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...
Five crore commemorative coins of Rs 5 denomination, unveiled recently to celebrate 150 years of taxation, will be minted for public distribution soon. The coins, released by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on February 26, will be put in public domain and will be a collector’s item. These will have no extra price, a senior Finance Ministry official said. The special coin was unveiled along with a coin in the denomination of Rs 150 on the occasion of completion of 150 years of taxation and also of the Income Tax department from 1860 to 2010.
The Reserve Bank will announce draft guidelines for giving new banking licences in the next few days, the Finance Ministry today said. “RBI will come up with the guidelines by the end of this month,” Department of Economic Affairs Secretary R Gopalan told reporters on the sidelines of a CII function.
The finance minister retained most of his other proposals, providing only marginal relief to industries such as automobiles, garments, personal computers and printers. On direct taxes, the biggest concession was in the norms for a concessional 15% tax on dividends received from overseas subsidiaries. As against the minimum 50% India holding in such subsidiaries to be eligible for the tax sop, the finance minister has suggested a lower threshold of 26%, benefiting several firms with overseas joint ventures.
Amid concerns by medical community on the proposed service tax on healthcare, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said in the Rajya Sabha that he would respond to the representations on tax issues next week.Following the reply of Mukherjee on general discussion on the Budget, the Rajya Sabha returned the Appropriations Bills, completing the first phase of the three-stage exercise for passage of the budget.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the income tax department has recovered undisclosed income of Rs 25,000 crore in the last two years during its search and seizure operations. In Income Tax Act there is regular provision for search and seizure. And this year search and seizure when we intensified, we have got undisclosed income of Rs 25,000 crore in last 24 months and out of that Rs 7,000 crore additional taxes have been realised,” Mukherjee said while replying to the discussion on the General Budget 2011-12 in Lok Sabha.
Market regulator SEBI will soon come out with guidelines for foreign investors undertaking direct investments in mutual funds, a senior official said today. “SEBI will issue the guidelines allowing foreign investors to invest in mutual funds shortly…We are working with the Reserve Bank and the Finance Ministry (for allowing FIIs entry into mutual funds)…it is a matter of weeks and not months,” SEBI Executive Director of institutional investment management K N Vaidyanathan told reporters here.
The government today said the proposal to impose service tax on healthcare will not hurt the common man as only services provided by the centrally AC hospitals with more than 25 beds would attract the new levy.
Describing the committed taxpayers as engines of economy, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today exhorted the young IRS probationers to treat them as their clients and not as adversaries. The assessee is no longer considered an adversary, committed taxpayers are the engines of our economy and therefore important clients of Revenue Department, Mukherjee said, while addressing the Indian Revenue Services (IRS) probationers at Parliament House complex here.
In a good sign, the government will depend less on borrowing to finance budgetary proposals in 2011-12 than in the ongoing 2010-11 financial year.Borrowings will comprise 27 paise out every rupee that the government plans to spend in 2011-12, compared to 29 paise in the current financial year, as per the proposals presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Parliament on Monday.
The Union Budget 2011-12 proposes to amend the Indian Stamp Act. Presenting the Budget in Lok Sabha Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that a bill will be introduced shortly to amend Indian StampAct, 1899.
