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We conducted a Performance Audit on levy & collection of Service Tax on Entertainment Sector, to seek an assurance regarding adequacy of Service Tax rules and regulations relating to entertainment sector and systems in place to ensure compliance to the same. The. audit was conducted in 17 selected. Commissionerates, including one division and one range in each. Commissionerates and examination of records relating to 307 assessees. The audit covered the three years period from 2013-14. to 2015-16.
Several companies that were having large profit from business and distributing substantial portion of the income to their shareholders as dividend, were reducing their tax liability by availing various deductions and exemptions available in the Act.
We recommend CBDT to consider prescribing measurable parameters for assessment of charitable activities undertaken by private hospital trusts as a pre-condition for granting exemptions under the Income Tax Act, and amend the Act for this purpose if necessary.
This performance audit covered the assessment of private hospitals, nursing homes/medical clinics, medical colleges/research institutes, diagnostic centres, pathological labs, medical supplies agencies/stores including those running on ‘not for-profit basis’, and healthcare delivery professionals which included cases of scrutiny assessments, appeal and rectification cases completed during the period from 2012-13 to 2015-16.
Criteria for verification of TDS returns-CAG recommend that the CBDT may prescribe the procedure and criteria for selection of TDS returns for verification.
CBEC constituted, in 2004, a Centralised Task Force (CTF) to co-ordinate, facilitate, monitor and oversee the efforts of Customs and Central Excise field formations in recovery of arrears. We observed that though the Task Force was entrusted with finalising and implementing strategies for realisation of arrears it did not take any such action for realisation of arrears.
CAG in its Report No. 2 of 2017 (Direct Taxes) pointed out mistake in business rules relating to matching of TDS with offered income. Full potential of CPC such as AST-CPC interface for accessing demand/refund information, information available with AO not used in processing returns, non-linking of previous years’ ITRs resulting in excess deduction, was not realised due to not changing the definition of ‘processing’.
Report No.1 of 2017 – Union Government (Indirect Taxes – Customs) has 101 paragraphs with revenue implication of Rs. 495 crore and two subject specific compliance paragraphs of Rs. 568 crore. In addition systemic and internal control deficiencies involving revenue of Rs. 6430 crore have been included in the report.
The Performance Audit of CAG revealed deficiencies in the design and enabling provisions of the Service Tax Voluntary Compliance Encouragement Scheme, 2013 (VCES), non-compliance to provisions prescribed in various stages and inadequacies in tax administration
The CAG said that our Governments have taken several initiatives to address the challenges faced by our countries and the people by automating service delivery, choosing partners in development through Public Private Partnership arrangements, opening up economy for foreign direct investments and by focusing on sustainable development.
