Goods and Services Tax : GSTN has made Table 3.2 of GSTR-3B non-editable with auto-population from GSTR-1/1A/IFF. The update ensures consistency in inter-S...
Goods and Services Tax : Lower GST rates and tax reforms boosted consumption and manufacturing, driving India’s GDP growth to 8.2% despite global economi...
Corporate Law : India implements four new Labour Codes consolidating 29 old laws, modernizing wage, safety, and social security regulations, while...
Goods and Services Tax : Tribunal introduced a phased filing schedule to prevent system congestion on new electronic platform. The directive ensures orderl...
Goods and Services Tax : Essential steps for filing GST appeals before the Appellate Tribunal, covering order review, appeal drafting, documentation, and a...
Goods and Services Tax : Explore the robust growth in GST collection for FY 2023-24, crossing Rs. 20 lakh crore, reflecting economic resilience and improve...
Goods and Services Tax : April, 2023 has registered a revenue collection (GST) at Rs. 187 lakh crore, which is the highest ever since introduction of GST i...
Goods and Services Tax : GST book on ‘Assessment, Adjudication, Demand & Recovery’ provides a one point lucid guide which is an easy to und...
Finance : A realistic consequence of COVID pendamic could be counted in terms of loss of jobs, stagnant or reduced employment opportunities,...
Goods and Services Tax : New Book on GST Namely Compendium of Judicial Pronouncements (Relevant under GST Regime) Authored by Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal and publi...
Service Tax : Explore exemption under Entry No. 14 for machining of rails in case of Voestalpine VAE VKN India Pvt. Ltd. vs. Commissioner of Cen...
Goods and Services Tax : AAAR held that supply of coaching service by the appellant along with supply of goods/printed material/test papers, uniform, bags ...
Goods and Services Tax : Chandra Prakash Mishra Vs Flipkart India Private Limited & Ors. (Supreme Court of India) In Chandra Prakash Mishra v. Flipkart...
Goods and Services Tax : In re Resonance Eduventures Limited (GST AAR Rajasthan) The order is important as it contradicts its own ruling in Symmetric Infra...
Goods and Services Tax : In re Symmetric Infrastructure Private Limited (GST AAR Rajasthan) Q.1 Applicant supplies services of coaching to students which a...
A new book on Service Tax – New Law of Service Tax in India, authored by Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal, a Chartered Accountant and Service Tax expert was released by Mr. Gautam Bhattacharya, IRS, Commissioner of Service Tax, New Delhi at a function at Delhi. This 1600 page book is the latest book on Service Tax updated upto 20th October 2012 and comprehensively deals with nitty grities of or Service Tax law, practice and procedures. The commentary is exhaustive and supported by case laws.
While September is the month for filing Income Tax returns by business entities, in Service Tax, it is October of the year which keeps all services providers busy in filing their Service Tax returns for first six months ,i.e. April to September. The last date is 25th October of the year after which penalty is attracted which may go upto Rs. 20,000.
Once again festive season is on our head. While next three weeks are going to bring in cheers and happiness to all of us, with festive mood and sentiments dominating the activities, such a celebration calls for spending a lot. Spending may not be that easy as we face mounting inflation across the board. High interest costs leading to higher EMIs on loans to be taken for buying consumer durables or a dream car or even a house. It calls for an extra liquidity which will have to be thought of.
While the levy of Service Tax on railway freight was introduced in the year 2006 but could not be enforced due to Railway Ministry being headed by one of the ruling party’s allies in the alliance, the levy of Service Tax on transport of passengers was introduced by Finance Act, 2012 w.e.f. 1st July, 2012 but was held in abeyance due to pressure from the Ministry of Railways for a period upto 30th September, 2012.
If hike in diesel prices and controlled supply of subsidized cooking gas cylinders created a political furor all over, the other reform measures such as allowing FDI in retail, substantial reduction in taxes on overseas borrowings by Indian Companies from 20% to 5% and final announcement of Rajiv Gandhi Equity Scheme (RGES) as announced in Budget brought much awaited frenzy on the stock markets.
Vide Notification No. 6/2005-ST dated 1.3.2005, a threshold exemption scheme was introduced by Finance Act, 2005 (effective from 1.4.2005) exempting from service tax aggregate value of taxable services not exceeding four lakh rupees received by the service provider during a financial year.
What a week it has been – first the Government infused a bitter pill on the citizens of the country by two non-populist steps in increasing diesel rates by five rupees a litre and substantially enhancing the prices of cooking gas over six cylinders in a year (three for the current year). This was followed by yet another bold decision of allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail and aviation, which is being opposed by most political parties, besides ruling congress’s own allies and members.
While mutual funds provide a safe and desirable mode of investment for retail investors, they have not grown much due to lack of infrastructure on one hand and poor return to investors vis-à-vis their expectations. Mutual funds in India suffer from inadequate and non- expert distribution network as required, lack of penetration of products, lacunas in regulation of distribution network etc, besides investor protection issues.
With Service Tax regime migrating to negative list approach w.e.f. July 1, 2012, almost all the services except those in negative list (section 66D) and exempted services (Notification No. 25 2012-ST dated 20.06.2012) have become exigible to service tax .
New investment in equity shares of companies which comes through primary market is almost nil for last few two years or so. As such while the investors are deprived from investing in primary market, corporate also loose the opportunity to tap the market through public offerings.
