The minimum sum insured has gone up more than three times.
The deadline for compliance expired in December, 2005. Though new accounts are KYC-compliant, getting the old ones up to date is expected to take two or three years.
The income tax department is planning to withdraw a facility introduced last year for filing tax returns at around 2,000 post offices, owing to incomplete and inaccurate returns. Nearly 350,000 returns were filed through post offices last year.
After the Centre, the states have joined the fight against inflation. Later this month, they will discuss a proposal to exempt rice, wheat and pulses from value added tax.
Will have to pay 12% tax besides 3% education cess.
Finance ministry backs chairman, may remove five govt-nominated independent directors
The ministry has sought information on posts for which regular recruitment is made; expected parameters for the said posts; subjects for tests; and training modules.
Besides Deepak Parekh, who heads financial institution HDFC, other committee members include key representatives of major banks and infrastructure finance institutions.
The government has exempted from service tax all services to foreign diplomatic missions and consular posts in India of official use.
In a sign that people are paying additional tax demanded by the government, the income-tax authorities collected Rs 90,500 crore (Rs 905 billion) under this head during 1996-2005.
The online tax payment feature will be extended to all credit cards directly through the website www.incom-etaxindia.gov.in
Public sector entities Life Insurance Corporation, UTI AMC, State Bank of India and Punjab National Bank are among the front-runners to become pension fund managers under the new pension system.
Jaipur's corporate tax collection shot up to 158 per cent. In comparison, tax collections for the whole country grew 44.7 per cent during the year.
The moves will reduce the administrative burden of the department, banks and taxpayers.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has offered technical information for drafting the rules for valuing employee stock options for calculating the fringe benefit tax.
Annual terrorism risk cover rates will drop 19 to 16 per cent from April 1 following improved claims experience and the withdrawal of premium tariffs on general insurance products like fire, engineering, and motor.
A national data centre of the income tax department will come up in the National Capital Region this year.
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, the apex financial institution for rural finance, will raise Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) through capital gains bonds in financial year 2007-08.
The government will cut the central sales tax rate to 3 per cent from 4 per cent from April 1 through a notification, as announced by Finance Minister P Chidambaram in his Budget speech.
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