Income Tax : Budget 2024 revises LTCG tax on property sales, cutting indexation benefits and affecting real estate investments. Learn how this ...
Income Tax : Explore the new reassessment provisions under the Finance Act, 2024, including updates to sections 148, 148A, 149, and 151, with s...
Income Tax : Key changes in the Finance (No. 2) Act 2024 include revised income tax rates, capital gains tax adjustments, and new definitions i...
Income Tax : The Finance Act, 2024, brought significant changes to the long-term capital gains (LTCG) tax on real estate sales. Notably, the LT...
Income Tax : The 2024 Budget changes tax rules for share buybacks, impacting shareholder taxation and reducing tax arbitrage. Learn the implica...
Income Tax : Key amendments to the Finance (No.2) Bill, 2024, include changes in tax rates, capital gains, customs duties, and excise laws, eff...
CA, CS, CMA : ICAI President's August 2024 message highlights India's economic growth, recent exam results, and the Union Budget's role in achie...
Goods and Services Tax : Discover the major amendments in GST, excise, and customs duties introduced in Budget 2024, including changes in CGST, IGST, and C...
Income Tax : Finance Bill 2024 proposes an amendment to Section 55 of the Income Tax Act to clarify the computation of cost of acquisition for ...
Income Tax : Budget 2024 extends the scope for lower deduction/collection certificates under Sections 197 and 206C, effective from October 2024...
Goods and Services Tax : Discover the key amendments in the Finance (No. 2) Bill, 2024, affecting CGST, IGST, UTGST, and Cess Act, including tax exemptions...
Income Tax : A petition has been filed in the Madras High Court challenging the section 271J of the Income Tax Act inserted vide Finance Act 2...
Income Tax : U/s 250(4), the CIT (A) has the power to direct enquiry and call for evidence from the assessee. Under Rule 46A, the assessee has ...
Income Tax : On August 16, 2024, President Droupadi Murmu officially granted her assent to the Finance (No 2) Bill, 2024. With this move, the b...
Income Tax : Explore the Finance Bill 2024, detailing income tax rates, surcharges, and provisions for various taxpayers, including individuals...
Goods and Services Tax : Govt. sets October 1, 2024, for Finance Act 2024, Section 13; April 1, 2025, for Sections 11 and 12, under Notification No. 16/202...
Custom Duty : Notification No. 51/2024-Customs (N.T.) introduces New Shippers Review in countervailing duty rules, effective from 24th July 2024...
Custom Duty : Notification No. 39/2024-Customs amends No. 45/2017-Customs to extend re-import period from 3 to 5 years, effective from 24th July...
194C- Under this section earlier there was same Rate of TDS in respect of Payment to all the class of the Assesses. Now finance minister has changed the rates and provided that that any person shall deduct tax at source at the rate of one per cent,if the payee is an individual or a Hindu undivided family or at the rate of two per cent. in the case of any other person, on payment to a resident contractor for carrying out any work.
Service tax levied on law firm Custom duty on gold re-imposed Customs duty to be reduced on drugs for heart treatment No new tax on edible oil imports 4 per cent excise duty on cotton products restored Customs duty on bio-diesel reduced Life saving devices on heart condition exempted from custom duty Small business exempt […]
Excise duty on fibre for cheaper cloth reduced service tax to be levied on law firms Excise duty on petrol-driven small trucks reduced to 10% Exemption of duty on goods made at construction sites restored Drugs for heart diseases to become cheaper Customs duty on gold and silver import increased Mobile phone accessories to become […]
No hike in passenger fares. No hike in freight rates. Book stores, PCOs to be set up across stations Infotainment services on Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains To take the private-public partnership route to develop stations Priority for food and water on trains Developing multi-functional complexes at stations Priority to passenger amenities Rail projects shouldn’t be […]
The finance ministry is considering a proposal to extend the tax exemption on inter-corporate dividends further down the chain of corporate subsidiaries in the upcoming Union Budget, a long-standing demand from India Inc. “The proposal is under consideration but a final decision has not been taken,” said a senior government official. The move is expected […]
The Union finance ministry is considering an increase in the central excise duty for some of the products that had benefited from the two rounds of reductions announced by the government as part of its fiscal stimulus measures last year. In December 2008, the government had reduced the general rate of central excise duty for […]
The Budget Session of Parliament will commence from July 2 and the General Budget for 2009-10 will be presented to the Lok Sabha on July 6. The schedule for the Budget Session of Parliament was decided at a meeting of the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Monday. The Railway […]
Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed has said, contrary to expectation, the Budget will not address the taxation issue related to limited liability partnerships. The issue will be clarified only next year, he added. “It is too short a time for us to sort out the issue, but it is flagged,” Khursheed told. The Ministry of […]
Individuals, who invest their savings in annuity plans offered by insurance firm, could see a drop in their tax burden. Insurance regulator IRDA is in talks with the government to make annuity-plans more tax-efficient. If the proposal is accepted in the coming budget, it will augment returns for retired employees and help insurers market these […]
As Maharashtra braces up for polls and celebrates its golden jubilee year, it tabled a revenue-deficit budget for the year 2009-10 on 4th June 2009 that focuses on infrastructure development and social sector. The major highlights and changes proposed are noted below : Penalty for late returns under MVAT Act reduced to Rs.5,000/- from Rs.10,000/-. Exemption […]
