By this time, I am sure that all of your mailboxes would have been flooded with colourful presentations detailing the budget proposals. Let me also add burden to your mailbox with our presentation. In this budget edition, we discuss clause by clause each significant proposal pertaining to income tax and goods and services tax laws. Hope this effort of ours is useful for understanding the proposals. Let me also allow to summarise the various proposal before going to deal clause by clause.
The significant of direct tax proposals is the relaxation of tax audits for business who are having less than turnover of INR 5 Crores subject to a condition that there cash transactions are less than 5%. This would be a great relief to the MSME sector, since, it reduces compliance cost.
Another significant of the proposal was to provide relief for companies from payment of DDT for the dividends declared. Currently, the dividends declared by the company are taxable at 15% + surcharges and cesses and exempted in hands of shareholders, except where the dividends exceed INR 10 lakhs. Now that with removal of DDT, the dividends will become taxable in the hands of shareholders and also encourage the companies to declare dividends and may lead to chance in increase in spending.
