In a relief to Flipkart the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal rejected the Income-tax department’s argument that, discounts offered by the flipkart should be reclassified as capital expenditure. This ruling is very important from the perspective that, product discounting, advertisement and marketing expenses constitute a major portion of expenses of e-commerce companies/ start-up companies. Click here to view[…]

Query: Can restaurants avail input tax credit (‘ITC’) if they charge GST at the rate of 12% (Non – AC) 18% (AC) instead 5% on the sales made by them? Service tax regime: In earlier tax regime abatement of 70% was given on service tax levied on restaurant services by amending the notification No. 1/ 2006-ST, dated[…]