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...
As per the present provision of Section 10(38) of Income Tax Act, the Long Term Capital Gains arising on transfer of Equity Shares or Units of Equity Oriented Funds or units of business trusts are exempt.
Budget 2018 could have led to a recent stock market rally of the investors to protect tax on long term capital gains, albeit it is benevolent foremost to the rural agrarian sector, followed by corporate sector with 25% corporate tax rate for financial year 2018-19 (applicable to the domestic companies having annual turnover below Rs. 250 crores in financial year 2016-17).
Many months before the presentation of the Union Budget 2018 on 1 February 2018, newspaper reports had predicted the possibility of re-introduction of tax on long-term capital gains arising from transfer of listed equity shares / units of equity oriented mutual funds / units of business trust (specified assets).
Capital assets and inventory are treated differently for the purpose of taxation and are governed by distinct provisions. As a result, classification of assets has often been a subject matter of challenge by the tax authorities. So also, a change in this classification by the taxpayer.
As per the proposed amendment and insertion of new section 112A of the Income-tax Act, 1961, long-term capital gains made on sale of equity shares or equity-oriented unit to be taxable at the rate of 10% with effect from 1 April 2018.
While Finance Bill, 2018 introduced a new tax regime for taxation of on long term capital gain on specified class of asset, there has been a lot of confusion regarding applicability, tax ability and calculation of the same. Here in this article, I have tried to clarify the same along with the illustration.
Income Tax slabs and rate of surcharge are not changed, but cess (additional surcharge) rate is increased from 3% to 4% which is obviously payable on aggregate of income-tax and surcharge. Now only single cess @ 4% called Health and Education Cess is there.
Taxation of Long Term Capital Gain (LTCG) on Listed Equity Shares (considering the amendments made through Budget 2017 & proposed in Budget 2018)
In the first budget since the end of demonetization and GST went online, the Finance Minister has again provided a thrust to the rural and agrarian economy, with the hope that it may stimulate growth. Please find enclosed herewith the Tax Bulletin analyzing the direct and indirect tax proposals as stated in the Budget.
The Finance Minister of India, vide the Finance Bill 2018, has thrown a surprise to the Indian taxation fraternity by aligning the scope of business connection with the rules as per the Multilateral Instrument (MLI)1 and also introducing the concept of Significant Economic Presence into the already existing deeming provisions of Business Connection in the Income tax Act 1961 (the Act).
