In the apex court litigants and lawyers have been paying a insignificant fee for filing appeals or vakalatnama for more than 40 years, but it may register a 20-fold boost as per a current proposal being examined by law minister Veerappa Moily.
With a new initiative, NSDL enhances Form 26AS viewing facility at internet banking account of PAN holder. For this purpose NSDL has already made the necessary arrangement with all banks under OLTAS. These banks would enable the link for Form 26AS at their Internet Banking pages.
In this process, NSDL will approve the organization to place a request for PAN registration. On such approval, the organization has to submit the list of employees for Form 26AS, along with their Valid PAN and Valid Email ID. Once NSDL receives such data, it will communicate to every employee over email and takes the confirmation for Form 26AS creation. On receipt of confirmation from Employee, NSDL will automatically create a login along with password and communicates it confidentially over the email. Employee has to login to such account with minimum days specified and activate the account.
Taxpayers who have registered to view Form 26AS online can view details of paid refund in their Form 26AS from F.Y. 2009-10 (A.Y. 2010-11) onwards. Refunds received during the selected A.Y. will be displayed in Form 26AS. For instance, refunds pertaining to A.Y. 2005-06 which are received in F.Y. 2009-10 (A.Y. 2010-11) will be displayed in Form 26AS for F.Y. 2009-10 (A.Y. 2010-11).
The Reserve Bank said it will soon come out with norms for banks to augment the capital requirements that the lenders have to keep aside against bad assets. “We will be issuing the circular (provisioning against NPAs) so you can then see details on that,” RBI deputy governor Usha Thorat told.
Mumbai: Revenue department has approved a proposal to levy a flat 1% charge on property registrations with immediate effect, doing away with the Rs30,000 ceiling. Revenue minister Narayan Rane lifted a stay on an earlier order of the government. The decision on the 1% property registration fee was taken by then revenue minister Patangrao Kadam early this year but was stayed ahead of elections.
States that have huge mineral and petroleum reserves, but are economically backward may face significant loss of tax revenues on implementation of goods and services tax (GST), according to economists and experts in public finance. Introduction of GST would lead to the abolition of central sales tax (CST), which is collected by state governments on inter-state sales of goods. The CST rate was reduced from 4% to 2% at the time of introducing value added tax (VAT) in 2005.
The Supreme Court today dismissed the Income Tax department’s (I-T) plea challenging the decision of the Authority of Advanced Rulings (AAR) that allowed French firm Timken France SAS to claim capital gains tax benefits.
The government said on Monday its serious fraud probe arm SFIO will start prosecution proceedings against Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju and others this month, as there was sufficient evidence of their involvement in the over Rs 10,000-crore (Rs 100-billion) scam in the IT firm.
The mutual funds advisory committee, which met on Friday, has recommended that asset management companies lower the fund management fee from the present level. Fund houses currently charge 1.25 per cent as asset management charges for the first Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) garnered by a scheme, and 1 per cent thereafter.
