Corporate and Professional Updates on 2nd May 2019

 

Corporate and Professional Updates on 2nd May 2019

Direct Tax Updates:

• The Income Tax Department will now share information such as reported turnover and gross income declared with the Goods and Services Tax Network to check tax evasion. The I-T Department and GSTN will enter an agreement on the modalities of information sharing. The Central Board of Direct Taxes has said the agreement will include provisions for confidentiality, a mechanism for safe preservation of data and timelines for furnishing information.
• CBDT has left the onus of data-sharing on the principal director general of income tax or director general of income tax. “Spontaneous exchange of data the modalities of which shall be decided by the concerned specified authorities,” an order issued by the CBDT said. Details captured in returns, status of filing income tax returns and turnover ratio will form part of the information package to be shared with GSTN. The data can be matched with the business returns of the assessee.

Indirect Tax updates:

• Goods and services tax collection touched a record high in April, exceeding Rs 1 trillion for the third time in four months. The mop-up was 10 per cent higher over the previous year. Gross collection for the month was Rs 1.13 trillion, said the finance ministry. Despite the recent rate rationalisation in December, a rise in collection was reported. Of the total collected, the CGST contributed Rs 21,163 crore, the SGST Rs 28,801 crore, the IGST Rs 54,733 crore and cess Rs 9,168 crore.
• After settlement of the IGST and the balance IGST in a 50:50 ratio between the Centre and states on a provisional basis, the CGST stood at Rs 47,533 crore and SGST at Rs 50,776 crore. The CGST target in the Union Budget for 2019-20 is Rs 6.1 trillion. “The April collection indicates the tax base is increasing gradually, with GST getting stabilised with measures such as e-way bills and effective data  Perhaps one reason for this increase was also a push from businesses to their vendors for reporting sales of 2017-18, for which the last date of claiming credit coincides with GST filings for the month of March,” said Pratik Jain, partner at consultancy PwC India. He felt one could now expect the monthly collection to regularly exceed Rs 1 trillion.

 

Other Updates:

• NSE barred from accessing sec market for 6 mths
• SFIO questions audit partner of KPMG India unit
• Ambani wants to make the mother of all apps
• L&T buys VG Siddhartha, Coffee Day stake in Mindtree for Rs 3,210 crore
• Iraq continues to be India’s top oil supplier
• Adani’s coal mine in Queensland has new hurdle
• NBCC gets approvals for revised Jaypee Infra bid
• GST collection scales all-time high of Rs 1.13 trillion in April
• Tough life ahead for NBFCs as RBI set to tighten liquidity mismatch limits
• TRAI pulls up DTH, cable operators for not compliying with new tariff
• DCM Shriram reports nearly six-fold jump in Q4 net profit at Rs 293 cr
• Patanjali gets time till May 7 for filing resolution plan
• Ambuja Cements’ volumes, realisation disappoint
• Netherlands got $12.8-b Indian FDI in 2017, 2nd biggest after Singapore
• Review safeguard duties on solar cell imports, Japan tells India
• Honda Cars India sales up 23 per cent in April 2019
• Ness Wadia’s board positions in group firms to remain intact
• UDS buys majority stake in Matrix to expand its business portfolio
• Royal Enfield total sales decline 17% in April
• Suzuki Motorcycle India sales up 12.57% in April
• Over ₹12,000 crore subsidy disbursed to home-buyers: Housing Ministry
• OYO to buy Amsterdam-based Leisure Group from Axel Springer
• Tata Steel workers lose faith in Thyssenkrupp deal: works council
• KFC and Pizza Hut report sales growth in India in Q1
• Britannia Industries Q4 net up 11.28% at₹294.27 crore
• Jet Airways ticket refund: Delhi High Court notice to airline on customers’ plea
• Government fixes 2.1 MT quota for sugar sale in May
• CEA issues draft guidelines on cross-border power trade
• Tax filing falls 1% in FY19, indicating overall slowdown: Report
• Oyo to acquire Amsterdam firm @Leisure for €369 million
• India Ratings lowers country’s GDP growth projection for FY20 to 7.3 pc
• Gold slides on sluggish demand, silver firms up
• NCLAT allows insolvency proceedings
• Better days seen ahead for Reliance Nippon MF
• India apprehensive Iran sanctions could boost oil prices, inflation.

Key Due Dates:

• Payment of TDS Deducted in April is 7th May 2019.
• GSTR-1 Due Date for the month of April 2019 is 11th May 2019.
• GSTR-3B for the month of April 2019 is 20th May 2019.

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