Income Tax : As the Financial Year 2017-18 is nearing completion, individual tax payers are having hardly one month time to save tax. For indi...
Income Tax : The Finance Bill 2018, has proposed to cover deemed dividend u/s 2(22)(e) of Income Tax Act, also for levy of dividend distributio...
Income Tax : The Union Budget of 2018-19 has changed the tax treatment of all equity and equity-oriented mutual funds. This change was by way o...
Income Tax : This article brings out the contradiction over the intention and implementation of amendment in section 11 so as to bring the disa...
Income Tax : As we all are aware that Finance Act, 2018 brought major amendment in the field of Medical Reimbursement Allowance and Mediclaim. ...
Income Tax : POST-BUDGET MEMORANDUM – 2018 1. INTRODUCTION 1.0 The Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India considers it a ...
Finance : Budget Session 2018 of Parliament concludes The Budget Session, 2018 of Parliament which commenced on Monday, 29th January, 2018 h...
Income Tax : The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has clarified that the pension received by a taxpayer from his former employer is taxable...
Custom Duty : With the enactment of the Finance Act, 2018, CBEC is renamed as the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC). The change...
Income Tax : The Lok Sabha on March 14, 2018 passed the Finance Bill 2018 after the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley moved as many as 21 amendm...
Corporate Law : In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 146, 178 and 191 of the Finance Act, 2018 (13 of 2018), the Central Government her...
Income Tax : CBDT releases Explanatory Notes to Provisions of Finance Act, 2018 vide Circular No. 8/2018 dated 26th of December, 2018 and expla...
Income Tax : CBDT has omitted provision related to exemption of transport allowance of Rs. 1,600 per month granted to an employee other than an...
Income Tax : Since the introduction of the Finance Bill, 2018 on 1st February, 2018, several queries have been raised in different fora on vari...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 12/2018-Central Excise Seeks to exempt 10% ethanol blended petrol from additional duty of excise (road and infras...
POST-BUDGET MEMORANDUM – 2018 1. INTRODUCTION 1.0 The Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India considers it a privilege to submit this Post-Budget Memorandum to the Government. 1.1 In this memorandum, we have suggested certain amendments to the proposals contained in the Finance Bill, 2018 which would help the Government to achieve the […]
Article explains Compulsory Filing of Income Tax Return Sec 139(1) with relevant due dates, Late Filing Penalty for Income Tax Return under Section 234F of the Income Tax Act, 1961 and Prosecution Proceedings for Late Filing of Income Tax Return under Section 276CC of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
After Budget 2018 LTCG TAX has raised a lot of question in the minds of an equity investor, an Existing investor who has been able to invest in equities for a long time is still not aware of the actual calculations in LTCG TAX on their investments. Investor assuming that they will have to pay 10% tax on the actual capital gain on sale of stocks or equity mutual funds.
Long Term Capital Gains on transfer of equity shares, units of equity oriented fund and units of business trust to be taxed under Sec 112A, as the exemption u/s 10(38) has been withdrawn with effect from 1st April 2018.
With the introduction of the Section 115BBDA in the Income Tax Act, 1961 by the Finance Act, 2016, w.e.f. 1-4-2017 the Government is levying 3 times tax on same source of Income. As per said section, when the shareholder receives the dividend in aggregate of more that Rs. 10 lakhs, then such shareholder have also to pay Income Tax. Therefore, effectively the Government is collecting 50.35% tax on same source of Income. The working of the same is explained in table as Annexed hereunder.
The biggest change implemented this financial year is the reintroduction of the long term capital gains tax on stock market investments. 10% Long Term Capital Gains (LTCG) tax will be imposed on profits exceeding `1 lakh made from the sale of stocks and equity-oriented mutual funds that have been held for over a year.
20 changes in Income Tax applicable from 01-04-2018 and 20 changes applicable from 01-04-2019 All major income tax changes made applicable in Budget 2017 & 2018 are carefully listed. 20 changes applicable from 01-04-2018 (Assessment Year 2018-19 / Financial Year 2017-18) and 20 changes applicable from 01-04-2019 (Assessment Year 2019-20 / Financial Year 2018-19).
New changes in the Income Tax Law by the Finance Act, 2018 have come into the effect from 01/04/2018 and a few provisions are effective from 01/04/2017, which have been mentioned at relevant places.
Tax planning is one of the Key planning in which everyone indulges to get the most out of the benefits available in Income Tax Act. Budget 2018 proposed some key changes in the income tax laws which will become effective from 01.04.2018. Following are New Income Tax Changes affecting Tax planning from 01.04.2018
New section 80TTB to allow a deduction upto Rs 50,000/- in respect of interest income from deposits held by senior citizens. However, no deduction under section 80TTA shall be allowed in these cases.
