The procedure for issuance of statutory declarations/forms electronically, under the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956

1.The procedure for issuance of statutory declarations/forms under the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 has been prescribed by the Trade Circulars referred above. At present, for obtaining declaration or certificates, the dealer submits/uploads application called SOR (Statement of Requirement) electronically.This SOR is processed by the Central Repository Officer and if found in order the statutory … Read more

New procedure of application and issuance of CST e-declarations

The procedure for issuance of statutory declaration/Forms (Form C, Form F, Form H, Form E-I and Form E-II)under central sales tax act 1956 has been changed with effect from 1St February 2014. Commissioner of sales tax has issued a trade circular No. 4T of 2014 dated 28/01/2014. As per this circular existing procedure of issuing … Read more

Special Amnesty Scheme of MVAT

MVAT declared the Special Amnesty Scheme by issuing the circular No. 3T dated 24/01/2014. This scheme is the part of the amnesty scheme of unviable and close units as mentioned in Industrial policy of Maharashtra 2013. The features of the scheme are given below:- To whom the scheme applicable: The scheme is applicable for the … Read more

No PAN without verification of original documents

Income tax department issued a notification regarding the change in the process of issuing the PAN card.  As per the notification No. PAN/1/3/2003/part dated 24th January 2014 following are the changes made in the new PAN application process with effect from 3rd Feb 2014 . 1.      PAN applicant has to submit the self attested copies of … Read more

Taxability of Leave Travel Assistance under Section 10 (5) of Income Tax Act

One of my student, we lovingly calls him Mr. Doubtful, has always doubts even in simple provisions. The main reason was that he was in too hurry to read and understand the whole provision. While learning the Taxability of Leave Travel Assistance in the Income from Salary chapter he asked very wonderful questions!!! 1)      Sir, … Read more

Last date of physical submission of MVAT audit report for F.Y. 2012-13

Those dealers who required to get their books of accounts audited under section 61 of MVAT Act, 2002 and has uploaded the audit report online are also required to file the physical copy of the audit report to sales tax department. Commissioner of sales tax, Maharashtra State, has issued a trade circular regarding the physical … Read more

Reverse Charge mechanism under Service Tax

1)  What is Reverse Charge Mechanism (RCM) ? A)      Service Tax is charged by the service provider to the service recipient. Service Provider collects Service Tax from the Service Recipient and pays it to the Government. However, under RCM, the service provider is not liable to pay service tax or is liable to pay service … Read more

How to prepare CV? (with A to Z DON’Ts)

I found a marked difference in CVs of CAs and B-School MBAs. After some 10000 +interviews taken in career and certainly 3000 plus people selected and 300 plus lectures delivered on this subject, mainly in GMCS batches of ICAI and also SMTP batches of ICSI and numerous management institutes and many chapters of ICWAI in … Read more

Time table of Ca Examination May 2014

The ICAI has notified the time table of the exam to be held in May 2014. IPC exam will held form 27th May 2014 to 8th June 2014. Final Exam will held from 26th May 2014 to 9th June 2014. Insurance and Risk Management (IRM) exam will held from 3rd June 2014 to 9th June … Read more