Tax questions

Placing spouse as a salaried employee

I am a technical consultant providing scientific consultancy services to different interested organizations. Nature of my work is mostly home-based with travel to client project locations. Till now I paid service tax and now will be paying GST for my services. The expenses that are incurred for business purpose, like travel and communication, are deducted from my total income. This is as per th...

capital gains tax for senior citizens

Dear Sir, I am Chetan Phatak, from Aurangabad. I need your advice regarding the capital gains tax for my father (age 81 years) who is senior citizen. My father’s property is in Nagpur which he purchased for @3.0 Lakh in the year 2003. Due to some medical reasons, and there is no one to take care of them, I brought my parents to Aurangabad so that I can take care of them. Now I have purchas...

Tax liability on returning nri

I am Indian Citizen ,I was in Hongkong for 8 years from June 2008 to June 2016 & have returned back to India in June 2016 . I have following queries with regard to taxation in India for the house ( flat )bought in Hongkong in June 2011 (which is still under mortgage). Let me know the following : 1. What is the tax liability in India if flat is sold within 2 years of returning back to India( wh...

Gst on dropshipping

Hi I'm developing a marketplace website allowing Suppliers to sell their product. In addition to that I'm providing Dropshipping option as well. Anyone who registered as Reseller can use the product images from Suppliers and Sell to their customers. Customer will know Reseller only and when order comes , product will be shipped directly to customer. Here Reseller don't do any inventory and don'...

tax on settlement received for EL & Superannuation resignation

Dear sir/Madam, I resigned my previous company after 5.4 years of service & joined a new company. I have received following settlement from previous company 1. Rs 1,02,000/- for superannuation withdrawal after deducting 10% of tax at source (1/3 rd of amount). 2. Rs. 1,30,000/- for EL encashment after deducting 10% of tax at source. 3. Rs. 97,000/- of gratuity amount (Tax is not deducted...

Tax as travelling freelancer

Hello. I'm working as a freelancer (software), and I'm constantly travelling, not staying in one place more than 3 months, thus I can't claim tax residency basically anywhere. I'm originally from Lithuania, and I've been freelancing for less than a year, as taxes in Lithuania are really high, I'm looking for options in opening an offshore bank account or/and offshore company with 0%-1% corporat...

Tds filling nri

Good Morning. Warm greetings from ARUL.R I am a NRI. From Income tax one mail come below attached. Dear Taxpayer, Greetings from Income-Tax Department! It is seen from your 26AS statement that there are TDS deductions on payments received by you during F.Y. 2016-17. Therefore, it is advised that you may ascertain your tax liability for AY 2017-18 and file your Income Tax Return...

Communication of proposed adjustment u/s 143(1)(a) of Income Tax

Dear Sir/Madam, Subject: Communication of proposed adjustment u/s 143(1)(a) of Income Tax Act, 1961. The return for PAN AYBXXXXXXD, Assessment Year 2017-18 E-filing- Acknowledgement number 833XXXXXXXX90617 Dated 29-JUN-17 {AY, Acknowledgement Number and Date are obtained from the ITR} contains the errors/incorrect claims/ inconsistencies which attract adjustment(s), as specified u/s. 143(...

Showing carry forward short term capital loss in ITR-2 sec CFL

I have a very simple question with regard to showing carry forward loss in ITR2. Below is the scenario. 1 - FY2015-16, I am having short term capital loss of 3,00,000 Rs. In this year, I do not have any short term capital gain hence, I had to carry forward it by ITR2. And I have no question here. 2 - FY2016-17, I am having short term capital gain of 1,00,000 Rs. I can set off this against...

Redemption/ Switch of Mutual Funds and Section 44ADA

Dear Sirs / Madam I am planning to file my returns using Section 44ADA (presumptive basis) as I am data processing freelancer and do Customer oriented /IT related jobs for an overseas client. However, in an effort to streamline my Mutual Fund portfolio like converting to Direct plans, switch from non performing to performing funds, I have had a revamp. I have switched certain funds to oth...

Mismatch in Form 16A and Form 26AS

Form 16A from the bank shows, 1325 TDS deducted for interest amount 13248. Where as Form 26AS shows, 2006 TDS deposited for interest amount 17661. Also, the from the interest certificate from bank, the total interest amount(on FDs) is shown as 20058. In Form 26AS, for a transaction of interest amount 1694, the TDS deposited is shown as 410. But it seems to be for (1694 + 2394). Here, amount ...

IT dep asked through mail to report income

I have received an email from IT dep. saying.. It is seen from your 26AS statement that there are TDS deductions on payments received by you during F.Y. 2016-17. Therefore, it is advised that you may ascertain your tax liability for AY 2017-18 and file your Income Tax Return (ITR) by due date. If your case in not auditable, your due date for filing of your Income Tax Return will be 31s...

Section 44ADA for 50% Income

Hello, I work as a translator cum content writer and have income of around 22 Lakhs. I heard on TV Taxguru program that people with my profile can claim 50% provisional income under section 44ADA, and pay taxes on only 50% of the remaining income by filling the return form no. 3. My question is that what should I enter into following 3 fields in ITR 3 form "Profit and Loss" sheet column 53 ...

regarding GST number for commission agents

Hello sir \ mam With due respect myself Bharat from Jodhpur .. i am a commission agent .. as per above messages .. GST number is required for above 20 lacs income on commission ... but as i read in google there is mandatory for Agent,broker, arthiya etc ..to have a GST number.. even if u have a income of rupees 1 bcoz government had ruled a compulsory 18% GST for any agent ... !!! GST on...

Presumptive income under 44AD

Hi I am selling knowledge videos online which i get these made from my husband. Assume my income from sale (Turnover) for FY 2015-16 is 4 Lac & for FY 2016-17 is 6 Lac which directly comes into my joint bank Account (my & My husbands JBA) .(I have no other income). Can i File a return (ITR4S) under section 44AD (as Presumptive Income) Can i show 8% of T/O as my income (without having to ma...

PF withdrawn after 5years of continuous employment still charged

I have a continuous employemnt for more than 5years as per my UAN . Hence in my current company i applied for the PD transfer from my previous organisation and the same was approved and submitted to EPFO portal in Nov-2016.Later the PF website went down and i couldn't check my transfer status. In the mean time i resigned from my current organisation and applied for PF withdrawal. I expected as...

Tax information regarding earnings from multiple (three) sources

Hello Folks, I am in a very serious confusion regarding multiple things, So I'd try to elaborate as much as possible: I have three major sources of income: 1. full-time job in a company (monthly salary) 2. part-time freelancing (inflow on regular basis) 3. part-time from another company (monthly salary) From #1, I make around 1.5L per month From #2, I make around 1.2L per month (on...

Is it necessary to register as a sole proprietorship?

Sir / Ma'am, kindly help me to understand the following. i want to publish a puzzle book [authored by myself] and sell it to the end user directly [by myself]. the expected turn over is hardly 5 lakhs per annum which is not applicable in GST. 1, for starting as small proprietorship firm, which are the registrations i need to take? 2. is commercial space mandatory for this business OR can i...

Taxes

Dear Sir/Madam, My name is Tatyana and I represent Law&Trust International company. We are interested in your consultation in respect of new Indian taxes and regulations (GST, GAAR). We have an Indian resident company and interested in legal way to minimize taxes. We consider UAE company to buy Indian company in order to pay 5% dividend tax and also involve Cyprus company in order to buy pro...

Consultancy on capital gain treatment & Clubbing of income

Fact }my mother had two Plots. Plot A purchased in aug,2012 for 534500 and Plot B purchased in dec,2012 for 577800. She sold the plot A for 14 lac in Dec,2016 & sold Plot B for 7.25 lac in Jan,2017. further a new residential house was purchased for 16.5 lac in march 2017 & amount of rs 220000 is invested in NHAI bond in march 2017. we do not have any other residential house other than newly pur...