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Half-baked Esops won't escape FBT

   13 May 2007 at 00:53

This could come as adampener to all those companies that rushed their employee stock option plan(Esop) offers before March 31 to avoid fringe benefit tax (FBT). The financeministry has clarified that FBT will apply on all Esop offers where the physic

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Govt to clear pending tax refunds

   13 May 2007 at 00:46

Long delays in income tax refunds have promptedthe Finance Minister P Chidambaram to intervene. The Finance Ministerhas told his taxmen to get cracking and speed up the refunds.Hewants the taxmen to monitor all refund cases every month starting fromJ

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CBDT introduces New Series of Forms for filing of Income Tax Return for the Assessment Year 2007-08

   10 May 2007 at 14:00

The Ministry of Finance notified the salient features of new Return Forms for the AY 2007-08, whereby firms were mandatorily made liable to tax audit under s.44AB of the Income Tax Act 1961. Corporate taxpayers had an option to either file their retu

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TDS likely to be restructured soon

   24 April 2007 at 08:21

The system of tax deduction at source (TDS) could be expanded furtherto include more business under its domain. This means more types ofbusiness will have to deduct the tax, before making payments to parties.The revenue department is also considering

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More I-T scrutiny round the corner

   24 April 2007 at 08:20

The trading community may soon come under greater income tax scrutiny.The finance ministry is likely to conduct income surveys based onaddresses picked up from trade directories. According to officialsources, the move would boost revenue collection a

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Tenant needs a TAN to live here

   06 April 2007 at 05:10

LIKE residents, many non-resident Indians (NRIs) too have found the lure of investing in real estate irresistible. This has happened despite the fact that it is a herculean task for these NRIs to maintain their vacant apartments. Individuals who take

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HC sees red over 1-day I-T notice

   06 April 2007 at 05:09

A division bench of the Bombay high court on Monday lashed out at the income tax department for having allegedly recovered TDS dues from an assessee within a day of serving a demand notice.The assessee's plea for two days to reply on the recovery pro

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Capital gains tax on deals similar to Hutch

   06 April 2007 at 05:07

The I-T department, which believes that Hutch-Vodafone deal falls under the capital gains tax ambit in India, may scrutinise similar transactions.Transfer of beneficial interest of any asset in the country was liable to capital gains tax, a departmen

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One-stop service centre for filing I-T returns

   26 March 2007 at 01:47

In a bid to reduce harassment of tax payers, the income-tax departmentis mulling setting up five centralised return processing centres indifferent parts of the country. Theconcept is to provide one-stop service to a tax payer at onecentralised place

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I-T rates in direct tax code list

   26 March 2007 at 01:45

The government is planning to place the income-tax rates in the newdirect tax code schedule. The schedule is akin to an annexure to theAct. This will give the government flexibility to change them withoutdisturbing the whole Act."Weare looking at sub

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