Service Tax : Rate of Service Tax, Introduction of Negative List approach, Changes in Valuation Rules, CENVAT Credit Rules, Retrospective cha...
Income Tax : The finance minister retained most of his other proposals, providing only marginal relief to industries such as automobiles, garme...
Income Tax : Direct Tax Code (DTC) Bill introduced in Lok Sabha on Monday, August 30,2010 by Finance Minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, Will now be...
Income Tax : Centralized processing centres for improving tax payer services in two more places. Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee h...
Income Tax : Preparations for Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s second full Budget under the Manmohan Singh government should be an area of...
Service Tax : Registration of a manufacturer will be cancelled automatically if excise duty returns are not filed for six months, as per the lat...
Income Tax : Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said that persons investing in stock markets through participatory notes, P-Notes, will no...
Income Tax : The government on Sunday said it has no vindictive intention in retrospectively amending tax laws and has no plans to re-open a la...
Finance : Last year I provided relief to individual taxpayers by enhancing the exemption limit as a move towards DTC rates. Although DTC wi...
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...
Income Tax : Inauguration of Income Tax Office at Chinsurah, Dist-Hooghly, West Bengal by Honble Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee o...
Corporate Law : Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday allayed fears of withdrawal of the cashless mediclaim facility by public sector genera...
Corporate Law : The Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has asked insurance industry to give more focus to generate the required level of awar...
The Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee has urged all Public Sector Banks/Financial Institutions to exert themselves in containing the downward trend of Asset Quality by devising suitable strategies for containing and rolling back NPAs. He was addressing the review meeting of the Chief Executives officers (CEOs) of Public Sector Banks/Financial Institutions, here today.
The Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee today released a new series of coins with improved design and revised size in the denomination of 50 paise, Rs. 1, 2, 5, and 10. Speaking on the occasion, Shri Mukherjee said that new coins will not only reduce the cost of moving materials but also are of user friendly size and weight. He said that security edging of new series of coins would be good for better recognition by visually challenged persons and will have improved counterfeit resistance.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the government is negotiating changes in a tax treaty with Mauritius, the country which accounts for the maximum foreign investment in India. So far as Mauritius is concerned, we are having discussions with them for amendment of the avoidance of double taxation agreement. Talks are going on, Mukherjee told PTI when asked whether the government is looking at the possibility of imposing levies on inflows from tax havens.
The CAG guidelines for a new government accounting system aimed at improving transparency and fixing the accountability of departments for managing state-owned assets will be unveiled on Tuesday. In line with the recommendations of the 12th and 13th Finance Commissions and the second Administrative Reforms Commission, the operational guidelines suggest shifting from the present cash-based accounting system to an accrual basis of accounting.
India is likely to allow foreign individuals to invest in mutual funds in the next two weeks but with a cumulative cap of USD 10 billion, an official said today. The detailed guidelines are being worked out jointly by the finance ministry, RBI and Sebi. These will be notified by the capital market regulator, the Finance Ministry official said.
Admitting that the Reserve Bank’s anti-inflation monetary measures may impact growth, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said the major challenge right now is to contain price rise. ‘The monetary policy has been gradually tightened… Monetary measures may end up moderating the growth if they have to be persisted for an extended period of time,’ Mr. Mukherjee said at an Assocham meet here.
With the losses of oil firms mounting with each passing day, Oil Minister S Jaipal Reddy today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to push for an early decision on raising diesel and domestic LPG prices. An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, which decides on revising rates of the sensitive products, has not met since June last year even though crude oil prices have spiralled upward by about 50 per cent.
The French Finance Minister, Ms. Christine Lagarde called on the Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee today as part of her effort to seek support for her candidature to the post of Managing Director, IMF. During her talks, she outlined her vision for reforms that IMF needs to undertake and the role it can play in addressing the current challenges confronting the world economy including G-20 matters.
Amid fears of moderation in growth, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said sustained efforts would be needed to achieve indirect tax collection target of Rs 3.92 lakh crore, about 15% more than the last fiscal. The Minister, while addressing the annual conference of chief commissioners and directors general of CBEC here, also called upon the tax officials to work towards reducing the tax litigations. Noting that doubts were being raised over growth projection of 9% for the current fiscal, Mukherjee said, it would be possible to achieve a growth rate of 8.75% (plus-minus 0.25%) with hard work.
Amid suggestions for opening up of multi-brand retail for foreign investments, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said discussions were on to further liberalise the FDI policy. ‘Discussions are underway to further liberalise the FDI (foreign direct investment) policy,’ he said at the annual conference of chief commissioners and directors general of Central Board of Excise and Customs ( CBEC )) at New Delhi.
