The person added that the tax force reckoned that the loss of the revenue from its PIT reliefs could be made up for in three years by the resultant improvement in compliance.
The Council did away with the requirement of filing annual returns for taxpayers up to Rs 2 crore turnover, as part of the moves to reduce compliance burden.
A number of states have represented to the 15th Finance Commission that the Centre should pay them compensation for three years more to ensure that their GST revenue continues to grow 14% year-on-year, as guaranteed in the Co
In some instances, such high-value purchases are being made not in the name of the actual buyer but his close associates like relatives or those he employs, a chartered accountant said on condition of anonymity. He added that
In the last five years, the undisclosed income admitted as a result of search-and-seizure operations remained below 2% of the total direct tax collections (see chart).
In the first four months of this fiscal, the direct tax mop-up is up by only about 9.7%, although tax officials say collections typically pick up at a faster pace in the second half of a fiscal and, if that happens, this init
States have appealed to the 15th Finance Commission (FC) to recommend extending the time period for which they would be compensated up to 14% revenue growth in the event of a shortfall in GST collections.
The deadline for filing the annual returns for FY18, the financial year in which the GST was launched (in July 2017), has already seen two extensions, the initial deadline being December last year.
Although the GST system generates a lot of data to track evasion, the absence of a full-fledged return system means that there are areas prone to exploitation through fake invoices for claiming additional credit and bringing
It may be noted that since the GST’s July 2017 launch, tax rates on as many as 380 items were cut, in what could have given firms and dealers opportunity not to pass on the benefits to the consumers.
India Budget 2019: Tax consultants that FE spoke to said the government’s move has come as a dampener for many of their HNI clients, so much so that some of them are even considering moving abroad.
Budget 2019-20: The Budget estimates a robust collection of `3 lakh crore from excise duty, thanks to the hike of `1/litre on high speed diesel and petrol. Excise collections in FY19 was `2.31 lakh crore.
Budget 2019: The Budget said that any buyback of shares from a shareholder by a company listed on recognised stock exchange, on or after July 5 2019, will also be covered by the provision of Section 115QA of the Income-Tax A
In the place of a complex system that included multiple taxes at the Central, state and local levels, there is now a comprehensive tax subsuming most of the important indirect taxes.
Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has directed zonal heads of the income tax department (ITD) to share information related to assets and liabilities of defaulters with banks on their request.
In the online system, a firm offsets taxes paid on input from the IGST to be paid on export and then applies online for refund. The entire process of receipt of refund takes about two weeks or less.
Budget 2019-20: The special waiver from Section 56 (2)(x) of the Income Tax Act — in force since Finance Act 2017-18 — may be announced in the forthcoming Budget, according to a source.
Once real-time reporting of transactions to a central portal starts, it will be practically difficult for the businesses concerned to reduce their tax liability by inflating the claims for input tax credits.