Life Insurance Corporation of India will file its maiden health insurance product with the insurance regulator by next month. The product will be a long-term policy and have a savings element, said Mr D.D. Singh, Executive Director (Health), LIC. It will have a unit-linked component and be issued as a family floater policy.
Data from service tax department and state value-added tax (VAT) departments may now come handy for the I-T sleuths to catch those evading taxes. Traders have to register with the state VAT departments once their annual turnover crosses Rs 5 lakh. Similarly, service providers register themselves once they reach Rs 7 lakh in annual turnover. […]
The Supreme Court ruled that injured persons must receive immediate first aid and stabilization at hospitals before payment or police formalities are required.
All tax deductors / collectors are required to file the TDS / TCS returns in Form No.24Q (for tax deducted from salaries), Form No.26Q (for tax deducted from payments other than salaries) or Form No.27EQ (for tax collected at source). These forms require details of all tax deductions with name and permanent account number (PAN) of parties from whom tax was deducted.
How is the FBT to be valued? And when is the tax payable? The fringe benefit is to be valued at the fair market value (FMV) of the security or sweat equity share on the date of vesting of the option minus any amount paid by / recovered from the employee for such security or shares. The FMV is to be determined a s per the method to be prescribed by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). The employer company is required to pay advance tax of estimated FBT progressively: 15 per cent by June 15, 45 per cent by September 15, 75 per cent by December 15 and 100 per cent by March 15 of the fiscal year.
Return of Income Tax [with/without FBT Return]: 1. Person not required to be audited – 31st July. 2. Person required to be audited – 31st October. Payment of Advance Taxes of Income Tax – Individual/Firms: * 1st Payment of 30% – 15th September. * 2nd Payment of 60% – 15th December. * 3rd Payment of 100% – 15th March.
ITD has notified revised file formats for preparation of TDS and TCS returns in electronic form. Deductors/collectors can prepare the e-TDS/TCS returns as per these file formats using in-house software or any other third party software and submit the same to any of the TIN-FCs established by NSDL. Deductors/collectors can also directly upload the e-TDS/TCS returns through NSDL-TIN website. NSDL has developed software called e-TDS/TCS Return Preparation Utility (RPU) to facilitate preparation of e-TDS/ TCS returns. This is a freely downloadable MS excel based utility. Separate utilities are available for preparation of each type of return.
Income Tax Department has notified the file format (data structure) for preparation of Annual Information Returns. Filers can prepare the AIR as per the file format using in-house software or any other third party software or the return preparation utility developed by NSDL (AIR RPU) and submit the same to any of the TIN-FCs established by NSDL or directly upload through the NSDL-TIN website.
In MICR technology the information is printed on the instrument with a special type of ink which is made up of magnetic material. On insertion of the instrument in the machine, the printed information is read by the machine. MICR system is beneficial as it minimizes chances of error, clearing of cheques becomes easy and transfer of funds becomes faster in order to facilitate operations. For details of MICR branch codes please click on the link below.
As against 6000 surveys conducted u/s 133A in 2004-05 the Department has closely followed the data coming from all the scheduled banks and zeroed in on potential cases and organised 7400 surveys in 2005-06 and detected undisclosed income to the tune of Rs 2300 Crore. Last fiscal it was only 6200 Surveys but detected Rs 2600 Cr undisclosed income. With the Board putting additional officers at the disposal of CCITs for monitoring BCTT, the monthly mop-up which used to average about Rs 36 Cr in 2005-06 has gone up to Rs 46 Cr last fiscal. In fact, the current fiscal opened the account with a collection of Rs 60 Cr in April. Last year BCTT collections were Rs 535 Crore.
