Service tax collection is likely to cross the Rs 40,000 crore (Rs 400 billion) mark this fiscal, far exceeding the target of Rs 35,000 crore (Rs 350 billion), a senior Finance Ministry official said on Thursday.
Indian passengers boarding international flights on the domestic leg are not required to file customs baggage declaration form, the government has ruled.
The Indian finance ministry has sought the help of forensic experts in major locations to detect and handle explosives and radioactive material in metal scrap.
The Finance Ministry on Friday said indirect tax collections are likely to cross Rs 2,00,000 crore (Rs 2000 billion) this fiscal, well above the target of Rs 1,92,215 crore (Rs 1922.15 billion).
The government on Friday hiked the import tariff value on gold to $363 per 10 gram in line with global prices.
Gold prices were ruling at Rs 26,385 per ten gram at the bullion market while silver was quoted at Rs 34,000 per kg.
With the passage of Finance Bill on Friday, the government on Friday ruled out rollback of service tax imposed on goods booking agents, but expressed its willingness to sort out any procedural difficulty faced by either truck owners or operators.
The government has further simplified tax procedures by reducing the number of returns filed by manufacturers for Excise Duties to a unified one-page return from October, 2003.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs, through a notification on February 12, has slashed the duty on both the variants of motorcycles imported as completely build units (CBU) to 50 per cent.
The revenue from GST for the current fiscal has been pegged at over Rs 4.44 lakh crore, while for next fiscal it is Rs 7.43 lakh crore.
The government on Wednesday increased the import tariff value on gold and silver to $408 per 10 gram and $520 per kg, respectively in line with global prices.
The government is considering to enact Service Tax Act and is likely to allow states to levy the tax on local items after nationwide value-added tax is introduced, a senior official of Central Board of Excise and Customs said on Thursday.\n\n\n\n
The indirect tax collection grew by about seven per cent to Rs 51,461 crore (Rs 514.61 billion) in the first five months of this fiscal from Rs 48,095 crore (Rs 480.95 billion) in April-August 2002.
The outstanding dues of Central Board of Excise and Customs mounted to Rs 14,222 crore (Rs 142.22 billion), with over 53,600 cases pending in various courts till June 2003.
With the scope of expanding excise and customs duties getting increasingly limited, the government would turn to service tax for widening the tax base, mop up from which is expected to fetch over Rs 10,000 crore by 2005.
The telecom industry topped the list in service tax collected by paying Rs 1,508.68 crore (Rs 15.09) in FY03. The government raised Rs 4,123 crore (Rs 41.23 billion) in the previous fiscal from service tax.
The diamond studded crown of India's Srishti Rana, who has been crowned Miss Asia Pacific World 2013 in Busan, South Korea, was seized for not paying customs, a senior customs official said.
The import tariff value is the base price at which the customs duty is determined.
Airports have been asked to ensure that information relating to the use of Indian currency should be displayed at all the duty-free shops.
Central Board of Excise and Customs Chairperson Vanaja Sarna said there will be genuine errors due to lack of understanding in the initial days. "CBEC has enforcement authorities and I have specifically said that the first three to six months are a go-slow.... I don't want small cases to be made," Sarna said at a CII event.
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