Income Tax : Get a comprehensive guide to Securities Transaction Tax (STT). Learn about its history, applicability, charges, and more....
Income Tax : Commodities Transaction Tax (C.T.T.), is a tax payable to the central government on trades made on commodities. CTT was first prop...
Income Tax : As per the existing provisions section 99 of the Finance (No.2) Act, 2004, the value of taxable securities transaction in respect ...
Income Tax : Securities Transaction Tax (STT), is the tax deduction that is applied to all your equity transactions. Introduced in the 2004 Uni...
Finance : For an investor, brokerage charges form a large part of his share trading experience and as an investor one must be vigilant about...
Income Tax : The Finance Ministry is likely to reduce Securities Transaction Tax (STT) on equity trade in the forthcoming Budget in a bid to bo...
Income Tax : The Income Tax department is learnt to have sent notices to over a dozen proprietary stock trading firms and corporate investors, ...
Income Tax : During the period April-November 2010, net direct tax collections stood at Rs.2,16,628 crore, up from Rs.1,83,822 crore during the...
Income Tax : Net direct tax collections during the period April-September 2010 stood at Rs.1,81,758 crore, up from Rs.1,52,625 crore in the sam...
Income Tax : The securities transaction tax (STT) is here to stay even under the proposed new regime for direct taxes slated to come into force...
Income Tax : The fact that shares were traded on stock exchange after paying securities transaction tax, and that money had been received throu...
Income Tax : Assessing Officer comes to a conclusion that the assessee had failed to collect the STT or had failed to pay such STT to the credi...
Income Tax : Association of National Exchanges Members of India Vs SEBI (Bombay High Court) CBDT has clarified that where a derivative contract...
The fact that shares were traded on stock exchange after paying securities transaction tax, and that money had been received through banking channels only demonstrated that they were not bogus transactions.
Get a comprehensive guide to Securities Transaction Tax (STT). Learn about its history, applicability, charges, and more.
Commodities Transaction Tax (C.T.T.), is a tax payable to the central government on trades made on commodities. CTT was first proposed in 2008 and received violent opposition as commodity trading was at a beginning stage in India, and levying such tax could lead to a dip in commodity trades. CTT was brought before parliament again […]
Assessing Officer comes to a conclusion that the assessee had failed to collect the STT or had failed to pay such STT to the credit of the Central Government, it would not ipso-facto lead to imposition of penalty. Once such a conclusion is reached, the assessee is required to be provided reasonable opportunity of hearing and during the hearing if the assessee can prove that there was reasonable cause for such failure, no penalty shall be imposed.
As per the existing provisions section 99 of the Finance (No.2) Act, 2004, the value of taxable securities transaction in respect of sale of an option in securities, where option is exercised, shall be, the settlement price. In order to rationalise the levy of STT where the option is exercised, it is proposed to amend […]
Securities Transaction Tax (STT), is the tax deduction that is applied to all your equity transactions. Introduced in the 2004 Union Budget by the then Finance Minister Mr. P Chidambaram, the deduction is to ensure that gains arising from securities transaction are taxed at source, thus preventing individuals from evading capital gains tax. So, what […]
Association of National Exchanges Members of India Vs SEBI (Bombay High Court) CBDT has clarified that where a derivative contract is being settled by physical delivery of shares, the transaction would not be any different from transaction in equity share where the contract is settled by actual delivery or transfer of shares. It further states […]
For an investor, brokerage charges form a large part of his share trading experience and as an investor one must be vigilant about the amount being charged in the form of brokerage. Depending on the sum of money invested, brokerage fees could play a big role in the overall trading experience. The brokerage cost is […]
This article summarises the amendment brought in Section 10(38) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, the exemptions provided under the section through notification issued by the central government and discusses few situations where exemption may not be available.
Securities Transaction Tax (STT) on transactions in specified securities was introduced vide Finance (No.2) Act, 2004. It is proposed to reduce STT in Cash Delivery segment from the existing 0.125% to 0.1%. The proposed new rates along with details of old rates are given in the following table.
