A taxpayer who is liable to discharge part of its tax liability by way of advance tax has to bear additional burden of interest for default of advance tax, in case total advance tax paid for the year falls short of the assessed tax by ten percent or more.
Consumer is getting restive about a three year high in the petrol and diesel prices because he/she feels the concept of market-determined rates was tampered with by frequent tax hikes when the crude oil prices fell steeply and are ruling at exactly half the level of USD 107 per barrel in May, 2014 even after rising in the last three months.
Ministry of Finance releases India’s ‘External Debt: A Status Report 2016-17’;India’s External Debt stock stood at US$ 471.9 billion at end-March 2017, decreasing by US$ 13.1 billion (2.7 per cent) over the level at end-March 2016.
This is to inform you that the International Public Sector Accounting Standard Board (IPSASB) has recently issued a Consultation paper on ‘Accounting for Revenue and Non-Exchange Expenses’ for comments which is enclosed herewith for your valuable comments and suggestions.
Malaysian Association of Company Secretaries (MACS) to adopt the Secretarial Standards issued by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) as the benchmark.
Taking forward the initiative launched by the Government of India to curb the menace of shell companies, money laundering and black money in the country and prevent misuse of corporate structure by shell companies for various illegal purposes, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) have now concluded a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for data exchange, on 6th September, 2017.
Shri Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution told that in order to check the levying of Service Charge compulsorily, CBDT has been asked to consider inclusion of Service Charge while assessing tax.
Aadhar Legislation will stand the test of constitutionality; Demonetisation helped in reducing the volume of cash transactions and increase in digital payments, widening of the tax base and more formalization of the economy among others; No reverse in financial inclusion process possible for policy makers.
Digital inclusion is the foundation of financial inclusion. We have certain fundamental approach for commitment as far as digital platform is concerned. The first and foremost is, we want to become the leaders in the field digital revolution in the world. Second important attribute of our initiative is, we simply don’t want to digitize India, but we want to create a technology that is transformative, which will empower India, and also empowers Indians
ASSOCHAM has written to the government, seeking a slew of tax reliefs, including exemption from tax on any hair cut taken by the banks in the form of a waiver of interest accrued, for the debt -ridden companies which are sought to be revived under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) .
