Service Tax : In this Article we have prepared a List of Services which are exempt from Service Tax as on date from Service Tax after considerin...
Income Tax : Simplification of Tax Deduction at Source (TDS) mechanism for Employees Provident Fund Scheme (EPFS) Under the Employees Provident...
Service Tax : Shivani Mangla Services covered under Reverse Charge Mechanism from 01.06.2015 (with % and type of person) S.No. Description of se...
Service Tax : Amendments shall have the following effect w.e.f. 14.05.2015– (1) The remedy of appeal to Tribunal u/s 86 is not available in e...
Excise Duty : AMENDMENTS IN CENTRAL EXCISE ACT, 1944-1. Factors of Production for Tobacco Related Products – Explanation 3 to Section 3A- This...
Income Tax : Finance bill, 2015 has received the presidential assent on 14th May 2015 and has now become Finance Act, 2015 (NO. 20 OF 2015) . A...
Income Tax : After being passed by the lower house of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, May 7, 2015 has passed the Finance Bill, 2015. T...
Finance : India is a country of farmers. As a nation, our roots lie in our villages and farms, which have been providing sustenance to our p...
Finance : Prime Minister 31 March 2015 My Dear Young friends, With 65% of our population under the age of 35, India is the youngest nation i...
Finance : A Shrama Yogi like you fulfills many of our nation1s needs. You build India through your sweat and toil. You support the economy w...
Service Tax : Circular No. 184/3/2015-ST Dated the 3rd June, 2015 It is further clarified that exemption from service tax still continues to ser...
Income Tax : The Finance Act, 2015 (20 of 2015) has Inserted a new section 192A regarding the payment of accumulated provident fund balance due...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 15/2015-Central Excise (N.T.) Dated: May 19, 2015- Amends notification no. 12/2014 CE(NT) - Refund of Unutilized ...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 14/2015-Central Excise (N.T.)), Dated: May 19, 2015 Amends Rule 6 of the Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 - Rate of amo...
Service Tax : The Finance Bill, 2015, has received the assent of the Honorable President and has been notified. In the Budget, 2015, certain ame...
CBEC with effect from 1st April 2015 vide Notification No. 8/2015-ST, Dated: March 01, 2015 has amended the Abatement Notification No. 30/2012 dated 20.06.2012 as follows: (i) The taxable portion of service of transportation by rail, road and vessel shall be 30% subject to a uniform condition of non-availment of CENVAT Credit on inputs, capital goods and input services.
Seeks to amend notification No. 30/2012-Service Tax dated 20th June, 2012, so as to prescribe, the extent of service tax payable by the service provider and any other person liable for paying service tax other than the service provider. CBEC with effect from 1st April 2015 vide Notification No. 7/2015-ST, Dated: March 01, 2015has amended […]
16. Services by an artist by way of a performance in folk or classical art forms of (i) music, or (ii) dance, or (iii) theatre, if the consideration charged for such performance is not more than one lakh rupees
Notification No. 5/2015-ST, Dated: March 01, 2015, Seeks to amend Service Tax Rules, 1994 so as to prescribe,- (i) definition of an ‘aggregator’ and the ‘brand name or trade name’ (ii) the person liable to pay service tax for certain specified services; (iii) for issuing digitally signed invoices and their authentication by means of digital […]
Seeks to amend notification No. 31/2012-Service Tax, dated 20th June, 2012, so as to exempt services provided for transportation of export goods by road from the place of removal to a land customs station (LCS). CBEC vide Notification No. 4/2015-ST, Dated: March 01, 2015 has exempted services provided by goods transport agencyto an exporter for […]
NOTIFICATION. 3/2015-ST, Dated: March 01, 2015 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby rescinds the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of […]
Budget 2015-16 – Raising the limit of deduction under Section 80CCC Under the existing provisions contained in sub-section (1) of the section 80CCC, an assessee, being an individual is allowed a deduction upto one lakh rupees in the computation of his total income, of an amount paid or deposited by him to effect or keep […]
Abolition of levy of wealth-tax under Wealth-tax Act, 1957 Wealth-tax Act, 1957 (‘the WT Act’) was introduced w.e.f. 01.04.1957 on the recommendation of Prof. Nicholas Kaldor for achieving twin major objectives of reducing inequalities and helping the enforcement of Income-tax Act through cross checks. Accordingly, all the assets of the assessees were taken into account […]
Raising the limit of deduction under Section 80U for persons with disability and severe disability The existing provisions of section 80U, inter alia, provide for a deduction to an individual, being a resident, who, at any time during the previous year, is certified by the medical authority to be a person with disability (as defined […]
Raising the limit of deduction under section 80DD for persons with disability and severe disability The existing provisions of section 80DD, inter alia, provide for a deduction to an individual or HUF, who is a resident in India, who has incurred— a) Expenditure for the medical treatment (including nursing), training and rehabilitation of a dependant, […]