Under Provisions of Sec. 145(2), Two Tax Accounting Standards have been notified on 25th January 1996 – Disclosure of Accounting Policies. Disclosure of Prior Period Items & Extraordinary items & changes in Accounting Policies.
Krishi Kalyan Cess (herein after referred to as KKC) is a cess on taxable services, at the rate of 0.5% of the value of such taxable services. The cess is in addition to any cess or service tax leviable on such taxable services under Chapter V of the Finance Act, 1994 or under any other law for the time being in force.
The seller will not be obliged to collect the tax at source (TCS), if the buyer has deducted the tax at source from the payment. Thus Provider of a service may not be obliged to collect tax, if the recipient has deducted tax at source.
(i) Amendment relating to Advance Tax (The change is effective from financial year 2016-17 onwards) The schedule for payment of Advance Tax by an Individual and other non-corporate assessee has been amended w.e.f. 1st June 2016 as under:
Every tax audit assignment involves numerous steps since commencement to its completion. Further, during tax audit season, various tax audit assignments remains in process in our offices at a similar point of time. Similarly, various staff persons remains involved in doing different steps of tax audit work.
declares Rule 5A(2) as amended in terms of Notification No. 23/2014- Service Tax dated 5th December 2014 of the Central Government, to the extent that it authorises the officers of the Service Tax Department, the audit party deputed by a Commissioner or the CAG to seek production
Thus, while the legislative competence of the Parliament to tax the element of service involved cannot be disputed but the levy itself would fail, if it does not provide for a mechanism to ascertain the value of the services componentwhich is the subject of the levy.[Para 37]
Finance Bill 2016 comprised 12 Chapters, 238 Clauses and 15 Schedules spread over 221 pages. It brought in Krishi Kalyan Cess, Infrastructure Cess, Equalization Levy, The Income Declaration Scheme, Direct and Indirect Tax Dispute Resolution Schemes and amendments previous Finance Acts ranging from Finance Act 2001 to 2015 . The Journey of Change did not end here and In Lok Sabha 47 further amendments were brought in Finance Bill on 29-04-2016 including insertion of 3 more clauses there by increasing total clauses to 241.
Author has compiled TDS calculator with effect from 1st June 2016 considering the changes effected by Finance Act 2016, including the changes in TDS Rate and Thrash hold exemption. Calculator calculates TDS based on nature of payment selected by the user. Calculator Automatically calculates the Type of Assessee based on 4ht letter of PAN No. of deductee. Calculator also calculates interest on delayed payment of TDS.
Every Report made by the auditor under section 143 of the 2013 Act for the FY commencing on or after 1 st April 2015 would include CARO 2016. It would be applicable to every company (except some companies) including a foreign company defined under section 2(42) of the 2013 Act. The CARO would not be applicable to the auditor’s report on consolidated financial statements.
