The Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley, appears to have maneuvered the way to spur growth and fulfill on the promises of the NDA Government with the limited room available, having regard to the tight fiscal situation, outsize expectations from all sectors of the country etc. by delivering the expertly crafted Union Budget 2015-2016 which is […]
The recently appointed Finance Minister of India, Mr. Arun Jaitley, faced with the various challenges of reviving the growth of the ailing Indian economy, ever ballooning fiscal deficit, high inflation and standing to fulfill the promises made by the newly elected NDA government in their election manifesto, appears to have maneuvered the way to spur […]
We have hereby attempted to elucidate and analyze the major and important amendments proposed in the Direct Tax and Service Tax Laws, with their implications; and are sure that the same would be handy to you.
As you would be aware that normally the service provider is the person liable to pay Service tax, except in certain notified cases where the service receiver is made liable to pay Service tax. This was popularly termed as Reverse Charge.
The APA provisions are proposed to be implemented in the Indian Income-tax Act, 1961 through the Budget recently presented before the Indian Parliament. An APA mechanism can be – Unilateral, Bilateral and Multilateral. A Unilateral APA is the one which is entered into between the tax assessee and government of a country with respect to taxability of particular cross-border transfer pricing transaction(s) in that country.
In his Budget three years ago, the Finance Minister announced the introduction of the New Direct Taxes Code (‘DTC’) and a draft of the same was also circulated for comments and discussion. Thereafter, based on the inputs from various lobbies; the revised draft was constructed and the DTC Bill was introduced in the Parliament in August 2010.
