CA Sandeep Kanoi CBDT has vide notification no. 33/2014 dated 25.07.2014 revised the format of Tax Audit Report to be furnished under section 44AB of the Income tax Act with effect from 25.07.2014. We have compiled below the key amendments made to the old Form 3CD:- 1. Particulars of registration under excise duty, service tax, […]
On careful consideration of above contention, we are of the view that there may be a substantive assessment without any protective assessment but there can not be any protective assessment/addition without a substantive assessment/addition, meaning thereby there has to be some substantive assessment/addition first which enables the AO to make a protective assessment/addition.
Amendment impacting Negative List: (Changes to be effective from enactment of Finance Bill)- Exemption of Service tax on Advertisement now restricted only to print media, all others areas, not covered earlier, now subjected to service tax. Print Media to include Books and News Paper as defined under Press and Registration Books Act, 1867 but does not include business directories, yellow pages and trade catalogues primarily meant for commercial purposes
Assessee entered into transactions of payment of job work charges to a related party, viz., M/s Razormed Inc. during the financial year relevant to assessment year under consideration without obtaining prior approval of the Central Government in accordance with the provisions of section 297 of the Companies Act, 1956.
In the instant case, the transaction in question, was not cash transaction. It was merely book entries. The CIT(A) has called Remand Record from the AO, who vide report dated 05.01.1999, confirmed that the transaction in question, by mentioning that no cash was involved.
In the instant case, the following three dates are not in dispute. The residential house was transferred by the appellants and the sale deed had been registered on 24th September, 2004. The sale deed had been executed in pursuance of an agreement to sell which had been executed on 27th December, 2002
Sec 153A cannot be used to re-agitate concluded assessment in the absence of any incriminating material. Hon’ble Agra ITAT Bench has in the order of DCIT V/S Kalyani Chaturvedi has held that assessments that have attained finality don’t abate at the time of search and they cannot be done de-novo u/s 153A of the Income Tax Act, 1961 in the absence of any fresh incriminating material found during the course of search by observing as under :-
Dispute was going on the issue whether the first Appellate Authority or Tribunal can condone delay for late filing of review order under Section 35E(1) or not? As per Section 35E the Committee of Chief Commissioners is empowered to review an order passed by a Commissioner.
Companies Act, 2013 seems to have laid lot of emphasis on audit which is evident from the fact that it has prescribed four different kinds of audits for companies, namely, Financial Audit, Internal Audit, Secretarial Audit and Cost Audit. In its pursuit of increasing the effectiveness of audit to reach high degree of corporate governance, the Act has also well laid out the powers as well as the roles and responsibilities of the auditors
Almost everyone, including active and proactive professional tax advisers- mainly, lawyers and CAs, having something to do or other with the Budget proposals of the newly installed government, have sought and brought to focus the highlights. Even so, it is sad to observe that, in so doing, in one’s conviction, some of the deficiencies, hidden or otherwise, it is noted, have not been even touched upon, for reasons not known.
