Bihar on Tuesday became the first non-National Democratic Alliance state to ratify the Constitution Amendment Bill on the goods and services tax after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar counted virtues of......
Offering an olive branch to the Opposition to get the GST bill passed, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is willing to speak to everyone to get the......
The Congress is expected to accommodate argument that the GST rate cannot be stipulated within constitution amendment itself, reports Archis Mohan & Kavita Chowdhury Prime Minister......
The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax Bill in Parliament has been shifted from Tuesday to Wednesday at the request of the Congress party. R Rajagopalan/Rediff.com reports from New Delhi.......
In the biggest tax reform since Independence, the national sales tax or GST Bill was on Wednesday approved by the Rajya Sabha to replace a raft of different state and local taxes with a single......
The revised guidelines are aimed at curbing discretionary practices by field officers, especially the tendency to seek documents not mandated under the law. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com......
The GST will subsume most of the indirect taxes like excise duty and service tax The Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Constitution Amendment Bill on Goods and Services Tax (GST), clearing the way......
By doing away with the 1 per cent inter-state tax over and above the GST rate, the government has met one of the three key demands over which Opposition Congress has been blocking the Bill in the......
These cases are being reopened under Section 147 of the Income Tax Act, which empowers the department to reassess income if it believes that taxable income has escaped assessment. Illustration:......
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government on Monday received a much-needed relief after Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress reiterated its support to the goods and services tax amendment Bill in......