Question arises as to whether Royalty payable to the State Government on extraction of natural resource shall be considered as Service and accordingly service tax shall be applicable to a business entity on a reverse charge ? In this note we have analyzed the aspect of service tax payable on royalty with in-depth analysis as below :
The Value Added System of Taxation of Goods was introduced in order to address the issue of multiplicity of taxes and cascading effect of such taxes in the transaction chain. In the erstwhile single point taxation, goods which underwent any manufacture or processing where subject to sales tax on the new commodity emerging from such activity, resulting in additional tax burden over and above the value of the product itself.
Introduction of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 (hereinafter referred to as IB Code 2016) is welcome step and need of hour being part of ease of doing business in India. It will boost lengthy winding up process and reduce the time and good exit option in case business could not get success.
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Department of Trade and Taxes has developed a mobile application DVATMsewa to provide various services to traders. One of the services to be provided through the new App is registration of dealers under the DVAT Act, 2004 and CST Act, 1956. The following procedure is hereby prescribed to deal with requests for registration of dealers received through DVATMsewa App without verification of business premises by VAT Inspector and to complete the registration process almost instantaneously:-
Service Tax on Services provided by the specified organisations in respect of a religious pilgrimage facilitated by the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India, under bilateral arrangement not required to be paid for the period commencing on and from the 1st day of July, 2012 and ending with the 19th day of August, 2014.
The following postings / transfers in the grade of Additional Commissioner of Income Tax / Joint Commissioner of Income Tax are, hereby, ordered with immediate effect and until further orders.-
HUDCO, a Government of India Enterprise, invites offer from eligible PCS (Practicing Company Secretary)/Company Secretary Firm for providing their services for conduct of Secretarial Audit as per Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013 and Rules made thereunder.
It has been brought to the notice of the Board by Registrar, Central Information Commission, New Delhi that in certain cases orders passed by the CIC are not being complied with by the Income Tax Department. Reference has been made to some orders passed by CIC in this regard.
The Hon’ble Tribunal in the aforesaid decision dated 28.04.2016 has held that the MACP benefit would be given in the hierarchy of next higher Grade Pay and not in Grade Pay of promotional hierarchy which will be payable on actual promotion.
