General Anti-Avoidance Rules The GAAR (General Anti-Avoidance Rule) provisions have not been put on hold. The Finance Act, 2012 had provided that these provisions shall be effective from the 1st day of April, 2014 and apply to Assessment year 2014-15 onwards.
Information received from the Government of France has been analysed and investigations into the information have been undertaken by the different jurisdictional authorities under the Income-tax Act, 1961. Investigations in the matter are under progress including with the foreign tax authorities to obtain more information with regard to the reported account holders.
India and UK signed a Protocol amending the Convention between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect of Taxes on Income and Capital Gains (DTAC)
The Kelkar Committee has cautioned us that a business-as-usual scenario for the current year may lead to the fiscal deficit rising to 6.1 per cent of GDP. This would have grave consequences for the economy is, therefore, totally unacceptable. The Committee has recommended a number of reform measures in taxation, disinvestment and expenditure.
Committee recommended that the AS notified under the Act should be made applicable only to the computation of taxable income and a taxpayer would not be required to maintain books of account on the basis of AS notified under the Act. The Committee examined all the 31 AS issued by the ICAI and recommended notification of AS on 14 issues under the Act and formulated drafts of AS on these issues.
SAARC Secretariat, Katmandu, Nepal has conveyed that the Government of Nepal proposes to organize a four day Seminar on Tax Payer Services in Dhulikhel (about 30km. southeast from Kathmandu) during 27th-30th November, 2012.
Analysis of e-filed returns filed in the current Financial Year reveals that nearly 29,000 taxpayers, where committed tax payable was in excess of Rs.50,000, have defaulted on the payments aggregating to approximately Rs. 3,770 crores.
Subsequently vide notification dated September 1,2012 the Government modified the Terms of Reference of the Committee to include an additional item “to examine the applicability of the amendment on taxation of non-resident transfer of assets where the underlying asset is in India, in the context of all non-resident taxpayers”.
Expansion of asset classes which can be held in demat form – (i) There have been demands for dematerialization of assets/records other than securities, such as, Warehouse receipts, Fixed Deposits with banks and corporates, Insurance Policies, Investment products of Post Office, etc.
In terms of sub-rules (1) and (2) of Rule 7 of the Service Tax Rules, 1994, the half yearly return for the period 1st April to 30th September 2012, is to be filed by 25th October, 2012. In the current financial year , an assessee would have had to give data with respect to specific services and the corresponding legal provisions for the period 1-4-2012 to 30-6-2012.
