Home » finance ministry

You Searched For "finance ministry"

Finance minister Arun Jaitley and RBI governor Urjit Patel during the financial stability and development council meeting in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

No speculation on deposits, says RBI

Figures will be released after calculation.

6 Jan 2017 2:39 AM IST

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

Fin Min refuses information on demonetisation

Ministry refused to disclose whether Arun Jaitley was consulted before announcement of demonetisation.

5 March 2017 1:48 PM IST

Under the PMGKY after payment of tax, 25 per cent of the unaccounted money will have to be mandatorily parked with the government for 4 years as non-interest bearing deposit.

CBDT signs 9 advance pricing pacts with taxpayers in July

Progress of the APA scheme strengthens the Govt's commitment to foster a non-adversarial tax regime.

31 July 2017 8:28 PM IST

The government has proposed to halve the income tax to 5 per cent for those earning between Rs 2,50,000 and Rs 5,00,000 per annum, in a relief to the middle class.

Why the govt should extend deadline for filing income tax returns

From several new changes in rules to GST, there are various reasons why the deadline for ITR filing should be extended...

28 July 2017 3:02 PM IST

Tax payers will also need to quote their Aadhaar number while filing their returns as per the recently passed amendments in the Finance Bill.

CBDT signs 2 more unilateral APAs with taxpayers

So far this fiscal, four APAs have been signed and the CBDT expects more APAs to be signed in the near future.

22 May 2017 8:28 PM IST

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

GST is going to be consumer friendly: Arun Jaitley

Earlier, the GST Council decided to exempt the daily-use commodities from the levy.

19 May 2017 6:02 PM IST

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

GST Council fits tax rates on 80-90 pc goods, services

Council also approves 9 rules for GST regime that is scheduled to kick in from July 1.

18 May 2017 4:54 PM IST

Photo caption: Under it, C-GST will be levied by the Centre, S-GST by states and I-GST on inter-state supply of goods and services. (Representational Image)

Call charges need to drop post GST, says Finance Ministry

As per some estimates, this additional input tax credit would be as much as 2 per cent of the turnover of the telecom...

27 May 2017 1:02 AM IST

GST rates will be lower for sugar, tea

GST rates will be lower for sugar, tea

Earlier this week, finance ministry had said taxes on entertainment, cable and DTH services will come down under the GST...

26 May 2017 1:37 AM IST

Under the PMGKY after payment of tax, 25 per cent of the unaccounted money will have to be mandatorily parked with the government for 4 years as non-interest bearing deposit.

Tax on DTH, cable to come down: Centre

It said that the rate of entertainment tax on cable TV and DTH levied by states is in the range of 10-30 per cent in...

24 May 2017 1:04 AM IST

Representational image.

Govt to bolster institutions for effective Benami law

Modi yesterday said law against Benami property will be turned into an incisive law.

26 Dec 2016 2:28 PM IST

The committee found that for the current fiscal also the power ministry had put forward a demand of Rs 31,519 crore, which was reduced to Rs 12,200 crore by the finance ministry.

Finance ministry pulled up for slashing power funds

MPs' panel asks power ministry to use allocations as per original demand.

13 March 2017 12:51 AM IST