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...
Hence, after levy of Krishi Kalyan Cess (KKC), Service tax rate will increase from 14.5% to 15%, effective from June 1, 2016. In this regard, there are many queries, which require clarification. We have summarized these queries through Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) enumerated below.
Considering requirements of Direct Tax Dispute Resolution Scheme, 2016, administrative efficiency, convenience of tax payers and equitable distribution of work, the Principal Chief Commissioners of Income Tax addressed above will notify that the jurisdictional Principal Commissioner of Income Tax or the Commissioner of Income Tax, as the case may be, who exercises jurisdiction U/s. 120 of the Act, as notified by the CBDT from time to time over such declarant, shall be designated authority as referred to in Scheme.
The enabling provisions for KRISHI KALYAN CESS (KKC) are contained in Chapter – VI of Finance Act’ 2016. As per the provisions, KKC shall be applicable at 0.5% on all taxable services and the proceeds of KKC would be exclusively used for financing initiatives relating to improvement of agriculture and welfare of farmers. The Cess […]
CHAPTER IX OF THE FINANCE ACT, 2016 THE INCOME DECLARATION SCHEME, 2016 Short title and commencement. 181. (1) This Scheme may be called the Income Declaration Scheme, 2016. (2) It shall come into force on the 1st day of June, 2016. Definitions. 182. In this Scheme, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) “declarant” means a […]
Certain amendments made in the Union Budget 2016-17 have come into force from the date when the Finance Bill, 2016 received the assent of the President of India. As a result, these amendments have come into effect from 14.5.2016. Some of these include notification Nos. 13/2016 – ST, 14/2016 – ST and certain entries in notification Nos. 9/2016 – ST and 10/2016- ST, all dated 1.3.2016.
Finance minister, Mr. Jaitley had proposed to impose a provision for collection of Tax at source at the rate of 1%, in case of Sale of Motor Vehicle and finally it was passed and law amended. Effective date is 1st June, 2016. In this article, I am trying to answer most commonly asked questions on this Amendment.
Relevant Rules to understand the implication of new levy: i. Rule 4 of Point of Taxation Rules, 2011 (POTR, 2011) – Change in Effective Tax Rate, ii. Rule 5 of POTR, 2011 – Service Taxed for the first time iii. Notification No. 10/2016-ST dated 01st March, 2016 (insertion of explanation in Rule 5)
In this article, we have herein below summarized the amendments made by notifications in service tax law. Cenvat credit on Input Services has now been allowed for the services of transportation of goods by Rail (Other than transport of goods in containers by rail by any person other than Indian Railways). (There is an abatement of 70% for transportation of goods and passengers by rail, still the government allowed the cenvat credit on Input Services.) – S. No 2 of Notification.
it has been notified that w.e.f. 1.6.2016, wherever reverse charge mechanism is applicable in terms of Notification No. 30/2012-ST dated 20.06.2012, the same (reverse charge) shall be applicable mutatis mutandis for the purpose of Krishi Kalyan Cess.
TCS provisions have been made applicable to all the goods and services wef 01-06-2016. While the provisions are intended to frame a system of reporting high value transactions to curb black money, the law framed by the parliament in this regard is plagued by number of doubts and issues which can clog the very implementation of provisions. The author has made a humble attempt to consolidate the issues involved in this taxation as under:
