Maharashtra has become the first State in the country to provide through Internet the electronic services like acceptance of registration application, filing of return and payment of taxes, application of refund, acceptance of audit report and application for declarations under Central Sales Tax Act.
At present the entry 45 in Schedule-A provides NIL % of MVAT in respect of items covered under “The Additional Duties of Excise (Goods of Special Importance) Act, 1957. Fabric, being a tariff item is covered under Chapter 50 to Chapter 60 of the Central Excise Tariff Act and thus enjoys the exemption from MVAT from the whole of the VAT. The entry 45 reads as under:
Finance Bill 2010 has made an amendment in the definition of the taxable service ‘Renting of immovable property’ [section 65 (105) (zzzz)] to provide explicitly that the activity of ‘renting’ itself is a taxable service. This change is being given retrospective effect from 01.06.2007.
Elections to the Vasai branch of WIRC were conducted on 23-01-2010 to constitute a managing committee of 8 members. The voting was about 30%. The results were declared on the same days which are as under:-
The Budget 2009-2010 amended the Income Tax Act so as to tax notional income resulting from transactions in immovable properties under section 56 i.e. Income from other sources. Our focus in this write-up will be only on newly inserted provisions in section 56 pertaining to Immovable Property which is bound to result in more questions than their answers.
Whether profit from Duty Entitlement Passbook Scheme (DEPB) and Duty Drawback Scheme could be said to be profit derived from the business of the Industrial Undertaking eligible for deduction under Section 80-IB of the Income-tax Act, 1961.
1) Medical Services- Services of cosmetic surgery or plastic surgery (zzzzk). However surgery undertaken to restore or reconstruct anatomy or functions of body affected due to congenital defects, developmental abnormalities, degenerative diseases, injury or trauma shall be exempt. 2) Transport other than surface transport-The following Transport services in relation to transport under sub clause (zzzzl) have been made taxable
In India the contribution of service sector to the GDP is about 55% and is a major driver of economic growth. However it was very difficult to define export of services and therefore many multinationals were wary of exploring opportunities for cross-border trade with India. Unlike goods which are defined to be exports when they physically cross the Indian territory it was very complex to define the export of services given that they were mostly intangible assets with no direction of movement or unique or definable place of their consumption or use. This left the question of defining the export of services.
