Whether or not Goods and Services Tax (GST) is chargeable by individual advocates or law firms will now be looked at by the Supreme Court, staying current Delhi and Chhattisgarh high court proceedings. Live Law reported: GST On Lawyers: SC Stays Further Proceedings In Petitions Pending Before Delhi ...

The tax on all types of legal services provided by all classes of lawyers will be borne by clients, the finance ministry has finally settled in an official notification, as first published by Live Law.

Parliament faced record-low levels of productivity this session, with mainly the Delhi pecuniary jurisdiction bill and cheque bouncing bill squeezing through.

The Select Committee of the Rajya Sabha on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill has advised changes in provisions relating to compensation for states and on levy of one percent additional tax by states on the inter-state supply of goods. The suggestions were made on Wednesday as the committee submi...

PRS Legislative Research’s Trina Roy reports: Both Houses of Parliament faced repeated disruptions and were unable to take up scheduled business for the day. Opposition parties in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha continued to raise demands insisting upon the resignation of the Minister of External Affairs....

PRS Legislative Research’s Trina Roy reports: Lok Sabha passed the Constitutional (122ndAmendment) Bill, 2014 to rollout the Goods and Services Tax (GST). 19 members had participated in the debate yesterday. The Finance Minister in his reply today addressed the concerns of the members with regard to...

The second half of the Budget Session began this week. Here are the highlights.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley reached a consensus with the Empowered Committee (EC) of State Finance Ministers on the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) in a meeting here late Monday. A senior finance ministry source told IANS Tuesday that the details of the agreement are being fine-tuned so as t...

Showing clear intent in reforming India’s indirect tax regime within a time frame, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Monday said the government is making efforts to bring in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill in the ongoing winter session of parliament. “We will try and introduce the GST (Goods and S...

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is expected to be implemented from 1 April 2011 but there is a long way to go before it is actually ‘implemented’, argue Zeus Law’s senior partner and associates.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has engaged the former chairman of the Customs and Central Excise Settlement Commission Jogendra Singh as an indirect tax senior adviser, making it the second senior expansion of JSA’s tax practice in two months.