Allahabad Bank Syndicate Bank United Bank of India Vijaya Bank, Bangalore State Bank of India State Bank Of Bikaner & Jaipur State Bank of Hyderabad State Bank of Indore 1. M/s N Chaudhuri & Co, Kolkata 2. M/s Rasool Singal & Co., New Delhi 3. M/s Dass Gupta & Associates, New Delhi 4. M/s K.S. Bothra & Co., Kolkata 5. M/s Venkat & Rangaa, Chennai 6. M/s Anand Rungta & Co., Patna
Income generated from the business of stock-lending and sale-repurchase of shares by a borrower will be taxable. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has exempted stock lending/borrowing from the purview of securities transaction tax (STT) and capital gains tax Borrowers will make some payment to lenders of shares by way of interest or fees that will be income in the hands of the lender While selling the shares, borrower will not be paying any tax as the gain from such sale is not known.
Following are the highlights of Railway Budget 2008-09 presented by the Railways Minister, Mr Lalu Prasad, in Parliament on Tuesday.· Second-class Sleeper fares cut by 5%. · AC-1 fare cut by 7%. · AC-2 fare cut by 4%. ·AC-3 fare cut by 3%.
According to income tax officials, Section 55(2) of the I-T Act estimates the cost of right to carry on any business as nil. However, non-compete compensation received by a person carrying on a reputed business is not explicitly covered in the clause right to carry on any business and is claimed as capital receipt. The department has favoured an amendment to Section 28 of the I-T Act to exclude such compensation from the list of capital transactions. The non-compete fee is shown as capital receipt and thus gets exemption.
Income tax relief could be in store for US-bound students with New Delhi planning to seek changes in the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement. Indian students have to pay an income tax on earnings from part-time jobs. This is because the India-US tax treaty provides for treatment of Indian students on a par with US nationals without giving a special tax relief.
The Government is not bound under the Right to Information law to divulge details about its Income Tax scrutiny policy, used to identify tax payees before subjecting them to detailed investigation. The Central Information Commission held this while accepting the Finance Ministry’s view that revealing information related to the scrutiny guidelines would adversely affect economic interests of the country.
Government has issued Notification No. 3/2008-ST, dated 19.02.2008, extending the scheme to refund service tax paid by exporters on taxable services, which are not in the nature of “input services” but could be linked to export of goods, to following three more taxable services: (i) Services provided by the Goods Transport Agency in relation to transportation of export goods from the place of removal to the actual place of export i.e. inland container depot / port / airport. (Section 65[105][zzp] ),
All tax deductors / collectors are required to file the TDS/TCS returns in Form No.24Q (for salaries), Form No.26Q (for payments other than salaries) or Form No.27EQ (for TCS). These forms require details of all tax deductions with name and permanent account number (PAN) of parties from whom tax was deducted. It had earlier been decided that Form No.24Q with less than 90% of PAN data and Form No.26Q & Form No.27EQ with less than 70% of PAN data will not be accepted for the quarter ending on 30.09.2007 and thereafter.
The Income Tax Department has extended the last date for filing of tax returns for Tax Deducted/Collection at source for the second quarter of this fiscal to February 29. This measure is likely to provide a major relief to the employers, who could not submit their returns due to delay in clarification on employees stock options or other reasons.
The Income Tax Department is gearing up to use identity-search technology to manage the swelling data base of taxpayers, a move that will make tax evasion difficult and bring to book habitual defaulters. In order to effectively manage the database of taxpayers, the Director General of Income Tax (Investigation) has invited bids from companies for developing a software, which can undertake identity search of taxpayers across the country.
