Income Tax : Explore the changes in taxation of debt mutual funds pre and post April 2023. Learn about impacts, benefits, and strategies. Inves...
Income Tax : In our tribute to top 25 GDP nations of the world, South Korea has shown a remarkable story to be written in golden letters. Like ...
Income Tax : Section 80P: Deduction in respect of Income of Co-operative Societies In case of all co-operative societies, except co-operative b...
Income Tax : Arjun (Fictional Character): Krishna, nowadays more and more people are making investments in mutual funds through SIPs? Krishna(F...
CA, CS, CMA : Understand the taxation rules for political parties. Learn about the conditions for excluding certain incomes and maintaining prop...
Income Tax : Reeling under the impact of global slowdown and a high interest rate regime, India Inc on Monday demanded that tax rates be retain...
Income Tax : Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the government is negotiating changes in a tax treaty with Mauritius, the country whi...
Income Tax : Five crore commemorative coins of Rs 5 denomination, unveiled recently to celebrate 150 years of taxation, will be minted for publ...
Income Tax : India signed Tax Information Exchange Agreements (TIEA) with various countries to avoid tax evasions and fiscal frauds such as mon...
Goods and Services Tax : The Maharashtra Sales Tax department is taking steps to apply more caution while disposing of VAT refund applications following di...
Income Tax : The applicant is a US-based manufacturer engaged in manufacturing of engineering goods and is also an R&D-based service provider. ...
Income Tax : The penalty proceedings and the assessment proceedings both are different. Explanation 1to section 271(1)(c) in respect of any fac...
Income Tax : A partnership firm is a separate entity than that of its partners under the Income-tax Act and therefore, partners vis-à-vis part...
Income Tax : As can be seen from the above the adjustment made by the assessee is according to the provisions of the Act. Since both the indust...
Income Tax : I have duly considered the rival contentions and the material en record. The perception of the CIT that the profit is low prompted...
Goods and Services Tax : Representations from various Trades and Associations have been received with a request to extend the due date for submission of Au...
Service Tax : Legal Consultancy Services provided from outside India, in relation to immovable property shall be deemed to be import of service...
Goods and Services Tax : In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 42 of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act 2002 [Mah IX of 2005] ...
Income Tax : CIRCULAR NO-2/2008-Income Tax Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) vide circular No.-MRD/DoP/SE/Dep/ Cir14/2007 dated 20/...
Income Tax : CIRCULAR NO. 7/2007-Income Tax The Board had issued Circular No. 790 dated 20th April, 2000, laying down the procedure for refund ...
Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) can breathe easy with the Direct Taxes Code (DTC) Bill, 2010 proposing that their income be taxed as capital gains rather than business income. Opinion is divided on whether this will end the uncertainty over FI
If one was to trace the key milestones in the evolution of service taxation in the country, reference will have to be made of import and export rules for services. Equally important and which probably should have been introduced much earlier, are the
The Maharashtra Government has decided to impose an environment tax on 15 lakh private vehicles registered in the State which are more that 15 years old and six lakh goods and transport vehicles that are more than eight years old.
For students appearing in November 2010 examination, the amendments made by the Finance (No.2) Act, 2009, as applicable for assessment year 2010-11 are relevant. Therefore, the amendments made by the Finance (No.2) Act, 2009 which are not applicable for A.Y.2010-11 would not be relevant for students appearing for November 2010 examination.
The tax structure is designed in a manner that the Russian government retains most of the revenues generated for crude prices above $30 resulting in low revenue for Imperial Energy, which is ONGC Videsh Ltd’s wholly-owned UK-based subsidiary.
Last fortnight, the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) delivered an important ruling on tax neutrality in relation to cross border mergers. The significance of ruling in the present context is attributable to tax administration’s ongoing stance that business restructuring is motivated for tax avoidance purposes and hence tax neutrality should be denied.
Representations from various Trades and Associations have been received with a request to extend the due date for submission of Audit Report in Form-704 for the year 2008-09. The Finance Department, Government of Maharashtra has examined and considered aforesaid representations. Accordingly, it has been decided to extend the due date for submission of the Audit Report in Form-704 to 31st March 2010.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is in a fix over the application of one safe harbour rate to all sectors. A committee, formed last month to frame safe harbour rules as announced in the 2009-10 Budget to minimise transfer pricing disputes, has estimated that there is a huge difference in the margins of companies which would come under the ambit of safe harbour.
New perk rules :- Under the new perquisite rules, a distinction is to be made between the car owned by the employer and the car owned by the employee, as the value of the tax perquisite in the two scenarios varies considerably. Even though there could be different permutation and combination, under which the car benefit could be provided by the employer to the employee, this article primarily focuses on two scenarios where the car is either owned by the employer or employee and the car expenses are met/reimbursed by the employer.
Last week, CBDT issued a notification on how each perquisite provided to a salaried employee should be taxed. It is applicable with retrospective effect, from April 1 2009. The guidelines cover every perk: home accommodation to gifts to educational benefits. The most important change, though, is taxation of car facilities.
