Circular No. 320-Income Tax A reference is invited to paragraph 15.1 to 15.7 of the Explanatory Notes on the provisions relating to direct taxes in the Finance Act, 1981 [Circular No. 308, dated 29-6-1981] which explain the scope and ambit of section 167A, as inserted by the Finance Act, 1981.
Circular No. 319-Income Tax A question has arisen whether regional rural banks (to which the provisions of the Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976, apply) can be treated as co-operative societies for the purpose of section 80P.
Circular No. 318-Income Tax Section 52 states that the Central Government may, on an application of the accountable person, accept in satisfaction of the whole or any part of such duty any property passing on the death of the deceased at such price as may be agreed upon between the Central Government and that person
Circular No. 318-Income Tax 1. The Special Bearer Bonds (Immunities and Exemptions) Ordinance, 1981 (‘the Ordinance’), was promulgated by the President on January 12, 1981. The Ordinance was replaced by the Special Bearer Bonds (Immunities and Exemptions) Act, 1981 (‘the Act’) which received the assent of the President on March 27, 1981. 2. The Bonds were placed on sale from February 2, 1981 in India and from February 9, 1981, abroad. The sale of Bonds was, however, suspended with effect from May 1, 1981.
Circular No. 317 -Income Tax Under section 13(1)(d ) any charitable or religious trust/institution can claim exemption under section 11 for and from any assessment year relevant to a previous year beginning on or after April 1, 1981, only if the assets of the trust/institution are invested in the manner prescribed in section 13(5)
Circular No. 316 – Income Tax Attention is invited to Board’s Circular Letter No. 10/22/65-IT(A-I), dated 24-5-1965 [Annex] on the subject, wherein it was conveyed that expenditure on certain specified civil defence measures incurred by business concerns during emergency should be treated as revenue expenditure and allowed
Circular No. 315-Income Tax The Board had an occasion to consider the rate at which depreciation should be allowed in respect of “Motor vans” as no specific rate has been provided for them under Appendix I to the Income-tax Rules, 1962
Circular No. 314 -Income Tax . Section 32A was introduced by the Finance Act, 1976 to allow investment allowance, inter alia, in respect of new machinery or plant installed after the31st March, 1976 in a “small-scale industrial undertaking” for the purpose of business of manufacture or production of any article or thing
Circular No. 313-Income Tax Introduction 1. The Hotel-receipts Tax Bill, 1980, as passed by Parliament, received the assent of the President on 9th December, 1980 and has been enacted as the Hotel-receipts Tax Act, 1980 (54 of 1980). The Act imposes a special tax on the gross receipts of certain categories of hotels. Section 34 empowers the Board to make, subject to the control of the Central Government, rules
Circular No. 312 -Income Tax A large number of references have been received by the Board on the decision of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal, Madras Bench, in the case of N.B. Tendolkar v. ITO [1980] 4 Taxman 129. In this decision the Tribunal has held that the amount received by an assessee on encashment of leave due to him is not taxable
