Below is an extract of significant tax proposals by Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand States in their State Budget announced in March, 2011:
The CBI today informed the Supreme Court that telecom companies – Swan Telecom and Loop Telecom – were used as front companies by established telecom players to get 2G spectrum illegally during the tenure of former Telecom Minister A Raja. The agency, which filed a status report in a sealed envelope before a bench of Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly, said Raja will face charges of “cheating, forgery, and corruption”.
With the telecom sector becoming a potential security threat due to use of imported equipment, the government has proposed that service providers employ only Indian nationals in sensitive positions like Chief Technical Officer and Chief Information Security Officer.
The Telecom Ministry will take a final decision on 2G spectrum pricing and on those holding airwaves beyond contracted limit of 6.2 Mhz, based on recommendations of TRAI, within next three months before seeking Telecom Commission’s approval. “Decision on 2G spectrum pricing is expected in next 3 months. DoT internal committee is finalising it. After we get it we will send the same to Telecom Commission,” Department of Telecommunications (DoT) Secretary R Chandrasekhar told reporters here.
Major national cooperatives today demanded that they should be kept out of the proposed direct tax code and continued to be given income tax exemption. They sought early approval to the Constitutional Amendment Bill on cooperative that was tabled in Parliament two years back. “Cooperatives should be kept out of the direct tax code that is to be operationalised in 2012 and the income tax exemption that is being provided under section 80 B should be continued,” National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI) President Chandrapal Singh Yadav told reporters on the sidelines of the North Zone Cooperative Conference.
In a massive anti-graft exercise, Malaysian authorities today arrested two senior customs officers for alleged money laundering and corruption involving billions of dollars in uncollected taxes. The arrests came after a massive nationwide operation involving several government agencies.
The Supreme Court today allowed a two-day extension to the CBI to file on April 2 its charge sheet against former Telecom Minister A Raja and others in the 2G spectrum allocation case even as the agency said it was readying an 80,000-page document for submission.
After a long wait by the industry, the government is likely to sanction tomorrow additional Rs 7,000 crore for interest subsidy to the textile units for modernisation. The proposal is expected to come up before the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, sources said.
The Director Identification Number, which has to be obtained by all directors on the boards of listed as well as unlisted companies, will now be available online immediately as the government has simplified the process of getting DIN.
Management Accounting Research Foundation of ICWAI (ICWAI-MARF) has been appointed as an advisor to the Department of Post, Ministry of Communications and IT (DOP) and a MOU has been signed to that effect here today. This appointment as per the MOU will be in vogue for a period of 24 months during which ICWAI-MARF will constitute a team which will extend resource support of a major modernisation plan of DOP of its cost and management accounting practices.
