Best Wishes of Golden Jubilee of Maharashtra !!!

Me Marathi … Jay Maharashtra

Need your Support for the School Kit Drive 2010

Hello All,

Schools will re-open shortly. For most children, the excitement of the first day in the new class will begin with new books, new pencils, new pens, new school bags… But there will be a lot of those who would be wishing that their parents too had good money to buy these for them.

To bring the excitement into the lives of these needy children, Seva Sahayog is back with the School Kit Donation Drive ‘2010.

For last 2 years, Seva Sahayog(SS) has been running ‘School kit donation drive’ to gift a School Kit to school-children from economically weaker sections of the society. The School kit contains 1 School bag, 10 notebooks, Pen, Pencil, and a Compass box. The kits are distributed to children from slums, schools, and education-support-centers run by NGOs in and around Pune. Last year, SS were able to bring smile on 10,000+ children’s faces because of 200+ volunteers from various IT companies.

This year SS’s target is to reach 25,000+ children in slums and villages in and around Pune. We all can surely help these children get this joy.

The school-kit costs only Rs. 250.

You can check the document of last year’s report at: http://schoolkit.info/sites/default/files/resource/Report_SK09_new_final.pdf

You could find more about School kit program at: http://www.sevasahayog.com

We look forward to your support again this year to make School Kit Donation Drive 2010 a success.

You may do the following to help these children:

·         Donate for 1 or multiple school kits (You can get tax benefit on donation).

·         For donation you can contact me on 9850875884 or send a cheque in the name of 'Seva international'  to:

Seva Sahayog,
Flat no.7 , Top floor,1015/4 Shreya Apt.

Near Swanand hospital,

Deep bunglow chowk,
Shivaji Nagar

Pune - 411016.

·            Forward this mailer to all your friends, colleagues, employees who may want to help

·            Set up a stall at your office during lunch time for the whole week, and campaign for donations.

·           Collect cheques and cash donations along with donor details, and hand them over to any member of Seva  sahayog. (Donor information form & receipts will be provided by Seva Sahayog).

·         Volunteer your time for assembling the school kits.

Thanks,

Avinash Chougule

IPL Pune Team name is Sahara Pune Warriors

IPL Pune Team Name ..... is "Sahara Pune Warriors"


     The latest entrant to the IPL Team - IPL Pune - announced the name of its team today. Sahara India who won the bid for this new team had released the name today on 24th April. Fans all over are curious to know the name of the IPL Pune.


     As you know IPL Kochi is the other team that will join IPL Pune and 8 other IPL teams from the next season of IPL.

Sahara Present Pune IPL Team Opening Show on 24th April 2010

Sahara Present Pune IPL Team Opening Show At S.p. college ground pune 6.30pm

Would like to see this Poster on Hoardings all over India

For the moment please pass it on to all your friends and relatives......

FAQs on Income Tax II - Payment & Return filing

Hi All,

Good Morning J

Financial year 2009-2010 ended few days back. Now its time to file income tax return.

Every one having lots of questions on it. Here answers to some of the questions are addressed.

And I hope this will clear your doubts.

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How and where can I pay income tax?

Tax can be paid by way of cash, cheque or draft in any authorised national banks, in the prescribed challan. The challan can be obtained from Income tax Offices.

2.    What do you mean by Income Tax Return filing?

Income Tax Return is a statutory return to be filed by assessee with Income Tax Department stating the total income earned & tax paid/payable by him during the previous financial year.

3.    Is it compulsory to file a return of income when there is loss?

If a person has sustained a loss in the previous year and wishes to carry forward the loss to the subsequent year he should furnish a return of loss in the prescribed form before the due date.

4.    Do I have to pay tax on all the money earned?

No, if you are an individual or HUF, you do not have to pay tax till you reach a specified exemption limit; once you cross that limit tax have to be paid as per following rates, slab wise:

For F.Y. 2010-11

Income	Rate (%)
Up to 160000*	NIL
160000 to 500000	10
500000 to 800000	20
Above 800000	30

* Threshold limit for women assessees is Rs. 190000 and for senior citizens it is 240000.

• Plus Education Cess @ 2% is payable on tax plus surcharge

5.    Do I have to file a return even if my income is lower than the exemption limit? What is 1/7 criterion?

If you are Individual or HUF, then Yes, if you fulfils any one of the following conditions at any time during the previous year:

1. Ownership/lease of a motor vehicle.
2. Occupation of any category or categories of immovable property as may be specified by the board by notification whether by way of ownership or tenancy or otherwise.
3. Incurred expenditure on himself or any other person on travel to a foreign country other than Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan or Sri Lanka (not being a travel to Saudi Arabia for Hajj or travel to China on pilgrimage to Kailash Mansarovar).
4. Subscription of a cellular telephone (not being a wireless in local loop telephone).
5. Holder of a credit card (not being an add-on card or not being a Kisan credit card, issued by a bank or an institution).
6. Member of a club where entrance fees charged is Rs 25,000 or more.
7. Expenditure of Rs 50,000 or more during the previous year towards consumption of electricity.

However, the government has specified that the above provision is not applicable in the case of a Non-Resident Indian (NRI).

Also if you are at least 65 years of old and not engaged in any business /profession, then you may not file return even when you fulfill conditions 2 or 4 above.

6.    There are various returns available on Income Tax Departments site, which one do I need to file?

Class of Assessees	Category	Form
Individuals, HUF, Firms etc. (except companies and charitable assessees)	All cases	Form No. 2D or Saral form
	One by Seven scheme	Form No. 2C
	Business or Profession income	Form No. 2
	Non- business income	Form No.3 or 3D
	Non- business income, No Capital Gain, No agriculture income	3 or 2D or 2E (Naya Saral)
	Non business income and total income less than Rs 2 lakhs	Form No. 2A
Charitable assesses	All cases	Form No 3A
Company except charitable assesses	All cases	Form No 1
Search cases	All cases	Form No 2B

7.    What are the due dates for filing returns for various assesses?

Category	Due date
For four categories namely:  A.      Companies B.      All auditable cases C.      Working partner of auditable firms, D.      Persons covered other than 1/7 scheme,	31st October
In any other case	31st July

8.    What is E-filing of return?

The Electronic Filing of Income Tax Returns was introduced in 2004. Under this scheme, eligible assessees can file their returns of income electronically through authorised persons to act as e-return intermediaries on or before the due date.

The intermediaries digitalise the data of such returns and transmit the same electronically to the e-filing server of Income Tax Department under their digital signatures.

9.    Who are eligible to file e-return?

Any assessee except an Association of persons or Body of Individual, who has been allotted a permanent account number (PAN) and who is assessed or is assessable to tax in any of the selected cities, which are presently on Income Tax network is eligible to file his return of income under this scheme.

10. What do you mean by 'belated return'?

If the return is not furnished within the time prescribed or within the time permitted under a notice issued, the person can furnish the return of any previous year at any time before the end of one year from the end of the relevant assessment year, or before the completion of the assessment year.

11. What are the consequences of filing belated return?

A penalty of up to Rs 5,000 is required to be paid if the tax man picks up your paper for assessment. In addition, a penal interest @ 1% per month would be charged for default in tax payments.

  

12. What is the penalty?

When speaking of belated filing of returns, the tax payer is ought to be in either of the following two situations.

1. He or she has paid all his taxes but failed to file the returns on the due date for genuine reasons.

2. He or she has not only failed to file the returns but also failed to pay his taxes on the due date

In the first case, since the assessee has cleared all his dues to the government, no penalty or interest shall be charged; provided the returns is filed by the end of the assessment year.

However, if the assessee belongs to the second category of people, who have failed to deposit the tax dues with the government before the due date, interest @ 1% per month or part of the month (simple interest) shall be levied on the amount of net tax due from him under section 234A of the Income-Tax Act from the date immediately following the due date till the date of filing of returns.

13. What is Advance Tax?

Advance tax means the advance tax payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter XVII-C. Tax shall be payable in advance during any financial year in respect of the total income of the assessee which would be chargeable to tax.

Reference: IndiaMoney

Thanks,

Avinash Chougule

please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.

Jallian Wala Bagh - April 13, 1919

 

Amritsar Massacre

Jallian Wala Bagh

"The impossible men of India shall rise and liberate their Motherland"

Mahatma Gandhi, after the Amritsar Massacre.

"The incident in Jallian Wala Bagh was 'an extraordinary event, a monstrous event, an event which stands in singular and sinister isolation"...Winston Churchill

It started a few months after the end of the first world war when an Englishwoman, a missionary, reported that she had been molested on a street in the Punjab city of Amritsar. The Raj's local commander, Brigadier General Reginald Dyer, issued an order requiring all Indians using that street to crawl its length on their hands and knees. He also authorized the indiscriminate, public whipping of natives who came within lathi length of British policemen.

On April 13, 1919, a multitude of Punjabis  gathered in Amritsar's Jallian wala Bagh as part of the Sikh Festival "Baisakhi fair" and to protest at these extraordinary measures. The throng, penned in a narrow space smaller than Trafalgar Square, had been peacefully listening to the testimony of victims when Dyer appeared at the head of a contingent of British troops. Giving no word of warning, he ordered 50 soldiers to fire into the gathering, and for 10 to 15 minutes 1,650 rounds of ammunition were unloaded into the screaming, terrified crowd, some of whom were trampled by those desperately trying to escape.

"The Indians were 'packed together so that one bullet would drive through three or four bodies'; the people 'ran madly this way and the other. When fire was directed upon the centre, they ran to the sides. The fire was then directed to the sides. Many threw themselves down on the ground, and the fire was then directed on the ground. This was continued for eight or ten minutes, and it stopped only when the ammunition had reached the point of exhaustion".....Winston Churchill

Dyer then marched away, leaving 379 dead and over 1,500 wounded.

Back in his headquarters, he reported to his superiors that he had been 'confronted by a revolutionary army,' and had been obliged 'to teach a moral lesson to the Punjab.' In the storm of outrage which followed, the brigadier was promoted to major general, retired, and placed on the inactive list.

''I think it quite possible that I could have dispersed the crowd without firing but they would have come back again and laughed, and I would have made, what I consider, a fool of myself.'' ......Dyer's response to the Hunter Commission Enquiry

General Dyer said he would have used his machine guns if he could have got them into the enclosure, but these were mounted on armoured cars. He said he did not stop firing when the crowd began to disperse because he thought it was his duty to keep firing until the crowd dispersed, and that a little firing would do no good.

He confessed he did not take any steps to attend to the wounded after the firing. ''Certainly not. It was not my job. Hospitals were open and they could have gone there,'' came his pathetic response.

However, the misery suffered by the people was reflected in Rattan Devi's account. She was forced to keep a nightlong vigil, armed with a bamboo stick to protect her husband's body from jackals and vultures. Curfew with shoot-at-sight orders had been imposed from 2000 hours that night.

Rattan Devi stated, ''I saw three men writhing in great pain and a boy of about 12. I could not leave the place. The boy asked me for water but there was no water in that place. At 2 am, a Jat who was lying entangled on the wall asked me to raise his leg. I went up to him and took hold of his clothes drenched in blood and raised him up. Heaps of bodies lay there, a number of them innocent children. I shall never forget the sight. I spent the night crying and watching..."

General Dyer admitted before the commission that he came to know about the meeting at Jallianwala Bagh at 1240 hours that day, but took no steps to prevent it. He also admitted in his deposition that the gathering at the Bagh was not a concentration only of rebels, but people who had covered long distances to participate in the Baisakhi fair.

This incredibly, made him a martyr to millions of Englishmen. Senior British officers applauded his suppression of 'another Indian Mutiny.' The Guardians of the Golden Temple enrolled him in the Brotherhood of Sikhs. The House of Lords passed a measure commending him. The Conservatives presented him with a jewelled sword inscribed "Saviour of the Punjab."

A young Sikh teenager who was being raised at Khalsa Orphanage named Udham Singh (aka Mohammad Singh Azad) saw the happening with his own eyes. He vowed to avenge the Amritsar massacre.

 On 13 March 1940 at 4.30 p.m. in the Caxton Hall, London, where a meeting of the East India Association was being held in conjunction with the Royal Central Asian Society, Udham Singh fired five to six shots from his pistol at Sir Michael O'Dwyer, who was governor of the Punjab when the Amritsar Massacre had taken place, to avenge the massacre.

On the 31st July, 1940, Udham Singh was hanged at Pentonville jail, London

"He was the real culprit. He deserved it. He wanted to crush the spirit of my people, so I [had to] crush him." Udham Singh, telling the trial court why he killed Michael O'Dwyer.

 

VS2010 Community launch Invite - 17th April in Pune at ICC

Visual Studio 2010 is Microsoft's latest and powerful IDE in which you can build  impactful and expressive applications Pune User Group is all set to launch Visual Studio 2010 this summer,17th April 2010. We are very pleased to announce that Stephanie Saad Cuthbertson ,  Group Program  Manager, Microsoft Corporation   is here with us to be a part of  India's first Visual Studio 2010 Community Launch Event.

->  What will you do attending a LAUNCH Event? Each and every participant attending this event will : 1)  Get connected with the best minds in the IT industry to learn and gain  knowledge on how Visual Studio would help you to build faster, reliable and effective business applications. 2)  Learn how Visual Studio improves your development skills to write quality code. 3) Get acquainted with the IDE's features  for building applications  in most recent technologies including .NET 4.0,Silverlight 4 etc. > What will I have to do to be a part of this event? The event is absolutely free.  You only have to register online.

So WHAT YOU WAITING FOR.... Click on the below  link to be a part of India's First  Visual 2010 Community Launch Event Registration. Visit the below site for more information. http://www.puneusergroup.org/events/vs2010-launch

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