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The Finance Bill, 2017 proposes to amend section 79 to provide that where a change in shareholding has taken place in a previous year in the case of a company, not being a company in which the public are substantially interested and being an eligible start-up as referred to in section 80-IAC of the Act
An issue arises as to whether the proposed amendment intends to take out sale of jewellery completely from TCS levy or intends to retain the TCS levy on jewellery but with lower threshold of Rs. 2 lakhs.
Looking to the hard realities, practical problems of traders in respect of payments for the purchases for business, there was need to increase threshold limit of Rs. 20000/- instead it is proposed to be Rs. 10000/- w.e.f. from 1.4.2017(effective date i.e. from the start of the FY 2017-18).
Finance Minister Mr Arun Jaitley, in his Budget for 2017-18, has put the money where the mouth is. Among different descriptions about the Rs 21.46 lakh crore Budget, the most apt came from a top global banker who said it was a piece of workmanship and business-like.
The 2017 Union Budget estimates for health show an appreciable increase of more than 27%, from Rs. 37061.55 cr in 2016-17, the budget estimate for 2017-18 has been increased to Rs. 47352.51 cr. Further the Government has prepared an action plan to eliminate Kala-Azar and Filariasis by 2017; to eliminate Leprosy by 2018, Measles by 2020 and to eliminate Tuberculosis by 2025.
The Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley named agriculture as one of the 10 important sectors that were the focus of his budget for 2017-18. He backed it up with announcements of crucial measures towards raising farmers’ incomes including enhancing credit availability
The 2017-18 budget can also be dubbed as a landmark budget from the point of view of property consumers. The budget taxes the affluent and rewards the honest tax payers by way of big personal income tax relief for the lower middle class by halving the tax on yearly income of 2.5- 5 lakh, besides raising IT limit to 3 lakh. Moreover, budget provisions discourage speculative buying by High Net-worth Individuals and on the contrary encourage genuine end- user buying of affordable homes.
Section 50CA and section 56(2)(x)(c)- Fair Market Value to be full value of consideration in case of transfer of unquoted shares –Amendment required in view of double taxation in the hands of seller as well as buyer
The Finance Bill 2017 proposes to insert sub-section (5A) in the existing section 45 to provide that the capital gains arising to an individual or Hindu undivided family under a Joint Development Agreement shall be taxed in the year in which completion certificate for the whole or part of the project is received
In order to avoid the unintended hardship to small taxpayer, the limit of exemption under section 56 may be increased from 50,000 to Rs. 5 lakhs.
