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Receipts of NRI for contract executed outside India cannot be …

Income pertaining to installation and transportation activities carried on outside India is not taxable under the ITL. Alternatively, income pertaining to the above activities or work carried on outside India cannot be attributable to a …

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How Dell Provides Tech Support Though Twitter

Dell , JetBlue , Bank of America , Comcast , Starbucks and quite a few other companies are increasingly using social media channels like Twitter and Facebook to handle user complaints, to gather customer feedback and even for generating sales.

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Govt notifies Company Law Settlement Scheme, 2010 + Easy Exit Scheme, 2010

MCA notifies Company Law Settelment Scheme, 2010 to enable filing of delayed submission of returns without fines and prosecution. Similarly, Easy Exit Scheme is also introduced to enable removal of dufunct companies from the Register of ROC.

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BITS Pilani and HP Labs PhD Fellowship | Study Abroad Scholarships …

The fellowship would offer the selected candidate the opportunity of working to the highest academic standards, and also work with HP Labs, the corporate research group of HP and one of the world’s leading industrial research …

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empanelment for whole bank tax audit of SBI for FY 2010-11.

It is a surprise to know that State bank of India, is again inviting empanelment for allotting whole tax audit to a single audit firm for FY 2010-11. To know more visit: www.statebankofIndia.com under procurement news………. If SBI can do this, others will also follow SBI………

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Podcast #83 – Business Travel in India; iPad vs. Netbook …

OK, I’m back in the TravelCommons studios outside of Chicago – landed safely and am now spending the day trying to get my body clock reset. The first time I flew home from Asia, I arrived before I took off – left Tokyo around 5pm and got ..

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Can extension of stay in appeal be given inspite of specific law to the contrary?

Sukumar Mukhopadhyay / May 24, 2010, 0:26 IST What has brought to fore this issue is that in a very recent judgement in March this year the Allahabad High Court has given stricture to an officer of Revenue Department in relation to a case1 involving stay which was given by the Tribunal in the background of the existing legal provision in the Central Excise Act as in Section 35C(2A). I am not discussing here whether the strictures was to be given or not because there were some other reasons also for the stricture. I am only on the legal point as to whether stay can be extended by the Tribunal beyond the period of 180 days from the date of the stay.

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Knowing GST III: Applying Goods and Services Tax to financial sector is challenging

IMF has recommended a Financial Activities Tax to be levied on the sum of profits and remuneration of financial institutions Satya Poddar / May 26, 2010, 1:40 IST The third part of a 6-part series on GST One of the most significant features of GST would be the taxation of financial services. No country in the world has been able to design a model for inclusion of financial services within the VAT/GST framework

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Knowing GST IV: GST flawed without inclusion of real estate

Multiple tax at both Centre and State, such as service tax on construction services and state VAT on building material used in a works contract Satya Poddar / May 27, 2010, 1:02 IST The fourth part of a six-part series on GST The real estate sector is a significant contributor to the gross domestic product (GST) and serves as a foundation for virtually all industrial and commercial activity. Further, housing constitutes a large chunk of the personal consumption expenditure, especially for middle and upper-income households

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Payment made abroad taxable if deal has links with India

MUMBAI: The Income-tax department can tax even a payment made to a foreign entity outside India, if the transaction has a business connection within the country, according to a verdict passed last week by the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Mumbai. In this case, the ITAT gave an order favouring the I-T department’s decision to levy tax on $1 million (about Rs 4.5 crore) paid by an Indian company to a Chinese firm for services rendered in China.

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Find Twitter Users Near You!

If you enable location in Twitter, your current geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) are added to your tweets. You may not want to share the exact location of your house in a public tweet for obvious reasons but if you are visiting a new place or attending a local event, these “geo-tagged” tweets can help you quickly find other Twitter users who maybe located in a particular region.

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How Much Electricity Does Your Computer Use?

If you are curious to know the exact electricity cost of running your laptop or desktop computer all day long, here’s a quick guide. Step 1: You first need to calculate the total power (in kilowatt) that’s consumed by your monitor, CPU, graphic card and other components of the computer. Don’t worry – you don’t have to do these calculations manually

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Tax treatment of Gratuity after Increase in limit from 3.50 lakh to 10 lakh

The government notified the Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Act, 2010 on May 18, 2010, which increases the limit of gratuity payment to employees in the specified sectors/establishments covered under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 (“Gratuity Act”). After the amendment, these employees are eligible to receive gratuity up to Rs 10,00,000, which was earlier restricted to Rs 3,50,000. Thus, crores of workers will be benefited in establishments covered by the Gratuity Act.

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Afghan Clerics impose Taliban-style restrictions on women's travel …

Women could work outside of their homes only if they were properly dressed and wore no makeup, he said, suggesting short skirts and cosmetics attracted men’s attention. Ahmad Qureshi. HERAT CITY: A council of Afghan clerics has issued a fatwa, …

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Acceptance of PAN applications – initials in the middle name

Circular No: – NSDL/TIN/2010-339, May 22, 2010 Subject: – Acceptance of PAN applications – initials in the middle name. Attention of all TIN-Facilitation Centers (TIN-FCs) is hereby invited to the procedure prescribed for accepting PAN applications. As you are aware, PAN applicants (individuals) are required to provide names (first name, middle name & last name) in expanded form in PAN applications submitted.

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Delhi High Court stay for renting service

Renting of Immovable Property: There shall be no recovery of service tax from the service provider in respect of renting of immovable property alone Prima facie renting of immovable property itself has been regarded as a service by virtue of the recent amendment made by Finance Act, 2010, even though this Court by virtue of its decision on 18-4-2009 had categorically concluded that renting of immovable property by itself cannot be regarded as a service.

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PwC sought meeting with Khurshid on surrogate practices

Under pressure from the government to reveal the surrogate nature of its practices in India, senior officials from PricewaterhouseCoopers have sought a meeting with the corporate affairs minister Salman Khurshid next week to clarify its position. Following the Satyam scam, the accounting regulator Institute of Chartered Accountants of India had voiced its concerns over the opaque nature of functioning of foreign audit firms in India. The company’s managing director Deepak Kapoor wrote to the government on May 19 seeking an appointment with Khurshid

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Send your Facebook Updates to Grandma via Post

Imagine this. Your parents, your cousins and everyone else in the family is active on Facebook but for your grandparents who either don’t use a computer yet or find Facebook too confusing and therefore stay away from it.

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Google Experts Answer your SEO Questions

If are looking for tips to improve the visibility of your website in Google search, or if you need answers to some common SEO related problems, here’s an interview with the Google search quality team that you will definitely find useful.

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Create HTML Signatures Right Inside Gmail

This tip describes how you can create sleek and professional looking HTML signatures for your outgoing Gmail messages right inside Gmail itself without requiring any extensions or add-ons.

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