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Service Tax Voluntary Compliance Encouragement Scheme 2013 forms notified.

The Central Government has issued a Notification No 10/2013 – Service Tax dtd 13 th May 2013 prescribing the rules for the Service Tax Voluntary Compliance Encouragement Scheme 2013. The Salient features of these forms are :- 1) It shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Gazette of India. 2) […]

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Assessee with Income more than 5 Lakhs shall mandatorily e-file the IT Returns from A.Y.2013-14

The Income-tax Department has issued a new Notification No 34/2013 dtd 01/05/2013. As per this notification, 1) Every assessee whose Total Income is exceeding Rs. 5 Lakhs shall necessary e-file his/her return of Income from the A.Y.2013-14 onwards. 2) The reports under sections 44AB (Tax Audit), 92E (Transfer Pricing) & 115JB (Minimum Alternative Tax) shall

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Statutory Obligations for the month of December 2012

The following are the Various Statutory Obligations for the month of December 2012. Payment of Advance Tax The last date for Payment of Advance Tax (3rd Instalment in case of Companies & 2nd Instalment in case of Non Companies) for the A.Y.2013-14 is 15th December 2012. Click here to make Advance Tax Payment online. Click here to download Challan for

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Sweat Equity Shares

Introduction : Sweat Equity Share means equity shares issued by the company to employees or Directors at a discount, or for consideration other than cash for providing knowhow or making available rights in the nature of intellectual property rights or value additions by whatever name called. Sweat Equity shares in India : Generally at the

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Logic behind allowing VAT Credit against payment of CST and not allowing credit of CST.

Most of the VAT legislations in India do not allow the set off of CST Paid against their output tax. But at the same time, these legislations allow set off of Input Tax credit against the CST due. As a common man, a question may arise why this is not allowed vice-versa. The reason is

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