In recent months, significant strides have been made in the administration and enforcement of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India. These changes encompass new directives from the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), critical judicial rulings, and the operationalization of the GST Appellate Tribunal. Despite GST being a relatively young system,…
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has resolved more than 46,000 public grievances and 7,000 grievance appeals between December 2022 and July 2023 under its Special Campaign 2.0 for Swachhata and disposal of pending matters. The campaign was launched on December 1, 2022, with the aim of cleaning up the tax administration and disposing…
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has issued a circular (MCA General Circular 08/2023 dated August 23, 2023) to condone the delay in filing of certain LLP forms. The following forms are covered under the condonation scheme: The condonation scheme is applicable to LLPs that have not filed the above forms within the due date….
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council has announced four amnesty schemes for taxpayers in 2023. These schemes offer relief to taxpayers who have not filed various GST returns, including GSTR-4, GSTR-9 and GSTR-10. Additionally, they cover the regularization of orders related to the revocation of cancelled registrations and deemed withdrawal of assessment orders issued…
Are you in the process of filing your income tax return (ITR) and have noticed that certain tax payments, such as advance tax and self-assessment tax, are missing from your Form 26AS? Up until last year, these details were readily available in a taxpayer’s Form 26AS. However, starting from the Assessment Year (AY) 2023-24 (Financial…
The EPFO has eased the process of applying for higher pension under the EPS for those eligible employees who do not have proof to joint request/undertaking/permission from the employer till date. The circular released by the Employee’s Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) provides a list of documents that an eligible employees are required to submit, along…
The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has released a circular on how the higher pension will be calculated for those employees opting for a higher pension based on actual salary under the Employee Pension Scheme (EPS). As per the circular, the formula for the calculation of higher pension will be different for those retiring before…
The gross GST revenue collected in the month of April, 2023 is ₹ 1,87,035 crore of which CGST is ₹38,440 crore, SGST is ₹47,412 crore, IGST is ₹89,158 crore (including ₹34,972 crore collected on import of goods) and cess is ₹12,025 crore (including ₹901 crore collected on import of goods). The government has settled ₹45,864 crore to CGST and ₹37,959 crore to SGST…
The Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) today revealed its provisional payroll statistics, which shows that in the month of November 2022, EPFO attracted 16.26 lakh net members. The information shows that in October 2022, there were 25.67% more net additions than in the previous month. When comparing payroll statistics from one year to the next,…
According to the regulations of the EPF plan, you are permitted to withdraw funds from your Employee’s Provident Fund (EPF) account for a number of reasons. You are permitted to take withdrawals from your EPF account beginning at age 55 in order to fund your retirement. know about withdraw from EPF corpus for repayment of…
Usually, employees covered under the Employees Pension Scheme (EPS) know that they are eligible for a pension from the age of retirement. However, not many know that if they have been covered under the Employee’s Provident Fund (EPF) for more than 20 years, they are also entitled to a bonus. This bonus is given in…
Central bank digital currencies were a curiosity five years ago. They’re now a fad. In addition to the 11 that are already using them, more than 40 economies are running pilots or are in the preliminary development phase. As interest in these new-age payment tools grows, previously unasked questions about them begin to surface. Some…
EPFO’s provisional payroll data, released on November 20th, 2022, shows that the organisation added 16.82 lakh net members in September 2022. A year-on-year comparison of payroll data shows a 9.14% increase in net membership addition in September 2022 compared to the same month last year in 2021. The net enrolment for the month is 21.85%…
If you pay income tax online, make sure the bank where you have an account has changed or migrated its Tax payment facility route. This is because the new income tax e-filing portal has begun accepting tax payments through the service of e-Pay Tax window on its own portal. Customers of specific banks who have…
The provisional payroll data of EPFO released on 20th October, 2022 highlights that EPFO has added 16.94 lakh net members in the month of August, 2022. Year-on-year comparison of payroll data reflects an increase of 14.40% in net membership addition in August, 2022 as compared to the corresponding month during last year in 2021. Of the…
To curb tax evasion, the government has now increased its guard. A new rule has been made to prevent tax evasion from cash transactions across the country. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has issued a notification for this. It will be mandatory to provide PAN card details According to the notification of CBDT,…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday invoked its extraordinary powers under Article 142 of the Constitution to upload all reassessment notices issued after march 31, 2021, by the income tax department reopening assessments going back six years. In the budget for FY22, the government had reduced this reopening period to three years with effect from April…
India Post has been announced the launch of Online services for the National Pension Scheme (NPS), a voluntary retirement saving scheme that aims to ensure everyone’s financial stability after retirement. Noe all eligible citizens can open an NPS account online without physically visiting any post office. The online service has been made available from April…
If you are also a tax payer then this news is very important for you. The government has changed the rules for filing tax returns. Actually, the government has increased the scope of income tax filing to bring more people into the tax bracket. The Ministry of Finance has given this information. Finance Ministry issued…
“It becomes the responsibility of all the State Governments, knowledge partners and international agencies to support the Panchayats for the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals”, said Shri Sunil Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj while addressing the gathering of representatives of Panchayati Raj Institutions, representatives of UNICEF, UNFPA, senior officers of the Central Government and…
Every Indian person has an Aadhaar card, which has a unique 12-digit number assigned by India’s Unique Identification Authority (UIDAI). It is an identity number that facilitates access to the cardholder’s records, including biometrics and contact information, from a government database. Any person living in India, regardless of age or gender, may sign up to…
On the International Women’s Day. Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has made a big announcement. The EPFO has asked all companies to provide 100% e-nomination facility for their women employees, so that they can be recognized and rewarded on Women’s Day. EPFO has tweeted and said, ‘Companies who have not been able to do e-nomination…
The Crypto currency industry has appealed to the government to reexamine the budget proposal to impose a tax deduction at source or TDS on virtual digital assests transactions, saying it will be difficult to comply with. The industries also urged the government to reconsider the decision to levy a tax of 30% on currency market…
As part of the Aatma nirbhar Bharat Initiative, Ministry of Food Processing Industries is implementing a Centrally Sponsored PM Formalisation of Micro food processing Enterprises (PMFME) Scheme for providing financial, technical and business support for setting up/ up gradation of 2 lakh micro food processing enterprises through credit linked grant during five years from 2020-21…