The facts of the case are that appellants are engaged in the business as freight forwarders and provide worldwide containerised and conventional cargo transportation and logistics services. During audit of accounts, it was noticed that besides collecting various charges, such as documentation charges, examination charges, freight charges, appellants also collected amount towards purchasing of cargo space from shipping lines.
The Indian Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman presented comprehensive budget before the Parliament on 1st February, 2020 to address multi-dimentional issues facing the economy. The Indian Government has taken a number of steps in the recent past & in this budget to achieve its objective of providing ease of doing business in India & proceed towards better tax compliant society. We have […]
Clause 98 of the Finance Bill 2020 has introduced Section 271AAD in the Income Tax Act relating to penalty for (a) a false entry or (b) any entry relevant to computation of total income of such person has been omitted with the intention to evade any tax liability in the books of account maintained by […]
Issue Whether co-owners of a jointly held property are liable to pay tax as an association of individuals or as a body of individuals. Applicant’s arguments Each of the co-owners receives the rental proportionate to his share in the immovable property and the income tax authority assesses him separately on the income so received. Merely […]
e-invoice is to be rolled out optional from 1st Jan 2020 and mandatory from 1st April 2020. It is already one month, and we need to work on the same if the same is not started as we are racing against time. The government has given access to the sandbox for the taxpayer to verify […]
What is Vivad se Vishwas scheme? The Direct Tax Vivad Se Vishwas Bill, 2020 tabled on lok sabha on Wednesday is introduced to provide complete waiver of interest and penalty to the taxpayers whose liabilities are in dispute.
In order to discourage cash transactions and move towards cash-less economy, a new Section 194N (Introduced via Union Budget 2019) has been inserted under Income-tax Act with effect from September 1, 2019 to provide for deduction of tax on cash withdrawals made by any person from his bank or post-office account. Meaning of Section 194N […]
The Union Budget 2020-21 has introduced a host of direct tax proposals on the personal taxation and corporate taxation front. Concessional rates of personal taxation can be opted for subject to forgoing exemptions and deductions, in line with the special provisions for availing beneficial corporate tax rates as introduced by the Taxation (Laws) Amendment Act, […]
In re Sakshi Jhajharaa (GST AAR West Bangal) The Applicant intends to make the composite supply as above to the State Government. The recipient is, therefore, the State Government. The Applicant intends to crush the food grains belonging to the recipient and deliver the crushed grains to the recipient after packing. If the terms of […]
In re Saisanket Enterprises (GST AAR Madhya Pradesh) The judicial citations relied upon by the applicant have been duly perused and considered by us. However, we find that as per the proviso to Section 98(2) of CGST Act, the Authority shall not admit the application where the question raised in the application is already pending […]
