Baba Ramdev:Tax Evasion Charges Likely Against His Trusts

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After Anna , its time for Baba Ramdev to get government agencies ire. Media report suggest that the income tax department is in process of completing its report  on Baba Ramdev’s trusts and Ayurveda ventures. It is rumored that there is every chance that a case for tax evasion against the trusts associated with the yoga guru [...]

Vodafone Wins ! Tax Dept Has No Jurisdiction to Tax Deals of Two Non Resident Companies For Shares Transactions Out Side India

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Vodafone wins ! Supreme Court of India has just  set aside a Bombay High Court judgement directing  Vodafone International Holding to pay income tax of Rs 11,000 crore on its buy transaction with Hutchison .Readers may recall that what had actually was the issue between Vodafone and Income Tax Department was explained in earlier post Complex issue of [...]

CBDT Forms Special Cell for Recovery of Rs 1 Lakh Crore Outstanding Demands

I-T demands have been pegged at staggering Rs 1,01,836 crore as per latest data .CAG is already very sensitive to huge arrear of tax . Therefore , the Income Tax Department has started work on tax payers who are “untraceable” or have reported inadequate assets to pay back tax demands. The department has also decided [...]

A threshold limit to GAAR : CBDT Chairman

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Some good news about the GAAR – a set of rules that invalidates arrangements by entities to avoid tax- is in air.Media report quotes Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) promising that  a threshold limit for applying General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR) under the Direct Taxes Code (DTC) shall be applied . “I can [...]

8 Cities to have Criminal Investigation Wing offices !

A new Directorate of Income Tax (Criminal Investigation), to be known in short as DCI, has been created in the Central Board of Direct Taxes, has been created by the Central Government through a notification. As per notification , The DCI will be headed by a Director General of Income Tax (Criminal Investigation), who will [...]