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SHE Cess {SECONDARY & HIGHER EDUCATION CESS} 1 % on Customs duties / Excise duties & Service Tax. Excise and Customs – w.e.f Service Tax – w.e.f CENVATable. Copyright © Taxindiaonline.com Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Valuation set for major revamp. Peak rate reduced to 10 %. Copyright © Taxindiaonline.com Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. “ Interest” ing amendment in Drawback.
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SETTLEMENT COMMISSION - CASTAWAY Once in a lifetime affair. No immunity from interest. Threshold limit raised to Rs. 3 Lakhs. Pay and use. Clandestine removals & Remand cases No Entry Prosecution immunity - Limited. Copyright © Taxindiaonline.com Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Settlement only before original adjudication Fate of ex-parte orders? * w.e.f 1st June 2007
UJAGAR UNDONE Job workers beware ! Duty to be paid on principals’ price. Rule 10 A inserted in Valuation Rules. Is it the end of the road? Copyright © Taxindiaonline.com Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. * w.e.f 1 st April 2007
OTHER CHANGES … SSI exemption enhanced to Rs.1.5 Crores. MRP levy in the offing for IT products. E – payment made compulsory – 50 lakhs PLA Amounts payable under CCR, 2004 are also duty. – CERA to bury its head. New Section 5 B. Copyright © Taxindiaonline.com Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.
OTHER CHANGES. Pre - deposit menace to cover more. Section 11AB interest. Rule 57CC / Rule 6 “amounts”. Section 11D. Time limit for filing departmental appeal - reduced. Transitional provisions expanded. Copyright © Taxindiaonline.com Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Pipes for Water supply projects extended.
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NEW LEVIES * Mining – oil, gas & minerals. Renting of immovable property. Works Contracts. Asset management including portfolio management. Content development. Design Services. Copyright © Taxindiaonline.com Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. * w.e.f 1 st June 2007
RENTING OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTY Commercial or business use – partly or wholly Exclusions : - Religious bodies – both ways. - Educational bodies – one way. - Vacant land. - Land for educational, sports, circus, entertainment & parking purposes. - Residential / Accommodation. - Property tax – pro rata / subsequent adjustments Copyright © Taxindiaonline.com Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.
WORKS CONTRACTS … Erection, commissioning, installation, commercial / residential construction, turnkey projects / EPC projects. Roads, airports, railways, transport terminals, bridges, tunnels and dams, construction of ports – excluded. Levy either on the service component or 2 % on gross amount. Copyright © Taxindiaonline.com Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Why not all works contracts?
WORKS CONTRACTS. Separate Valuation provisions – Rule 2 A Optional composition scheme – 32 / 2007 2 % on gross amount less VAT / ST on the transfer of property. Copyright © Taxindiaonline.com Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. What if VAT / ST is paid on whole value No CENVAT on inputs CG / Input services not barred
AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING LEVIES Unification of telecom services. Space selling in business directories, etc. Social function for the purpose of mandap keeper / pandal / event management to cover marriages also. Consulting engineering to cover hardware. Copyright © Taxindiaonline.com Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. * w.e.f 1st June 2007
AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING LEVIES Rent – a – cab to include cab more than 12 pax. Management consultancy to include business consultancy. “Goods” to include software under maintenance & repairs. Man power supply to include pre-recruitment services. Copyright © Taxindiaonline.com Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. * w.e.f 1st June 2007
OTHER FEATURES Self adjustment of excess payment. Revised return / Late filing fee. Small scale exemption raised to Rs. 8 lakhs. Exemption to residential welfare associations. upto Rs. 3000/- monthly subscription. Cost audit / Saving clause like C. Ex. Copyright © Taxindiaonline.com Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.
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