20 December 2014
i heard that MAT came because of excess calculation of depreciation by big companies is it true? if not what the use of mat for govt to get it implement
20 December 2014
Mat is totally seperate issue and depreication is allowance of non cash expenditure as per prescribed % under income tax act.
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20 December 2014
i heard that MAT came because of excess calculation of depreciation by big companies is it true? if not what the use of mat for govt to get it implement
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20 December 2014
then can you explain the reasons mat came in
20 December 2014
it is because for body coporate there was no proper structure of taxation and they were earlier put to higher tax bracket which was not fair taxation policy.
20 December 2014
Yes it is possible that some cases company needs to pay MAT.
In many cases we see company will have book profit but no taxable income due to many reasons say,deductions,exemptions,allowances.
One of the reason is depreciation, Yes,even though company have book profit they may not pay tax as they will not have adequate taxable income to pay tax because higher rate of depreciation as per IT act compared to company act or it may be because of additional depreciation.
So inorder to avoid this IT act introduces MAT u/s Sec.115jB . Under the provisions of Section 115JB, where the income tax calculated under the income tax act is less than 18.5 % of the book profit, then such book profit shall be deemed to the total income of the assessee and tax payable by the assessee shall be 18.5 % on book profits.