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...
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Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley presents general Budget 2018-19 in Parliament. Budget guided by mission to strengthen agriculture, rural development, health, education, employment, MSME and infrastructure sectors. Government says, a series of structural reforms will propel India among the fastest growing economies of the world. Country firmly on course to achieve over 8 % growth as manufacturing, services and exports back on good growth path.
> To reduce the cost of capital for the MSMEs by improving lenders access to low-cost funding sources. > Lowering of income tax rates for businesses and professionals. This will also encourage them to wider taxation coverage. > From a digital perspective expect more incentives on digital payments and by bringing some changes in direct […]
Limited Liability Partnerships (LLP) were introduced with the objective to overcome the inherent limitations of partnership firms – blended with features of the “company” form of business structure. It was envisaged that the LLP model will soon gain immense popularity; however, there are some practical (and largely tax) challenges that need to be addressed in order to make LLPs the go-to structure for businesses.
Inheritance or Estate Tax is levied on the value of assets passed on to legal heirs through inheritance. Whether the time has come to reintroduce said inheritance tax in India? Whether prevailing conditions are in its favour? The answer is affirmative. In the interest of revenue, if not in this budget, the Ministry of Finance […]
As per the provisions of section 10(5) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, an exemption of the value of leave Travel Concession/ Assistance received by the employee from his employer is provided subject to fulfillment of prescribed conditions.
Section 234E provides for levy of fees of Rs 200 per day where there is delay in filing of quarterly TDS returns.
In the case Goetze (India) Ltd. v. CIT (2006) 284 ITR 323 (SC) the assessee filed its return of income for the relevant assessment year without claiming a particular deduction. Later on, it sought to claim the deduction by way of a letter addressed to the Assessing Officer.
Minimum Alternate Tax, though on the statute since practically 3 decades now, has always been a subject matter of controversy. Even after all the amendments to it over the years, most recently to align it with the Ind-AS provisions, there is still room for filling in certain gaps. This article seeks to raise certain concerns, which, hopefully, will be addressed by the Union Budget 2018.
Till date all government awareness programmes for education of tax payers adopt the stick approach like making them aware of penalties and prosecution under the Income tax Act, 1961.This approach may not yield the desired results.
