Every time you sell property — a house or a plot of land — you are liable to pay tax on the capital gain made on the sale. While you can’t always get away with paying capital gains tax, there are certain ways in which you can bring down your [...]
On June 14, 2016 the Finance Ministry has released the ‘Model GST Law’. It outlines the structure of the GST regime. Further, the draft of ‘Integrated GST Bill, 2016’ is also released along with such Model GST laws. It also provides the framework for levy and collection of CGST and [...]
Finance minister, Mr. Jaitley had proposed to impose a Cess, called the Krishi Kalyan Cess (KKC), at 0.5% on all taxable services during Budget 2016. Effective date of Krishi Kalyan Cess is 1st June 2016. In this article, we are trying to answer most commonly asked questions about this new tax. As you know, Service [...]
The Government of Tamilnadu has launched a new portal for providing e-services relating to registration & filing in respect of TNVAT. The New portal can be accessed at http://ctd.tn.gov.in The Salient features of this e-C Tax intiative of Tamilnadu Government are :- 1) New Dealer Registration and the modification of [...]
DEALING WITH INCOME TAX NOTICES A majority of the notices is sent in the normal course of processing returns & might be for routine enquiry or a request for simple clarification, so don’t be panic. [...]
All services, including air travel, telephony, eating out and banking will become expensive from November 15 as the government on Friday decided to impose a 0.5 per cent cess on all taxable services to fund the Swachh Bharat programme. The additional cess would be over and above the 14 per [...]
As the old proverb goes: “There’s no time like the present”. Don’t delay filing your income tax return. Generally, the due date for filing the return is July 31 for individuals. However, this time around, the tax authorities have extended the due date to August 31. If due to unavoidable [...]
Primarily, service tax department is bifurcated into anti-evasion and audit wings so as to keep an eye on service tax defaulters. In order to additionally curb the small assessees, who usually don’t fall in the ambit of service tax audits, CBEC has issued circular 185/4/2015- ST wherein check-list & revised [...]
Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Finance 09July2015 16:55 IST India and United States Signs Inter Governmental Agreement (IGA) to Implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) to Promote Transparency on Tax Matters Mr. Shaktikanta Das, Revenue Secretary of India and Mr. Richard Verma, U.S. Ambassador to [...]
Income-tax assessees will not be required to give details of foreign trips as well as the balance in various bank accounts while filing their returns. Details of dormant bank accounts too will not be required. Dropping the provision for mandatory disclosure of foreign trips and dormant bank accounts, the Finance [...]