Vide Notification No. 15/2012 dated 17.03.2012, the Ministry of Finance has specified that in respect of services provided by an individual advocate to any business entity, the service-tax payable by the advocate shall be Nil and that the person receiving the service shall pay 100& of the tax

Budget 2012: Finance Bill 2012 The Finance Bill 2012 was introduced today, 16.3.2012, in Parliament. This is an optimized copy, dealing only with the Direct Taxes aspect of the Bill.

The President, I.T.A.T. had called for a meeting of the President and Members of the I.T.A.T. Bar Association and President and Members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Departmental Representatives for a meeting to invite their suggestions for establishing E-Courts across the country

The Standing Committee on Finance has submitted its 49th Report on the Direct Tax Code 2010 to Parliament today, 9th March 2012. The Committee has noted that it has considered the suggestions of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal Bar Association.

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (5) of section 255 of the Income Tax Act, 1961, the Appellate Tribunal hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Income Tax (Appellate Tribunal) Rules, 1963

In DCIT vs. Shreyas S. Morakhia 40 SOT 432 the ITAT Mumbai Special Bench held that a broker was eligible to claim a deduction of the entire amount due to him from his client as a “bad debt” even though only the brokerage (and not the entire amount) had been offered as income. This judgement has been affirmed by the Bombay High Court today, 28.02.2012

Vide Notification dated 21.02.2012 issued u/s 252 of the Income Tax Act, 1961, the Central Government has appointed the following persons as Judicial Member / Accountant Member of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal with effect from the dates as mentioned against their names and until further orders. Consequent to their joining as Members, the said persons have been posted to the paces mentioned against their names vide Order dated 21.02.2012

In February 2012, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has issued three important Guidance Notes that have considerable relevance for income-tax practitioners. For the importance of such Guidance Notes in income-tax matters see CIT vs. Virtual Soft Systems Ltd (Delhi High Court)

NOTIFICATION NO 9/2012, Dated: February 17, 2012 In exercise of the power conferred by sub-section (IC) of section 139 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby exempts the following class of persons, subject to the …

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Vide Order No. 34 of 2012 dated 16.02.2012 the CBDT has promoted officers in the grade of Additional Commissioner/Additional Director of Income-tax to the grade of Commissioner of Income-tax (CIT) with immediate effect and actually from the date of assumption of charge of the post and until further orders