Monday 27 March 2017

GOODS AND SERVICE TAX - GST

The Goods and Service tax council decided to exempt  agriculturist and small traders with a turn over of less than 20 lakh from registering under GST regime. The council also agreed to provide a composition scheme to Dhabas and Small Restaurants, with less than 50 lakhs turn over. The GST council fixed a 5% tax rate on small hotels and restaurants. This  new indirect tax regime from july 1.
The all powerful council approved the final draft of central GST(CGST) and integrated GST (IGST) and will take up for approval the State GST had Union Territory GST (UT GST) Laws at its next meeting. Some of the features are

A State wise single registration for a tax payer for filing  returns, paying taxes and to fulfill other compliance requirements.

A tax payer has to file one single return state wise to report all his supplies, whether made within or outside the state or exported out of the country and pay the applicable taxes on them.
A business entity with an annual turnover of uo to Rs.20 lakhs would be required to take registration in the GST regime.

Most of the compliance requirements  would be fulfilled online, thus  leaving very little room for physical interface between the taxpayer and the tax official.
Taxes which need to be paid by the assessee under GST regime can be Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST), State Goods and Services Tax (SGST) , Union Territory Goods and Services Tax (UTGST) and integrated goods and services Tax (IGST).

A business entity with turnover up to Rs.50 lakhs can avail the benefits of a composition scheme under which it has to pay a much lower rate of  tax and has to fulfill very minimal compliance requirements.

The composition scheme is available for all traders, select manufacturing sectors and for restaurants in the services sector.

I n order to prevent cascading of taxes, ITC would be admissible on all goods and services used in the course  or furtherance of business, except on a few items listed in the law.
In service sector, the existing mechanism of input service Distributor (ISD) under the service tax law has been retained to allow the flow of ITC in respect of input services within a legal entity.
An agriculturist, to the extent of supply of produce out of cultivation of land, would not be liable to take registration in the GST regime.

To provide certainty in tax matter, a provision has been made for an Advance Ruling  Authority.
Detailed transitional provisions have been provided to ensure migration of existing taxpayers and seamless transfer of unutilized ITC in the GST regime.
In order to mitigate any financial hardship being suffered by a taxpayer, commissioner has been empowered  to allow payment of taxes in installments.

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Monday 20 March 2017

VAT REGISTRATION

https://efilingportal.in VALUE ADDED TAX   is an indirect tax, which is imposed on goods and service at each stage of production, starting from raw materials to final products. It avoids the double taxation   of a direct tax. Any trading or manufacturing business, whether a sole proprietorship or a partnership firm or a private limited company, that sells its products is liable to be registered for VAT.
PROCEDURE

Submit an application for VAT in form 1 along with the following documents
•    Central Sales Tax Certificate (form A).
•    Professional tax registration certificate.(form 2)
•    Copy of important documents such as the address proof , ID proof of the proprietorship/partner/director
•    Four PP size photographs of the proprietorship/partner/Director
•    PAN NO. & Bank Account no. of the proprietorship/partner/Director
•    Copy of  rental agreement of the business place
•    Details of  business activities
•    Partnership deed (in case of partnership firm)
•    Memorandum of Association and Article of Association (in case of a private limited company)

The authorities from the local VAT office will inspect the premises of where you conduct business within a prescribed time.
Once the inspection is over, you will have to pay a specified fee to the local office for VAT   registration.
On payment of the fee, a TIN number will be allotted to you for your business and you will also be given the VAT registration  certificate.

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Friday 10 March 2017

PRADHAN MANTRI GRAMIN DIGITAL SAKSHARTA ABHIYAN

Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDSA)  is a new upcoming  scheme which has been  approved  by the  union cabinet on 8th February 2017.Rs.2,351,38 crore aims to make 6 crore rural households digitally literate by March 2019. The union cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister approved  the scheme with an outlay of Rs.2,351,38 for implementation till march 2019 under the Digital India Initiative.

In last few months we have seen Indian government working real hard towards promoting use of digital technologies all across the country. Government has clearly shown its plan towards upcoming trends.

           The scheme would be launched very soon because the government  aims to train about 25 lakh candidates within the current financial year. Out of six crore targeted 2.75 crore will be trained in FY 2017-18 and rest 3 crore in FY 2018-19. It is expected to be the world’s largest digital literacy program launched. It is implemented under the overall supervision of Ministry of Electronics and government is going to use the IT to accomplish this program with states and union territories through their designated  state implementing Agencies, District e-governance Society etc.

IMPLEMENTATION

It would be implemented across the country and to ensure the equitable geographical reach the government would encourage  registration of about 200-300 candidates by each of the 2.5 lakh  gram  panchayats.

TRAINING

Sending and receiving e-mails, Browse internet

Making digital payments, Searching  information  on internet

Accessing  Government information

Basic IT application

Digital access  devices such as Smartphone and tablets

The main aim is to create literacy in rural area. So every year they will took 200-300 lakh people from Gram Panchayats to literate them. It is all about making rural area literate about digital transactions. It mainly target the rural houses that don’t have a internet connection or anyone among the family haven’t used computer services yet. Only about 1.8 crore rural households have a computer out of the total 16.85 crore as per the 71st NSSO Survey on Education  2014, thus a significant number of rest  15 crore households are likely to be digitally illiterate.

The literate people would be able to use  the mobile banking  or net banking  for cashless transactions thus contributing to  the  cashless India initiative of Central government.

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Monday 6 March 2017

ONE PERSON COMPANY

One Person Company was recently introduced as a strong improvement over the sole proprietorship. It gives a single promoter full control over the company. This person will be the only director and shareholder (there is a nominee) holds 100 percent shareholding. The company incorporation Rules provide that only a natural person who is a resident of India and citizen of India can form a one person company. It means that other legal entities like companies or societies or other corporate entities (foreign citizens) cannot  form a one person company. A person cannot have two different one person companies in his name. The sole shareholder shall also be the sole director in the one person company.

               The person forming the one person company has to nominate   with his written consent who, in the event of  death or inability to contract of the owner of the one person company, shall come forward and take over the reins of the one person company. If the nominated person is already a member of another one person company , at the same time by virtue of rules has to decide within 6 months which one person company he/she  has to continue.
It gets freedom from complying with many requirements as normally applicable to other private limited companies. Annual returns can be signed by the Director himself instead of a company secretary.

INCORPORATION
DIN – Director Identification Number, DSC - Digital Signature Certificate
Name approval from MCA and Consent of the nominee
Memorandum and Articles and other required documents.
Final  incorporation certificate.

When the company reaches a paid up capital of 50 lakh rupees or more when the average turnover of the company which is Rs.2 crore or more  for a period of 3 years then the company shall be converted into a private limited company after making the changes in the memorandum of association and article of association.

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