It was alleged that the Principal Commissioner of Income Tax, Ranchi had entered into a criminal conspiracy with Additional CIT, Ranchi, ITO (Tech.), Another Officer, Income Tax Department & five private persons, all Kolkata based businessmen & infamous entry operators and a CA of Kolkata for getting Income Tax assessment files of their different assessee companies transferred from Kolkata/ Hazaribagh to Ranchi for providing undue favour to those assesses, who had been charged with heavy tax liability, in lieu of huge bribe.
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), recognising the need to provide support to its members to develop the auditing acumen, techniques and tools and for inculcation of best auditing practices among its membersconstituted Auditing Standards Board (ASB) with theobjective of formulating Auditing Standards of the ICSI.
On August 19, 2017, Mr. Urjit Patel, Governor, RBI spoke on the inaugural session of the National Conference on Insolvency and Bankruptcy: Changing Paradigm, Mumbai, and emphatically mentioned the present precarious position of the Balance Sheet of the banks in India and the efforts of RBI, Ministry of Finance as well the banks themselves towards finding a resolution of the huge stressed assets of the banks. His speech appears in RBI website as per the given link. Those interested can read the original speech but to simplify the speech for an average reader, I have extensively quoted along with my observations. It is intended to understand the present financial position of the banks better.
The Rajasthan High Court, last day admitted a petition seeking exemption to supply of construction services to affordable houses constructed under the Government approved Housing projects. The petitioners, Reverence Infrastructure (India) LLP, has approached the High Court impugning notifications issued under the CGST, and SGST whereby 9% percent tax was made applicable to two-third of the value of the intra- state services involving construction of complex building or civil structure and 18% was imposed on % on two-third of the value of inter-state services of construction of building or sale of its units thereof.
Switzerland’s Federal Council on 6th September initiated a consultation on a new proposal to reform the Swiss corporate tax system, known as Tax Proposal 17 or TP 17. A steering committee charged with preparing a new plan for tax reform presented its objectives and recommendations, recently.
(a) Slow response time of the GSTN portal. (b) Specified Information Technology system requirement not readily available and understandable especially in rural areas. (c) The saved data automatically got lost which compelled the members of the Petitioner/assessee to fill again all the details. While filing information on the GSTN portal, repeatedly errors were shown with no explanation about the problem / rectification which need to be done by assessee. (g) While filing information on the GSTN portal, repeatedly errors were shown with no explanation about the problem/rectification which need to be done by assessee.
This discussion paper reviews the progress made in the last quarter century since the 1991 Industrial Policy and provides thoughts to facilitate discussions for formulation of a new Industrial Policy aimed at building a globally competitive Indian industry equipped with skill and scale and technology.
No appeal should be filed before Tribunal in case tax effect does not exceed Rs.10 lakhs. The tax effect means the difference between tax on the total income assessed and tax that what have been chargeable had such total income been reduced by the amount of income in respect of issues against which appeal is intended to be filed. This circular further states that tax will not include any interest thereon the chargeability of interest itself is in dispute.
Though every one wants to walk with the change, they too want to breath easy and be in peace. It is most welcome that our Beloved Prime Minister launched GST from 01-07-2017 which was very simple but the Good (GUD) part did not follow. This is evident from the past two months where business & consultants struggled to cope with GST.
Till today, I use to mention you as MODI JI (a person, I could connect). But experiencing your dictatorship for last 1 year (on GST Issue), I am force to disconnect myself and mention you as Mr. Prime Minister (Dictator). In your speeches, you have termed yourself as PRADHAN SEVAK. But you are acting as Dictator, not SEVAK.
