Circular: No. 207-Income Tax . Reference is invited to the Explanation to section 185(1) as substituted by the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 1975. This Explanation has been made effective from April 1, 1976. The Explanation reads as under: “For the purposes of this section and section 186, a firm shall not be regarded as a genuine firm if any partner of the firm was, in relation to the whole or any part of his share in the income or property of the firm, at any time during the previous year, a benamidar—
Circular : No. 206 -Income Tax Section 29 of the Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act, 1976 has inserted a new proviso to clause (ii) of sub-section (1) of section 36 and has made an amendment to the existing proviso to the said clause with effect from September 25, 1975. The newly inserted first proviso to clause (ii) of section 36(1) will apply in relation to bonus
Circular : No. 205 -Income Tax Section 44AA casts a legal obligation for maintenance of books of account by persons specified therein. This section has come into force with effect from April 1, 1976. The Board have examined the question as to the date from which provisions of section 44AA are applicable. The requirement contained in sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 44AA
Circular No. 204-Income Tax The Amending Act has introduced a new sub-clause (via) in clause (6) of section 10 with a view to exempting from income-tax remuneration received by individuals other than Indian citizens, from foreign philanthropic institutions, associations or bodies in certain circumstances. The exemption from income-tax will be available if the following
Circular : No. 203 -Income Tax Reference is invited to Board’s Circular No. 200, dated 28-6-1976 [Clarification 2] by which it was clarified that no distinction need be drawn between expenditure on advertisements in souvenirs and other types of advertisement.
Circular : No. 201 -Income Tax The Board attaches very great importance to the successful implementation of the “summary assessment scheme” so that the genuine small taxpayers, who form nearly 70 per cent of the number of taxpayers borne on our registers, are not put to the avoidable inconvenience of appearing before the Income-tax Officers to prove the correctness of
Circular No, 202 – Income Tax The rates of income-tax for the assessment year 1976-77 in the case of all categories of taxpayers (corporate as well as non-corporate) are specified in Part I of the First Schedule to the Finance Act, 1976. These rates are the same as those specified in Part III of the First Schedule to the Finance Act, 1975, as modified by the Finance (Amendment) Act, 1975, for purposes of
Circular : No. 200 -Income Tax Attention is invited to Board’s Circular No. 19 [F. No. 9/20/69-IT(A-II)], dated 13-6-1969 [Clarification 3] on the above subject. It has been represented to the Board that expenditure on advertisements in souvenirs is expenditure incurred wholly and exclusively for the purpose of business and as such is allowable as a deduction under section 37(1)
Circular : No. 198 -Income Tax Under section 194B every person responsible for paying to any person, whether resident or non-resident, any income by way of winnings from any lottery or crossword puzzle, in an amount exceeding Rs. 1,000 is required to deduct income-tax thereon at rates prescribed in this behalf in the Finance Act of the relevant year. The rates of
Circular : No. 199 -Income Tax Section 194D provides for deduction of income-tax at source, at such rates as may be prescribed by Finance Act of the relevant year, from payments of income by way of insurance commission, to a resident, whether an individual, a company or any other category of person. The rates for deduction of tax at source for the financial year 1976-77
