Accounting code for payment of Swachh Bharat Cess

Swachh Bharat Cess is leviable on all taxable services, other than services which are fully exempt from Service Tax or services which are otherwise not liable to Service Tax under section 66B of the Finance Act, 1994, at the rate of 0.5% [notification No.22/2015-ST, dated 6^th November, 2015 refers].

Accordingly, accounting codes have also been allotted by the Office of the Controller General of Accounts for the new Minor Head “506-Swachh Bharat Cess” and new Sub-heads as under:

Swachh Bharat Cess on Taxable Services w.e.f. 15-11-2015

Central Boar of Excise & Custom i.e. CBEC on the eve of Deepawali (i.e. on 6^th November)  notified that Swachh Bharat Cess would be applicable @ 0.5% on value of all taxable services and same shall be effective from  15^th November 2015.

Swachh Bharat Cess on services where Abatement is Available:-

What Proof can be given for Date of Birth while applying PAN Card

Following documents can submitted in support of 'date of birth' if these documents contain name, date, month and year of birth of the PAN applicant :-

(a) birth certificate issued by the municipal authority or any office authorized to issue birth and death certificate by the Registrar of Birth and Deaths or the Indian Consulate as defined in clause (d) of subsection (1) of section 2 of the Citizenship Act, 1955 (57 of 1955);  or

Filing of reconciliation return for the year 2013-14 under Delhi VAT

The last date of filing of online return in Form 9 for the year 2014-15, prescribed under Rule 4 of Central Sales Tax (Delhi) Rules, 2005 has been extended to 15 DEC 2015  

Who is required to file it:-

Compliance window under Black Money Act - An insight into

Compliance window under Black Money Act - An insight into

The Hon'ble Finance Minister in his budget speech for 2015-16 had proposed introduction of Black Money Bill in the Parliament. The Bill was passed by the Parliament in its budget session. The Bill received the assent of the President on May 26, 2015 and it became the law. It is to be called as "The Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015" ("the Black Money Act"). It has been clarified by the Government that such Black Money Act would be applicable from July 1, 2015.

How to come clean under Compliance window Make declaration of foreign asset or income on or before Sept 30, 2015. Person making declaration has to pay penalty and taxes on or before Dec 31, 2015.

No Interfere by Hon'ble H.C in extension of due date

a) The petitioner claims to be entitled to extension of due date of filing income-tax return (‘ITR’) (i.e., September 30, 2015) due to the delay on the part of the respondents in prescribing the ITR forms.

b) It was contended that the said forms were prescribed only vide Notification dated 29th July, 2015 and were made available only with effect from August 7, 2015. The argument of the counsel for the petitioner was that since the Assessment Year 2015-2016 commenced on 1st April, 2015 and the due date for filing the return is 30th September, 2015, so 180 days are to be made available to the assessee to file the return.

The Delhi High Court held as under:

Compliance window under Black Money Act

The Hon'ble Finance Minister in his budget speech for 2015-16 had proposed introduction of Black Money Bill in the Parliament. The Bill was passed by the Parliament in its budget session. The Bill received the assent of the President on May 26, 2015 and it became the law. It is to be called as "The Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015" ("the Black Money Act"). It has been clarified by the Government that such Black Money Act would be applicable from July 1, 2015.

NO TDS on payments made to corporations whose income is exempt u/s-10(26BBB) of the Income Tax Act,1961

The CBDT has issued Circular No. 07 dated 23.04.2015 stating that the CBDT has decided that since corporations covered under Section 10(26BBB) satisfy the two conditions of Circular No. 4/2002 i.e. unconditional exemption of income under Section 10 and no statutory liability to file return of income under Section 139, therefore any corporation whose income is exempted under Section 10(26BBB) of the Act will also be entitled to the benefit of the said Circular. Hence there would be no requirement for tax deduction at source from the payments made to such corporations since their income is anyway exempted under the Act.
copy of circular can be find under link below
Circular

A note on DUTY DRAWBACK

DEFINITION AND OBJECTIVES

The term drawback is applied to a certain amount of duties of Customs/central excise, some times the whole, some times only a part remitted or paid by Government on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied. To entitle goods to drawback, they must be exported to a foreign port, the object of the relief afforded by the Drawback being to enable the goods to be disposed of in the foreign market as if they had never been taxed at all. For Customs purpose drawback means the refund of duty of customs and duty of central Excise that are chargeable on imported and indigenous materials used in the manufacture of Exported goods.

GOODS ELIGIBLE FOR DRAWBACK

This scheme applies to

a.       export goods imported into India as such

b.      export goods imported into India after having been taken for use

c.       export goods manufactured / produced out of imported material

d.      export goods manufactured / produced out of indigenous material

e.       Export goods manufactured /produced out of imported or and indigenous materials.

it is not open to the assessee to bifurcate Depreciation into current & C/F depreciation to claim u/s 32 of I.T.Act

S. 32: The assessee has the right to disclaim depreciation in its entirety. However, it cannot claim depreciation for the current year and disclaim unabsorbed depreciation

The assessee claimed the depreciation allowance insofar as it pertained to the current year. At the same time, it did not want to claim the set off of the unabsorbed depreciation allowance of the previous years. The Supreme Court had to consider whether it is open to the assessee to invoke the provisions of Section 32 of the Act by claiming depreciation of the current year, but at the same time choose not to make a claim of set off of unabsorbed depreciation allowance of the previous years. HELD by the Supreme Court rejecting the plea: