Circular : No. 153-Income Tax . Reference is invited to Board’s Circular F. No. 44/14/64-ITJ, dated 22-3-1965 [Annex] on the above subject.
Circular: No. 152 -Income Tax I am directed to state that section 195 imposes a statutory obligation on any person responsible for paying to a non-resident any interest (not being “interest on security”) or any other sum (not being dividends) chargeable under the provisions of the Income-tax Act to deduct income-tax at the “rates in force”, unless he is himself liable to pay income-tax thereon as an agent. Payments to a
Circular : No:151-Income Tax It has been represented to the Board that in determining the tax liability of foreign and Indian participants in technical collaboration agreements, different norms and principles are being applied by different Income-tax Officers with the result that there is a great deal of uncertainty in the minds of the foreign parties regarding the incidence of Indian tax on the income derived by
Circular : No. 150 -Income Tax The Income-tax (Third Amendment) Rules. 1974, notified by the Central Board of Direct Taxes on 21-9-1974, have substituted sub-clause (i) of clause (a) of rule 3 of the Income-tax Rules, relating to valuation of the perquisite represented by rent-free residential accommodation in the case of Government employees, etc., by a new sub-clause. The provisions of the new sub-clause
Circular No. 148 – Income Tax The President promulgated the Compulsory Deposit Scheme (Income-tax Payers) Ordinance, 1974 on 17-7-1974 to provide for compulsory deposits by certain categories of income-tax payers in the higher income brackets. This Ordinance has since been replaced, with minor modifications, by the Compulsory Deposit Scheme (Income-tax Payers) Act, 1974 (38 of 1974). Under
Circular: No. 147 -Income Tax Under the provisions of section 192, any person responsible for paying any income chargeable under the head “Salaries” is required at the time of payment to deduct income-tax from the amount payable. In any case where an employee claims that his salary is not chargeable to income-tax and, therefore, no income-tax should be deducted at source from the salary receivable by him, the employer
Circular No. 146-Income Tax Attention is invited to the Board’s Circular No. 47 [F. No. 9/100/69-IT(A-II), dated September 21, 1970] [Clarification 3] on the above subject. In this circular, the Board had considered the question as to whether provision made by an assessee in its accounts for estimated service gratuity payable to its employees could be allowed as a deduction even though no approved gratuity fund under the
Circular No. 145 – Income Tax Under section 10(6 )(viia), foreign technicians having specialised knowledge and experience in constructional or manufacturing operations or in mining or in the generation of electricity or any other form of power, or in agriculture, animal husbandry, dairy farming, deep sea fishing or ship building enjoy special concession in certain cases. One of the important conditions for availing of the tax concession is that the foreign technician should not have been a resident of India in any of the four financial years immediately preceding the financial year in which he arrives in India.
Circular No.144 – Income Tax Under the existing provisions in section 80T and section 115, long-term capital gains, i.e., capital gains arising from the transfer of a capital asset which is held for more than 60 months from the date of acquisition, are charged to tax on a concessional basis. In the case of taxpayers other than companies the concession is allowed by deducting a specific proportion of the long-term capital gains in computing the taxable income of the
Circular : No. 143 -Income Tax . Under section 12A(b ), in the cases of charitable and religious trusts or institutions whose total income, without giving effect to the provisions of sections 11 and 12, exceeds 25,000 rupees in any previous year, the accounts of the trust or institution should have been audited by an accountant as defined in the Explanation below section 288(2) and the person in receipt of the income should furnish
