On Thursday i.e. April 6, 2017, the Rajya Sabha has passed four supplementary GST legislations without amendments by a voice vote as all parties were on board. The four Bills are as under:
The effort that the Government has put behind ensuring GST a reality in India is commendable. Besides being a significant game changing tax reform, this is a great example of collaboration between the centre and the states.
It has also been decided that the restriction on cash transaction under section 269ST shall not apply to withdrawal of cash from a bank, cooperative bank or a post office savings bank.
Section 139AA of the Income-tax Act, 1961 as introduced by the Finance Act, 2017 provides for mandatory quoting of Aadhaar / Enrolment ID of Aadhaar application form, for filing of return of income and for making an application for allotment of Permanent Account Number with effect from 1st July, 2017.
CBDT notified that Section 269ST not applies to cash receipt from banking company, post office savings bank or co-operative bank.
CBDT has extended time to furnish permanent account number or Form No. 60 by bank account holders who have not furnished the same at the time of account opening or subsequently to on or 30th day of June, 2017.
CBEC has recently released following 8 GST namely 1. Input Tax Credit Rules 2.Valuation Rules 3.Transition Rules 4.Composition Rules 5.Revised Invoice Rules 6.Revised Payment Rules 7.Registration Rules and 8.Refund Rules for comments by general public and other stakeholders on or before 10-April-2017 by email on gst-cbec@gov.in. The Institute of Cost accountants of India has done […]
In order to curb the practice of declaring unaccounted income as exempt long term capital gain by entering into sham transactions, the Finance Act, 2017 amended the provisions of section 10 (38) of the Act to provide that exemption under this section for income arising on transfer of equity share acquired or on after 1st day of October, 2004 shall be available only if the acquisition of share is chargeable to STT.
In order to engage with the stakeholders and invite comments from the public at large, the Centre has issued 8 Goods and Services Tax (GST) Rules viz. Composition Rules, Valuation Rules, Transition Rules, Input Tax Credit (ITC) Rules, Revised Invoice Rules, Revised Payment Rules, Revised Refund Rules and Revised Registration Rules, on April 1, 2017.
The Lok Sabha on Tuesday, 21 March 2107 has passed 40 Amendments to the Finance Bill 2017. These amendments were made mainly to make the law in sync with the proposed changes in Finance Bill 2017 as well as Finance Bill 2016.
