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Cost Inflation Index – Meaning & Index from 1981-82 to 2024-25

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...

May 26, 2024 2389781 Views 323 comments Print

Tax Benefits Available to Senior Citizens

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...

June 29, 2023 693288 Views 150 comments Print

Long-term capital gains tax exemption on Investment U/s. 54EC

Income Tax : Section 54EC of the Income Tax Act, 1961 provides exemption from long-term capital gains tax provided an assessee invests within s...

October 24, 2020 17731 Views 2 comments Print

Avoid gifts in cash to stay outside taxman’s radar

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...

October 13, 2020 2941 Views 0 comment Print

Received Gift – Whether it is Taxable or Not?

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...

October 12, 2020 5431 Views 4 comments Print


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Cost Inflation Indexed Cost Calculator

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...

November 20, 2011 40621 Views 9 comments Print

Know Your PAN and TAN Application Status on SMS

Income Tax : National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) processes PAN and TAN applications on behalf of Income Tax Department. With a view t...

October 11, 2011 16196 Views 1 comment Print

926 branches of Banks to accept Advance Income Tax in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai

Income Tax : As many as 926 computerised branches of public and private sector banks will receive advance income tax in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai....

August 18, 2011 2108 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax department to publish and expose names of tax defaulters on newspapers

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...

May 31, 2011 706 Views 0 comment Print

Gujarat not ready for implementation of GST

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...

March 25, 2011 975 Views 0 comment Print


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Making and sale of advertising materials for customers is advertisement service liable for service tax

Service Tax : The making and sale of advertising materials for customers in the form of banner or hoarding or film-slide, etc. is `advertisement...

June 14, 2009 4216 Views 1 comment Print

Department need not provide reason for search U/s. 132

Income Tax : Search & seizure action u/s 132 was undertaken at the assessee’s premises. Thereafter an order of provisional attachment u/s 281...

June 5, 2009 747 Views 0 comment Print

Disallowance of Excise duty, if any, to be made under section 145A

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...

May 26, 2009 3266 Views 0 comment Print

Penalty can not be imposed for non deduction of TDS if assessee was prohibited by reasonable cause

Income Tax : 3. We have duly considered the rival contentions and gone through the records carefully. Learned Assessing Officer as well as lear...

May 25, 2009 3902 Views 0 comment Print

AAR on tax liability of a partnership firm to be formed in Canada by a Canadian company for executing its PSCs in India

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...

May 24, 2009 1998 Views 0 comment Print


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Circular on Validity of Form ‘I’ under Central Sales Tax Act

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 ...

June 20, 2009 48309 Views 1 comment Print

Ex- President, Ex- Senior Vice-President, Ex-Vice-President and Members cannot practice before ITAT

Income Tax : Ministry of Law & Justice, Department of legal Affairs, New Delhi Notification Dated : 3rd June 2009 GSR 889 (E). In exercise of t...

June 20, 2009 715 Views 0 comment Print

Accounting for taxes on income – AS 22-Treatment of deferred tax asset and liabilities

Finance : Accounting for taxes on income – Accounting Standard 22 – Treatment of deferred tax assets (DTA) and deferred tax liab...

June 10, 2009 8880 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 47/2009 – Income Tax Dated 1/6/2009

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...

June 1, 2009 1514 Views 0 comment Print

New TDS and TCS payment and information reporting system

Income Tax : CIRCULAR NO. 02 / 2009 One of the fundamental principles of financial accounting is that if a person claims credit for payment o...

May 21, 2009 3827 Views 1 comment Print


Income from property leased to sister concerns is Income from House Property

June 27, 2008 2171 Views 0 comment Print

4. We have considered the rival submissions on either side and also perused the material available on record. The claim of the assessee is that construction of the dwelling units and leasing out the same to sister concerns amounts to exploiting of a commercial asst. In fact, the sister concerns which took the property on lease utilized the same for their business of producing films by exploiting the same

CST rate to be cut to 2% from June 1, 2008

May 31, 2008 5035 Views 0 comment Print

After much bickering with states, the finance ministry today reduced the central sales tax (CST) rate on inter-state sales from 3 per cent to 2 per cent with effect from June 1.The ministry notified the rate-cut to the states despite differences on compensating them for losses of about Rs 13,000 crore in 2008-09 because of the cut. CST was cut from 4 per cent to 3 per cent on April 1, 2007. It was to be reduced to 2 per cent on April 1, 2008, and phased out by March 2010.

Merely because agreement named as license agreement is not enough to attract section 194-I

May 23, 2008 1256 Views 0 comment Print

20. On examination of the license agreement and schedule attached with the same, we find that entire factory building along with plant & machinery have been given under the agreement by M/s. Ramco Ind. Ltd. to the assessee for taking over the production facilities. The agreement as a whole has to be considered. As per the agreement between licensee and licensor

Service Tax Provisions After Enacement of Finance Act, 2008

May 14, 2008 837 Views 0 comment Print

Finance Bill 2008 stands enacted with effect May 10, 2008. In case of transactions between Associated Enterprises, service tax is required to be paid on actual receipt of money for taxable service or on crediting / debiting the account whichever is earlier effective from May 10, 2008. Seven new services came into effect from May 16, 2008 in the net of service tax.

Real Estate Developer liable to Service Tax on Residential Construction

April 11, 2008 2375 Views 0 comment Print

Though the rulings of the Authority are binding only on the applicant and the service tax department; but since the issue has been settled in favour of service tax department; all the Builders and Real Estate Developers who are not paying service tax on construction of residential flats and units are going to be slapped the demands of service tax. Majority of the Builders are neither charging nor paying any service tax on construction and sale of residential flats. The costs of residential flats and units is also going to witness a hike due to service tax liability. This may lead to a further slowdown in Real Estate market.

Changes in MVAT Return Filing

April 7, 2008 3618 Views 1 comment Print

Changes in MVAT RETURN FILING – TL in Previous Year TR in previous Year Periodicity Form & Due Date Tax Liability (TL) Tax Refund (TR) 1) upto Rs. 1 lakh upto Rs. 10 Lacs Half Yearly 231/21 days 2) upto Rs. 10 lacs upto Rs. 1 crore Quarterly 231/21 days 3) More than 10 Lacs More Than Rs. 1 Crore Monthly 231/21 days

Furnishing of copies of challans/returns to the Sales Tax Authorities.

February 28, 2008 1526 Views 0 comment Print

Trade Cir. No. 5 T of 2008 A Trade Circular No. 1T of 2008 dt. 25.1.2008 had been issued explaining the procedure for issuance of statutory forms under the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956. In that circular, a procedure had been set down for the use of applicants of declaration forms under the Central Sales Tax Act. As per that circular, the dealers were required to show proof of filing of returns and payments from 1.4.2005 onwards till the last return/payment due from them on the date of application. The dealers were also required to furnish information in the format provided for in the said circular.

Circular on Grant of Certificate for TDS

February 26, 2008 1363 Views 0 comment Print

Trade Cir. No. 4 T of 2008 Section 31 of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 provides for deduction of tax at Source. Section 31(1) (b) (ii) of the Act empowers the Commissioner of Sales Tax to grant certificate to a contractor who is not doing Works contract. Where an application is made by the contractor and if the Commissioner is satisfied that the contract is not a works contract, then, he shall grant him the certificate for non-deduction of tax at source. The Commissioner may, after giving the contractor a reasonable opportunity of being heard, reject the application or cancel or modify such certificate.

Refund Service Tax on Exports Further Extended by Service Tax Notification No. 3/2008 Dated 19/02/2008

February 20, 2008 2098 Views 0 comment Print

Government has issued Notification No. 3/2008-ST, dated 19.02.2008, extending the scheme to refund service tax paid by exporters on taxable services, which are not in the nature of “input services” but could be linked to export of goods, to following three more taxable services: (i) Services provided by the Goods Transport Agency in relation to transportation of export goods from the place of removal to the actual place of export i.e. inland container depot / port / airport. (Section 65[105][zzp] ),

sec 80HHC – deductions when there is a loss – word ‘or’ has been used intentionally and it cannot be substituted with ‘and’ – ITAT

December 18, 2007 655 Views 0 comment Print

THE main point raised in this appeal is against the reduction in the claim of deduction u/s. 80HHC. The facts are that the return of income was filed claiming deduction u/s. 80HHC at Rs. 7,38,416/-. During the course of assessment proceedings the Assessing Officer noted that there was a net profit of Rs. 14,54,272/- on total export turnover of Rs. 2,48,26,964/ -. The net profit included Duty draw back turnover of Rs. 21,10,298/- and DEPB of Rs. 6,63,942/-. The Assessing Officer on verification of export in Form No. 10CCAC observed that the assessee has Loss on export turnover at Rs. 10,19,985/-.

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