The income tax department is asked to keep names of blackmoney holders under wraps.
Concern has been raised on the method of identification for providing tax credit and the requirement of a permanent account number for deduction of withholding tax. Industry had raised these two issues before a Central Board of Direct Taxes committee looking into the matter, said a senior finance ministry official.
In a rather candid disclosure, a top Income Tax official has admitted that the diamond trade has one of the highest prevalence of black money, with investigations revealing that books in the sector are "completely manufactured".
The Finance Ministry is likely to exempt assesses from sharing details of company sponsored foreign trips in the revised Income Tax Return (ITR) forms.
The Budget has levied a pollution cess on petrol, diesel cars and SUVs and offered a one-time compliance window for domestic black money holders slapping a tax and penalty of 45 per cent.
Let's take a look at effective income tax and Social Security rates on $100,000 of gross income around the world.
Dept seeks details of companies that signed Rs 1,000-cr MoUs.
Plans to outsource record-keeping to private entities.
In a move that could further push up Onion prices, traders in Nashik and adjoining areas today went on two-day strike against tax raids and disrupted supply to contracting traders from other states who are being forced to sell the vegetable at 'below the cost price'.
Though the surveys were still going, the IT sleuths said they are investigating the records and books of accounts of these traders to ascertain the mismatch between physical stocks of goods and stocks maintained in account books.
At a press conference on Monday, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said when the final version of the Bill was tabled in Parliament, the government would abide by the recommendations of the parliamentary standing committee on DTC.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) said through a post on its official Twitter handle that the premises of its MLC Pushpraj alias Pampi Jain in Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh, have been raided.
While the BJP alleged that the arrest of its leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga was part of Kejriwal's vendetta politics, the AAP rejected the charge and said that Bagga has been arrested for trying to stoke communal tension and violence in Punjba.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs has been empowered to frame a scheme for preparation and filing of service tax returns through service tax return preparers, similar to the tax return preparer scheme for income tax introduced in 2006. The performance of the TRP scheme so far, however, indicates that it is in need of fine tuning - in terms of recruitment, training and remuneration - to become more effective and serve as a benchmark for the STRP scheme.
It would be interesting to see what the government proposes to investors.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram can give a marginal but visible relief to personal income tax assessees this year, as tax collections have improved substantially over the past three years, sources said.
The finance ministry has initiated an internal survey of the faceless regime to examine its effectiveness.
Sleuths of the Income Tax department on Monday conducted raids on the residences and offices of two Member of Legislative Assembly of the Bharatiya Janata Party, according to sources. Raids were conducted at the residences and offices of Suresh Babu and Nagendra. According to sources, raids were conducted in 60 different places including their offices at Bellary and Bengaluru. Their residences were also searched by I-T department officials. I-T sleuths have seized black money
Switzerland among the countries where the I-T unit will be set up.
'Is taxable amount above 1 Lac is also to be shown as income from other sources?'
As 'spot-fixing' charges haunt Pakistani cricketers, Indian sleuths probing alleged tax evasion in the multi-million IPL are now tracking trail of crores of rupees being pumped into betting syndicates in the country.
Tax officials saidsome instances of "asset transfers" are also under their scanner
The Congress in Karnataka on Wednesday found itself in a tight spot after a video showed a purported conversation between the party media coordinator M A Saleem and former Lok Sabha member V S Ugrappa attributing the Congress state president D K Shivakumar's involvement in a scam when he was a minister.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday announced that income from digital asset transfers will be taxed at a rate of 30 per cent. This move is seen as 'crypto tax'.
The Income Tax department has given a clean chit to the five banned domestic cricketers, who were involved in the IPL spot-fixing fiasco, from any financial misconduct or receiving kickbacks in order to fix matches.
Britannia Industries, the country's top biscuit maker, has taken the income tax department, Kolkata, to court after it received a show-cause notice asking it to explain the withdrawal of funds from the employees' pension fund in 2003.
The judgement was passed on a petition filed by the Income Tax Department, seeking imposition of penalty on the Industrial Finance Corporation of India Limited because it had allegedly furnished 'inaccurate particulars' of income to claim tax deduction.
By the end of this fiscal, income tax payers will be able to get all their problems relating to filing of returns and obtaining of refunds, among others, addressed at nine more help centres.
Objective of the examination is to study the tax implications of such deals.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) reached Mumbai on Saturday, a day after the agency transferred investigation in six cases, including the controversial cruise drugs case in which Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan was arrested, to it.
The Income Tax Department on Wednesday searched the premises of companies associated with the Indian Premier League (IPL) in the wake of allegations that telecasting agency Multi Screen Media had paid a facilitation fee of $80 million to marketing agency World Sports Group.
The fake mails from unidentified cyber criminals have come at a time when most tax payers file for refunds.
In 2015-16, more than 94 per cent of income tax returns were filed online and 4.14 crore returns were processed by the Central Processing Centre.
The FMCG sector's demand growth will be powered by effective reduction in the personal taxes and increased allocation under NREGA, though hike in excise duty lead inflation is a cause for concern
In a relief to individual tax payers, the government on Friday changed the slabs cutting the rate to 10 per cent for income up to Rs five lakh, while leaving the threshold limit for tax-free income unchanged at Rs 1.6 lakh.
Several restrictions on tax deductions for charity are no longer appropriate today.
The Income Tax department on Tuesday raided more than 60 places across the country in connection with the alleged illegal investments and hawala transactions case involving Jharkhand's former Chief Minister Madhu Koda.
The sources said the taxman has initiated a country-wide operation to identify suspect bank accounts where huge cash deposits have been made post November 8.
The pre-Budget proposals sent to the finance ministry aim to bring uniformity in tax treatment for investments in different financial sectors, mitigate hardship to retail taxpayers, and encourage participation in mutual funds.
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