Income Tax : Govt. has come out with index table called Cost Inflation Index whose base year was fixed as 1-4-1981. In Finance Bill 2017 the Go...
Income Tax : Krishna, Government of India has taken a major step towards ensuring that people get their own house by introducing Pradhan Mantri...
Income Tax : Article discusses Union Budget 2017 provisions related to ELECTORAL BOND. It discusses if the same is a legal weapon to curb and m...
Income Tax : Central Government is putting all efforts to curb use of cash which is focused on un-accounted transactions. As we all know, not a...
Income Tax : Finance Act’2017 had made some major changes relating to Charitable and religious trusts. In this Article we have discussed five...
Income Tax : TAXGURU invites you to be a part of ‘BUDGET 2021 Knowledge Sharing Campaign‘. The campaign has been initiated with the...
Income Tax : The Finance Bill, 2017 proposes to levy fees of Rs.5,000 in case where return is furnished after the due date but on or before 31S...
Income Tax : Download Union Finance Budget 2018 as presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today in Lok Sabha AS INTRODUCED IN LOK SABHA ON ...
CA, CS, CMA : The Finance Bill, 2017 proposed an insertion of Section 271J in the Income-tax Act, 1961. Considering the undue hardships to be ca...
Finance : Lok Sabha Speaker congratulates the Prime Minister, Union Finance Minister, Members of Union Cabinet, Members of Lok Sabha and Off...
Income Tax : A petition has been filed in the Madras High Court challenging the section 271J of the Income Tax Act inserted vide Finance Act 2...
Income Tax : CBDT has issued Explanatory Notes to the Provisions of the Finance Act, 2017 vide Circular No. 02/2018 dated 15.02.2018 clarifying...
Income Tax : Every person responsible for deduction of tax under section 194-IB shall furnish the certificate of deduction of tax at source in ...
Corporate Law : Central Government hereby appoints the 26th day of May, 2017 as the date on which the provisions of the PART XIV of Chapter VI of ...
Goods and Services Tax : The Acts and Rules, which are amended, vide budget 2017-18 in Maharashtra are as follows: 1. The Maharashtra Purchase Tax on Sugar...
Income Tax : CBDT notified that Section 269ST not applies to cash receipt from banking company, post office savings bank or co-operative bank....
In India, the quantum of domestic black money is huge which adversely affects the revenue of the Government creating a resource crunch for its various welfare programmes. Black money is generally transacted in cash and large amount of unaccounted wealth is stored and used in form of cash.
Under existing provisions of section 80G, deduction is not allowed in respect of donation made of any sum exceeding Rs.10,000, if the same is not paid by any mode other than cash.
Article discusses Legislative changes vide union budget 2017 regarding Authority for Advance Ruling/ Settlement of Cases, Amendments involving change in the duty rates, applicability of Section 5A of the Excise Act in respect of inputs imported or exported by EOU, Amendment in the Central Excise Rules, 2002, Changes in duty rates regarding commodity falling under ‘Renewable Energy’ etc.
Article disusses amendment in Custom duty carried out /; Proposed by union budget 2017 related to Amendments in Customs Act, 1962 / Customs Tariff Act, 1975, Legislative changes regarding Authority for Advance Ruling/ Settlement of Cases, Amendments affecting rates of BCD etc.
Changes in Tax rates & Surcharge: Existing Income Tax rates for Individual or Hindu undivided family or every association of persons or body of individuals, whether incorporated or not, or every artificial juridical person having income of Rs. 2.5 lakhs to Rs. 5 lakhs is reduced to 5% from the present rate of 10%.
In order to discourage the cash transactions and to bring transparency in the source of funding to political parties , it is proposed to amend the provisions of section 13A to provide for additional conditions for availing the benefit of the said section which are as under:
It is proposed to amend section 44AD of the Act to reduce the existing rate of deemed total income of eight per cent. to six per cent in respect of the amount of such total turnover or gross receipts received by an account payee cheque or account payee bank draft or use of electronic clearing system through a bank account during the previous year or before the due date specified in sub-section (1) of section 139 in respect of that previous year.
Budget 2017 proposes ro reduce existing threshold of cash payment to a person from twenty thousand rupees to ten thousand rupees in a single day; i.e any payment in cash above ten thousand rupees to a person in a day, shall not be allowed as deduction in computation of Income from Profits and gains of business or profession
Article Covers Changes in Service Tax carried out by union budget 2017 including changes in negative list, advance authority rules, changes in Service Tax applicability on some services etc.
FM reduced rate of taxation from existing 10 per cent to 5 per cent for individual assesses between income of Rs 2.5 lakhs to Rs 5 lakhs. This would reduce tax liability of all persons below Rs 5 lakh income either to zero (with rebate) or 50 per cent of their existing liability.
