-TheWire.in The petition alleged that to ensure a higher profit margin, the company manufacturing Dolo tablets distributed freebies to doctors to prescribe the 650 mg drug. New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday, August 18 was told by an NGO that the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has accused the pharma company manufacturing paracetamol drug ‘Dolo’ of distributing Rs 1,000 crore freebies to doctors for prescribing a dosage of its 650 mg...
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Corporate tax assessment: CAG spots major errors in over 350 cases
-The Hindu Business Line Suggests CBDT to create a foolproof IT system, internal control mechanism The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has pointed out significant errors in the assessment of over 350 cases related to corporate tax. It also advised the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to put in place a foolproof IT system and internal control mechanism to avoid such recurrences. In a report tabled in Parliament, the apex...
More »Contribution to Patanjali Research Foundation to get tax exemption -Shishir Sinha
-The Hindu Business Line Central Government approved the Baba Ramdev-owned entity under the category ‘Research Association’ The Income Tax Department has notified five years exemption for Patanjali Research Foundation Trust, based in Haridwar (Uttarakhand). “The Central Government hereby approves M/s Patanjali Research Foundation Trust, Haridwar under the category ‘Research Association’ for Scientific Research for the purposes of clauses (ii) of sub-section (1) of section 35 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 read with rules...
More »Income tax department releases data on crorepati taxpayers -Nikhil Agarwal
-Livemint.com * India's super-rich club of those earning above Rs.500 crore has only 3 individuals * Over 1.7 lakh people had filed income tax returns with zero income in 2017-18 NEW DELHI: If data from the income tax department's records is taken into account, India had more than 97,000 people earning a taxable income of over ?1 crore in the financial year 2017-18. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has now come out...
More »A politically inconvenient data nugget -Puja Mehra
-The Hindu Data on demonetisation’s contribution to the deepening economic slowdown may have been suppressed Was a task force report that recommended a new law to replace the more than 50-year-old Income Tax Act, 1961 suppressed because it inadvertently provided factual evidence for the debilitating impact of demonetisation on the formal corporate sector? On September 1-2, 2017, at the Rajaswa Gyan Sangam (an annual conference of senior tax administrators), Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
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