Filter Posts

With the Left losing power in West Bengal, the Empowered Group of State Finance Ministers, which is currently engaged in building a consensus on the GST, will have to find a replacement for Asim Dasgupta who has been heading the body since its inception. As West Bengal Finance Minister, Mr. Dasgupta was involved with the Empowered Group f...

Karnataka today became the first state in the country to launch an e-payment system for commercial tax payers. Speaking at the launch, Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Shyamala Gopinath wanted such a system to be adopted by other states. The system enables dealers to remit their commercial taxes anytime, anywhere, without physically ...

A Ficci Committee recently said it will suggest ideas to the aviation industry on how the proposed Goods & Services Tax (GST) would affect them, along with other recommendations to give the sector a boost. The Ficci Civil Aviation Committee has also set for itself a wide-ranging agenda to give the civil aviation industry a fillip and make...

At present, the information regarding goods being brought into and moving out of the state of Punjab (Inter-state transactions) is furnished at the Information Collection Centers (I.C.Cs)/ Check Posts by the dealers and consumers. Now, this process of collection of information from dealers will be extended to intra-state transactions also...

Ministry of Finance has initiated a public debate on the issue of a negative list for taxation of services as announced by the Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee in his Budget 2011. The text of the speech is as below-Many experts have argued that it will be desirable to tax services based on a small negative list, so that many untapp...

Trouble for Kochi Tuskers Kerala never seems to end — a fresh row has broken out now between the franchise and Cochin Corporation over alleged tax evasion on ticket sales. Ahead of Wednesday night’s match, when the tickets were brought to the corporation for sealing, a new batch of tickets priced at Rs. 49 was […]...

Maharashtra government is expecting an entertainment tax of Rs 15 crore from the 16 Indian Premier League (IPL) matches to be held in the state. "A deposit of Rs 7.3 crore has been collected for the IPL matches organised at the Wankhede stadium in the city out of the expected revenue of Rs 9.50 crore," Minister of State for Revenue Prakas...

The Jammu and Kashmir government has detected 3,045 cases of evasion of tax by various trade and business houses in the state in 2009-10.Revealing this in its report on state finances for the year ended March 31, 2010, Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has said that 2,357 cases of evasion of tax were detected by the Commercia...

Finance Ministry will soon come out with a discussion paper on service tax to increase its contribution to the overall tax kitty and align it with the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST). "The Finance Ministry is working on a discussion paper on taxation of services to get opinion and feedback before moving to GST," a source told PTI....

Bihar government has decided to impose professional tax on central and state governments officers and employees, Railways, boards and corporation on the pattern of Maharashtra, West Bengal and other states, official sources said today. The state assembly adopted the Bihar Profession, Trade, Livelihood and Employment Tax Bill, 2011, yester...