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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 2336306 Views 319 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 692655 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 17683 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 2929 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 5407 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 40054 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 15845 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 2105 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 957 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 4207 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 738 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 3254 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 3899 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 1980 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 48291 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 709 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 8862 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 1499 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 3809 Views 1 comment Print


Frequently Asked Question on fringe benefit tax (FBT) PART- 2

June 20, 2009 2015 Views 0 comment Print

32. Whether gross expenses or net expenses (i.e. net of recovery) are to be considered for the purposes of FBT? For example, part of the expenses on various items like travel, may be recovered from the employees. Therefore, whether FBT would be levied on the gross travel expenditure or on the ‘net’ travel expenditure’? Where […]

Frequently Asked Question on fringe benefit tax (FBT) PART- 1

June 20, 2009 4605 Views 0 comment Print

The Central Board of Direct Taxes has issued a list of frequently asked questions with answers on Fringe Benefit Tax, clarifying some issues raised by the trade and industry at different fora after the presentation of the Finance Bill, 2005 and also after its enactment. 1. What are the prerequisites for the levy of FBT? […]

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

June 20, 2009 48291 Views 1 comment Print

Considering the genuine difficulty faced by the Trade in this respect, the instructions contained in Trade Circular No.8T of 2005 are being modified. Sales Tax authorities are instructed to also allow declarations in Form ‘I’ issued by Sales Tax authorities of other States. This will be applicable for a period of one year and the issue will be reexamined after that.

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

June 20, 2009 709 Views 0 comment Print

Ministry of Law & Justice, Department of legal Affairs, New Delhi Notification Dated : 3rd June 2009 GSR 889 (E). In exercise of the powers conferred by the Proviso to section 309 of the Constitution

Govt may plug gaps in tax evasion laws to stop treaty shopping

June 19, 2009 688 Views 0 comment Print

The party could end soon for domestic and multinational companies that do tax planning only to avoid paying taxes in India. The government is set to usher in the next stage of reforms in taxation, framing anti-abuse rules that will empower tax authorities to lift the corporate veil and look for what are called `avoidance’ […]

Govt. may extend exemption on inter-corporate dividends further down the chain of corporate subsidiaries

June 18, 2009 1291 Views 0 comment Print

The finance ministry is considering a proposal to extend the tax exemption on inter-corporate dividends further down the chain of corporate subsidiaries in the upcoming Union Budget, a long-standing demand from India Inc. “The proposal is under consideration but a final decision has not been taken,” said a senior government official. The move is expected […]

Govt. Considering increase in Excise duty on some products

June 16, 2009 444 Views 0 comment Print

The Union finance ministry is considering an increase in the central excise duty for some of the products that had benefited from the two rounds of reductions announced by the government as part of its fiscal stimulus measures last year. In December 2008, the government had reduced the general rate of central excise duty for […]

Budget will not address taxation issue related to LLPs

June 16, 2009 306 Views 0 comment Print

Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed has said, contrary to expectation, the Budget will not address the taxation issue related to limited liability partnerships. The issue will be clarified only next year, he added. “It is too short a time for us to sort out the issue, but it is flagged,” Khursheed told. The Ministry of […]

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

June 14, 2009 4207 Views 1 comment Print

The making and sale of advertising materials for customers in the form of banner or hoarding or film-slide, etc. is `advertisement’ as defined under section 65(2); all commercial concerns engaged in any of the activities connected with advertisement, which includes making, preparing, displaying or exhibition of advertisement, answer the description of `advertising agency’.

Industry demand: Decontrol fuel price, restore tax holiday

June 12, 2009 408 Views 0 comment Print

Freeing petrol and diesel prices from official control, restoring tax breaks on natural gas production and tax holiday for private oil refiners should be part of the government’s agenda in the first 100 days, industry wished. The Petroleum Federation of India, apex body of public and private oil firms, has submitted to the oil ministry a […]

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