Bicycles attract basic customs duty (BCD) of 30% while specified parts of bicycles attract BCD of 20%. China is the largest exporter of bicycles and parts thereof to India. However, import data for 2013-14 shows no evidence of increase in imports of bicycles and parts from Sri Lanka and in case of Bangladesh, while there […]
Investments can be revived by improving long term-growth prospects. For this, reforms are needed on three fronts: creating a framework for sustained low and stable inflation, setting public finances on a sustainable path by tax and expenditure reform, and creating the legal and regulatory framework for a well-functioning market economy.
Railway Minister Shri D. V. Sadananda Gowda has presented First Railway Budget of Narendra Modi Government on 09.07.2014 and Major Highlights of His Budget are as follows :- Rail Budget Seeks Course Correction, Avoids Populism Staff Welfare Fund Contribution to be Increased Bullet Trains and Diamond Quadrilateral Network of High Speed Rail – Bullet Train […]
In a non-market economy, in addition to laws, taxes and subsidies are used for encouraging or discouraging activities that the central planner considers good for the economy. India’s complex tax system suffers from problems in both structures and administration. Uneven and high tax rates and uneven tax treatment of similar economic activities have induced distortions in the behavior of firms and households.
Let me now turn your attention to the role of independent directors in a company, an issue that has become increasingly important after the Enron and the Satyam scandals. Earlier Clause 49 of the listing agreement mandates appointment of independent directors on Board of listed Companies.
Vide Notification No. 32/2014 dated 23-06-2014, CBDT has made mandatory filing of Wealth Tax Return only by electronic means for certain persons including Company and an assessee being individual or HUF who is liable to audit u/s 44AB. From Assessment Year 2014-2015 onwards, Company and an assessee being individual or HUF who is liable to […]
CBDT wide its notification No. 32/2014 dated 23.06.2014 has amended the Wealth–Tax Rules, 1957. As per notification electronic filing of wealth tax return under the digital signatures has been made mandatory except in cases of individual or HUF assessees
In this matter, the Hon ’ble Gujarat High Court quashed and set aside the judgment of the Gujarat Value Added Tax Tribunal holding that the Tribunal was not justified in deciding the appeal on merits of the adjudication order when the appeal before it was against the order passed by the first appellate authority dismissing the appeal on non-deposit of pre-deposit
