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Just Three Months After The Implementation, Government Has Reduced The Rates On 27 Items.

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Following the meeting of the GST council, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has come up with various relief ideas for the people. The major one being the allowance to file tax returns once a quarter instead of filing them every month. This one step will help businessmen, especially the small businessmen. Focusing on providing relief to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and the exporters from the major changes because of the tech-oriented goods and services tax (GST), the GST council announced various changes in the rules on Friday.  Nirmal Singh Lotus Green says that according to the changes announced by the panel, the tax rates on about 27 products and some services and also requested the panel of the state ministers to think if they could change the 18% GST on air conditioned restaurants and try to lower it. Nirmal Singh Lotus Green said that the council, headed by the Finance Minister has agreed to continue with the two pre- GST era schemes which allows duty- fre...

Patent Applications Become Easier, Government Launches The System For E-Patent Certificates

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Working hard towards achieving the goal of digital India, government has taken yet another step closer to its dream. According to Nirmal Singh Lotus Green , in order to eliminate the unnecessary delays in the work, and to make the issuing of patents hassle-free, the government has issued the system for filing applications for e-patent certificates. In a written copy presented at Lok Sabha on Monday, Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gave an idea about how the new procedure for patents would work. The grant for the e-patent was generated after the public copy of the same was issued on 3 rd July, 2017.  Nirmal Singh Lotus Green says that the copy presented at Lok Sabha very clearly states the procedure for applying for e-patents: The certificated will be generated through an automated system once the patent is granted by the controller. Then the copy of the same would be sent either directly to him or to his authorized patent agent on the re...

Companies Being Deregistered After Failing To File Annual Returns

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The government is trying all its way to curb the black money the country and for that it has taken some serious steps in the past. After the news of demonetization was out, people were shocked and in a helpless state but somehow managed to come past that phase. But the businessman knew that something more was come for them. They understood that the government would take more serious steps to make all the transactions transparent and white. It has passed many reforms, like the RERA which makes the disclosure of all the property compulsory before any sale, purchase or even advertisement for the same can be done. This February came as another shock for the companies when MCA released the list of the companies who had not been filing the annual returns with them and them government unregistered about 1 lakh companies. It’s shocking to know that about 9 lakhs registered companies have not been filing annual returns with the Ministry if Corporate Affairs (MCA). This undisclosed am...