Ist Full Year Budget of New Government has been introduced in Parliament on 28th February, 2015. This Article intends to outline key amendments made in Service Tax. A. Changes effective from enactment of Finance Bill I. Rate of service tax Present rate: 12.36% (12% + 3% as Education Cess) Revised rate: Consolidated 14% (subsuming Education […]
Central Excise: Rate- 1. Existing rate of 12% ad valorem will be @12.5% adv. from 01.03.2015 under the head CENVAT (Basic) duty. Levy of Primary Education Ccess and S&H Education Cess @ 2% and 1% respectively on the quantum of Cenvat (Basic) duty will be exempted from 01.03.2015. Other basic excise duty ad valorem with a few exceptions are not being changed.
Budget 2015 delivered a staggering blow by hiking the rate of service tax from 12.36% (including Education Cess and SHE Cess) to 14%. Likewise, the rate of excise duty was increased from 12.36% (including Education Cess and SHE Cess) to a consolidated rate of 12.5%.
The budget 2015 has also bought some additions to the reverse charge list. Altogether 3 services have been added to this list w.e.f. 01/04/2015 by notification no. 7/2015 dt 01/03/2015. These are: 1. Services provided or agreed to be provided by a mutual fund agent or distributor, to a mutual fund or asset management company”;
It is proposed to amend the provisions of the section 194A of the Act to expressly provide from the prospective date of 1st June, 2015 that the exemption provided from deduction of tax from payment of interest to members by a co-operative society under section 194A(3)(v) ) of the Act shall not apply to the payment of interest on time deposits by the co-operative banks to its members.
Budget 2015-16 – Raising the limit of deduction under Section 80CCC Under the existing provisions contained in sub-section (1) of the section 80CCC, an assessee, being an individual is allowed a deduction upto one lakh rupees in the computation of his total income, of an amount paid or deposited by him to effect or keep […]
Abolition of levy of wealth-tax under Wealth-tax Act, 1957 Wealth-tax Act, 1957 (‘the WT Act’) was introduced w.e.f. 01.04.1957 on the recommendation of Prof. Nicholas Kaldor for achieving twin major objectives of reducing inequalities and helping the enforcement of Income-tax Act through cross checks. Accordingly, all the assets of the assessees were taken into account […]
Raising the limit of deduction under Section 80U for persons with disability and severe disability The existing provisions of section 80U, inter alia, provide for a deduction to an individual, being a resident, who, at any time during the previous year, is certified by the medical authority to be a person with disability (as defined […]
Raising the limit of deduction under section 80DD for persons with disability and severe disability The existing provisions of section 80DD, inter alia, provide for a deduction to an individual or HUF, who is a resident in India, who has incurred— a) Expenditure for the medical treatment (including nursing), training and rehabilitation of a dependant, […]
Raising the limit of deduction under section 80DDB Under the existing provisions of section 80DDB of the Act, an assessee, resident in India is allowed a deduction of a sum not exceeding forty thousand rupees, being the amount actually paid, for the medical treatment of certain chronic and protracted diseases such as Cancer, full blown […]
