The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was introduced by the Minister for Corporate Affairs, Ms Nirmala Sitharaman, in Lok Sabha dated September 19, 2020. The Bill was introduced with the purpose to amend the Companies Act, 2013. After a long discussion in the Lower House session of parliament, The Lok Sabha has passed the Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2020. The key features […]
The 42nd GST Council meeting wasn’t though successful to reach an amicable point of agreement for the compensation decisions between the Union & Member States and has consequently deferred the matter which will be hopefully get resolved in the 43rd GST Council meeting on October 12, 2020. Nevertheless, the Council made some key decisions with far-reaching impacts on businesses in […]
As announced earlier, the 42nd GST Council meeting was held on 5th October 2020, the GST Council met to make the final decision on the compensation cess issues to various states under the GST. The Council also observed the decision to encompass the surcharge on taxes over luxury goods such as cars, and tobacco products beyond the timeline decided till June […]
In the wake of the continuous disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and as a result of various requests received from the businessmen and entities registered under the GST regime. The government has extended by a month the deadlines for furnishing annual returns for 2018-19 under the goods and services tax (GST) regime through the way of the circular. It stated “After the […]
The CBDT has announced certain key changes in the income-tax provisions for certain payments and expenses, which shall be applicable from Oct 1st, 2020, for facilitating ease for the assesses and taxpayers for the Act. Many of the taxpayers, investors, depositors, and consumers will get affected by the new provisions such as changes in key timelines to file revised (ITRs) and new […]
In the wake of the continuous disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and as a result of various requests received from the businessmen and assesses under the Income-Tax Act 1961. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on September 30 prolonged the last date for filing belated and revised ITRs for Assessment Year 2019-20 from September 30, 2020, to November […]
Recently, a plea has been filed in the Supreme Court for pursuing the Right against Exploitation guaranteed under the Constitution of India and seeking the protection and safeguard of law for the transgender community by Advocate Reepak Kansal in his personal capacity and further recommending an Anti-discrimination bill for the Third Gender Community.
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has made a further effort to encourage a greater deal of “Ease of doing business”, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has enhanced the timeline regarding the duration of several schemes till the end of the year 2020 in the wake of constant disturbance caused by the coronavirus pandemic in certain parts of the country. […]
The CBDT is launching the Faceless Assessment in various direct & indirect tax procedures from today as announced earlier as promulgated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the income-tax appeals are all set to go faceless from Friday. Further, the income tax department has already enunciated PAN-India faceless assessment facilities for all taxpayers from August 13. The Centre hopes that the faceless system will […]
It is a known fact that the global pandemic of COVID-19 has brought grave losses to humanity as well as the tax collections this year as per the Government reports. However, it may also be considered as a “year of resolutions” as the Union Government has made continuous efforts to improve traditional corporate practices and evolving better […]