The concept of Business connection under the domestic tax laws is akin to concept of PE in international parlance. The term ‘business connection’ includes activities carried on by non-resident through its dependent agents. Presently, a person acting on the behalf of the non-resident by negotiating and concluding contracts, maintaining stock of goods in India or habitually securing orders in India mainly or wholly for the non-resident would constitute its dependant agent in India.
India Inc. was promised that the government will be staying away from resorting to any retrospective amendment. Conversely, the Finance Bill 2018, has proposed various retrospective amendments to Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) for adopting several provisions of Income Computation and Disclosure Standards (ICDS) which are poles apart from the settled principles of law as […]
Budget at a glance under the title ‘Expenditure on Government of India’, an expenditure of Rs.77,747 crore and Rs.10,5541 crore has been shown against the item Tax administration under the Revised Estimates (R.E.) for 2017-18 and the Budget Estimates (B.E. ) for 2018-19 respectively.
The 2018-19 Budget has given a big thrust to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) sector to boost employment and economic growth. The budgetary allocation has gone up from Rs. 6481.96 crore in 2017-18 to Rs.6552.61 crore in 2018-19. The allocation for individual Schemes (apart from CGTMSE) has gone up by 59%, from Rs.3680 crore […]
Since inception, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (‘Code’), has made great strides. As per the Financial Stability Report of the RBI, this Code that came into existence only in December, 2016, had around 4300 applications registered with the National Company Law Tribunal (‘NCLT’) by November, 2017.
Rates of income-tax for financial year 2018-19 or Assessment Year 2019-20 A. Income Tax Rates for financial year 2018-19 for Individual below the Age of Sixty Years, Hindu undivided family, association of persons, body of individuals, artificial juridical person are as under- Upto Rs. 2,50,000 Nil. Rs. 2,50,001 to Rs. 5,00,000 5 per cent Rs. […]
Entities to apply for Permanent Account Number in certain cases Section 139A inter-alia provides that every person specified therein and who has not been allotted a permanent account number shall apply to the Assessing Officer for allotment of a Permanent Account Number (PAN). In order to use PAN as Unique Entity Number (UEN) for non-individual […]
We reported on 1st February that Government has suspended Compulsion of E-Way bill on the day of it start itself due to technical issues. We reported on the basis of Tweet on official handle of CBEC. Now CBEC has official notified Suspension of E-Way Bill system vide notification No 11/2018 CGST. Text of Notification is […]
Official Twitter handle of CBEC said that In view of difficulties faced by the trade in generating e-way bill due to initial tech glitches, it has been decided to extend the trial phase for generation of e-way bill, both for inter and intra-State movement of goods. It shall be made compulsory from a date to […]
Q1. What is an E Way Bill? Ans. E-way bill (FORM GST EWB-01) is an electronic document (available to supplier/ recipient / transporter) generated on the common portal evidencing movement of goods of consignment value more than Rs. 50000/-. It has two Components-Part A comprising of details of GSTIN of supplier & recipient place of […]
