Union Budget 2024 – A Technical Analysis

Dear Friends, The Union Budget 2024 was presented on 1st February 2024. However, as elections were due in coming months, so it was more as ‘Vote an Account’. After the swearing in of the newly elected Government, recently the first full Union Budget 2024 was presented by the Hon’ble Finance Minister. Presenting the technical analysis […]

53rd GST Council meeting recommendations

Dear Readers, The 53rd meeting of the GST Council convened on June 22, 2024, primarily focused on addressing taxpayer concerns and providing relief measures. The following major recommendations were discussed, with implementation on issuance of notifications / circulars: 🔹 Section 128A: Proposal to waive interest and penalties for FY 17-18, 18-19, and 19-20 related to[…..]

Analysis of Instruction No. 01/2023-GST – Dated 04th May, 2023 with regards to the Guidelines for Special All-India Drive against fake registrations

Background In the National Co-ordination Meeting on 24th April 2023, it was discussed that while various system based and policy measures are being taken to address fake registration and fake input tax credit problem, there is a need of concerted and coordinated action on a mission mode by Central and State tax authorities to tackle[…..]

New or Old Tax regime for TDS of employees

Section 115BAC of the Income Tax Act, 1961 has opened the horizon of opting for lower tax rates subject to the condition of non-claiming of specified exemption or deduction or additional depreciation (This is commonly referred to as the ‘new tax regime’). Presently, the normal / old tax regime was the default tax regime under[…..]