goods and services tax

The Revenue Department is trying to locate 9 lakh business entities which have stopped filing service tax returns, with a view to improving collections, meeting Rs 82,000-crore target in 2011-12 and to ascertain whether there is any tax evasion. There are 15 lakh registered service tax payers in the country. According to the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) Chairman SD Majumdar, only six lakh service tax payers are filing returns. Full Article

Finance Ministry will soon come out with a discussion paper on service tax to increase its contribution to the overall tax kitty and align it with the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST). "The Finance Ministry is working on a discussion paper on taxation of services to get opinion and feedback before moving to GST," a source told PTI. Full Article

FM Expects Inflation to come down to 6 per cent by March, 2011 Govt willing To Consider a Phased Approach for Introduction of GST: FM GST would Improve Tax Collections and Boost India's Economic Development: FM GST to Encourage Consumer Friendly P Full Article

Introduction of a Goods and Services Tax (GST) could be delayed further with the Centre and the states failing to reach common ground at the meeting of the Empowered Committee of state finance ministers today. The meeting was attended by only eight state finance ministers. Finance ministers of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states were not present. The issue of a constitutional amendment was not discussed and there was no headway on the GST structure. Full Article

Dark days are ahead for Bollywood and Tollywood what with a proposal by the Centre to impose goods and services tax (GST) on films that will cripple the industry. "This is a very serious issue. If Parliament clears it, no filmmaker can end up making Full Article

The government today said the Union Budget for next fiscal would look into the various problems being faced by companies under their Central Value Added Tax (Cenvat) credit claims. Cenvat rate is currently fixed at 10 per cent and companies get credi Full Article

The Point of Taxation rules, which will allow tax authorities to link the payment of service tax to provision of service, raising of invoice or payment for service — whichever is the earliest — may not be introduced in this financial year. The financ Full Article

Expecting the country’s growth rate to strengthen further in the coming months, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said the government would gradually withdraw fiscal stimulus measures undertaken since October 2008 to combat the adverse imp Full Article