CEC Sunil Arora will meet former heads of Central Board of Direct Taxes and Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs on Friday to discuss ways to keep a check on black money disbursements in South India, especially Tamil Nadu.
A senior finance ministry official said, on the condition of anonymity, that the top echelons of the government tried to convince the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) for a sympathetic consideration of the company's plea in the case pertaining to the income of the erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Ltd (SCSL) from abroad.
Mahindra Satyam said it will withdraw the petition filed against the Tax Department challenging its direction to pay tax.
While the ratio determines the extent to which the government is able to finance its expenditure, it is also an indicator of tax compliance. Developed countries have a higher contribution of tax to their GDP.
This scheme would help salaried people, especially those working in far-flung and remote areas with armed forces and para-military forces.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes has brought out a notification in this regard recently, which stipulates that any interest earned beyond Rs 3,500 (in case of individual accounts) and Rs 7,000 (in case of joint accounts) will be taxable from the running fiscal.
There has been an unprecedented surge in number of returns being e-filed.
The step had been taken to lend the required 'authenticity' to electronic communications.
"Unprecedented" direct taxes collection of Rs 7.90 lakh crore in 2010-11 has "greatly strengthened" the country's efforts for fiscal consolidation, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said.
I-T department raises tax demand on them for unpaid tax deducted at source
The department, which is racing to meet the budgeted target of Rs 4.30 lakh crore tax collection in this fiscal, has been ordered by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to immediately rejig the officials at Additional and Joint Commissioners rank level to revenue collection duties and concerned ranges.
Domestic financial institutions and mutual funds on Wendesday pitched for rationalisation of tax provisions to improve ease of doing business in the country.
Rs 6,000-cr disclosure just four days before scheme ends
The scheme would cover those salaried persons whose interest income per annum is up to Rs 10,000, Central Board of Direct Taxes said.
The Supreme Court-appointed SIT on Friday called for effective norms to curb betting in cricket and a stronger set of norms for P-Notes, while also making a case for bringing donations to educational and religious bodies under tax net.
March requires 20% jump to meet year's goal; CBDT chief tells staff to sweat it out to meet target
The tax computation compares the original cost, along with the stock value on January 31, and grants benefit of the higher of the two.
The development is expected to pave way for greater transfer pricing cooperation between the two countries, enhance investment flow
The minister emphasised that use of modern technology can yield far better results as far as tax collections are concerned than any other way.
Post demonetisation, there has been a hike in collection of personal income tax
'The numbers are null and void now. Look, we can give out projections now, but we know that a week later those numbers will also be irrelevant. So we need to wait,' a top government official said.
The total direct tax collection stands at a little over Rs 9 trillion, giving the taxman just few days to reach the 2018-19 revised target of Rs 12 trillion., reports Shrimi Choudhary.
The grandfathering clause and set-off provisions can be used to reduce the tax payable on sale of bonus shares, says Arvind A Rao.
You can electronically verify returns and regularise these by August 31.
Though the system is called faceless, it would have a room for inviting tax payers through video conferencing.
Taxing SoftBank, the largest shareholder in Flipkart with a little over 20 per cent stake, however, will be easier.
In spite of having various appellate tribunals and commissions within its establishment, the Income Tax Department has registered a more than two-fold rise in appeals in Supreme Court in cases involving crores of rupees of the exchequer.
With the holiday season quickly approaching InvestmentYogi takes a minute to look at the 'cost' of receiving and giving gifts and the effect it could have on your tax returns.
The US Trade Representative's (USTR) office will also conduct the Section 301 probe against nine others, including Austria, Brazil, Indonesia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, the Czech Republic, the UK, and the EU, for levying or considering digital services taxes "discriminating against US companies".
Filing your income tax return will be easier this financial year (FY) 2009-10. Want to know how? Read on.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes convened a meeting of all cadre-controlling chief commissioners of income tax in Delhi on Thursday to discuss strategies for achieving the revenue collection target budgeted at Rs 3,70,000 crore (Rs.3.7 trillion) and internally reset at Rs 4,00,000 crore (Rs 4 trillion).
The Central Board of Direct Taxes has said the government has not introduced any new provision regarding the chargeability of tax on jewellery.
The Income Tax department which is probing all financial transactions of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has advised all foreign players to obtain PAN cards, failing which they will have to pay penal tax on their cricket related earnings in India.
Taxpayers may get relief in terms of tax rates in the proposed Direct Taxes Code (DTC), which is likely to replace the 50-year-old Income Tax Act from the next fiscal, a key official indicated on Friday.
The CBDT had extended the last date for filing of I-T returns for assessment year 2013-14, both manual and e-filed, because of pressure on the computer servers.
In order to weed out the hassle of sending by post a hard copy of e-filed return, the Income Tax department has decided to bring in the facility of electronic signatures for taxpayers to endorse their bonafides.
The move follows poor results in detecting undisclosed foreign assets and delay in concluding pending matters under the Black Money Act, which came into effect in 2015. According to the official data, only 52 cases have been identified so far. Of these, nine are from Mumbai alone.
The 8,965 officials include an estimate for an extra 760 sanctioned personnel in the Indian Revenue Service. Apart from this, the department would have to create 42 posts of principal chief commissioner of Income Tax (Principal CCITs), 74 CCITs, 116 Senior CCITs and Deputy CITs. "This would have to been done through simultaneous abolition of posts in other grades," said the report.
The I-T department on Monday cautioned the public against responding to emails originating from private addresses as tax personnel send communication only through official email addresses.
Accordingly, the Central Board of Direct Taxes has asked its officials in the field to check every deduction claimed by banks against each claim. The CBDT action has been prompted by a recent assessment of banks carried out by the Comptroller and Auditor General.
