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Tax Rates / Reckoner for Financial Year 2012-13

July 28, 2012 29712 Views 0 comment Print

Tax Implication on Dividend received by Unitholders – Tax Rate on Dividend Distribution , Capital Gain, Income Tax Rates, Securities Transaction Tax (STT) for financial Year 2012-13 or Assessment year 2013-14.

Jewellers misuse PAN Card details from Railway reservation charts

July 28, 2012 4696 Views 0 comment Print

While complying with TCS rules for collection, payment and uploading of TCS information (E-filing of TDS returns), Jewellery dealers have to furnish PAN of customers. For Certain customers,it is not convenient to provide PAN as they may have constraints in explaining the source.In such cases to accommodate high net worth customers,unscrupulous traders have an easy source of benami PAN particulars from reserved railway passengers chart.

Statement under section 132(4) can be retracted

July 27, 2012 8705 Views 0 comment Print

The case of the assessee is that the statement/admission was made under the mistaken belief of law that Rs. 50 lakhs represents the sale value of stock found short was undisclosed income of the assessee instead of the correct legal position that the gross profit on suppressed sale is the income of the assessee.

New provisions of section 10A provides for deduction & not exemption

July 27, 2012 1766 Views 0 comment Print

Ostensibly, while denying the assessee’s claim of carried forward unabsorbed loss/depreciation assessed under the normal provisions of the Act, the Assessing Officer has proceeded on the basis that section 10A of the Act provides an exemption and, therefore, loss suffered in such unit is not allowed to be set off or carried forward for further set off against other normal business income.

No Capital Gain on Transfer of Land Having Nil Acquisition Cost

July 26, 2012 8754 Views 0 comment Print

According to us for charging capital gains, the assets must have been acquired by incurring cost. In the instant case, the assessee has not incurred any cost for the acquisition of asset because the same was allotted to the assessee’s father by Government of India being refugee from Pakistan at relevant point of time.

Get PAN by submitting Verification Certificate signed by MP, MLA, MC, Gazetted officer

July 26, 2012 122642 Views 48 comments Print

Verification Certificate under provisions of Rules 114(4) of IT Rules, 1962 of PAN (Individual / HUF) – A format has been prescribed for verification certificate under provisions of Rules 114(4) of IT Rules, 1962. An individual / HUF PAN Applicant who files certificate of MP / MLA / MC / Gazetted officer as proof of his / her identity or address is to file the same in prescribed format only.

Personal grievance cannot be addressed under Contempt of Courts Act

July 26, 2012 870 Views 0 comment Print

This also appears to be a case where the petitioner has not come to the Court with clean hands; submission of the respondent that the petitioner has learnt about the one time settlement arrived at by the respondent with the Bank; and it was only then that he approached the CLB this is clear from the fact that he had filed the contempt application before the CLB on 01.03.2007 but he did not choose to mention it before the Board till more than two months later;

PMS fees is deductible against capital gains

July 25, 2012 5993 Views 0 comment Print

Decision of the Mumbai Bench of the Tribunal in the case of Homi K. Bhabha Vs. ITO was brought to our notice by the learned DR wherein it was held that Portfolio Management Scheme fees is not deductible against capital gains. The decision of the Pune Bench of the Tribunal in the case of KRA Holding & Trading was not followed by the Mumbai Bench in the above cited decision.

Splitting of cash payment to circumvent law attracts Section 40A(3)

July 25, 2012 18234 Views 0 comment Print

It is very clear that the assessee consciously split up the payments in whole of the year, which is impracticable, illogical as noted above and it was done just to circumvent the provisions of law. There was no justification for the assessee to split up the transactions of crores of rupees in small payments of Rs. 15,000/- to Rs. 20,000/- everyday. Whatever plea was taken before the authorities below was not supported by any evidence.

I-T department adds new column in ITR for declaring foreign assets

July 25, 2012 1778 Views 0 comment Print

Taxpayers, who hold foreign bank accounts or properties, will now have to furnish details of their foreign assets which include information like country name, address of the bank, name mentioned in the account and peak balance during the year etc.

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