CIT (Appeals) in a detailed judgement, reversed the order of the Assessing Officer holding that if at all the transaction was held to be sham, the additions can be made in the case of the firm and not the partners.
Amendment in CGST RulesRule 24, 34, 44, 46, 61, 83 and 89 of the CGST Rules, 2017 has been amended by Notification No. 17/2017 – Central Tax dated 27th July, 2017.
We recommend CBDT to consider prescribing measurable parameters for assessment of charitable activities undertaken by private hospital trusts as a pre-condition for granting exemptions under the Income Tax Act, and amend the Act for this purpose if necessary.
This performance audit covered the assessment of private hospitals, nursing homes/medical clinics, medical colleges/research institutes, diagnostic centres, pathological labs, medical supplies agencies/stores including those running on ‘not for-profit basis’, and healthcare delivery professionals which included cases of scrutiny assessments, appeal and rectification cases completed during the period from 2012-13 to 2015-16.
As per Sec. 10(1) of the CGST Act, 2017, a registered person whose aggregate turnover in the preceding FY did not exceed Rs.75 lakhs, would be eligible for paying GST under the composition scheme.
Now we need to focus our attention to the next goal post, GSTR 3B, due on August 20. The 17th GST Council meeting held on 18th June 2017, provided a sense of relief by mandating a summarized return for July and August on or before August 20 and September 20 respectively. The full returns GSTR 1 and GSTR 2 are due 5th September onwards.
The Stock Exchanges are advised to:- 6.1. take necessary steps and put in place necessary systems for implementation of this circular. 6.2. make necessary amendments to the relevant bye-laws, rules and regulations for the implementation of the above decision.
In order to ensure that exit option is provided to the public shareholders of ELCs that are non-compliant with the provisions of the said circular dated October 10, 2016 and have not submitted plan of action to the DSEs and in order to protect the interest of investors in ELCs on DB it is hereby directed that, to begin with:-
‘High Sea Sales’ is a common trade practice whereby the original importer sells the goods to a third person before the goods are entered for customs clearance. After the High sea sale of the goods, the Customs declarations i.e. Bill of Entry etc is filed by the person who buys the goods from the original importer during the said sale
Simplification of pension procedure – i) Handing over of PPO to the retiring employee by the Head of Office before retirement and (ii) Submission of undertaking by retiring Government servant along with pension papers
