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The Finance Bill, 2012 as passed by the Lok Sabha amends Sections 245N and 245R wef April 1, 2013. After the amendment any person (resident or non-resident) may make an application to AAR for determination by it whether an arrangement, which is proposed to be undertaken by him/it, is an impermissible avoidance agreement as referred to in Chapter X-A or not.
Finance Bill, 2012 – No provision was proposed in Finance Bill, 2012 to exempt the income of Prasar Bharati. Finance Bill, 2012 as passed by Lok Sabha – A new clause (23BBH) shall be inserted in Section 10 to exempt the income.
Circular No. 158/9/2012 –ST The rate of service tax has been restored to 12% w.e.f. 1st April 2012. Representations have been received requesting clarification on the rate of tax applicable wherein invoices were raised before 1st April 2012 and the payments shall be after 1st April 2012. Clarification has been requested in case of the 8 specified services provided by individuals or proprietary firms or partnership firms, to which Rule 7 of Point of Taxation Rules 2011 was applicable and services on which tax is paid under reverse charge.
The Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on 7th May 2012 introduced amendments to the Finance Bill 2012. The text of the amendments is available. Download Amendments To Finance Bill 2012 As Introduced In Parliament .
The Reserve Bank of India is formulating a scheme for subsidiarisation of Indian branches of foreign banks to ring fence Indian capital and Indian operations from economic shocks external to the Indian economic scenario. To support this effort, I propose to provide tax neutrality for such subsidiarisation.
In the budget 2012, our Finance Minister Mr Pranab Mukherjee announced a series of proposals which intended to check tax evasion, improve tax compliance and tax collection. The most important among these proposals are: GAAR, TDS on immovable property purchases, Excise duty on gold jewellery etc. Today in the Budget bill discussion in the Parliament, the Finance Minister amended some of the proposals that he announced in the budget day. Here is a synopsis of the original proposals, the changes and the effects of such changes.
To promote further depth of the capital markets through listing of companies, I propose to extend the benefit of tax exemption on long term capital gains to the sale of unlisted securities in an initial public offer. For this purpose, I propose to provide the levy of Securities Transaction Tax (STT) at the rate of 0.2 per cent on such sale of unlisted securities.
I would like to confirm that clarificatory amendments do not override the provisions of Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) which India has with 82 countries. It would impact those cases where the transaction has been routed through low tax or no tax countries with whom India does not have a DTAA .
(i) Remove the onus of proof entirely from the taxpayer to the Revenue Department before any action can be initiated under GAAR. (ii) Introduce an independent member in the GAAR approving panel to ensure objectivity and transparency. One member of the panel now would be an officer of the level of Joint Secretary or above from the Ministry of Law.
Imposition of Central Excise duty on unbranded precious metal jewellery at the rate of 1% – Government has decided to withdraw the levy on all precious metal jewellery, branded or unbranded, with effect from 17th March, 2012.
