It is proposed to provide that ITAT may grant stay under the first proviso subject to the condition that the assessee deposits not less than twenty per cent of the amount of tax, interest, fee, penalty, or any other sum payable under the provisions of this Act, or furnish security of equal amount in respect thereof.
In the present case, prosecution case is that the petitioner and his co-accused by creating fake firms, have issued invoices involving tax amount of more than Rupees Seventy Four Crores. The firms were misused for evading GST input taxes by the accused. Fake firms had been created in different States of the country. Although, co-accused Himani Munjal has been granted bail by the Apex Court, but it appears that she has been granted bail on account of the fact that she is a lady and has a young child to lookafter. Her custody period was also taken into consideration. Thus, the case of the petitioner can be said to be on different footing.
Budget 2020: Rationalization of tax treatment of employer’s contribution to recognized provident funds (RPFs), superannuation funds and national pension scheme (NPS). Under the existing provisions of the Act, the contribution by the employer to the account of an employee in a recognized provident fund exceeding twelve per cent. of salary is taxable. Further, the amount […]
Enlarging the scope for tax deduction on interest income u/s 194A of the Act Section 194A of the Act governs interest other than interest on securities. Sub-section (1) thereof provides that any person not being individual or HUF who is responsible for paying to a resident any income by way of interest other than income […]
Budget 2020-21 Propose to Exempt non-resident from filing of Income-tax return under sub-section (1) of section 139 in certain conditions. Section 115A of the Act provides for the determination of tax for a non-resident whose total income consists of: (a) certain dividend or interest income; (b) royalty or fees for technical services (FTS) received from […]
Now concessional rate of taxation option u/s 115BAB also available for generation of electricity as manufacturing The Taxation Law Amendment Act, 2019 (TLAA), inter-alia, inserted section 115BAB in the Act. The newly inserted section provides that new manufacturing domestic companies set up on or after 1st October, 2019, which commence manufacturing or production by 31st […]
Insertion of Taxpayer’s Charter in the Act. It is proposed to insert a new section 119A in the Act to empower the Board to adopt and declare a Taxpayer’s Charter and issue such orders, instructions, directions or guidelines to other income-tax authorities as it may deem fit for the administration of Charter. This amendment will […]
DGFT portal to enable States/ UTs to develop all districts as Export Hub Eleven States/ UTs have notified constitution of SLEPC Budget 2020-21 announcement to fulfil vision of PM to convert each District into an Export Hub In order to implement the vision of the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi to convert each district […]
Re-categorising 23 offences out of the 66 remaining compoundable offences under the Act, to be dealt with in the in-house adjudication framework wherein these defaults would be subject to a penalty levied by an adjudicating officer. In addition, the quantum of penalties recommended are lower than the quantum of fines presently provided in the Act;
Hallmark of Union Budget 2020-21 is the highest priority it accorded to the overall development of North Eastern Region: Dr Jitendra Singh
