Now it’s the government’s turn to cash in on the stock market boom. The finance ministry is considering raising the rate at which securities transaction tax (STT) is levied. One of the options is to increase the ceiling rate to 0.5% of the value of the taxable securities transactions. At present, it is levied at rates of 0.017- 0.25% on every transaction on domestic bourses.
Has your income-tax return been picked up for scrutiny by the income-tax department? You may not get to know the reason. The department is against bringing scrutiny under the purview of the Right To Information (RTI) Act. This means an assessee will not have the right under the RTI Act to ascertain as why his case was selected for scrutiny by the department.
The Income Tax Department is planning to extend the Refund Banker Scheme to the entire country as a move aimed at expediting refund of excess tax. The scheme, launched in Delhi and Patna in March this year, was later extended to Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and Mumbai. It will now be extended to the entire country for the non-corporate category of taxpayers. This will facilitate quick and correct issue of refunds, an income tax official said.
The Central Board of Direct taxes have extended the last date of filing of income tax /fringe benefit tax returns due by 31st October 2007 as follows:- For electronic returns (companies, and firms requiring tax audit u/s 44AB) to 15th November 2007; and For paper returns (other than those required to file electronic returns) to 2nd November 2007. It is further clarified that the dates for obtaining tax audit report under section 44AB of the Income Tax Act have also been extended accordingly.
The taxman may have to consider naming some top ten stock exchanges around the world as ‘recognised stock exchanges’ for the purpose of Rule 40C, suggest Mr Sanjiv Agrawal and Mr Amitabh Singh, Partners, Ernst & Young, commenting on the new income-tax rule on thevaluation of ESOPs (employee stock options) for the purpose of FBT (fringe benefit tax).
New Delhi, Oct 25 The Government has approved easing of labour laws to exempt establishments employing up to 40 workers from maintaining mandatory registers and submitting returns.The Government proposes to introduce a simplified form, which will give relief to employers of such establishments, who are currently required to maintain registers and submit returns under various labour laws, the Information and Broadcasting Minister, Mr Priyaranjan Dasmunsi, told presspersons after a Cabinet meeting here.
M Damodaran, Chairman, Sebi, while addressing the new policy on P-notes said that this is not a board meeting to decide on a single issue. He said the stock exchanges would be mandated to onstitute a committee chaired by a non-executive member of a concerned exchange to focus on surveillance. This, he feels, would make the market a safer place for investors.He was speaking to mediapersons after the Sebi board meet today. The meet also saw new policy announcements like clearing of Sebi’s proposal to have an SME exchange.
Corporates houses, banks and financial institutions have got just 18 months to begin the changeover to a new set of transparency, inducing accounting standards that will have a major impact on their financial statements. The new norms to classify, value and disclose the complex financial instruments they trade in is expected to change the way exposure to many instruments are reported now, besides capturing many unreported exposures. Accounting standard setter the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) last Friday decided to introduce the new standards —recognition and measurement of financial instruments — from April 1, 2009.
The Finance Ministry has passed on certain powers of an income-tax assessing officer to the tax recovery officer (TRO) in the I-T department. A TRO has been given power to rectify the mistakes apparent from the face of record regarding tax demanded from a taxpayer, official sources said. Hitherto, a TRO could not exercise any […]
As you are kindly aware, the Central Board of Direct taxes came out with the new series of Income-tax return forms. The ICAI constituted a study group to analyze the same. Several suggestions, collected from all over the country and duly analysed were submitted to the CBDT. The CBDT accepted most of the suggestions of […]
