CAG pulls up IT Dept for non-recovery of 4500 cr tax dues
Posted Date : 18-Dec-2011 , 07:44:13 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has pulled up the Income Tax Department for not recovering tax arrears worth over 4,500 crore rupees from various entities in past one year.In its latest report tabled in Parliament, the government auditor has said that over one lakh and fifty thousand ca...
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Tax dept has unearthed $12.3 bn black money: Pranab
Posted Date : 15-Dec-2011 , 08:33:09 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday told Parliament that the tax authorities had unearthed Rs 660 billion of unaccounted money as part of the government's efforts to curb tax evasion.
Mukherjee was replying to a debate on black money in the Lok Sabha.
He further said that the go...
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Black Money: Finance Ministry to ask tax havens for past banking info
Posted Date : 14-Dec-2011 , 07:50:26 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Broadening its probe in overseas black money cases, the Finance Ministry has decided to write to tax havens and other countries to obtain past information of banking-related transactions in select cases. Top sources said that the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has obtained data of a number...
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Central Board of Direct Taxes raises questions on CAG
Posted Date : 13-Dec-2011 , 07:40:54 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Tax authorities have informed a parliamentary panel that the concept of "presumptive loss" that the national auditor used to calculate the 2G spectrum losses at Rs 1.76 lakh crore does not appear in any statutory provision of the income-tax laws. Further, the field offices of the Income-Tax Depar...
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Govt. to discuss Lokpal Bill tomorrow
Posted Date : 12-Dec-2011 , 10:12:02 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Government will hold discussions with its alliance partners on the Lokpal Bill on Tuesday ahead of tabling the Bill in Parliament. While the government says it is committed to pass the Bill in the current session to deal with corruption effectively, opposition is in favour of bringing Prime Minister...
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CBDT, DRI & ED told to probe exports to tax havens Bahamas & Cyprus
Posted Date : 12-Dec-2011 , 07:40:27 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The finance ministry has asked three of its investigating arms to probe all exports to tax havens Bahamas and Cyprus, an official in the ministry told ET on the condition of anonymity. The ministry is concerned about the sudden surge in exports to the tax havens and has asked the agencies to asce...
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Over 30,000 pieces of info on black money under I-T scanner
Posted Date : 11-Dec-2011 , 10:20:50 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
More than 30,000 pieces of information about black money in India have come under the scanner of the Income Tax Department. The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), under the Finance Ministry, has gathered voluminous data on suspicious transactions, the department informed a global OECD confere...
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I-T Dept invites fresh bids for Manesar, Pune CPCs
Posted Date : 11-Dec-2011 , 06:39:14 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Income Tax Department has invited fresh bid for setting up centralised processing centres (CPCs) for bulk processing of I-T returns at Manesar and Pune, as the earlier tender received no interest.
Two new CPCs, announced in the Budget 2011-12, were supposed to become operational by May. Another...
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Posted Date : 10-Dec-2011 , 08:12:59 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Government has said that the proposed Companies Bill will update the Company Law in line with the best global practices. Addressing a seminar in New Delhi Minister of State for Corporate Affairs, Mr. R. P. N. Singh said once an Act, the Bill would introduce new ideas such as corporate social res...
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4TH Global Conference on
Posted Date : 09-Dec-2011 , 08:38:42 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
India successfully hosted the three day 4th International Tax Dialogue Conference on “Tax and Inequality”. The conference was inaugurated by the Finance Minister of India Mr Pranab Mukherjee on 7th December. More than 400 senior tax policymakers and administrators from almost 90 countrie...
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Rs 68,994 cr paid as I-T refunds till Nov this year: Govt
Posted Date : 09-Dec-2011 , 08:36:59 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government today said it paid Rs 68,994 crore as income tax refunds till November this fiscal as compared to Rs 75,160 crore for the entire 2010-11. In a written reply to Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Finance S S Palanimanickam also said the number of refund claims pending as on October 1...
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Air India, Kingfisher Airlines accounts frozen by service tax dept for non-payment of dues
Posted Date : 09-Dec-2011 , 08:16:41 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The service tax department has frozen the bank accounts of Air India and Kingfisher Airlines for non-payment of dues. This shows the extent of cash crunch the aviation industry is facing, making defaults in payment almost routine. While the state-run carrier has dues of Rs 170 crore, the Vijay ...
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Indian among top 3 countries fighting tax evasion
Posted Date : 09-Dec-2011 , 08:09:27 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The UPA might be getting flak over black money from the Opposition, but the global community ranks India amongst the top three countries fighting to get tax evaders to book.
Global Forum on Tax Transparency Head Pascal Saint Amans said, "They (global Community) pretend they are bringing transpare...
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e-Filing in F.Y 2011-12: Quick Statistics (as on 30th November 2011)
Posted Date : 08-Dec-2011 , 04:49:53 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
QUICK HIGHLIGHTS OF E-FILING IN F.Y. 2011-12 (UPTO 30/11/2011)
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Google India gets Income-Tax Dept notice for not revealing correct revenues
Posted Date : 08-Dec-2011 , 08:27:47 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Around the same time Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal was planning to pull up Google, the Income-Tax Department was giving the final touches to a tax demand on the Indian arm of the global search engine company. Google India Pvt Ltd, according to the tax office, has not offered its entire income for ...
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Tax and Inequality- A Central Concern for Effective Governance
Posted Date : 08-Dec-2011 , 08:09:38 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has said that it is desirable to have a periodic international dialogue on economic concerns that affects lives in all our countries. He was inaugurating the 4th International Tax Dialogue Global Conference on “Tax and Inequa...
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Direct tax code to come into force in April 2012: Pranab Mukherjee
Posted Date : 07-Dec-2011 , 01:24:45 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday expressed the hope that the Direct Taxes Code ( DTC), which seeks to modernise tax laws in the country, will come into force from April 1, 2012. "The proposed Direct Taxes Code brings together the policy initiatives on direct taxes. It is slated to c...
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I-T dept has no record of tax collections for 2 months
Posted Date : 07-Dec-2011 , 08:36:28 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Income Tax (I-T) department has no record of its performance over the last two months. This is because of the ongoing nationwide agitation by I-T officials - from the level of income tax officer (ITO) to assistant commissioner of income tax (ACIT)/ deputy commissioner of income tax (DCIT).
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Black money: FinMin panel gets over 3,000 responses
Posted Date : 07-Dec-2011 , 08:32:35 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The high-level Finance Ministry committee on curbing the menace of blackmoney has received more than 3,000 comments from general public suggesting ways to curb the generation of illicit funds.
The committee, headed by Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), has received close to 3,3...
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Kapil Sibal vows to stop offensive content on Facebook, Twitter & Google
Posted Date : 06-Dec-2011 , 09:10:32 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday vowed to stop offensive and defamatory content on internet sites as a controversy raged over government's move to monitor content in cyber space. Maintaining that the government does not want to interfere with the freedom of the press, he said if the socia...
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IRS officer, CA wife under scanner over Rs 57 lakh assets case
Posted Date : 06-Dec-2011 , 08:04:38 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The dangers of clubbing incomes of husband-wife came to the fore in the Damle's case, but aside from that it may have unveiled their method of laundering black money.
A Delhi court has decided to put an IRS officer on trial along with h...
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CBDT Clarification Regarding Information Received Under the DTAA With Germany
Posted Date : 05-Dec-2011 , 10:02:52 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
It has been reported in some sections of the press that the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has shared details of 18 individuals found to have stashed illegal funds abroad in LGT bank accounts. In this connection, it is clarified that the CBDT has not shared any information received under ...
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India to Host Fourth International Tax Dialogue Conference
Posted Date : 05-Dec-2011 , 10:00:06 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
India is hosting the 4th International Tax Dialogue Conference (ITD) Global Conference on Tax and Inequality. More than 250 foreign delegates are expected to take part in this three day conference being held at Vigyan Bhawan from 7th to 9th December. The conference would be inaugurated by the Union ...
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Ministry steps in to reduce transfer pricing disputes
Posted Date : 05-Dec-2011 , 08:34:20 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
After the hue and cry by corporate India over huge transfer pricing orders slapped by the tax department running into thousands of crores, the government has stepped in with a key reform. The finance ministry has directed the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to put in place a framework for an ...
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IT officials to go on nationwide strike
Posted Date : 04-Dec-2011 , 09:11:12 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Over 8,000 income tax officials in the country including 1,000 from Mumbai will go on an indefinite strike from Monday against the pending promotions of officials from the rank of income tax officer (ITO) up to the rank of assistant commissioner of income tax (ACIT)/deputy commissioner of income&n...
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Companies worried about transfer pricing, says KPMG survey
Posted Date : 02-Dec-2011 , 08:38:38 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
India's bureaucratic tax system, more than tax rate, impacts investment decisions by foreign companies planning to set shop in the country. Unclear tax policies coupled with lengthy filing processes have made the country's tax regime moderately conducive for business, according to a survey conduc...
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Govt hopeful of House panel report on DTC in winter session
Posted Date : 02-Dec-2011 , 08:36:52 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Government expects that the Parliamentary standing committee report on the Direct Tax Code (DTC) will be presented during the ongoing winter session to enable implementing tax reforms by April next, a senior Finance Ministry official said today. "Right now, the Bill is before the standing commit...
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ICAI to sign deal with New Zealand body
Posted Date : 02-Dec-2011 , 08:35:35 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The CA institute plans to ink a mutual recognition agreement (MRA) with the New Zealand Institute ofChartered Accountants (NZICA) in January next year.
“We are in the final stages. The agreement may be signed during an ...
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Panel on curbing black money gets 2-month extension
Posted Date : 02-Dec-2011 , 08:29:13 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government has given a two-month extension to the term of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) committee that is examining ways to strengthen laws to curb the generation of black money in the country, its illegal transfer abroad and its recovery.
The panel was originally given tim...
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Vodafone broke FDI cap in Hutch deal, breach continues, says CBDT
Posted Date : 01-Dec-2011 , 07:52:30 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
A new controversy is set to cloud the telecom sector and queer the pitch for Vodafone in the R11,000 crore tax appeal before the Supreme Court. According to a note prepared by the Central Board of Direct Tax for the Foreign Investment Promotion Board, which has the approval of the finance secreta...
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