Circular NO. 2/2011 [F.NO. 385/25/2010-IT(B)], DATED 27-4-2011 of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on refund procedure for excess tax deducted at source (TDS) on payments to residents.The new Circular is applicable for refunds pertaining to the period up to 31 March 2010. The procedure for refunds for the period from 1 April 2010 is governed by a specific provision in the Indian Tax Laws dealing with centralized processing of quarterly TDS statements. The refund for the period after 1 April 2010 will be granted based on data furnished in the statements, subject to rectification of apparent inconsistencies, without the requirement of a separate claim for refund.
Heeding to Anna Hazare’s demands, Parliament today adopted a ‘Sense of the House’ on three key issues raised by him with regard to the Lokpal Bill with an aim of persuading him to end his 12-day hunger strike. The ‘Sense of the House’ was adopted with thumping of desks without any voting after an extraordinary debate in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha on the statement made by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on issues related to the Lokpal Bill.
Notification No. 43/2011 – Service Tax In the Service Tax Rules, 1994, in rule 7, – (a) in sub-rule (2), the proviso shall be omitted; (b) after sub-rule (2) as so amended, the following sub-rule shall be inserted, namely:- (3) Every assessee shall submit the half-yearly return electronically.
Cine max India Limited Vs Union Of India & Anr. (Gujarat High Court)- While upholding Sec.65[105][zzzz] of Finance Act, 1994 as amended by Sec.75[5][h] and Sec.76 of the Finance Act, 2010, we hold that the provision of Sec. 65[105][zzzz] introducing service tax is not attracted if
A notice under section 158BC cannot be equated with that of notice under section 148. A notice under section 158BC provides for a procedure to be adopted for block assessment under which, the Assessing Officer shall serve a notice requiring the assessee to furnish his return within such time not being less than 15 days but not more than 45 days as specified in the notice. Therefore, the time to be granted to the assessee in terms of section 158BC is a minimum of 15 days and a maximum of 45 days.
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in New Delhi has signed a DTAA with the India – Taipei Association in Taipei. Taiwan’s Ministry of Finance (MOF) on August 17 announced that Taiwan’s income tax agreement and protocol with India entered into force on August 12 and will apply to income derived from Taiwan on or after January 1, 2012, and to income derived from India on or after April 1, 2012. The agreement has been entered under section 90A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 wherein any “specified association” in India may enter into a DTAA with any “specified association” in a “specified territory” outside India. The Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in New Delhi and India – Taipei Association in Taipei have been notified as “specified associations” and “the territory in which the taxation law administered by the Ministry of Finance in Taipei is applied”, has been notified as the “specified territory” for the purpose of Section 90A.
Recently, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has released the Defaulters list and since then all of us including directors are getting much cautious to track the detail of defaulter companies and even directorship in other companies. In this regard we wish to bring in your kind knowledge that MCA has now introduced a welcome feature for the registered users of MCA21 to track not only the details of all the Companies in which a person is/was a director but also his designation, date of appointment /cessation and defaulting status of that company.
Download New ITR- 1 (Sahaj) for the Financial Year 2010-11 or Assessment year 2011-12 with Auto tax Calculation and Acknowledgement
Notification F. No. 275/05/2011- Income Tax CX.8A The existing practice of payment of court fee by the department, as appellant or as respondent, in the appeals filed before the Supreme Court, is that the respective field formation/directorate deposits it in a decentralized manner thorough the Central Agency Section (Supreme Court). However, the decentralized process of payment of court fee results in avoidable delays and thus causing delays in filing of appeals or the counters, as the case may be.
There’s a free Windows utility called BeCyPDFMetaEdit that can help you remove passwords from PDF files without making any other change to the document. (I am not sure why the developers picked such a complex name for this useful utility). Here’s what you need to do:1. Launch the program and it will ask your for the location of the PDF file.
