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Income Tax : The applicable withholding tax depends on the Income-tax Act or the relevant DTAA, whichever is more beneficial. Treaty rates diff...
Income Tax : The document explains tax rates applicable to individuals, HUFs, firms, companies, co-operative societies, foreign companies, and ...
Income Tax : The Finance Bill, 2026 continues the same tax slabs and rates as the previous year. Individuals, companies and other entities see ...
Income Tax : Analysis of Indian income tax rates for AY 2025-26 & 2026-27. Covers the Old vs. Default 115BAC regimes, corporate tax concessions...
Income Tax : Union Budget 2025-26 introduces tax relief with no income tax up to Rs. 12 lakh, benefiting middle-class taxpayers and boosting co...
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Income Tax : Rates of income-tax in respect of income liable to tax for the assessment year 2021-22 i.e. Financial Year 2020-21 In respect of i...
Income Tax : Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Finance 01-February-2020 14:43 IST New Personal Income Tax Regime heralds...
Income Tax : Corporate tax rates slashed to 22% for domestic companies and 15% for new domestic manufacturing companies and other fiscal relief...
Income Tax : Assessments arising from searches conducted after 01.04.2021 must strictly comply with the reassessment framework under sections 1...
Income Tax : Higher rate of tax was prescribed in section 115BBE through an amendment made vide Taxation Laws (Second Amendment) Act, 2016 and ...
Income Tax : The Finance Act, 2004 introduced section 111A in the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) prescribing a tax rate of 10 percent on Short ...
Income Tax : CIT vs. Vishnu Industrial Gases (Delhi High Court) - Where the department had not disputed that the expenditure was deductible in ...
Income Tax : Circular 29/2019 – Clarifications on set off of brought forward loss due to additional depreciation & MAT credit if comp...
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Goods and Services Tax : CBIC allows Refund of accumulated credit on account of inverted duty structure to fabric manufacturers vide Notification No. 20/20...
Goods and Services Tax : CBIC amends list of goods exempt from GST vide Notification No. 19/2018-Central Tax (Rate), Dated: 26th July, 2018 with effect fr...
Goods and Services Tax : CBIC notifies reduced GST Rates on Several Goods vide Notification No. 18/2018-Central Tax (Rate), Dated: 26th July, 2018 with ef...
In every case in which tax is to be deducted at the rates in force under the provisions of sections 193, 194, 194A, 194B, 194BB, 194D and 195 of the Income tax Act, the rates for deduction of income-tax at source during the financial year 2008-09 have been specified in Part II of the First […]
Notification No 8/2009 – ST dated 24.02.2009 has been issued to exempt the service tax that is in excess of 10%. On the other hand this is reduction of service tax rate from the existing rate of 12% to 10%. What is the effective date for the new rate? Ans. The new rate is effective from 24.02.2009 on all services.
It is strange that while reducing peak rate of excise duty from 14% to 10%, central government did not reduce the peak rate of service tax from 12% to 10% or 8%. After the reduction of excise duty with effect from 7-12-2008, now the rate of excise duty on packaged software will be 8% whereas rate of service tax on customized software will be 12%. [See excise notification no. 49/2006 CE dated 30/12/2006 as amended by notification no. 58/2008 CE dated 07/12/2008]
CIT vs. Vishnu Industrial Gases (Delhi High Court) – Where the department had not disputed that the expenditure was deductible in principle but was only disputing the year in which the deduction could be allowed HELD, castigating the department, that as the tax rates were the same in both years, the department should not fritter away its energies in raising questions as to the year of deductibility/taxability.
