Budget Session: PM Modi Hopes for breakthrough On GST

As the Budget session of Parliament resumed today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hoped there will be a breakthrough on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill and that issues will be discussed in a democratic manner.
“We hope that there will be a breakthrough on the GST because all states have positively cooperated. All political parties have also extended cooperation in a positive way,” he told reporters outside Parliament. How to apply for GST registration
The second leg of the Budget session resumed today after about a month-long recess.
“We are meeting after a break and the budget proposals will be discussed in details,” he said.
Hoping for a healthy debate in the House, the Prime Minister said, “I believe that the level of discussion will go to a higher level. Attention will be drawn towards the issues related to the poor people.” New GST registration

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CBDT Signs Bilateral APA With Japanese Firm

The Central Board of Direct Taxes has signed a bilateral Advance Pricing Agreement (APA) with the subsidiary of a Japanese company as it looks to reduce litigations by providing certainty in transfer pricing. The total number of bilateral APAs signed with various Japanese subsidiaries has thus reached five, all with rollback provisions, a Finance Ministry statement said.
Four APAs out of these five have been signed in the current financial year, it added GST registration online. 
The APAs are with Japanese trading companies (Sogo Shoshas) and certainty in tax treatment for them has been a long standing demand of the Japanese industry, the statement said.

“The bilateral signing of APAs in this sector provides tax certainty up to nine years in each of these cases,” it added GST consulting services. 

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Tax Free Limit For Qraturity Hiked To Rs million

Formal sector workers may soon be eligible for up to Rs 2 million tax-free gratuity as central trade unions have agreed on the proposal in a tripartite consultation with the Labour Ministry.
The central trade unions have agreed on doubling gratuity amount ceiling as an interim measure in a tripartite meeting on the proposed amendment to Payment of Gratuity Act conducted by the Labour Ministry. gst consultants in Delhi
“While accepting the maximum payment limit of Rs 2 million as an interim measure, the unions demanded that the ceilings/ limit with respect to number of employees and years of service should be removed,” the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) said in a statement. The statement said the application of amended provision regarding maximum amount should be made effective from January 1, 2016 as done in the case of central government employees. gst consulting services 

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Post-FIPB, RBI To Frame Procedure For FDI Approval

The Reserve Bank is expected to formulate standard operating procedure (SOP) for approval of FDI proposals by ministries following the government decision to phase out FIPB.
The proposal for setting up norms for foreign direct investment (FDI) approvals in sensitive sectors, which are currently under government approval of the FDI policy, was discussed at a recent inter-ministerial meeting in apply for gst online .
According to sources, several options came up for discussions at the meeting. In order to further improve ease of doing business, the government has decided to abolish Foreign Investment Promotion Board and form a new mechanism for expeditious clearance of foreign investment proposals in new gst registration.
Once the FIPB is abolished, the onus of approving FDI proposals would be on the ministries and regulatory authorities concerned. The inter-ministerial committee has also discussed the possibility of approving the FDI proposals along with of licences, sources said.

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