In this article readymade garments and made up articles will be referred to as “Garments”

Vat on Fabric with reference to the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act-2002

March 22, 2011 41930 Views 0 comment Print

What do the words ROTI & MAKAN mean to a common man is very well known. These two basic needs of a common man are today very uncommon, thanks to the very high rate of food inflation and extra super inflation in the prices of need based House. What was left to the common man was perhaps, KAPDA i.e. Fabric. But the eagle eye of the central government has eventually fallen on this last lame duck pray so as to smoothen the beginning of the end of the common man. The reason: An expected VAT on FABRIC @ 5% .

Service Tax Rules – A Transition from Cash to Accrual Basis

March 9, 2011 34296 Views 0 comment Print

The finance Bill 2011 has enacted Point of Taxation Rules, 2011 which cover the provisions of payment of service tax on accrual basis insted of the hitherto adopted cash basis system. The implication of this changeover has been examplified in the attached Excel File which contains practical examples of all the rules from 3 to 8 of the Point of Taxation Rules, 2011.

Students’ Column- Cenvat Credit for Service Tax Simplified

February 28, 2011 12234 Views 0 comment Print

CA LALIT MUNOYAT 1) Any government of the day requires enormous funds for the development, maintenance and growth of the economy of the country and the main source of collecting these funds is levy of taxes.  The taxation policy of the government is framed, molded and implemented is such a way that it yields optimum […]

Input Service Credit – The Epicentre of Controversy

January 13, 2011 744 Views 0 comment Print

Service tax was introduced by Finance Act 1994 and since then it has been mired with so much controversy/litigation that the Apex Court, in the case of MARUTI SUZUKI LTD. 2009 (240) E.L.T. 641 (S.C.), observed that on account of repeated amendment

Freedom from British Only To Be Slaves of Ourselves – The Menace of Corruption (abridged version)

December 20, 2010 729 Views 0 comment Print

egally corruption is defined as use of public power for private advantage in ways which transgresses some formal rule or law. It takes various forms like Bribe for work according to rule, Bribe to work against the rule, Trading in influence, Patronage, Nepotism, Cronyism, Electoral fraud, Embezzlement, Kickback, An unholy political alliance, Involvement in organized crime.

Filing VAT Return Ver.1.2.2 – How to handle uploading errors?

November 1, 2010 11327 Views 0 comment Print

I tried many variations to get it uploaded but nothing succeeded. I visited many web site to get a solution for this but instead of getting a solution I found many visitors were asking the facing the same problem and no answer was available. Eventua

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