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Pre-GST, the statutory tax rate for most goods was about 26.5%; post-GST, most goods are expected to be in the 18% tax range. The tax came into effect from 1 July 2017 through the implementation of the One Hundred and First Amendment to the Constitution of India by the Government of India. 1 July is celebrated as GST Day. [4]
Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance (UMANG) is a mobile app, a Digital India initiative [1] of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (in short form MeitY [2]), by the Government of India for access to central and state government services.
The portal has transformed public procurement in India [1] by driving its three pillars, namely, inclusion, usability and transparency and efficiency and cost savings. [7] According to an independent assessment made by the World Bank, average savings for buyers in Government e Marketplace portal is about 9.75% on the median price. [8]
India.gov.in was launched on 10 November 2005. [6] It is a Mission Mode Project under the National E-Governance Plan [7] or NeGP.The portal is managed by the National Informatics Centre, [8] which operates under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
Direct tax in the form of an income tax was introduced by Sir James Wilson in India in 1860 to overcome the difficulties created by the Indian Rebellion of 1857. [12] The organisational history of the Income-tax Department, however, starts in the year 1922, when the Income-tax Act [4], 1922 gave, for the first time, a specific nomenclature to various Income-tax authorities.
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India has been playing a prominent role, inter alia, in developing the new global standards on automatic exchange of information which would enable the tax authorities to receive information about taxpayers hiding their money in offshore financial centers and tax havens through multi-layered entities with non-transparent ownership, on an ...
In April, 2008, the EC submitted a report, titled "A Model and Road map for Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India" containing broad recommendations about the structure and design of GST. In response to the report, the Department of Revenue made some suggestions to be incorporated in the design and structure of proposed GST bill.