Income Tax : CBDT has notified Cost Inflation Index (CII) from 1981-82 to 2023-24. Find out the Meaning & Index of CII and its use for computin...
Income Tax : A person becomes senior citizen under Income Tax Act in any year after attaining the age of 60 even for one day. Once he attains 6...
Income Tax : Section 54EC of the Income Tax Act, 1961 provides exemption from long-term capital gains tax provided an assessee invests within s...
Income Tax : Under the latest provisions, any sum of money received without consideration (in excess of Rs 50,000), by an individual or Hindu U...
Income Tax : Under the provisions of Section 56(2)(vi) certain gifts are liable to income tax as income from other sources. However, this provi...
Income Tax : Calculate Long term capital gain on sale of capital Assets other then shares with the help of Indexation.- We have given below the...
Income Tax : National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) processes PAN and TAN applications on behalf of Income Tax Department. With a view t...
Income Tax : As many as 926 computerised branches of public and private sector banks will receive advance income tax in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai....
Income Tax : Tax defaulters beware! With tax recovery to the tune of more than Rs one lakh crore held up for lack of information about the wher...
Goods and Services Tax : Though the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill has been tabled in the Lok Sabha, the Gujarat government today said in the state Asse...
Service Tax : The making and sale of advertising materials for customers in the form of banner or hoarding or film-slide, etc. is `advertisement...
Income Tax : Search & seizure action u/s 132 was undertaken at the assessee’s premises. Thereafter an order of provisional attachment u/s 281...
Income Tax : 6. We have verified the orders and heard:the rival contentions. There is no dispute that there was a qualification in the auditors...
Income Tax : 3. We have duly considered the rival contentions and gone through the records carefully. Learned Assessing Officer as well as lear...
Income Tax : 10.1 It is the common stand of both - the applicant and the Revenue, that the nature of income arising from the transfer of the ap...
Goods and Services Tax : Considering the genuine difficulty faced by the Trade in this respect, the instructions contained in Trade Circular No.8T of 2005 ...
Income Tax : Ministry of Law & Justice, Department of legal Affairs, New Delhi Notification Dated : 3rd June 2009 GSR 889 (E). In exercise of t...
Finance : Accounting for taxes on income – Accounting Standard 22 – Treatment of deferred tax assets (DTA) and deferred tax liab...
Income Tax : Notification No. 47/2009 - Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 120 of the Incom...
Income Tax : CIRCULAR NO. 02 / 2009 One of the fundamental principles of financial accounting is that if a person claims credit for payment o...
In order to file electronic returns, the dealers are required to enroll themselves for the e services offered by the Department. It is noticed that some of the dealers have approached sales tax department with their difficulties regarding e enrollment or e filing of returns. The difficulties encountered by these dealers have been given due consideration.
The CBI on Saturday arrested S S Keshkamat, additional commissioner of Income Tax (I-T) in connection with the alleged bribe paid to his ITO, T V Mohan. Keshkamat’s three flats in Thane and a shop in his wife’s name are under the CBI scanner. The CBI said Mohan had named Keshkamat during interrogation. CBI sources […]
The recent notification of the Central Government to reduce service tax and excise duty by two per cent is not expected to come to the rescue of the hospitality industry in the current time of despair. The Government directive will only be applicable to the hotel rooms and the banquet and convention facilities.
With the service tax rate being reversed from 12 to 10 per cent, a question which the service providers face is to determine the day on which the new service tax rate is effective. Even after 15 years of introduction of service tax in India, this very crucial legal issue is still unresolved. Controversies are […]
THE SALES TAX OFFICE HAS OPENED A SEPARATE DESK FOR ACCEPTING THE MVAT AUDIT REPORT (FORM 704). 1.THE MVAT AUDIT REPORT CAN ALSO BE SUBMITTED ON 28TH FEBRUARY & 1ST MARCH 2009. 2.ON ABOVE DATES THE SALES TAX OFFICE IN THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA WILL BE REMAIN OPEN DURING REGULAR OFFICE HOURS FOR ACCEPTING MVAT […]
TAX evasion and tax fraud through the abuse of charities is a serious and increasing risk in many countries, and some estimate that the abuse of charities costs their treasury many hundreds of millions of dollars. The vast majority of charities are legitimate but some may be targeted by criminals to launder the proceeds of […]
Income tax is a tax on income earned by a taxpayer in a given year. However, activity of a taxpayer may not always result in income. Certain activities may cause losses too. It would be unfair to tax a person on his income, while ignoring the loss. In recognition of this principle, there are elaborate […]
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) The Lok Sabha Tuesday approved 2-percent cuts in excise duty and service tax proposed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who said resilience of the India economy which grew by an average of 9 percent annually in the last three years will help it overcome the current crisis.
The government on Tuesday said that the 4 per cent excise duty cut across-the-board will continue beyond March 31, 2009. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee also said that the excise duty on cement will be reduced to 8 per cent from 10 per cent, while service tax will be cut from 12 per cent to 10 […]
“37. (1) Any expenditure (not being expenditure of the nature described in sections 30 to 36 and not being in the nature of capital expenditure or personal expenses of the assessee), laid but or expended wholly and. exclusively for the purposes of the business or profession shall be allowed in computing the income chargeable under the head “Profits and gains of business or profession’.
