The Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha in December.
The top court said it cannot order a roving inquiry into purchase of electoral bonds on the assumption that it was quid pro quo for award of contract.
The present tax revenue of the state is Rs 120,000 crore.
'Stars have made stacks of wealth at the cost of the rest of the film industry.'
According to Mitra, items such as foodgrain, vegetables, leather goods, footwear, cottage cheese, puffed and flattened rice, books and entertainment tax, among several others, should be in the zero-tax bracket.
The GST will be a national sales tax that will be levied on consumption of goods or use of services
Depending on the location of theatre in the states, the movie-goers pay anywhere between 40 to 100 per cent tax on a ticket, making India a "highest entertainment taxed" country in the world.
Khan, a deputy secretary with the state public works department, confirmed to PTI that he had received the notice and said he was supposed to reply to it in seven days.
Large states like Andhra, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal, MP, Odisha, Punjab and Tamil Nadu would need compensation from the Centre
The climate for 'doing business' remains forbidding, taxtortion is still rife, corruption at state and district levels has increased, oil prices remain extortive with high taxation, and the continued red tape has kept the enterprise system as stifled as before, points out Debashis Basu.
National-award winning actor, producer, hotelier, ex-politician, cricket team owner, philanthropist, highest tax payer, reality show judge, animal lover and, above all, people's hero -- Mithun Chakraborty -- who has been conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award -- is truly a force of nature, notes Sukanya Verma.
The June quarter is usually considered as a seasonally strong period for the IT sector.
In one of the tweets, Khan, who is deputy secretary with the MP Public Works Department, had last week urged makers of The Kashmir Files to also make a film on the 'killings of large number of Muslims across several states' in India, and said members of this minority community are 'not insects, but citizens of the country'.
Print media will not benefit from the Budget.
A high voltage entertainer with good performances from Darshan and Navya Nair. Music is the highlight of this Kannada entertainer. Worth a watch.
Exemptions, and the fact that farm income is outside the tax net, ensure that India's tax-GDP ratio stays low.
Aimed at creating a single tax for goods and services across the country, government on Friday introduced the long-pending GST Bill in the Lok Sabha for roll-out of the new regime from April 2016 subsuming various levies like entry tax and octroi.
In an attempt to get states to implement the Goods and Services Tax (GST) by next April, the Centre has softened its stance on most proposals in the draft Constitutional Amendment Bill that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee hopes to pilot in the monsoon session.
The fourth and final Test match between India and South Africa to be held in Delhi from December 3-7 is set to be moved to Pune after the Arvind Kerjiwal-led Aam Aadmi Party government refused to grant Delhi and District Cricket Association the required permissions to host the match.
Akki's new film will likely be tax free in BJP-ruled states.
Compliance requirements, valuation, input tax credit transfers are likely to lead to tax litigation, says Sayan Ghosal.
A bench headed by Justice H L Dattu, however, allowed the petitioner, former Additional Solicitor General Bishwajit Bhattacharyya, to file fresh petition with all the relevant documents stating what action Centre has so far been taken on the issue.
'... dividing society not just on religious lines, but also creating rift in families and among brothers and sisters.'
Gujarat has topped with a score of 71.14% on ease of doing business list.
... And what explains the directions of change? asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Budget likely to list tax-exempt items as finance ministry, states agree
The income tax department estimates total collection to be between Rs 10.5 trillion and Rs 10.7 trillion against the revised target of Rs 11.7 trillion.
Non-BJP chief ministers are retaliating. If the Centre can use its agencies to threaten, intimidate and jail its rivals, so can they. The fightback will get more intense, observes Shekhar Gupta.
A whirlwind trip of the dark underbelly of global finance, covering everything from tax law changes to aiding criminals to decamp with money from bank accounts.
The officer, Niyaz Khan, also appealed to the film producer to transfer all earnings to the Brahmin children's education and construction of homes for them in Kashmir.
Seeking to know whether the Indian Premier League is a "profiteering" venture, the Bombay high court on Thursday asked the Board of Control for Cricket in India and IPL to give information on the income generated from the Twenty20 matches that were played in Maharashtra.
The Income Tax Department on Wednesday raided the homes and offices of Bollywood actor Taapsee Pannu and filmmaker Anurag Kashyap as well as his partners who launched the now shuttered production house Phantom Films, officials said.
Bookmyshow's expectation from the Budget has always been to get a unified e-tax policy for the country rather than for each individual state.
Since its release, the film has sparked a debate among the various political parties of India as well as the audiences.
The DTH industry has to pay entertainment tax to state governments and service tax to the central government.
Cable TV channels in lakhs of homes in Bangalore went blank on Thursday as operators went on an indefinite strike, demanding that the Karnataka government withdraw the 150 per cent increase in entertainment tax.
With the Delhi high court clearing the decks for the fourth and final Test between India and South Africa to be staged at the Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi & District Cricket Association vice-president Chetan Chauhan declared on Thursday his association will "organise a good game", come December 3.
Stalin still enjoys a lot of sympathy and empathy as someone wishing well for the state, but not full-throated support as in 2019 and 2021, notes N Sathiya Moorthy.
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