The concept of GST was first mooted in the year 2000 by the Vajpayee Government. To formulate the modality of the same, the Kelkar Task Force on Fiscal Consolidation was constituted. Under the present NDA Government on the eve of 8th September, 2016
On 19.03.2018, Government of India and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of People’s Republic of China have signed an Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income.
Festival season is again around the corner, promotional offers would be very common sights in the marketplaces. These promotional schemes are employed as an effective sales strategy to woo the customer for buying their products.
The GST law contains a unique provision on anti-profiteering measure as a deterrent for trade and industry to enjoy unjust enrichment in terms of profit arising out of implementation of Goods and Services Tax in India, i.e., anti-profiteering measure would obligate the businesses to pass on the cost benefit arising out of GST implementation to their customers.
In case where notice u/s 142(1) (i) &(ii) is already issued in old format to the assessees, requiring them to furnish information mentioned in notice at the date and time fixed in the office of Assessing Officer, an SMS/Email is being sent to all such assessees intimating them to furnish the said information electronically through their account in e-filing website.
Touted as India’s most radical tax reform since liberalism in 1991, the Indian GST regime intends to subsume almost all the previous central and state indirect taxes into it, thereby relieving the households and investors of the complicated tax regime.
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Traditionally an E-Way Bill is considered as a document issued by a carrier giving details relating to a shipment of consignment of goods, also the names of consignor and consignee, the points of origin and destination and in some cases the route. With igitalization the Electronic Way Bills have come into vogue.
As we are aware of our evolution of Indian Indirect Tax starting from Excise Duty, Customs Duty, Sales Tax, VAT, Service Tax wherein, an industry/ organization were having different specialized professions/ people being allocated with different Indirect Tax compliances
Supreme Court (SC) Ruling – Whether the expenditure incurred (including interest paid on funds borrowed), while purchasing the shares/ stocks of a company for the purpose of gaining control over the investee company or as ‘stock-in-trade’ (i.e. as a business activity) and not as investment to earn dividends, can be treated as expenditure ‘in relation to income i.e. dividend income, which does not form part of the total income?
