It is an ideal feature of any good taxation system that in export transactions only goods or services should be exported and not the taxes embedded in it. Keeping with this principle, the government has been time and again providing incentives to exp
Come December, and all the nagging income tax refund worries will be over. The I-T department would be crediting the refunds directly to tax payers' SBI accounts. "Tax payers need not come to Aikar Bhawan to persue their refunds. It will be electroni
What is this subprime effect?By - Ashutosh M Wakhare If you are the kind who follows the business press and news channels very closely, then chances are that, in the last one week, you would have heard stock market experts blaming US subprime default
The cess on large retail players may not come through at all. The finance ministry is unlikely to endorse a proposal made by the department of industrial policy & promotion (DIPP) to levy a cess on organised retail to create a fund that would finance
The Finance Ministry on Monday made the first ever move to refund service tax paid by exporters on non-input services. The refund will now be available on four identified transport and port services that could be linked to export goods. Services offe
The Commerce Ministry is working on an alternative Duty Entitlement Pass Book (DEPB) scheme. "It is in the final stage," Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr Kamal Nath, said but refused to elaborate.Responding to queries after inaugurating t
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has discovered new hubs to bolster the tax kitty at this time at the grassroots. The CBDT has spotted Panchayats in states such as Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh as the potential tax p
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HOUSING SOCIETIES in the city that disputed the applicability of income tax on transfer fees - collected by a society when a flat is sold by a member - may have to pay up. The Income-Tax (I-T) Department has begun issuing notices to such housing soci
MUMBAI: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has initiated 'adjudication proceedings' against 20 companies for not complying with the Clause 49 provision of the listing agreement pertaining to corporate governance. Such action would invo