Bloomsbury's Desk Referencer for Professionals

Part I
Employment Laws
Author: Kiron Prabhakar

Chapter 1: Employees' Compensation Act, 1923
Chapter 2: Factories Act, 1948
Chapter 3: Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948
Chapter 4: The Employees' Provident Fund Act, 1952
Chapter 5: The Punjab Shops and Commercial Establishment Act, 1958
Chapter 6: Maternity Benefits Act, 1961
Chapter 7: Payment of Bonus Act, 1965
Chapter 8: Contact Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970
Chapter 9: Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972
Chapter 10: Equal Remuneration Act, 1976
Chapter 11: The Sexual Harassment of Women at Work Place Act, 2013

Part II
Other Important Laws
Author: Kiron Prabhakar

Chapter 1: Copyright Act, 1957
Chapter 2: Limitation Act, 1963
Chapter 3: Environmental Laws
Chapter 4: Information Technology Act, 2000
Chapter 5: The Competition Act, 2002
Chapter 6: Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 20023
Chapter 7: Right to Information Act, 2005
Chapter 8: The Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets and Imposition of Tax) Act, 2015

Part III
Service Tax
Author: Sanjeev Sharma and Kavita Sharma

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Negative List of Services
Chapter 3: Place of Provision of Service Rules, 2012
Chapter 4: Declared Services
Chapter 5: Mega Exemptions
Chapter 6: Valuation
Chapter 7: Rules of Interpretation
Chapter 8: Reverse Charge Mechanism and Abatement
Chapter 9: Interest and Penalties
Chapter 10: CENVAT Credit

Value Added Tax
Author: Nikita Jain

Chapter 1: VAT Compliances, 2016
Chapter 2: Entry Tax, Professional Tax, WCT-TDS and Road Permit Compliances, 2016

Excise
Author: Lokesh Kasat

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Classification and Valuation
Chapter 3: Computation of Excise Duty
Chapter 4: Payment of Excise Duty
Chapter 5: Invoice System under Excise
Chapter 6: CENVAT Credit
Chapter 7: Records, Returns and Appeal under Excise

Customs
Author: Lokesh Kasat

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Types of Custom Duties
Chapter 3: Warehousing
Chapter 4: Assessment of Duty
Chapter 5: Customs Valuation
Chapter 6: Duty Drawback
Chapter 7: Refund of Custom Duty
Chapter 8: Seizure, Confiscation and Offences

Part IV
Direct Tax
Author: Gaurav Makhijani and Dipesh Makhijani

Tax Calendar
Chapter 1: Brief Overview of Income-Tax
Chapter 2: Residential Status and Scope of Total Income
Chapter 3: Rates of Taxation
Chapter 4: Exempt Income
Chapter 5: Expenditure Relating to Exempt Income
Chapter 6: Income from Salaries
Chapter 7: House Property
Chapter 8: Profits and Gains from Business or Profession [PGBP]
Chapter 9: Capital Gains
Chapter 10: Income from Other Sources
Chapter 11: Clubbing of Income
Chapter 12: Set-off and Carry Forward of Losses
Chapter 13: Deductions to be made in Computing Total Income
Chapter 14: Payment of tax and interest
Chapter 15: Return of Income
Chapter 16: Assessment Proceedings
Chapter 17: Appeals and Revision
Chapter 18: TDS and TCS
Chapter 19: Dividend Distribution Tax and Taxability of Dividend Income
Chapter 20: Penalty under Income Tax Act
Chapter 21: Survey, Search and Seizure
Chapter 22: Taxation of Companies and Other Persons
Chapter 23: New PAN Requirements and AIR Statement
Chapter 24: Income Computation and Disclosure Standards
Chapter 25: Depreciation, STT, CII, NSC, KVP
Chapter 26: How to Deal with Notices Received from the Income-Tax Department
Chapter 27: Tax Planning

Part V
Foreign Exchange Management Laws
Author: Arun Gupta

Chapter 1: Foreign Exchange Management Laws
Chapter 2: Capital Account Transactions
Chapter 3: Current Account Transactions

Part VI
Securities Laws
Author: Arun Gupta

Chapter 1: Background and Introduction
Chapter 2: SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 2011
Chapter 3: SEBI (Prohibition of Inside Trading) Regulations, 2015
Chapter 4: SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015
Chapter 5: SEBI (Depositories and Participants) Regulations, 1996
Chapter 6: SEBI (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2009

Part VII
Company Law
Author: Milind Kasodekar and Shilpa Dixit

Chapter 1: List of Sections, Rules and Forms under the Companies Act, 2013
Chapter 2: Table of Fees under the Companies Act, 2013
Chapter 3: List of Fines and Penalties
Chapter 4: Registers (Books, Documents, Records) and Returns to be Maintained by Companies
Chapter 5: Types of Resolution under the Companies Act, 2013