Punjab VAT notification levying additional tax ; Effective February 5, 2010, dealers are required to charge an additional tax calculated at 10% of the amount of tax payable. The additional tax in respect of liquor shall be effective April 1, 2010., Punjab Entry Tax notifications levying entry tax on certain goods
Global business consultancy firm, Deloitte, plans to almost double its India workforce to 24,500 over the next 30 months, a top company official said. “We will hire around 12,000 people in every sector, including IT, CAs, financial services. The process has started and 40 per cent of the total hires will be freshers,” Deloitte India’s Managing Director Hari Kumar told PTI on the sidelines of the Nasscom Summit here today.
With virtually no reprieve from the tax burden on their pay packages and continuing anomalies and inequities, the new rules for valuation of perquisites announced by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on December 18, 2009 have hugely disappointed millions of salaried employees.
This article summarizes the latest Press Release issued by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on proposals requiring prior approval of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) and thereafter CCEA approval. As per the existing policy, the recommendations of FIPB for any proposal falling under approval route and involving total project cost of more than INR 6000 Million were referred to CCEA for approval.
The CBDT issued a press release on 29th January stating that the first installment of FBT advance tax paid by tax payers for the current financial year (relevant to Assessment Year 2010-11) can be adjusted against the advance income-tax liability of the tax payer.
ITAT Ruling: The Tribunal held that the Transfer Pricing Officer cannot exceed his limitation by following any method to determine the arm’s length price which is not authorized by the Income Tax Act or the Income Tax Rules [CA Computer Associates Pvt. Ltd. V. DCIT (2010-TIOL-68-ITAT-MUM)].
TDS on transport contractors :-Finance Act 2009 has made an important change in respect of applicability of TDS on transport contractors. Section 194C has been replaced and the following two sub sections provide for non deduction of TDS on transport contractors.
Where on account of the transfer of an employee from one place to another, he is provided with accommodation at the new place of posting while retaining the accommodation at the other place, the value of perquisite shall be determined with reference to only one such accommodation which has the lower value for a period not exceeding 90 days and thereafter the value of perquisite shall be charged for both such accommodation.
The term ‘input service’ (under Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004) has gone through its share of litigations and interpretations, with the trade knocking the doors of judiciary for much needed relief and justice. It is in the interest of the department and India Inc to bring in suitable amendments in the definition of input service, which could put an end to the litigations on this count.
The issue before the SB was that, while computing the amounts eligible for tax holiday under the Indian Tax Law (ITL), whether the losses of an undertaking of the Taxpayer which is not eligible for tax holiday (Non-eligible Undertaking), are required to be set off against the profits of another undertaking of the Taxpayer which is eligible for tax holiday (Eligible Undertaking)
