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GST Council

The GST bill seeks to set up a GST Council. The GST Council aims to develop a harmonized national market of goods and services. According the GST Bill,...

December 2, 2015

Goods and Service Tax Network

A robust IT infrastructure is prerequisite to successful implementation of GST. The current status is as follows: For central taxes, the IT infrastructure is managed by the NIC...

December 2, 2015

GST and Revenue Neutral Rate

Because GST removes the problem of tax on tax and cascading effect of various taxes; and because GST is a value added tax, it is expected that tax...

December 2, 2015

Impact of Goods and Services Tax on Multiple Taxes

GST will come into effect by enactment of constitution 122nd amendment bill. This bill is the current and slightly modified version of Constitution 115th amendment bill, which was...

December 2, 2015

Financial Investment and Real Investment

The meaning of the term “investment” is different for economists than the rest of the world. When we ask our banker for investment, he / she would probably...

December 2, 2015

Goods and Services Tax

Goods and Services Tax is a comprehensive indirect tax which is to be levied on the manufacture, sale and consumption of goods and services in India. This is...

November 23, 2015

Indirect Tax Reforms in India

First Indirect Tax Reform occurred in India when the Modified Value Added Tax (MODVAT) was introduced for selected commodities in 1986 to replace the Central Excise Duty. It...

November 23, 2015

Recent Direct Tax Reforms in India

Information Technology has made the life of tax payers easy as they don’t need physically go to banks to deposit bank challans and present the case and documents...

November 23, 2015

Tax Information Network

On behalf of the Income Tax Department, the National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) established Tax Information Network (TIN). This is a source of the countrywide tax related data. ...

November 23, 2015

Vijay Kelkar Committee (2002) Recommendations on Direct Taxes

Impetus to direct tax reforms in India, came with the recommendations of the Task Force on Direct & Indirect Taxes under the chairmanship of Vijay Kelkar in 2002....

November 23, 2015

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