Income Tax : The Bill retains corporate tax rates while rationalising MAT and offering targeted incentives for IT, cloud services, and global i...
Income Tax : Budget 2016: In furtherance of the goal of the Government of providing 'housing for all', it is proposed to incentivise first-home...
Income Tax : In this Budget, from 1 June 2016, The transactions are sale of a motor vehicle of value exceeding Rs.10 lakh, and receipt of mone...
Income Tax : The existing provision of section 206C of the Act, inter alia, provides that the seller shall collect tax at source at specified r...
Income Tax : In order to reduce compliance burden, it is proposed to amend the said section 206AA so as to provide that the provisions of this ...
Corporate Law : The IBBI has proposed a new regulation to cap the total number of assignments for Insolvency Professionals (IPs) at 10, including ...
Corporate Law : Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Online Delivery of Educational Course and Continuing Professional Education by Insolvenc...
Income Tax : The Government has assured complete confidentiality to those declaring their income under the Income Declaration Scheme 2016. Add...
Income Tax : For those having undisclosed income, the government has provided a special chance to declare it by September 30, 2016. He said by ...
Income Tax : This is to inform you that as per the Notification No. 37/2016: F.No. 370142/12/2016-TPL dated 27 May 2016 read with Finance Act, ...
Corporate Law : NCLT Delhi held that non-payment of outstanding lease rent falls under the ambit of ‘Operational Debt’ as defined under sectio...
Company Law : The view that NCLT had no jurisdiction to entertain Section 95 Application filed by the Financial Creditor and the Application oug...
Corporate Law : NCLAT Chennai held that suspension of initiation of CIRP (Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process) as per provisions of section 10...
Service Tax : Honble Gujarat High Court has vide its order dated 30th March, 2016 in the case of Percy Cawas Kavina vs. UOI in Special Civil Ap...
Corporate Law : Jitender Kumar Jain's RTI appeal for details on a show cause notice was dismissed as personal information, with no larger public i...
Custom Duty, Excise Duty, Service Tax : As you are aware, in order to reduce litigation, Government has come out with an Indirect Tax Dispute Resolution Scheme, 2016 in t...
Income Tax : Processes of uploading manual/paper Form 1 received by PCIT/CIT, generation of Form 2 for efiled/paper Form 1, viewing of Form 3 s...
Excise Duty : Time limit for taking central excise registration of an establishment by a jeweller is being extended up to 31.07.2016. However, a...
Income Tax : Question 1: Whether tax collection at source under section 206C(1D) at the rate of 1% will apply in cases where the sale consider...
In order to be eligible to the concessional rate of duty of 1%, the articles of jewellery shall be manufactured from inputs or capital goods on which appropriate duty of excise leviable has been paid. Appropriate duty includes nil duty also. On failing to prove it, the duty at tariff rate i.e. 12.5% shall apply.
Broadly what types of Government Departments are chargeable to service tax? As per the definition mentioned in point 2 broadly three categories of government entities are covered under the service tax law: a. Departments of Central Government b. State Government & its departments c. Union Territory and its Departments
Effective from April 1, 2016, under clause (iv) of Section 66D(a) of the Finance Act, 1994, the words ‘support services’ have been substituted by the words ‘any service’ thereby, the liability to pay Service tax on any service provided by Government or a Local Authority to Business Entities is on the service recipient under Reverse Charge except in case of (1) renting of immovable property, and (2) services specified in sub-clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of clause (a) of Section 66D of the Finance Act.
Imposition of Central Excise duty on jewellery Constitution of sub-committee of the High Level Committee – regarding- In continuation to the Circular No. 1021/9/2016-CX dated 21.03.2016, issued vide F. No. 354/25/2016-TRU, the composition of the Sub-Committee referred to therein would be as under:
All the Assessee/Contractor/Service Provider (Contractor) who entered into contract for construction, erection, commissioning, installation, completion, fitting out, repair, maintenance, renovation, or alteration of construction with Government, a local authority or a governmental authority (“Contractee”)prior to the issue of this notification are covered by this levy.
Provisions relating to filing of income tax returns- At present, an Individual or an HUF has to file its income tax return, before the due date which is generally 31st July of the subsequent year, if the total income before deducting various deductions available under Chapter VIA exceeds the basic exemption limit.
Prior to Finance Bill 2016, Legal Services were covered under reverse charge mechanism as per Notification No 30/2012-ST dated 20.06.2012. In respect of services received by any Business Entity [whose turnover exceeds Rs 10 lakhs in the preceding financial year] from an Individual Advocate or Firm of Advocates was chargeable to tax under reverse charge mechanism.
Section 115JB is nothing but the Minimum Tax that a company is required to pay. This section provides that in case the tax payable by a company is less than 18.5 % of its books profit in any assessment year beginning from 01.04.2012, then such book profit will be assumed to be the income of the company and tax payable by the company during that financial year will be 18.5 % of such book profit. This is provided u/s 115JB(1).
The objective of the BEPS Project is to close gaps in international tax rules, effectively eliminating or substantially reducing BEPS; and to secure government revenues by ensuring that profits are taxed in the jurisdiction where the economic activities generating such profits are performed and where value is created.
Excise duty of 1% (without CENVAT credit) or 12.5% (with CENVAT credit) is being levied on articles of jewellery [excluding silver jewellery, other than studded with diamonds/other precious stones]. Before dwelling deep into the subject, it would be appropriate to first understand the concept of excise duty.
