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 ...
Income Tax : In order to ensure that the intended purpose of exemption availed by trust or institution is achieved, a specific provision in the...
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, ...
Income Tax : The Finance Bill was presented in the Lok Sabha on February 29, 2016. On May 5, 2016, the Lok Sabha passed the Finance Bill, 2016 ...
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...
Time limit for taking central excise registration of an establishment by a jeweller is being extended up to 31.07.2016. However, assessee jewellers may make the payment of excise duty for the months of March, 2016; April, 2016 and May. 2016 along with the payment of excise duty for the month of June, 2016 upto the extended date of 31.07.2016.
Vide Finance Act 2016, tax at source is required to be collected by a seller at the rate of 1%, if consideration for goods/services in cash exceeds INR 2,00,000/-. The said provisions have raised a lot of flak considering the ambiguity involved in the drafting and forced CBDT to issue time to time clarification on various issues involved. This article tries to capture and compile all the possible questions revolving the aforesaid provisions and best possible answers to such issues.
As per section 68(2) person liable to pay service tax shall be the person notified under rule 2(1)(d) of Service Tax Rules 1994. Rule 2(1)(d) specifies the cases where the service tax is required to be paid by service receiver under the reverse charge mechanism(either under full reverse charge or under partial reverse charge).
A Cess is a tax which is collected by the government to be used for a specific purpose. Thus collections from levy of cess can be used only for the purpose for which it has been collected and not for any other purpose, Finance Minister has mentioned in his budget speech that proceeds of KKC would be exclusively used for financing initiatives relating to improvement of agriculture and welfare of farmers.
For those having undisclosed income, the government has provided a special chance to declare it by September 30, 2016. He said by paying a penalty, those having undisclosed money can free themselves from various kinds of burden.
Krishna, the government has brought the provision of TCS (Tax Collected at Source) on sale of every product or service in income tax and everywhere a debate or discussion on it is going on. What exactly is there in this TCS provision?
In order to curb the cash economy, Finance Act 2016 has amended section 206C of the Income-tax Act to provide that the seller shall collect tax at the rate of one per cent from the purchaser on sale in cash of certain goods or provision of services exceeding two lakh rupees.
The concern of the industry that KKC shall be levied on the opening debtors i.e. remaining unpaid as on 31.03.2016 has been duly answered and no KKC shall be levied on such amounts. Though the notification is effective from 23.6.2016, payments of opening debtors as received between 01.6.2016 and 22.6.2016 can still be a cause of litigation
Central Government vide Notification No. 35/2016-ST dated June 23, 2016, has exempted taxable services with respect to which the invoice for the service has been issued on or before May 31, 2016, from the whole of KKC leviable thereon, subject to condition that the provision of service has been completed on or before May 31, 2016.
The Central Government has decided to levy Krishi Kalyan Cess @ 0.5% on the value of taxable services from 01/06/2016. As a result, there are bound to be questions as to how this levy will get integrated into the existing dynamic structure of the Service Tax provisions.
