Goods and Services Tax : The right to claim ITC on goods and/or services received by the Recipient is never disputed both in GST law and erstwhile VAT regi...
Goods and Services Tax : Interest on Delayed Payment of Tax – on Gross or Net Tax Liability – Bone of Contention Remains There has been a big controver...
Goods and Services Tax : September 2020 marks an important month for completion of major compliances under Goods & Services Tax. We present below the l...
Goods and Services Tax : GSTR-3B is a summary return which came into existence since GSTR-2 and GSTR-3 never saw the light of the day due to the technical ...
Goods and Services Tax : Relaxations in due date of Filing of GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B-Article also discusses Conditional Date for Waiver of Late Fee and interes...
E1: INCREASE IN CLEAN ENERGY CESS [NOTIFICATION NO 1& 2/2016 DATED 29TH FEB,2016]- APPLICABLE FROM 1ST MARCH 2016 The Clean Energy Cess is being renamed as Clean Environment Cess. Also, the Tenth Schedule to the Finance Act, 2010 dealing with Clean Energy Cess is being amended so as to increase the Scheduled rate of Clean […]
GST is commonly described as indirect, comprehensive, broad based consumption Tax. The Dual GST which would be implemented in India will subsume many consumption taxes. The objective is to remove the multiplicity of tax levies thereby reducing the complexity and remove the effect of Tax Cascading. The objective is to subsume all those taxes that […]
The Constitution (122nd Amendment) Bill, 2014 was introduced in Lok Sabha on December 19, 2014 and was passed by it on May 6, 2015. The Bill was referred to a Select Committee of Rajya Sabha for examination which submitted its Report on July 22, 2015. The Report contained various recommendations along with three Notes of Dissent submitted by Congress, AIADMK and CPI.
One of the crucial issue for successful implementation of GST relates to the determination of the GST rate. Since the GST is primarily intended as an exercise in reforming the consumption tax in India and not an exercise for additional resource mobilisation through discretionary changes, the CGST and SGST rates should be such rates which […]
Goods & Service Tax – Key Features In continuance of our earlier series titled GST Knowledge Series# 1, Understanding the Mechanics of Goods & Service Tax, we have discussed the basic DNA of Goods & Service Tax popularly known as GST. These features as applicable to India were: DUAL GOODS AND SERVICE TAX APPLICABILITY OF […]
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a comprehensive value added tax (VAT) on the supply of goods or services. It is levied and collected on value addition at each stage on sale or purchase of goods or supply of services based on input tax credit method but without state boundaries.
Analysis of Service tax rate increase from 12.36% to 14% (Subsuming EC and SHEC) effective from 01.06.2015 After the Hon’ble President has given assent to the Finance Bill, 2015 on May 14, 2015, the Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue vide Notification No. 14/2015-ST dated May 19, 2015 has notified increase in the rate of […]
INANCE BILL 2015 RECEIVED PRESIDENT ASSENT Finance Bill, 2015 has got President Assent on 14th May, 2015 and has become Finance Act, 2015. As you know, Finance Bill 2015 has proposed lot of changes in Service tax provisions, applicable with effect from various dates. Now with the enactment of Finance Bill, 2015, following changes have […]
The Finance Bill, 2015 has proposed Lot of changes in Service tax provisions. These changes will be coming into effect on various dates. Based on date of applicability of provisions, the various changes can be categorized as follows: (i) Changes coming into effect immediately w.e.f. the 1st day of March, 2015; (ii) Changes coming into […]
Rates of Income Tax- No change in the basic exemption limit and the tax rates for individuals. Corporate tax rates proposed to be reduced from 30% to 25% over the next four years, starting from next financial year. For FY 2015-16, it is 30% same as last year. Additional surcharge @ 2% being levied on income exceeding Rs. 1 crore. This surcharge would be levied in place of Wealth-tax which is proposed to be abolished.
