Section 179 of the Income-tax Act provides that where the tax due from a private company cannot be recovered from such company, then the director (who was the director of such company during the previous year to which non-recovery relates) shall be jointly and severally liable for payment of such tax
Section 54F is intended to encourage construction of or acquisition of residential house with the aid of the proceeds from the transfer of any long term capital asset, which is not a residencial house. The provision contemplates computing the cost of the residential building, but the value of the plot on which the farm house stands and the land appurtenant could also be considered.
CIT Vs. Gita Duggal – Section 54/54F uses the expression a residential house. The expression used is not a residential unit. There is nothing in these sections which require the residential house to be constructed in a particular manner. The only requirement is that it should be for the residential use and not for commercial use.
List of Eligible Shares / Mutual Funds (MFs) & Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) under Rajiv Gandhi Equity Saving Scheme (RGESS) The investment options under the scheme will be limited to the following categories of equities?*: Listed equity shares a. The top 100 stocks at NSE and BSE i.e., CNX-100 / BSE -100 (This does not mean […]
Applicability of the Revised Audit Report Formats (including for bank/ bank branch audit reports) and Reporting in respect of Memorandum of Changes in Bank Audit Reports
A new section 80CCG under the Income Tax Act, 1961 on ‘Deduction in respect of investment under an equity savings scheme’ has been introduced to give tax benefits to ‘New Retail Investors’ who invest up to Rs. 50,000 in ‘Eligible Securities’ and have gross total annual income less than or equal to Rs.10 Lakhs.
1) Profession Tax E-Enrollment- 3rd proviso to Sec 3(2) is inserted from 01.05.2012. Which states that, a person who is liable to pay tax has remained un-enrolled; then, his liability to pay tax under this section for the periods for which he has remained so unenrolled shall not exceed eight years from the end of […]
We have attached below an excel utility to compute the MAT as per provisions of Section 115JB of Income Tax Act, 1961. While preparing the utility Author of the utility has considered various income-tax cases decided by various judicial authorities both in favour of assessee and in favour of revenue. Utility is in Excel File Format […]
Provident Fund is a Social Security Benefit to employees. During an employee’s productive life he along with his employer contribute monthly to a PF Fund which then serves as a nest on retirement for his/her old age. This act is an important piece of Labour Welfare legislation enacted by the Parliament to provide social security benefits to the workers.
As you would be aware that normally the service provider is the person liable to pay Service tax, except in certain notified cases where the service receiver is made liable to pay Service tax. This was popularly termed as Reverse Charge.
