Authority for Advance Rulings launches web site
The Authority for Advance Rulings for Income Tax has launched its web site yesterday. You can access the site at www.aar.gov.in . The Customs and Central Excise wing of the AAR already has a web site - www.cbec.gov.in/cae/aar/aar.htm . Both the Authorities are headed by Justice Syed Shah Mohammed Quadri, a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and a tax expert. He holds an LL.M from the University of London with taxation as specialization. When there is a common chairman and hardly any cases in the customs and excise side, what is the point in having two Authorities? They can as well be merged. A proposal to do so is believed to be in the pipeline. Let's wait till April and the news may concretise.