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Income Tax : The finance minister retained most of his other proposals, providing only marginal relief to industries such as automobiles, garme...
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Income Tax : Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said that persons investing in stock markets through participatory notes, P-Notes, will no...
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Income Tax : Master Form-16 New FY 11-12 for Up to 100 Employees. Download File to Prepare Form 16 of upto 25 Employees with Indian Rupee Font...
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Corporate Law : The Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has asked insurance industry to give more focus to generate the required level of awar...
There is a ground-swell of expectations for the Union Budget for2010/11, the second since UPA returned to power in May 2009, to be presented to Parliament by Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee on February 26. Unlike last year, when the country was still in the grip of slowdown triggered by the global crisis,
Budget 2010-11, to be presented on 26th of this month, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee should aim for rationalisation of the Customs tariff, unification of the central excise and service tax rates and simplification of the indirect tax laws.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh: Hailed as the father of India’s economic reforms, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh takes part in the Budget-making process. The prime minister holds talks with the finance minister, economists and senior officials to make sure that the Budget unveils policies to stimulate economic growth.
The Direct Taxes Code 2009 is now on the back burner. The Union finance ministry has veered round to the view that its bold move to reform direct taxes should be subjected to further scrutiny. Contrary to earlier expectations, therefore, the Direct Taxes Code 2009 will not be presented to Parliament as a Bill along with the Union Budget for 20010-11 on February 26.
The Income Tax department is giving special attention to tax deducted at source (TDS) as it aims to turn in the highest ever collection from the segment this financial year. During the last five years, the contribution from TDS had gone up from 33 per cent to 38.5 per cent of the net direct tax collection with an annual average growth of around 25 per cent.
The finance ministry is likely to keep the corporate tax rate unchanged at 30%, as it faces stiff resistance from companies to the draft direct tax code’s proposal to cut the rate to 25% and remove all exemptions. “Corporates are resisting the phasing out of exemptions even with a lower tax rate,” said a senior government official.
The annual budget date is being advanced from the normal practice of being presented on February 28, because February 27 is a government holiday on account of Prophet Mohammad’s birthday and February 28 is a Sunday. The Cabinet is expected to approve the date soon.
The Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, said that he was hopeful that the new Direct Taxes Code would be implemented from April next year. “We are working on tax reforms. I am hopeful that the Direct Taxes Code will be implemented from April 2011”, Mr Mukherjee said in his address at Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, an annual conference for overseas Indians.
Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has directed the Income Tax Department to make all efforts to achieve the revised direct tax target of Rs.4 lakh crores. Addressing the All India Conference on Tax Deduction at Source (TDS) here today, Shri Mukherjee congratulated the department on reaching tax collection figure of Rs.2.50 lakh crore by December 2009 showing a growth rate of around 8.5%.
The government looks all set to introduce the new Direct Taxes Code in the forthcoming budget session , a government official said. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday to discuss the contours of the new code, billed as the major reform of the direct tax structure being undertaken by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in its second tenure.
