Background: Procedure for filing on-line application for the CST declarations had been introduced on 2nd February 2009. Facility of on-line application is available for all the periods starting froml-4-2008 onwards. Applications for the declarations, pertaining to the periods prior to 1-4-2008, were required to apply manually (on CD).
For the tax-payer, “T” in the EET will never look like preferable to EEE. However, looking to the fact of EET as certainty, one will have to learn to live under it. The only alternative for the tax payer is to organize the affairs in such a way that there is no additional burden due to tax-outflow.
The ITA has always treated income from CG under special category. Not only liberal deductions / exemptions were provided, even the rate of tax was low as compared to the rate of tax on income from salary, business etc. Since long, CG has always been classified into two broad categories viz. Long Term (LT) and Short Term (ST)
The case in point is the proposal under the Direct taxes Code (DTC) to levy tax on amount received under life insurance policy. It is vehemently argued that the Government is playing foul by changing the rule of the game in between. Having declared the said amount exempt so far, the policy cannot be changed overnight, making life difficult for numbers of tax payers.
Although the length of the Code is much compact with 285 sections, relationship between various sections, clauses, sub-clauses and Schedules makes one wondering from where to start. Should one start reading with Income from Employment or Capital Gain? Or should one start with the Schedule containing the definition clause? Having read it various times, one is still not clear about its ultimate impact on the final tax liability. Such problems arises for two reasons:
Hence, no income from offshore supplies accrues or arises or can be deemed to accrue or arise to the Applicant in India under the Indian Tax Law (ITL). The AAR also ruled that the Applicant does not have a Permanent Establishment (PE) in relation to offshore supplies. Therefore, no part of income from offshore supplies can be said to be taxable in India.
CBDT on Friday directed its field formation to levy the highest penal rate of tax on TDS (tax deducted at source) defaulters.Following a sharp shortfall in revenue from TDS collection, the Income Tax Department has launched a massive drive across the country to detect and inquire into TDS payments of companies and especially on payments made and salaries disbursed.
GST is a tax on goods and services with comprehensive and continuous chain of set-off benefits from the producer’s / service provider’s point up to the retailer’s level i.e. up to the last level in the chain. It is essentially a tax only on value addition at each stage. The whole structure is devised in such a way that only the final consumer should bear the tax.
