The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed Bombay High Court decision that upheld service tax on the commercial rentals.Bombay High Court had earlier extended the stay upto 30.9.2011 after it upheld the provisions with retrospective effect from 01.06.2007.
Procedure for e-Payment: (i) To pay Excise Duty and Service Tax on-line, the assessee has to enter the 15 digit Assessee Code allotted by the department under erstwhile SACER/SAPS or the current application ACES. (ii) There will be an on-line check on the validity of the Assessee Code entered. Only if the assessee has been registered in ACES (either in Central Excise or in case of Service Tax), will be validation be successful. (iii) If the Assessee Code is valid, then corresponding assessee details like name, address, Commissionerate Code etc. as present in the Assessee Code Master will be displayed.
The assesses can electronically file statutory returns of Central Excise and Service Tax by choosing one of the two facilities being offered by the department at present: (a) they can file it on-line, or (b) download the off-line return utilities which can be filled-in off-line and uploaded to the system through the internet.
To transact business on ACES a user has to first register himself/herself with ACES through a process called ,Registration with ACES,. This registration is not a statutory registration as envisaged in Acts/Rules governing Central Excise and Service Tax but helps the application in recognizing the bona fide users. Described below are steps for taking registration by a new assessee, existing assessee, non-assessee and a Large Taxpayer Unit (LTU).
rejected by the application, the date of uploading of the rejected return will not be considered as the date of filing, rather the date of uploading of the successfully filed, return (after the assessee carries out necessary corrections and uploads it again) will be considered as the actual date of filing.
Penalty u/s 271B is imposed on two grounds i.e for not getting the books of accounts audited within due date and for not furnishing the audit report within due date of filling of return of income. Now as per above circular furnishing of audit report has been done away with after the introduction of annexure less forms. The only thing that is required is to obtain the audit report within due date and fill the relevant audit columns of the ITR, if it is done no penalty can be initiated u/s 271B.
Login on MCA website. Click on the link ‘GET CERTIFIED COPIES’ which is on the left hand side of screen under the head ‘QUICK LINKS’ Enter Company name or CIN no. and search for the company on MCA web portal. It will display the company name and its CIN no. Click on the CIN no.
DCIT v. Bank of America NT & SA (ITAT Mumbai) – Tribunal held that interest received on income tax refund can be set-off against the interest paid on delayed payment of income tax and only net amount is to be taxed. The issue before the tribunal was that Whether interest income received by the taxpayer on income tax refund can be set-off against delayed payment on income tax? Whether the taxpayer can offer the net interest received as income?
ICAI has released Book titled ‘Quick Insight on CA profession’ to be circulated to all CA firms/ practitioners for ready reference and it includes matters relating to direct and indirect tax, accounting standards, list of mandatory statements and standards on auditing, peer review, information regarding forms relevant to students, websites, contact e-mail ids of Committees of the Institute and that pertaining to the Companies Act, 1956 and LLP.
Since inception year 1997, Goods Transport Agency (GTA) Service is caught by bundles of controversies like a celebrity always stay for the publicity stunt. Service Tax Legislation was just 3 years old and one can forget the childish introduction of GTA Service. However, even after sequential amendments the levy has ended up being a migraine for tax payers.
