In the case Goetze (India) Ltd. v. CIT (2006) 284 ITR 323 (SC) the assessee filed its return of income for the relevant assessment year without claiming a particular deduction. Later on, it sought to claim the deduction by way of a letter addressed to the Assessing Officer.
Minimum Alternate Tax, though on the statute since practically 3 decades now, has always been a subject matter of controversy. Even after all the amendments to it over the years, most recently to align it with the Ind-AS provisions, there is still room for filling in certain gaps. This article seeks to raise certain concerns, which, hopefully, will be addressed by the Union Budget 2018.
• The ratio of domestic saving to GDP reached 29.2 per cent in 2013 to a peak of 38.3 per cent in 2007, before falling back to 29 per cent in 2016. The cumulative fall over 2007 and 2016 has been milder for investment than saving, but investment has fallen to a lower level.
Till date all government awareness programmes for education of tax payers adopt the stick approach like making them aware of penalties and prosecution under the Income tax Act, 1961.This approach may not yield the desired results.
It is suggested that a provision may be made whereby all transactions pertaining to TDS provisions are audited by a professional once every quarter before filing of TDS statement which will lead to early detection of errors and maximizing the revenue to the government.
The introduction of section 115BBG vide the Finance Act, 2017 providing for a 10 percent tax on income from transfer of carbon credits is a welcome move. This would go a long way in helping to resolve the uncertainty and litigation over the taxability of income from the transfer of carbon credits going forward.
Currently as per the provisions of section 194LC of the Act, interest paid by an Indian company to a nonresident, in respect of approved borrowings made (during the period 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2015) in foreign currency from sources outside India
The Finance Act, 2017 inserted new section 194-IB to provide that an Individual or a HUF (other than those covered under clause (a) & (b) of section 44AB of the Act), responsible for paying to a resident any income by way of rent exceeding fifty thousand rupees for a month or part of month during the previous year, shall deduct an amount equal to five per cent. of such income as income-tax thereon.
A correction has been made in the MEIS Appendix 3B description in Entry no. 113. to align it with the ITC HS present at the time of the notification of Public Notice 02, dated 01.04.2015. This correction is in effect from 01.04.2015
Every year, the Union Budget provides for the estimated tax collection during the relevant financial year. The said tax collection targets percolate to each and every Assessing Officer in the country by the CBDT.
