TAXATION


Shashank Manilawala 04 October 2017
The Indian government’s effort to ease burden and harassment faced by small businessmen and traders over filing good and service tax (GST) returns is beginning to bear fruit with the expansion of GST Suvidha Centres that are springing up across the country through a franchise...

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CA Paras Mehra 02 October 2017
From a large corporate house to a small business, everybody is busy in decoding the law of goods and service tax (GST) so that they can remain compliant and they do not have to pay the interest or penalties unnecessarily. However, it is easier said than done. The law of GST is so confusing...

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IANS 02 October 2017
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said Goods and Services Tax (GST) slabs may be reduced in the future if a "revenue neutral plus" tax level is reached.   Jaitley made the remark at the "Foundation Day" event of the National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics...

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IANS 29 September 2017
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum in Chandigarh has once again ruled that shops cannot charge extra value added tax (VAT) on items sold on discounted price, saying that by doing so they are "indulging in unfair trade practice".   Penalising Benetton India Private Ltd, the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 September 2017
The Maharashtra government in a trade circular has asked all those who have received the 15-digit Goods and Services Taxpayer Identification Number (GSTIN) to display the number on the board and certificate of registration at a prominent location at the business premises. Failing to which,...

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Ameet Patel 25 September 2017
The last few months have been extremely stressful for tax practitioners in India. The main reason for this is that the Finance Ministry has brought about several changes either in the law or in the administration of the law. This has added a huge burden on tax professionals in terms of...

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IANS 25 September 2017
The Income Tax Department raids on Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) retail chain since Thursday found Rs 650 crore concealed income from the documents seized, said an official on Sunday.   "Documents seized from the search operations at 25 places of Cafe Coffee Day and its group companies in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 September 2017
Tax practitioners were livid today — should they spend time doing their work or on tax compliance, they ask, after yet another change that was sprung on them today.    Just when taxpayers and tax professionals have completed their annual exercise of filing tax returns, here comes a...

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IANS 21 September 2017
Income Tax Department sleuths on Thursday searched the business and residential premises of Cafe Coffee Day retail chain founder-owner V.G. Siddhartha, son-in-law of former Karnataka Chief Minister S.M. Krishna, in Bengaluru and other places in the state for alleged tax evasion, said a senior...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 September 2017
Although the government talks of treating honest taxpayers with respect, the income-tax (I-T) department, obviously, thinks differently. The easiest way for the I-T department to meet the steep tax collection target set by the finance ministry is to hustle and frighten existing taxpayers to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 September 2017
While industry has been in direct touch with the government to lobby for concessions in the Goods and Services Tax (GST), there is no lobby for the ordinary, tax-paying, and aspirational citizen of India. In most democracies, it is the elected representatives who take up such issues, but...

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IANS 15 September 2017
Transitional credit claims worth a whopping Rs 65,000 crore received from traders under GST have stumped the government and the tax authorities are now preparing to check the veracity of claims of over Rs 1 crore.   The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has asked its...

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IANS 12 September 2017
The Income Tax department on Monday informed the Supreme Court that there are 105 lawmakers in whose case the verification of declaration of assets have revealed discrepancies in their assets and their known sources of income.   These lawmakers include seven Lok Sabha members and 98...

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IANS 11 September 2017
The increased Goods and Services Tax (GST) cess on mid- and high-segment cars approved by the GST Council will come into effect from Monday.   "Notification regarding increase in the effective rates of the Compensation Cess on specified motor vehicles will be issued on September 11,...

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IANS 02 September 2017
The government, on the recommendations of the Goods and Services Tax Council, has waived the penalty of Rs 200 per day for taxpayers who failed to file the first GST returns within the deadline.   The taxpayers will, however, have to bear the interest on late payment of dues, the...

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IANS 23 August 2017
Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Chairman Sushil Chandra on Wednesday said that the tax exchange agreements with other countries was resulting in information pouring in at a fast pace, thus there was no escaping for the multi-national companies (MNCs) from fair taxation.   "We...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 August 2017
James Wilson, a civil engineer from Kerala, has been unearthing and exposing several false claims made by regulators and the Central government using their own published data. Union minister of state for finance, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, in a written reply, informed the Rajya Sabha that, as on...

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IANS 19 August 2017
Traders across the country faced problems on Saturday as the Goods and Services Tax (GST) filing website stopped functioning for some time, a day ahead of the last date for filing GST returns.   "The GST site has been working intermittently since 12 noon. It is creating a lot of...

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IANS 18 August 2017
The central government on Thursday extended the due date for filing of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) return for taxpayers who want to avail the transitional input tax credit.   As per the laid down rules, the GST for the month of July 2017 has to be paid by August 20, 2017, only...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 August 2017
As per a release from the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), due to "demonetisation and Operation Clean Money", the number of income tax returns filed increased 25% to 2.83 crore, as on 5 August 2017, from 2.27 crore in the previous year.   Is this claim true? In a written reply in...

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