Rationalization of section 43CA, section 50C and section 56. At present, while taxing income from capital gains (section 50C), business profits (section 43CA) and other sources (section 56) arising out of transactions in immovable property, the sale consideration or stamp duty value, whichever is higher is adopted. The difference is taxed as income both in the hands of the purchaser and the seller.
Section 45 of the Act, inter alia, provides that capital gains arising from a conversion of capital asset into stock-in-trade shall be chargeable to tax. However, in cases where the stock in trade is converted into, or treated as, capital asset, the existing law does not provide for its taxability.
It is proposed to amend the section 54EC so as to provide that capital gain arising from the transfer of a long-term capital asset, being land or building or both, invested in the long-term specified asset at any time within a period of six months after the date of such transfer, the capital gain shall not be charged to tax subject to certain conditions specified in this section.
In order to bring certainty in the wake of recent judicial pronouncements on the issue of applicability of ICDS, it is proposed to — (i) amend section 36 of the Act to provide that marked to market loss or other expected loss as computed in the manner provided in income computation and disclosure standards notified under sub-section (2) of section 145, shall be allowed deduction.
Following amendments have been made in the Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) through Finance Act 2018. The Amendments aim at further enhancing the effectiveness of the Act, widen its scope and take care of certain procedural difficulties faced by the Enforcement Directorate in prosecution of PMLA cases.
In order to align the definition of taxable commodities transaction with instruments allowed for transaction in commodity derivatives, it is proposed to amend the clause (7) of section 116 so as to include options in commodity futures in the definition of taxable commodities transactions
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) applauds the Union Budget of 2018-19 presented by Union Finance Minister, Shri Arun Jaitley, focussing on facilitating MSMEs, empowering youth, developing infrastructure, reforming agricultural and rural sectors.
Finance Minister Mr Arun Jaitley has placed a huge emphasis on agriculture and rural India, allocating bulk of resources to tinterior landscape, while helping the middle class salaried employees along with relief to senior citizens, measures which would boost consumer demand and help revive economic growth, said ASSOCHAM president, Mr Sandeep Jajodia.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has done well by announcing measures to help MSMEs and job creation in the last full Budget of the current government
Notification No.11/2018-Customs (N.T.) CBEC hereby determines that the rate of exchange of conversion of each of the foreign currencies wef 02.02.2018
