At the time of penning this, the COVID-19 crisis is increasing exponentially all over the world. Global leaders and organizations are doing their best to manage this crisis. Even so, the boundaries are getting severely stretched. However, it is not just a macro crisis that needs to be handled at a global level.
Direct Taxes (including International Taxation) | By ALOK PATNIA | Last updated on Oct 27, 2018
The income tax (I-T) department may soon request authorities in the finance ministry to intervene so that I-T dues get a higher priority ...
GST & Other Indirect Taxes | By ALOK PATNIA | Last updated on Oct 27, 2018
Even after the deadline for filing income tax returns ended on August 31, the growth in taxpayers filing e-returns continued to grow robu...
GST & Other Indirect Taxes | By ALOK PATNIA | Last updated on Oct 27, 2018
The current four-slab GST rate structure is likely to be reduced to three as the process of rationalising India’s new indirect tax ...
GST & Other Indirect Taxes | By ALOK PATNIA | Last updated on Oct 27, 2018
Terming the GST as ‘work in progress’, former President Pranab Mukherjee Friday expressed hope that rates under the indirect ...
Corporate Law & Intellectual Property Rights | By Soumik Kumar Sen | Last updated on Oct 26, 2018
A year back one of my clients called me early in the morning and with a tensed voice said, “I might be screwed big time!” I pacified him ...
GST & Other Indirect Taxes | By ALOK PATNIA | Last updated on Oct 26, 2018
Back in July, a FICCI survey revealed that 59% of the enterprises surveyed were not satisfied with the capability of the Goods and Servic...
GST & Other Indirect Taxes | By ALOK PATNIA | Last updated on Oct 26, 2018
With input costs remaining high, manufacturers of consumer packaged goods have had little choice so far but to increase prices and protec...
GST & Other Indirect Taxes | By ALOK PATNIA | Last updated on Oct 26, 2018
Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group, may get a goods and services tax (GST) bill of around Rs 1,600 crore over its $1.2 bill...
GST & Other Indirect Taxes | By ALOK PATNIA | Last updated on Oct 24, 2018
A Chartered Accountant (CA) and two of his associates on Monday night were arrested for allegedly evading Rs 50 crore of Goods and Servic...