Good Budget

Section 44ADA is inserted with effect from financial year 2016-17 and deals Special provision for computing profits and gains of profession on presumptive basis for Certain professionals referred to in section 44AA(1) of the Income Tax Act whose total gross receipts from profession does not exceed Rs. 50 lakhs in a financial year....

It is proposed to amend the relevant provisions of the Act so as to provide adequate legal framework for paperless assessment in order to enhance efficiency and reduce the burden of compliance. A series of changes are proposed to achieve this end. Sub-section (1) of section 282A provides that where a notice or other document is required t...

Through this amendment the government has charged service tax on service provided by senior advocates on forward basis (i.e. service tax will be charged by senior advocates to their clients). Hence, they can utilize their Cenvat Credit by output service tax....

Under the existing provisions contained in sub-section (1) of the 11 5JB in case of a company, if the tax payable on the total income as computed under the Income-tax Act, is less than eighteen and one-half per cent of its book profit, such book profit shall be deemed to be the total income of the assessee and the tax payable by the asses...

For availing tax-neutral conversion, in addition to the existing conditions, the value of the total assets in the books of accounts of the company in any of the three previous years preceding the previous year in which the conversion takes place, should not exceed five crore rupees....

It is proposed to amend the provisions of section 50C so as to provide that where the date of the agreement fixing the amount of consideration for the transfer of immovable property and the date of registration are not the same, the stamp duty value on the date of the agreement may be taken for the purposes of computing the full value of ...

Finance Minister, in his budget speech, has proposed many incentives to encourage entrepreneurship in India. Some of the tax measures which will be beneficial for new start-ups are as follows- Optional lower tax rate of 25% for newly setup manufacturing companies. Hundred percent deduction of profits for three years (Proposed new Sec...

The existing provisions of section 44AD provide for a presumptive taxation scheme for an eligible business. Where in case of an eligible assessee engaged in eligible business having total turnover or gross receipts not exceeding rupees one crore, a sum equal to eight per cent. ...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has brought some sort of relief for the real estate/construction industry which is already struggling due to sluggish demand and economic slowdown. Excise duty exemption, which was earlier limited to Concrete Mix (CM) only, now being extended to Ready Mix Concrete (RMC) manufactured at construction site for c...

Our Finance Minister, Shri Arun Jaitely had provided for a scheme in name of The Indirect Tax Dispute Resolution Scheme, 2016 in the Finance Bill, 2016, presented before the house of people on 29/02/2016, for bringing down the disputes/litigation pending before Commissioner (Appeals). ...