Under the scheme of deduction of tax at source as provided in the Income-tax Act, every person responsible for payment of any specified sum to any person is required to deduct tax at source at the prescribed rate and deposit it with the Central Government within the specified time. However, no deduction is required to be made if the payments do not exceed prescribed threshold limits.
Income up to Rs 1.6 lakh – nil. Income above Rs 1.6 lakh and up to Rs 5 lakh – 10 per cent. Income above Rs 5 lakh and up to Rs 8 lakh – 20 per cent. Income above Rs 8 lakh – 30 per cent
The Finance Minister proposed to extend the concessional export finance regime for select exporters for one more year till March 31, 2011, thus giving the slowdown-hit sector further relief. “I propose to extend the interest subvention of 2 per cent for one more year for exports covering handicrafts, carpets, hand-looms and small and medium enterprises (SMEs),” Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said while presenting Budget for 2010-11.
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today said he would introduce major reforms for indirect taxes in the form of Goods and Services Tax (GST) from April 1 next year. The government was earlier scheduled to introduce GST by April 1 this year.
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In its petition, the income tax department said the ITAT has wrongly deleted the penalty imposed by it on Nokia India for allegedly wrongly declaring its income. The government on Wednesday approached the Delhi high court challenging an order of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) that gave relief to mobile phone maker giant Nokia in a case of alleged tax evasion.
Rewriting the law to clearly empower high courts to condone a delay in filing tax appeals or applications has been recommended by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT); it wants this to apply with retrospective effect, too. The amendment, official sources said, is expected to be proposed in the Union Budget.
The government is set to introduce Bills to amend existing laws governing chartered accountants, cost accountants and company secretaries in the current Budget session, a senior government official said. The proposed amendments will allow registration of large size consultancy firms in India.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has reinstated the tax deduction at source (TDS) rules/ forms that were earlier discontinued with effect from April 1, 2009. This latest move, which would come into effect retrospectively from April 1, 2009, clearly indicates that the Income-Tax Department is not looking to implement the concept of unique transaction numbers (UTN) for sometime to come, say tax experts. In March 2009, the CBDT had stipulated that assesses filing return for assessment year 2009-10 or any other earlier assessment years should provide the UTN.
Economy posted a remarkable recovery expected to grow at 7.2 per cent in 2009-10 against 6.7 per cent in 2008-09. Survey hopes the Indian GDP can be expected to grow around 8.5+/- 0.25 per cent, with a full recovery, breaching the 9 per cent mark in 2011-12.
