Goods and Services Tax : Professionals who started their career in the Indirect tax space some 10- 15 years back in Asia would have never thought the kind ...
Service Tax : With effect from December 1, 2016 the taxability of Online Information and Database Access or Retrieval (‘OIDAR’) services sha...
Goods and Services Tax : Goods and Services tax (popularly known as GST) would soon be the new system of indirect taxation in India that will subsume all t...
Goods and Services Tax : Currently, majority mobile handset companies operate from warehouses in every state via stock transfer (through statutory forms) a...
Goods and Services Tax : Not so long ago in order to have a one off scrumptious meal, an ordinary citizen was required to go through the travails of an ino...
Professionals who started their career in the Indirect tax space some 10- 15 years back in Asia would have never thought the kind of adrenaline rush, anxiety and tremendous professional growth opportunities they will experience in the coming years.
With effect from December 1, 2016 the taxability of Online Information and Database Access or Retrieval (‘OIDAR’) services shall undergo a complete change.
Goods and Services tax (popularly known as GST) would soon be the new system of indirect taxation in India that will subsume all the other indirect taxes that has been levied and collected in India so far. From the viewpoint of a taxpayer, registration under GST would be the key factor. The aim of this […]
Currently, majority mobile handset companies operate from warehouses in every state via stock transfer (through statutory forms) and thereafter sell goods locally to the distributors. This is done with the intention to avoid payment of non-creditable CST and in order to pass the creditable VAT to their distributors
Not so long ago in order to have a one off scrumptious meal, an ordinary citizen was required to go through the travails of an inordinately long distance to an upmarket restaurant and satiate one’s palate. On the downside, however, this would entail one to have deep pockets and would limit such visits to only a couple in a month.
In a recently pronounced judgment in the case of Hewlett Packard Financial Services vs The State of Karnataka, The Deputy Commissioner of Commercial Taxes (Audit) (‘Revenue’), the Karnataka High Court dealt with the issue relating to entitlement of VAT exemption by virtue of Section 5(2) of the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 (‘CST Act’).
This article is in continuation of our earlier article Service tax implications on freight forwarding and logistics industry. The Government’s efforts to release the Model GST Law in June 2016 is an admirable effort towards introduction of the much awaited Goods and Services Tax (‘GST’). Certain business processes like registration, payment, refund and filing of return were already released earlier.
The practice of providing discount is one of the very old and well-established strategies which the business houses have been adopting in order to entice and persuade their customers towards buying more goods from them. At large, there are two types of discounts being offered by the industries i.e. Cash discount and Trade discount. Cash […]
In case services of transportation of goods are availed from a domestic entity,service tax needs to be charged by the Indian shipping company, whereas such services being availed from any foreign entity would attract tax liability under the Reverse Charge Mechanism (‘RCM’). This amendment would come in effect from June 1, 2016 and its consequential effects are outlined below.
The Finance Minister very clearly seems to have focused on empowering the ‘Make In India’ initiative by removing customs and excise duty exemptions on a variety of goods. The thrust seems to be more on electronics, hardware and the infrastructure industry where duty exemption has been provided to imported parts and components for manufacture of chargers/adapters, speakers
