Income Tax department on 16.05.2011 releases downloadable Online Income Tax Return Preparation / Filing Software- ITR-3 Applicable to Individual and HUF who are Partner in a Partnership firm and not having any other business Income except from the Interest and Remuneration from Partnership. You can download the same from the link given below. Before filing do read Instructions for filling out New Income Tax Return Form ITR-3 for assessment year 2011-2012. Those who do not wish to file online Return can use the manual excel form.
Giving relief to 4.71 crore subscribers of EPFO, the government has allowed tax exemption on the 9.5% interest income on PF deposits for 2010-11. The finance ministry notification last week raises the income tax exemption to 9.5% interest income from 8.5%. The decision clears the air for the EPFO subscribers who were given increased interest rate by one percentage point for 2010-11, but the finance ministry had not matched the interest hike with a commensurate tax exemption.
The Income Tax Department (ITD) today said that it had issued notices to former Sebi chairman C B Bhave to furnish information in support of his return filed for the 2009-10 assessment year. The ITD has also initiated enquiry against two serving members of the Security and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), said a CBDT release.
The Supreme Court today pulled up the Income Tax department for not taking timely action against the companies involved in the 2G spectrum scam and said had it not intervened, the officials would have “slept over it” and the oversees probe would not have proceeded.
Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee has welcomed the substantial decline in core inflation from 9.19 per cent in March 2011 to 7.97 per cent, along with drop in inflation for food articles from 9.47 per cent in March to 8.71 per cent in April 2011. Beside it, the Finance Minister said that there is decline in year-on-year overall inflation to 8.66 per cent from 9.04 per cent in March 2011.
Our requirement of office space is around 9.72 lacs sq mtrs, while the space available is only 6.67 lac sq mtrs. We are in possession of around 1.32 lac sq mtrs of vacant land, nearly 90 % of which was acquired over 5 years ago & 52 % more than 10 years back. Construction proposals on such lands are either under process or are yet to be received.
Prodding mutual funds to act as conscience-keeper of listed firms, Sebi has asked them to inform the investors on an urgent basis about their support or opposition to various business decisions of the companies. The market watchdog is of the view that the fear of a possible opposition by institutional investors like mutual funds being made public would force the companies to follow best corporate governance practises in their businesses.
Sebi has allowed brokers an uninterrupted access to their clients’ accounts by seeking one time authorisation, reversing its earlier direction of such a requirement every year. Sebi has agreed to drop the requirement of stock brokers seeking ‘running account authorisation’ from their clients at least once a year — which was made mandatory in December 2009 — after repeated requests from brokerages in this regard.
The government has signed a USD 150 million loan agreement with the World Bank to push e-governance initiatives by filling in strategic policy gaps. This loan will support critical policy measures within Government”s overall e-Governance reform agenda leading to more robust implementation of NeGP, with significant social benefits for the population and positive impact on the poor, Additional Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Shankar Aggarwal said in a statement.
Skoda India has agreed before the Supreme Court to pay within four weeks Rs 30 crore to the Customs Department as pre-deposit money for initiating adjudication before the tax tribunal where it has challenged the imposition of duty of Rs 194 crore. A bench comprising justices D K Jain and H L Dattu admitted the request made by the subsidiary of the Czech auto giant Skoda and granted four weeks to the company to make the payment.
