Union Budget, 2020 exhibits the unrelenting effort of the NDA Government to curb the tax abuse by the person exploiting their nonresident tax status, despite of being citizens of India. The Finance Bill, 2020 brings in anti-abuse measure for the taxpayers who deliberately prearrange their stay in India with an intent to avoid their categorization as Indian residents, thereby avoiding the tax in India.
(i) Whether sale of books is service. (ii) Whether provisions of hostel facility and sale of books are to be combined with provisions of commercial training or coaching service as bundled service. (iii) Whether service tax was exempted on hostel facility.
This General Order may be called the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Issuing Observations on Draft Offer Documents Pending Regulatory Actions) Order, 2020 and shall come into force with immediate effect.
Considering India’s demographic advantage of a large young population in the productive age group, improvements in the social sectors like education, health care, water supply and sanitation leaves a profound impact on the quality of life of the people as well as to the productivity of the economy. Interventions made to reach out to all […]
India’s external sector gained further stability in the first half of 2019-20, witnessing improvement in Balance of Payments (BoP) position. India’s foreign reserves are comfortably placed at US$ 461.2 billion as on 10th January, 2020. The improvement in BoP was anchored by narrowing of current account deficit (CAD) from 2.1 per cent in 2018-19 to […]
The industrial sector based on Index of Industrial Production (IIP) registered a growth of 0.6 per cent for 2019-20 (April-November) as compared to 5.0 per cent during 2018-19 (April-November). Growth of manufacturing sector was 0.9 per cent during 2019-20 (April-November) as compared to 4.9 per cent during 2018-19 (April-November). Growth of refinery products sector stood […]
Agriculture and its allied sectors still remain an important sector because of its continued role in employment, income and most importantly in national food security. Its contribution to national income has gradually declined from 18.2 per cent in 2014-15 to 16.5 in 2019-20, reflecting the development process and the structural transformation taking place in the […]
The services sector’s significance in the Indian economy has continued to increase, with the sector now accounting for around 55 per cent of total size of the economy and GVA growth, two-thirds of total FDI inflows into India and about 38 per cent of total exports. The share of services sector now exceeds 50 per […]
Under PDS reforms, a scheme on “Integrated Management of Public Distribution System (IM-PDS)” is being implemented w.e.f. April 2018 in all States/UTs including Tamil Nadu. The main objective of the scheme is to introduce nation-wide portability of ration card holders under National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA), through ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ system. This […]
Bon Cargos Private Ltd. Vs Union of India (Kerala High Court) The High Court held that it is the duty of the transporter or the consignor, consignee to generate e-way bill when the aggregate value of the consignment is more than Rs. 50,000/- and if otherwise ie., less than Rs.50,000/- there is no such requirement […]
