Given the passage of the Constitution (122nd) Amendment Bill, 2014 for Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the Lok Sabha on 6th May, 2015, the Government of India seems committed to replace all the indirect taxes levied on goods and services by the Centre and States and implement GST by 2016.
When a client comes to us for advice or with his business plan, two minutes into the conversation, we understand that he hasn’t thought his business idea through. There are still a lot of gaps that persist. Leaks that need to be plugged.
Registration with tax authorities is first step for any assessee to make compliance with the law and similar is the case for jewelers who have been brought within excise ambit in Budget 2016-17. But it is very interesting that special provisions have been made for registration of person engaged in manufacturing of jewellery under excise and these provisions could sometime offer tremendous planning opportunities to optimize the tax liability.
1. Utility for e-filing Service Tax Return (ST-3) for the period October, 2015 – March, 2016 is now available in both offline and online version. The last date of filing the ST-3 return for the said period is 25th April, 2016. To avoid congestion and inconvenience in the last minute, all assesses are requested to […]
This is the Final part of the Three-part series and deals with amendment proposed W.r.t: Related Party Transactions, Punishment under section 447, Loan to directors, Intercorporate Loans, Disclosure of Interest by Directors, Powers of the Board, Audit and Nomination & Remuneration Committee, Vacation of Office by Director, Resignation of Director & Cost Audit.
In Budget 2016, a nominal excise duty of 1% [without input tax credit] and 12.5% [with input tax credit] has been imposed on articles of jewellery. Even for this nominal 1% excise duty, manufacturers are allowed to take credit of input services, which can be utilised for payment of duty on jewellery. The salient features of this levy are explained as under:
CBDT would like to inform the persons earning interest income that interest credited/received on deposits is taxable unless exempt under section 10 of the Income-tax Act. Such interest income should be shown in the return of income even in cases where Form 15G/15H has been filed if the earning is not exempt under section 10 of the Income-tax Act
Certificate of Incorporation-[Pursuant to sub-section (2) of section 7 of the Companies Act, 2013 and rules 8 of the Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014] I hereby certify that
I have been reading a few posts by the new generation complaining about improper way the service tax, service charges and VAT (Value Added Tax) is levied. It is not only the youngsters who are ignorant about the extant law on service tax but even few of the journalists are also not aware about the exact law on service and have written misleading articles .
The functionality for viewing such cases which are selected by AO under Manual Scrutiny on the basis of suggestions by CPC for A.Y. 2013-14 and for which order under section 143(3) of the Act has still not been passed, has been enabled in the ITD system and can be accessed by entering the following path in ITD System:
