By turning to Amitabh Bachchan, is the government serving or messing up its campaign?
On the GSP front, the audit process as per the agreement with GSTN has been initiated'
Eureka Forbes is the market leader in water purifiers with a share of 67%
The 40-second video featuring the Bollywood actor has drawn the ire of opposition Congress
The prospect of a thin inventory pipeline after GST in consumer goods and luxury cars looms large
At present, crude oil, petrol, diesel, jet fuel, natural gas, along with alcohol are out of GST net
With barely 10 days for launch of the national goods and services tax (GST), corporate India says it is unclear how the anti-profiteering regulations will work. "What the GST Council released this week was some process rules for the way cases and challenges will be handled but it has not defined the 'how' of these rules' working," says Robert Tsang, GST implementation leader at consultancy Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India.The rules outline the procedure to be followed for investigation and enquiry but not the mechanism for calculating of profiteering, says Pratik Jain, partner at consultancy PwC. "Businesses will have to themselves work these out," he adds.Anti-profiteering regulations in Australia and Malaysia largely used the net profit margin rule to determine any 'unreasonable' high profit. Legal experts say the Indian regulations do not provide policy guidance on how GST taxpayers are to determine the extent of cut in price to meet the test of "commensurate reduction" under ...
5% tax on job work to make smaller stones costlier; two-third local units may shift base to China
Service tax on ticket charges is set to hike from 4.5% to 5% after the GST implementation
The notion of filing the return thrice a month is wrong, says Adhia
Most such units are jobwork-oriented, can't take 18% tax rate; several workers stand to lose jobs
In order to ensure preparedness for the Goods and Services Tax (GST) roll-out from July 1, the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology has launched a dedicated webpage for facilitating taxpayers with regard to addressing issues related to IT services and electronic goods.
Car makers, including luxury ones, sweetened discount offers this month to retain buyers' interest
GST will lead to reduction in cost of imported advanced medical equipment, says Ameera Shah
GST will be launched at a grand function in Central Hall of Parliament on the midnight of June 30
India is the world's largest film industry, producing more than a 1000 movies a year
Under MEIS, the government provides duty benefits at 2%, 3% and 5%
National Anti-profiteering Authority to be set up for ensuring that customers get the benefit of GST
Farmers and traders are holding up purchases as confusion over pricing after GST reigns supreme
As the excise and VAT being replaced with a single tax rate GST, bullion refineries situated in excise free zone of Uttrakhand stand to gain and their edge in terms of lower incidence of duty over refineries in other areas of the country known as domestic tariff area will rather increase from 0.40 per cent to 0.78 per cent.Rudrapur in Uttrakhand, a hilly state of north India houses some 17-18 refineries refining dore bullion or unrefined imported gold. There are about 37 such refineries in the country, rest of them in domestic tariff area. Uttrakhand has offered excise holiday for five years to attract investments which attracted bullion refineries in last three years to the state. Even after excise duty was levied by the center, last year, on gold Uttrakhand refineries were better placed compared to other refineries.The Goods and Service Tax which will come in to force from July was supposed to subsume all special tax benefits but including all taxes like excise, entry tax and VAT. ..