In Notes to Account as well as Audit Report, the disclosure requirement relating to SBNs are not applicable for the Financial Year 2017-18 & subsequent years. Consequent disclosures may be made in the Financial Statements/Audit Reports.
It is hereby clarified that the MGSTD (State Tax) authorities should only verify the Transitional Credit in respect of MVAT and Entry Tax. In other words, the State Tax Authorities should not undertake the verification of the CENVAT credit pertaining to the Central Excise Act or, as the case may be, the Service Tax Act.
Maharashtra Govt issued Guideline on Legal aspects about the admissibility or inadmissibility of ITC under MGST Act and rules made thereunder and Quantification of eligible and in-eligible refund amount, and further process in this behalf vide Trade Cir. No. 22T of 2018 dated 01.09.2018 Office of the Commissioner of State Tax, (GST), 8th floor, GST […]
Law Commission floats Consultation Paper on Family Law Reform This consultation on family law reforms in India, discusses a range of provisions within all family laws, secular or personal, and suggests a number of changes to in the form of potential amendments and fresh enactments. As general suggestions to reforming family law, the paper discusses […]
Government rubbishes rumours on social media that banks will be closed for 6 days in the first week of September 2018. Says banks will remain open all days except Sunday in most states.
Most of tax payers comply with 31st July (Income Tax Return Due Date extended to 31/08/2018 for A.y 2018-19) deadline for filing Income tax returns. However many miss out due to other commitment in professional and personal life. Missing the deadline does not mean you cannot file your return. Infact if you have missed to file your return for last year ended March 2018, you can still file the return however there are some catch. Read the article to know in detail importance of filing of return by 31 August and and methods to file return after due date.
When you sell an asset like a stock or mutual fund after a year and in some cases, like Gold, three years – you need to pay long term capital gains tax. Equity- oriented mutual funds (where more than 65% of the holding is equity) do not have to pay long term cap gains tax currently, and neither when the period of holding is over a year . However in both cases, you will pay a Securities Transaction Tax on the sale.
A new sub-section (4) to section 90 has been inserted by the Finance Act, 2012 w.e.f. 01.04.2013 wherein a non-resident assessee who claims any relief under Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement [DTAA] is required to obtain a Tax Residency Certificate [TRC] from the Government of that country of which he is resident.
The benefit under section 54EC can be availed of only if there is an income from a capital asset, being long-term in nature. Long-term capital gains are the profit that a person makes when he sells any capital asset (wef A.Y 2019-20, the said long term capital asset shall be land or building or both) which he has held for a period exceeding 24 months. An exception is his holding of shares in which the holding period has been fixed at one year.
Whether you are an Indian citizen or an NRI, if you are filing taxes or have financial transactions in India you will almost always need a PAN card.
