Most of today’s problems are yesterday’s challenges overlooked. It is always considered a wise thing to perceive problems before they arise and attend to them at the earliest. By doing so, you will be spared from the trouble you may have to undergo in the later stages. Here are few pointers to assist you in identifying the problems related to your spending and saving patterns.
Goods & Services Tax (GST) is a destination based consumption tax, mean tax should effectively where consumption of such supplies at destination thereof or as the case may at point of consumptions.
Central Sales Tax Act 1956 envisages single point of taxation i.e tax at the first point of sales. Subsequent sales during the movement of the goods from one state to another have been exempted under section 6(2) of CST Act. The scheme of section 6(2) of CST Act is that once the first interstate sale has suffered CST then subsequent sales effected by transfer of documents during transit will be exempt provided conditions prescribed u/s 6(2) are satisfied. This has been done to remove the cascading effect.
Mere charging of fee from members or non-members for rendering services like training, conducting seminars would not ipso facto lead to denial of exemption. The dominant object of the assessee remains charitable and the aforesaid activities are only incidental to the main activity of the assessee. Also, the activities of the assessee are benefiting the […]
Under the provisions of section 292B, certain acts are not to be treated as invalid by reason of mistake or defect or omission either in the return of income, assessment, notice, summons or other proceedings. In other words, notice cannot be invalidated by reason of any mistake such as one occurred in the present case i.e. mentioning section 153A instead of 153C.
In Srinagar, the all-powerful GST Council headed by the Hon’ble Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley met for the fourteenth time to finalise the nuts and bolts of the new GST tax framework. This meeting is paving the way for India to join select League of Nations with a GST rollout from July 1, 2017 as envisaged.
The only mistake on the part of AO was in mentioning section 153A, instead of section 153C. If this mistake was not allowed to be cured, the very purpose and object of enacting section 292B would be defeated as impugned notice in substance and effect, was in conformity with or according to the intent and purpose of the Act.
Another key issue being debated in great length ‘the rate of GST’ on May 18, 2017, finally approved by the GST Council at its 14th GST Council (the apex decision making body for GST) Meeting held at Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir. The rates of Goods are divided into different Slabs i.e. 0%, 5%, 12%, 18% & 28%, while the GST Compensation Cess Rates for different supplies varies. Though they are approved by the GST Council, but they will be subject to further vetting during which the list may undergo some changes. Tax rates have been finalised for 1,211 items with a majority of items being kept under the 18% slab.
As per Ind AS, An Asset Retirement Obligation (ARO) is a legal obligation associated with the retirement of a tangible long-lived asset in which the timing or method of settlement may be conditional on a future event and Decommission Liability is the Estimated amount of dismantling and restoration cost that a company expects to incurred in the future on the Asset Dismantling Date.
The Government in last three years has undertaken a number of reforms in different areas of economy. In this regard FDI policy reforms carried out by Government are nothing less than historic.
