Dear friends, I write this article not just to post simply something for the sake of making a contribution to the site. But I want to ensure that any person who gets to reads this should from at least then, feel and respect his/her profession. Every
There was a day when ORDINARY people used to bring the vegetables that even a poor person can afford with ease & burden less at a price of just Rs. 5/- to Rs. 6/- per Kg, but today the same ORDINARY people is getting at a price ranging between R
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Post Rao era, most reforms in tax laws have promised a lot but delivered very little. VAT was announced with a view to avoid cascading effect of taxes and reduce the burden of compliance on the business community. In reality, govt revenues have go
Under the Central Sales Tax law, C form is required to avail concessional rate of tax. Till recently, full rate of tax was 10% and concessional rate was 4%. Today, the full rate is 4% and concessional rate is 2%. For most business transactions, co
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ICAI routinely releases Exposure Drafts on the proposed Accounting standards and of late have begun to release IFRS compliant ASs. Recently, the Exp Draft of AS 39 was released for comments. I wrote the following letter to ASB, which I thought I sho
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GSTR 9 and 9C for FY 23-24 as amended by Notification 12/2024 dated 10th July 2024(with recording)