The Income Tax department has slapped a Rs 135-crore demand notice on Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS couple Arvind and Tinu Joshi for alleged tax evasion. The department had conducted searches in Bhopal and other premises of the 1979-batch couple during the financial year 2009-10 and after scrutiny of their financial holdings and assets, a tax demand notice has been issued against them a few days back.
Capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India, SEBI, has launched India’s first Know Your Customer Registration Agency – KRA. SEBI’s Chairman, Mr. U.K. Sinha launched the service at Bombay Stock Exchange on Wednesday.
It has been reported in some sections of the press that the Central Processing Centre , Bangalore is sending notices for payment of taxes which are as small as Rs. 1/- , 4/- , 6/-, causing unnecessary hardship to assesses . It has been stated that when the refunds for amounts less than Rs. 100/- are not issued by the Income Tax Department, then the demand for less than Rs. 100/- should also not be collected .
With a view to mitigating the hardships being faced by such members whose names stand removed as on date due to non-payment of membership fee, the Council has decided to give them an opportunity by way of General Amnesty for restoration of their names retrospectively.
Stepping up its offensive against Indians whose names figured in secret LGT Bank accounts abroad, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has approached the Income Tax department to provide it with I-T returns and other financial statements of these entities. The Directorate, across various cities including Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad, has also recorded the statements of about 15 entities under the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).
Key features of NSDL Return Preparation Utility (RPU) version 2.7 Correction Statements: Mandatory to import consolidated file for validating the Correction statements. Incorporated FVU: FVU version 3.3 and FVU version 2.131 are incorporated. Higher deduction deductee record: For deductee records with valid deductee PAN where tax has been deducted, update is allowed on all fields of the deductee record, except for the column “Remarks (Reason for lower deduction/ no deduction/ higher deduction/ threshold)
The government will present the Union Budget for 2012-13 after March 9, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Wednesday. We are working on date. We will (present) the budget after (Assembly) election is over… The code of conduct will be operational till March 9, Mukherjee said. The government has postponed the budget in view of the Assembly elections in five states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur between January 30 and March 3.
Against the backdrop of high inflation, the implementation of levy on railway freight service has been put off once again. The levy is now likely to come into force from April 1 instead of January 1 as announced earlier. This is the sixth time that the levy on transport of goods by rail has been deferred. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the 2010-11 Union Budget brought transport of goods by railway under the service tax net from April 1, 2010.
Register of investments in any shares or securities not held in its own name, Registers of deposits, Register of charges, Register of members, Index to members, Register & Index of Beneficial Owners, Copies of Annual Return, Minutes books of Board Meetings & any other meetings, Minutes books of General Meetings, Proper books of account, Register of contracts, companies and firms in which directors are interested, Register of contracts entered into by the company for the appointment of Manager or Managing Director, Register of Director/Managing Director/Manager/Whole Time Director/Secretary
Ministry of Finance has clarified that although the rate of interest on small savings schemes will be aligned every year with rates of Government securities of similar maturity, with suitable spread, the rates are fixed and not floating so far as individual investments except PPF are concerned. This is in response to news items appearing in certain sections of the Press that the interest rates on small saving schemes, revised by the Government w.e.f. 1.12.2011, are floating rates, which will undergo change according to fluctuations in the yield on the Government securities.
