If your refunds, rectifications, other matters like not getting orders to give effect to the Appellate orders, etc. are pending since long, reminders not bringing any results, you may make application under the RTI Act to the Commissioner of Income-tax (CIT), under whose jurisdiction you are assessed to tax. The CIT has to dispose your application within thirty days of the receipt of the request (S. 7 of the RTI Act). In other words, normally you will get your work done within these 30 days; i.e., Assessing Officer will send the required orders like intimations, orders u/s. 154, etc. with refunds, etc. and the CIT then will reply to your application within 30 days, stating that your application has been attended and you must have received the refund orders, etc. At times, there may be delay in getting some refunds as in my case, but you will get them ultimately.
t is allged by few students that ICAI has asked question from the topics which were excluded by it from syllabus for November 2011 examinations by two separate Announcement published on its website. The allegation were made by students of November 2011 PCE examination in respect of Taxation paper. We have also received an email from one such students in which he explained the discrepancy and requested ICAI to do the needful. He also mailed his mail to ICAI officials. Text of the email is given as under. We are not publishing here the name of student to protect the identity.
What is meant by Registration‖? Who should apply for registration under Service Tax law? In terms of Section 69 of the Finance Act,1994 (Chapter V) read with rule 4 of the Service Tax Rules,1994 – Every person who has provided a taxable service of value exceeding Rs. 9 lakhs, in the preceding financial year, is required to register with the Central Excise or Service Tax office having jurisdiction over the premises or office of such service provider.
Key features of NSDL Return Preparation Utility (RPU) version 2.6- Unmatched challan: On import of consolidated file in the NSDL RPU (version 2.6), an alert message “Statement contains unmatched challan. The same has been highlighted in red colour” will be provided if the consolidated file imported contains unmatched challan. Deductee/ Salary details records with invalid PAN: On import of consolidated file in the NSDL RPU (version 2.6), an alert message will be provided ‘Statement contains invalid PANs. The same has been highlighted in red colour’ if the statement contains invalid PAN in deductee/ salary detail records.
The contention of the assessee is that the agricultural operations were carried out on the land under consideration. During the course of proceedings before the Assessing Officer, the assessee requested the Assessing Officer to inspect the lands at that stage. The assessee also filed pahani patrika for the financial year 2006-07, the slab pass-book issued by the Electricity Board before the lower authorities. It was also submitted that there was an open well in the land and water was supplied to the crop through electric motor pumping.
It’s important to note that under the Income Tax Act, 1961, there is mention of only one type of mutual fund. i.e. “Equity Oriented Fund”. It implies that from Income Tax angle mutual fund schemes can be categorized into-(a) Equity oriented fund (Scheme) (b) Non Equity oriented fund (Scheme)
Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs (Budget Division)Government has vide its office memorandum No. No. 6-1/2011-NS.II (Pt.) Dated 11th November, 2011 announced increase in interest Rates on small saving schemes which includes interest rate on Public Provident Fund and other schemes. To address the issue of asset-liability mismatch in the National Small Savings Fund (NSSF), the central government has moved towards making returns from small savings instruments benchmarked against the government securities of similar maturities.
Recently Income Tax department issued one after one circular making amendment in provisions related to TDS. Department has made so many amendments that we even lost the counts of amendments made in TDS laws during the last few months, Department has not only made the amendments in rules/sections governing TDS law but they also amended the forms related to TDS certificate
Now a days, during transfer pricing assessment , the TPO are coming with unique ideas like valuation of intangibles , corporate guarantees, ratings provided by CRISIL etc. this all leads to corporate in a mysterious situation. Below are the summarized form of the latest judicial pronouncements on transfer pricing which will help corporate in better benchmarking of their international transactions with their foreign associate enterprises.
The maturity period for Monthly Income Scheme (MIS) and National Savings Certificate (NSC) will be reduced from 6 years to 5 years.A new NSC instrument, with maturity period of 10 years, would be introduced. Kisan Vikas Patras (KVPs) will be discontinued.The annual ceiling on investment under Public Provident Fund (PPF) Scheme will be increased from Rs. 70,000 to Rs. 1 lakh.Interest on loans obtained from PPF will be increased to 2% p.a. from existing 1% p.a.Liquidity of Post Office Time Deposit (POTD) – 1, 2, 3 & 5 years – will be improved by allowing pre-mature withdrawal at a rate of interest 1% less than the time deposits of comparable maturity. For pre-mature withdrawals between 6-12 months of investment, Post Office Savings Account (POSA) rate of interest will be paid.
