Black money: Income Tax dept may get to re-open returns beyond 6 years
Posted Date : 21-Feb-2012 , 08:30:41 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Government may grant the Income Tax department powers to re-open tax returns of beyond six years in specific cases of black money where "foreign assets" are involved. The I-T department needs these powers to pursue the ongoing cases where funds were found to be stashed abroad and these came to l...
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SC breather to banks on tax dispute
Posted Date : 21-Feb-2012 , 08:16:05 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Supreme Court has allowed the appeals of major banks in Kerala and dismissed the appeals by the Income Tax department in a dispute over the calculation of tax. The bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia has asked the tax authorities to compute tax according to the principles laid down in th...
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Parliamentary Panel to take up Companies Bill after report on DTC
Posted Date : 19-Feb-2012 , 07:14:55 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
A parliamentary panel will take up the Companies Bill 2011, which will replace the half-a- century old company law, after finalising the report on the Direct Taxes Code (DTC). "We first want to complete the report on DTC, after that we will take up the Companies Bill," a source said. The Parliam...
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BCCI owes Rs 373 cr in taxes for 2009-10: I-T dept
Posted Date : 19-Feb-2012 , 07:13:40 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Income Tax department has demanded over Rs 413 crore as tax from the world's richest cricket body, the BCCI as per its income assessment for the year 2009-10, of which only Rs 41 crore have been paid. This was revealed in response to an RTI query.
The department said BCCI used to get income t...
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Tax department seeks review of Supreme Court ruling in Vodafone case
Posted Date : 17-Feb-2012 , 06:49:32 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Union government filed a request on Friday for a review of a Supreme Court ruling dismissing a $2.2-billion tax bill imposed on British phone giant Vodafone.The Supreme Court ruled in January that Indian tax authorities "had no jurisdiction to tax Vodafone" over it...
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Search against Ponty Chadha still on: CBDT
Posted Date : 17-Feb-2012 , 08:35:50 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Faced with the growing suggestion that the income tax department's much-publicized "search and survey" operation against Ponty Chadha was actually a fizzle, the Central Board of Direct Taxes on Thursday claimed that the exercise with regard to the politically resourceful liquor baron was n...
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Parliamentary Panel to discuss DTC; may suggest hiking IT exemption limit
Posted Date : 16-Feb-2012 , 06:22:54 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
A Parliamentary panel will meet tomorrow to discuss the report on the Direct Taxes Code (DTC) Bill, understood to have favoured raising I-T exemption limit to Rs 3 lakh. "The Standing Committee on Finance will meet tomorrow to discuss the the full report on the DTC Bill," sources said. Last week...
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House panel pushes for taxpayer-friendly code
Posted Date : 16-Feb-2012 , 08:17:21 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The panel of Parliament examining the Direct Taxes Code (DTC) Bill has almost finalised its recommendations. It wants more taxpayer-friendly measures.
With the government expected to bring provisions in the coming Budget to change the rules that led to it losing in the tax dispute with Vo...
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Govenrment to Provide Citizen-Centric Governance in Order to Improve Taxpayer Services and Redressal of Public Grievances : FM
Posted Date : 15-Feb-2012 , 08:23:24 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee has said that initiative of the Government is to provide citizen-centric governance in order to improve taxpayer services and redressal of public grievances. The Finance Minister Shri Mukherjee said that to unearth the black money, the Government has ...
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Empanelment Form for Observers for the CA Exam to be held in May-2012 and the Common Proficiency Test to be held in June-2012
Posted Date : 13-Feb-2012 , 06:14:38 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR EMPANELMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTE TO ACT AS OBSERVERS IN THE CENTRES WHEREIN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS EXAMINATIONS ARE CONDUCTED.
The Institute intends to draw a Panel from amongst its Members for acting as Observer at the examination centres in variou...
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Rs 2,000 crore transactions under I-T scanner
Posted Date : 13-Feb-2012 , 08:59:01 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
In a major crackdown, the Income Tax department has under its scanner more than 22 crore instances of High Value transactions in the country and abroad which include unreported credit card operations and deals in real estate. The department has obtained, through its data mining and intelligence t...
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Budget 2012: Tax deduction on home loans may be raised to Rs 3 lakh
Posted Date : 13-Feb-2012 , 08:56:22 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
In a bid to boost housing sector credit, the government is contemplating to enhance income tax exemption for up to Rs 3 lakh paid as interest on housing loans in a year, from the existing limit of Rs 1.5 lakh.
The government is considering to raise the tax deduction limit for housing loan in the ...
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Budget 2012: House panel for raising income tax exemption limit to Rs 3 lakh
Posted Date : 10-Feb-2012 , 07:44:36 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
A key Parliamentary Committee will adopt tomorrow the crucial report on Direct Taxes Code (DTC) Bill and recommend raising the income tax exemption limit to Rs 3 lakh from Rs 1.8 lakh at present. The Standing Committee on Finance, headed by former Finance Minister and senior BJP leader Yashw...
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IT dept gets over 3000 complaints on e-refund, e-filing
Posted Date : 09-Feb-2012 , 09:35:49 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Income Tax (I-T) department has received a large number of complaints from the assesses in relation to e-refund and e-filing of income tax returns, which were launched in 2006. So far, the department received as many as 3,009 complaints through citizen's charter and 111 grievances were re...
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Collection of direct taxes grew 16%, slower than the required 35%
Posted Date : 08-Feb-2012 , 08:33:13 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
India's direct tax collection grew 16% in 10 months this fiscal, sharply lower than the 35% pace needed to meet the government's full-year projection. According to figures available with the income-tax department, direct tax receipts in the current fiscal to February 5 grew to 3.6 lakh crore, ag...
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Union Budget to be presented on March 16
Posted Date : 07-Feb-2012 , 02:41:37 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will unveil the Union Budget for 2012-13 on March 16 in the Lok Sabha. The budget session will begin on March 12 with President Pratibha Patil addressing the joint sitting of members of both the Houses of Parliament. While the rail budget will be presented...
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Budget 2012 likely to increase income tax exemption limit to Rs 2 lakh
Posted Date : 06-Feb-2012 , 07:49:36 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government is likely to provide some relief to individual income tax payers in the forthcoming Budget by raising the exemption limit to Rs 2 lakh, as provided in the Direct Taxes Code (DTC), and hiking the slabs for different tax brackets. The possibility of lowering the tax rates...
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PAN to be most potent tool against tax evasion: Income Tax Department
Posted Date : 06-Feb-2012 , 08:44:20 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Come next financial year, the PAN card is likely to become the most potent tool for the Income Tax Department to unearth black money, tax evasion and instances of criminal financing in the country. A recent directive of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to the I-T Dept has asked its offic...
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Pune youngster dupes income tax department of Rs2.13 cr
Posted Date : 05-Feb-2012 , 07:42:32 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Swargate police have booked a person who allegedly duped the income tax (IT) department ofSwargate office to the tune Rs2.13 crore after stealing their cheque book and forging the signature of an IT officer, from March 11 to June 26, 2011.
Interestingly, the suspect, Giris...
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Nearly 8,500 income tax officers on protest; HNIs and corporates enjoy breather
Posted Date : 04-Feb-2012 , 07:29:05 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
For some time, well-heeled individuals and corporates may not lose sleep over fears of tax sleuths knocking on their doors. Close to 8,500 gazetted income tax employees in the rank of I-T officers (ITOs), assistant commissioners and administrative officers have gone on a nationwide agitation....
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Mahindra Satyam gets attachment order from Income Tax Department
Posted Date : 03-Feb-2012 , 03:53:18 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Mahindra Satyam today said it has received a provisional attachment order from the Income Tax Department attaching land and buildings of the company. "The company had received a provisional attachment order dated January 30, 2012, from the Additional Commissioner of Income Tax (ACIT), Centra...
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Laxman Das takes over as new CBDT chairman
Posted Date : 03-Feb-2012 , 08:20:58 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Laxman Das took over as the new chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on Wednesday. The former chairman of the CBDT, M C Joshi, retired yesterday. Das, who belongs to the 1974 batch of the Indian Revenue Services (IRS), was e...
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Finance Ministry putting pressure on taxmen to meet revenue targets
Posted Date : 03-Feb-2012 , 08:19:17 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Faced with a formidable task of collecting Rs 9.32 lakh crore taxes during the fiscal ending March 31, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said that he is exerting pressure on revenue officials to improve realisation.
"I am putting pressure on my colleagues in the CBEC, CBDT ...and on my...
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Ex Addil Commissioner of Income Tax sent to jail for 4 yrs
Posted Date : 02-Feb-2012 , 08:21:04 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
A former Additional Commissioner of Income Tax, arrested by CBI for demanding Rs one lakh as bribe for clearing a tax return matter, has been sentenced to four years in jail by a Delhi court. Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh also imposed a fine of Rs four lakh on convict H A Siddiqui in the gr...
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I-T Dept searches premises of liquor baron Ponty Chadha in UP, Delhi
Posted Date : 01-Feb-2012 , 03:12:16 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Income Tax Department on Wednesday conducted searches at the premises of prominent Uttar Pradesh-based liquor baron and businessman Ponty Chadha, in the state and at a few locations in Delhi.
The searches, which began early this morning, were conducted at more than 10 premises of the bus...
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Now, Vodafone takes on I-T dept over transfer pricing
Posted Date : 01-Feb-2012 , 08:35:32 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Encouraged by the recent Supreme Court order in its favour, Vodafone Plc is taking on the income tax department, yet again.
The British telecom major yesterday moved the dispute resolution panel, seeking relief from an order sent by the I-T department in December. The draft transfer ...
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RBI to issue 500 note with rupee symbol
Posted Date : 31-Jan-2012 , 05:46:52 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Reserve Bank of India, RBI will soon issue 500 rupees denomination bank-notes incorporating new rupee symbol without inset letter.According to the RBI release, the new notes will bear the signature of RBI Governor D Subbaro and the year of printing 2011 printed on the back of the bank note.The d...
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Record errors: Taxpayers face harassment, tax demand
Posted Date : 31-Jan-2012 , 07:47:24 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Despite settling his income tax (I-T) demand and getting a refund against it for the assessment year 2003-04, Delhi’s GD Saraswat (name changed) received another fresh tax notice of Rs 96,286 the following year. After resolving it as well, he received yet another notice in December 2011 for ...
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Vodafone effect: Taxmen to seek Supreme Court advice on foreign bank accounts of Indians
Posted Date : 30-Jan-2012 , 08:27:05 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Tax authorities and the finance ministry are contemplating moving the Supreme Court to figure out how they should go about handling information on undisclosed offshore bank accounts of Indians. With the tax office receiving information on thousands of such accounts, the government is in favour of...
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Direct Tax Code set for debut only in 2013
Posted Date : 29-Jan-2012 , 07:50:07 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The bill, which seeks to replace the archaic Income Tax Act, 1961, was tabled in Parliament way back in 2010 and has already missed two deadlines. The bill aims at reducing tax rates by expanding the tax base and minimising exemptions.“We will be able to submit our report only by the budget se...
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