The section states that ESOPs issued free of cost or at concessional rates will be taxed on the date of exercise on the difference between the fair market value and the amount actually paid by the employee.
Several Category I and II Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) are registered with SEBI. With effect from Financial Year (FY) 2015-16, the tax ability of the income earned by AIFs is governed by a special tax regime as provided under Section 115UB of the Income tax Act, 1961 (the Act), which is summarized as follows:
Taxation of ESOPs creates an issue in the case of migrating employees, who move from one country to another, while performing services for the company during the period between the grant date and the allotment date of the ESOP.
Rule 6F of the Income-tax Rules, 1962 provides for books of accounts and other documents to be kept and maintained by persons carrying on certain professions. The proviso to Rule 6F(1) provides that this rule will not apply in relation to any previous year if the total gross receipts
Books are very important tools used by professionals to carry on their profession. Though expenditure on purchase of books is no doubt capital in nature, the books purchased by professionals’ have a very short shelf life of around a year or sometimes even less
Section 115U(2) read with Rule 12C requires that the person responsible for crediting or making payment of the income on behalf of a Venture Capital Company (VCC) or a Venture Capital Fund (VCF) and the VCC
An issue is under debate as to whether payments made by the Indian company to foreign company towards reimbursement of the salary costs of persons deputed to India would be treated as fees for technical services.
Even after due efforts taken by the Government to ensure compliance relating to filing of TDS returns by the deductors, the defaults on behalf of deductors continue for one or the other reason
Currently an assessee filing his income tax return needs to fill all the data manually wrt the taxes paid by him/ on his behalf (TDS) in excel utility. Since TDS returns are e-filed now days, an asseesee by manually punching the data relating to prepaid taxes like TDS is prone to committing errors.
The scope of filing return of income should be widened so as to include in its ambit the persons entering into the following transactions:
