The existing scheme of taxation provides for a simplified presumptive taxation scheme for certain eligible persons engaged in certain eligible business only and not for persons earning professional income. In order to rationalize the presumptive taxation scheme and to reduce the compliance burden of the small tax payers having income from profession and to facilitate the ease of doing business, it is proposed to provide for presumptive taxation regime for professionals.
In this regard, new section 44ADA is proposed to be inserted in the Act to provide for estimating the income of an assessee who is engaged in any profession referred to in sub-section (1) of section 44AA such as legal, medical, engineering or architectural profession or the profession of accountancy or technical consultancy or interior decoration or any other profession as is notified by the Board in the Official Gazette and whose total gross receipts does not exceed fifty lakh rupees in a previous year, at a sum equal to fifty per cent. of the total gross receipts, or, as the case may be , a sum higher than the aforesaid sum earned by the assessee. The scheme will apply to such resident assessee who is an individual, Hindu undivided family or partnership firm but not Limited Liability partnership firm.
Under the scheme, the assessee will be deemed to have been allowed the deductions under section 30 to 38. Accordingly, the written down value of any asset used for the purpose of the profession of the assessee will be deemed to have been calculated as if the assessee had claimed and had actually been allowed the deduction in respect of depreciation for the relevant assessment years.
It is also proposed that the assessee will not be required to maintain books of account under sub-section (1) of section 44AA and get the accounts audited under section 44AB in respect of such income unless the assessee claims that the profits and gains from the aforesaid profession are lower than the profits and gains deemed to be his income under sub-section (1) of section 44ADA and his income exceeds the maximum amount which is not chargeable to income-tax.
These amendments will take effect from 1st April, 2017 and will, accordingly, apply in relation to the assessment year 2017-18 and subsequent years.
Clause 24 of Finance Bill 2016
Clause 24 of the Bill seeks to amend section 44AA of the Income-tax Act relating to maintenance of accounts by certain persons carrying on profession or business.
It is proposed to amend the sub-section (2) of the aforesaid section so as to provide that every person carrying on the business shall, if the provisions of sub-section (4) of section 44AD are applicable in his case and his income exceeds the maximum amount which is not chargeable to income-tax, keep and maintain such books of account and other documents for computing his total income in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
This amendment will take effect from 1st April, 2017 and will, accordingly, apply in relation to the assessment year 2017-2018 and subsequent years.
Clause 25 of Finance Bill 2016
Clause 25 of the Bill seeks to amend section 44AB of the Income-tax Act relating to audit of accounts of certain persons carrying on business or profession.
Sub-clause (i) of the said clause seeks to amend clause (b) of the aforesaid section. The said clause provides that every person carrying on a profession is required to get his accounts audited before the specified date if his gross receipts in a previous year exceed twenty-five lakh rupees.
It is proposed to amend the said clause (b) so as to increase the threshold limit to fifty lakh rupees.
Sub-clause (ii) of the said clause seeks to amend clause (d) of the said section so as to provide that in the case of an assessee, who is covered under the new proposed section 44ADA, the audit of books of account is required if he claims that the profits and gains from the profession are lower than the profits and gains computed in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (1) of the proposed new section and if his income exceeds the maximum amount which is not chargeable to income-tax.
Sub-clause (iii) of the said clause seeks to insert a new clause (e) in the said section so as to provide that every person carrying
on the business shall, if the provisions of sub-section (4) of section 44AD are applicable in his case and his income exceeds the maximum amount which is not chargeable to income-tax, keep and maintain such books of account and other documents for computing his total income in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
These amendments will take effect from 1st April, 2017 and will, accordingly, apply in relation to the assessment year 2017- 2018 and subsequent years.
Clause 27 of Finance Bill 2016
Clause 27 of the Bill seeks to insert a new section 44ADA in the Income-tax Act relating to special provision for computing profits and gains of profession on presumptive basis.
The proposed new section 44ADA seeks to provide that notwithstanding anything contained in sections 28 to 43C, in the case of an assessee, being a resident in India, who is engaged in a profession referred to in sub-section (1) of section 44AA and whose total gross receipts do not exceed fifty lakh rupees in a previous year, a sum equal to fifty per cent. of the total gross receipts of the assessee in the previous year on account of such profession, or as the case may be, a sum higher than the aforesaid sum claimed to have been earned by the assessee, shall be deemed to be the profits and gains of such profession chargeable to tax under the head “Profits and gains of business or profession”.
It is further proposed that any deduction allowable under the provisions of sections 30 to 38 shall, for the purposes of sub-section (1) of the proposed section, be deemed to have been already given full effect to and no further deduction under those sections shall be allowed.
It is also proposed that the written down value of any asset of profession shall be deemed to have been calculated as if the assessee had claimed and had been actually allowed the deduction in respect of the depreciation for each of the relevant assessment years.
It is also proposed to provide that an assessee who claims that his profits and gains from the profession are lower than the profits and gains specified in sub-section (1) of the proposed section and whose total income exceeds the maximum amount which is not chargeable to income-tax shall be required to keep and maintain such books of account and other documents under sub-section (1) of section 44AA and get them audited under section 44AB.
These amendments will take effect from 1st April, 2017 and will, accordingly, apply in relation to the assessment year 2017- 2018 and subsequent years.
[Clause 24, 25 & 27]
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