Circular : No. 490-Income Tax Certain companies have brought to the notice of the Board that various assessing/appellate authorities insist on the production of a certificate from the Board through the company in order to get exemptions under section 5(1)(xxa).
Circular : No. 20-Income Tax A suggestion has been made to the Board that, in the case of banks, the Income-tax Officer should give full deduction for all bad and doubtful debts actually written off in the books of the banks, without any questioning, since the banks are in a better position to decide whether any of their debts are realisable or not.
Circular : No. 19-Income Tax It has been represented to the Board that expenditure incurred by businessmen on advertisements in souvenirs by trade, commerce and industry should be allowed in full in the same manner as expenditure on advertisements in newspapers since the purpose of both kinds of advertisements is identical.
Circular No. 18-Income Tax The Board have received representations that even in cases where the disputed income-tax and wealth-tax demands, outstanding on the valuation date, are disallowed and such disallowances account for the shortfall of the returned wealth by more than 25 per cent of the assessed wealth, some Wealth-tax Officers have been levying penalty under section 18(1)(c).
Circular : No. 17-Income Tax Reference is invited to the clarifications contained in the Board’s Circular No. 3(WT), dated 27-7-1968 [printed here as Annex] regarding the liability to wealth-tax of the value of the annuities receivable on the annuity deposits made under the relevant provisions of the Income-tax Act.
Notification: S.O.2005 The following draft of certain rules further to amend the Income-tax Rules, 1962, which the Central Board of Direct Taxes proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by section 295 of the Income-tax Act, 1961
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 295 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Income-tax Rules, 1962, namely :—
Notification: S.O.2164 In pursuance of sub-clause (f) of clause (iii) of sub-section (3) of section 194A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby notifies the Agricultural Finance Corporation Limited, Stadium House, Block–2, 6th Floor, 81-83 Veer Nariman Road, Bombay–20, for the purposes of the said sub-clause
Notification: S.O.2128 In pursuance of sub-clause (f) of clause (iii) of sub-section (3) of section 194A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby notifies the National Textile Corporation Ltd., Room No. 283, Udyog Bhavan, New Delhi–11, for the purposes of the said sub-clause.
Notification: S.O.2127 In pursuance of sub-clause (f) of clause (iii) of sub-section (3) of section 194A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby notifies the Hindustan Machine Tools Ltd., P. O. HMT., Bangalore–31, for the purposes of the said sub-clause