The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) considers it a privilege to submit the Pre-Budget Memorandum, 2018 on Indirect Taxes other than GST to the Government of India.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 396, 398, 399, 403 and 404 read with sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 469 of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Companies (Registration Offices and Fees) Rules, 2014, namely
In its 24th and 25th GST Council meeting, the GST Council announced that the facility for generation, modification and cancellation of e-way bills is being provided on trial/ voluntary basis on the portal ewaybill.nic.in. Once fully operational, the e-way bill system will start functioning on the portal ewaybillgst.gov.in. Certain modifications are being made to the e-way bill rules which are to be notified nationwide for inter-State movement with effect from 01.02.2018 and for intra-State movement with effect from a date to be announced separately by each State but not later than 01.06.2018. Till such time as National e-way Bill is ready, the States were authorized to continue with their own e-way Bill system. It has also been announced that 15 States will roll out intra-State e-bill system from 1.2.2018.
FATCA stands for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. It is a United States legislation which was primarily enacted to prevent tax evasion by US taxpayers using non-US financial institutions and offshore investment instruments.
With the conclusion of the 25th GST Council meet on January 18, 2018, the gist of the key takeaways from the meeting are as under: Policy Changes 1. Late fee payable by any registered person for failure to furnish following returns has been reduced to Rs. 50/- per day [and Rs. 20/- per day in case of Nil return] from Rs. 200/- per day:
