Circular : No. 561-Income Tax The Board have received representations regarding difficulties faced in complying with the provisions of section 44AB of the Income-tax Act in case of companies which follow an accounting period other than financial year.
Circular : No. 560-Income Tax Section 2(47 ) of the Income-tax Act provides that any conversion of capital assets into stock-in-trade, shall be regarded as a transfer. This transfer arises in the year in which such conversion takes place and, accordingly, capital gain would normally arise in that very year.
Circular No.559 – Income Tax Foreign companies, which provide technical assistance in accordance with agreements entered into with the Government of India, are taxable in India in respect of fees for technical services received by them. The tax leviable is 30% of the gross fees for technical services received by them. Accordingly, foreign companies providing technical assistance in connection with defence
Circular : No. 558-Income Tax According to the provisions of section 194C any person responsible for paying any sum of any resident for carrying out any work in pursuance of a contract between the contractor and the bodies specified therein shall, at the time of credit of such sum to the account of the contractor or payment thereof in cash, etc.,
Circular : No. 557-Income Tax The Board have received a number of representations seeking clarifications in respect of various columns of Form No. 56 prescribed for grant of exemption under section 10(23C)(iv) and (v). The clarifications are as under
directed to refer to your letter no. PD/69/90 dated 19.2.90 on the subject mentioned above and to say that the cost auditor shall be deemed to have concluded his appointment as soon as he renders a report to the Central Government in accordance with the Cost Audit Report Rules. The specified number of companies for the purpose of section 23 3B (2) of the Act
directed to refer to your letter no. CLC/79/89 dated 8th January, 1990 on the subject mentioned above and to say that while giving a certificate in terms of provision to sub-section 224 of the Companies Act, 1956, the auditor or auditors will not take into account the actual appointments as auditors in the companies but also their proposed appointment in companies for which they have given their consent.
Circular: No. 556-Income Tax Section 269T of the Income-tax Act provides that no company, co-operative society or firm shall repay to any person any deposit otherwise than by any account payee cheque or account payee bank draft where the amount of deposit and interest thereon, if any, is Rs. 10,000 or more.
Circular No. 555-Income Tax The Act provides for the levy of a surcharge at the rate of 2.5 per cent on advance tax payable under the Income-tax Act by all companies during the financial year 1971-72. The amount of the surcharge is required to be paid by companies on their own motion, without the requirement of the service of any notice of demand by the Income-tax Officer, on or before 15-3-1972.
Circular No.554 – Income Tax Under the provisions of section 185 of the Income-tax Act, as they existed prior to their amendment through this Act, it was obligatory for an Assessing Officer to pass an order, on receipt of an application for the registration of a firm, either registering the firm or refusing to register it. Such order was based on an enquiry into the genuineness of the firm and its constitution. However
