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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...
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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...
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Goods and Services Tax : Ministry of Finance notifies commencement dates for provisions of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 2024. Key sections to come into force b...
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...
Pranab Mukherjee, the stand-in Prime Minister and Finance Minister of India, delivered the Interim Budget speech in the Lok Sabha on Monday 16.02.2009. Though, He did not announce any major sops for ailing industries or changes in tax structure and stuck to highlighting the achievements of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.
A delegation of the Public Finance Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (Icai) led by chairman, Mr Subodh Kumar Agrawal called on state finance minister Mr Prafulla Chandra Ghadei and offered free consultancy service to the state government. The consultancy service, free of cost, given to the Union government, state government and […]
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad presented the interim Railway Budget for 2009-10 in Parliament on Friday, saying the Railways have scaled new heights. Highlights of Lalu’s speech in Parliament: Reduction in passenger fares of ordinary passenger trains by Re 1 for fares costing up to Rs fifty per passenger for journey above ten kms. Fares of […]
The forthcoming interim budget could hold some pleasant surprises. Policymakers are examining all options, including tax cuts, aimed at giving a boost to the slowing economy and relief to industry to prevent job cuts. The Constitution does not restrain an outgoing government from announcing tax measures in an interim budget, ahead of general elections. “Constitutionally, […]
“The Indian stock market today has the potential to lift all boats across the entire social spectrum of the country and this potential needs to be exploited to the fullest if the government wants to realise the dream of reducing the poverty rate to single digit.”
The government is likely to revise downwards indirect tax collections target for the current financial year by at least Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion), because of cut in industrial production due to the global economic slowdown and duty sops.
It is strange that while reducing peak rate of excise duty from 14% to 10%, central government did not reduce the peak rate of service tax from 12% to 10% or 8%. After the reduction of excise duty with effect from 7-12-2008, now the rate of excise duty on packaged software will be 8% whereas rate of service tax on customized software will be 12%. [See excise notification no. 49/2006 CE dated 30/12/2006 as amended by notification no. 58/2008 CE dated 07/12/2008]
Government has focussed its attention on countering the impact of the global recession on India’s economic growth. On the monetary side, the RBI has sought to pump sufficient liquidity into the banking system to enable bank credit to meet the expanded requirements of the economy keeping in mind the contraction in credit from non-bank sources. Banks have been provided adequate liquidity through a series of reductions in the CRR and additional flexibility in meeting the SLR requirement.
Companies and individuals who do not reveal their Permanent Account Number (PAN) while receiving income from any source will be liable to pay tax deducted at source (TDS) at the maximum marginal rate of 30 per cent (plus surcharge and education cess). Under the Income Tax Act, 1961, any income payable to the assessee is liable for TDS by the person or entity making the payment. TDS rate ranges from 1 per cent to 30 per cent depending on the nature of income. The Central Board of Direct Taxes is considering changes to the Act to this effect.
Circular no. 3/ 2008 .1 The Finance Act, 2007 (hereafter referred to as the Act) as passed by the Parliament, received the assent of the President on the 11th day of May, 2007 and has been enacted as Act No. 22 of 2007. This circular explains the substance of the provisions of the Act relating to direct taxes. 2. Changes made by the Finance Act, 2007 2.1 The Finance Act, 2007 (hereinafter referred to as the Act), has,
