Anti Dumping Duty On Chinese Products The Central Government (Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance), on the basis of the recommendations of the Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR), Department of Commerce, has imposed anti-dumping duty for five years on five Chinese products recently namely certain flat rolled products of aluminium, sodium hydrosulphite, silicone sealant, […]
The ‘Make in India’ initiative was launched on 25th September, 2014 to facilitate investment, foster innovation, build best in class infrastructure, and make India a hub for manufacturing, design, and innovation. It is one of the unique ‘Vocal for Local’ initiatives that promoted India’s manufacturing domain to the world.
Whether it is true that duty on umbrellas is being raised to 20 per cent and exemption to parts of umbrellas is being withdrawn and whether exemption is also being rationalised on implements and tools for agri-sector which are manufactured in India
GST rates on all goods including Life Saving Medicines are prescribed on the recommendations of GST Council. A large number of lifesaving medicines are already at the lower rate of 5%. Others attract 12% GST rate.
Whether the Government has received proposals from the State Governments requesting for extension of payment of Goods and Services Tax(GST) compensation to the States for another five years keeping in view the difficulties caused by Covid-19 Pandemic
As per Section 7 of the GST (Compensation to States) Act, 2017, the States are required to be compensated for loss of revenue due to implementation of GST (w.e.f. 01.07.2017) for 5 years’ period. During transition period, the States’ revenues are protected at 14% growth rate per annum over the base year revenue (2015-16). Accordingly, the States are being compensated for any shortfall against their protected revenue. The year-wise details of GST compensation released to States/ UTs is as per Annexure.
Tobacco products such as bidi, cigarettes, chewing tobacco, gutkha, etc. already attract GST at the highest rate of 28%, and a compensation cess up to 290% on ad valorem basis along with specific rate, on certain products like cigarettes, up to Rs. 4170 per thousand. In addition, Tobacco products also attract Excise Duty and National Calamity and Contingency Duty.
Processing of filed ITRs is done by Centralized Processing Centre (CPC) Bengaluru as a separate process. Duly verified valid ITRs are processed by CPC for determining the tax payable and amount of refund due, if any, to the taxpayer, and an electronic intimation is sent by e-mail to this effect. For AY 2021-22, CPC has processed more than 5.17 crore ITRs out of the 6.01 crore verified ITRs on the new system.
Amount of tax by way of TDS on the interest on compensation awarded on the road accident claim amount is not maintained at Central Processing Centre (CPC-TDS) of the Income Tax Department as there is no separate indicator or flag for the amount of tax deducted under section 194A (3) (ixa) of the Act.
IMB Certificate of Eligible Business is not a pre-requisite to avail the benefits of non-application of the provisions of clause (viib) of sub-section (2) of section 56 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act).
