Accounts and Audit Requirements

Books of Accounts and Audit Requirements

The Income Tax Law sets out the books of accounts to be kept for income tax purposes. It has been described under Article 44AA and Rule 6F.

Required to keep the books of accounts?

The following professions must maintain accounting records if their total revenue is greater than Rs. 150,000 in the previous 3 years for a career list. This also applies to a newly established profession whose total revenue is expected to exceed Rs 10,000. 1,50,000.

Books Accounts

The accounting records to be booked in Rule 6F were identified:

  • legal
  • Medical
  • Engineering
  • The architect
  • Accounting
  • Technical Consultancy
  • Interior decoration

Authorized representative – a person who represents a person for remuneration before a body or other authority under the law. It does not include an employee of the person represented or the person who performs the accounting profession.
A filmmaker – includes a producer, an editor, a representative, a director, a music director, a technical director, a director, a photographer, a singer, a songwriter, a storyteller, a screenwriter, And fashion designers.
Secretary Company

If you are a freelance entrepreneur pursuing any of these professions, your total receipts are more than Rs. 150000, these rules apply to you.

If the total income of the above professions does not exceed Rs.150,000 in one or more of the previous three years of an existing occupation or a newly established occupation whose total revenue is expected to be less than Rs 1, 50,000 – the professional must keep books of accounts. Unless all books or records are not kept, they are not exactly selected. The only requirement is that AO is able to calculate taxable income from professional ones.

From 18-18 years, the maximum rupee. 150,000 to Rs. 250000.

  • Accounting books defined by Rule 6F
    Cash book
    Record cash and cash payments daily that show the cash balance at the end of the day or at best at the end of each month and not thereafter.
  • Magazine in accordance with the Commercial Accounting System
    The newspaper is a record of all daily transactions. It is a record, in terms of accounting, where the total credits equal the total debt, when we follow the double-entry accounting system, that is, each opponent has a balance against and vice versa.
  • The ledger in which all entries from the magazine flow contains details of all accounts, and this can be used to prepare financial statements.
  • A copy of the invoices or receipts issued by them which are more than 25 rupees
    Bills of original expenses incurred which are more than 50 rupees
  • The following are additional requirements in the case of a person with a medical profession – doctors, surgeons, dentists, pathologists, radiologists, etc.

Record daily cash with patient details, services provided, fees received and date of receipt
Details of stock of medicines, medicines and other consumables used
These books must be kept at the head office or in each office.

How long should these books be preserved?

Records must be kept each year for 6 years from the end of this year.

Not keeping the books of accounts?

If you fail to maintain account records as stated, you may be fined 25,000 rupees or in some cases where you may have international transactions and failed to retain the information and documentation for such transactions – 2% of the value of each international transaction.

It will be hard to keep your books and track all your expenses and income in a systematic way.

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GST Transitional Claims

GST Transitional Claims of Over Rs 1 Cr to be Scrutinised

While tax collections in July were Rs 95,000 cr, transitional credit claims are Rs 65,000 cr

As much as Rs 65,000 crore out of the nearly Rs 95,000 crore tax collections in July -the first month of GST -have been claimed as transitional credit by taxpayers, prompting the apex indirect taxes body the Central Board of Excise and Customs to order a scrutiny of all cases above Rs 1 crore.

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, which kicked in from July 1, allows tax credit on stock purchased during the previous tax regime. This facility is available only up to six months from the date of GST rollout.

Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC)

The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), the body which deals with formulation and implementation of policy concerning the levy and collection of indirect taxes, in a letter dated September 11 has asked tax officials to verify GST transitional credit claims of over `1 crore. In the transitional credit form TRAN-1  filed by taxpayers along with their maiden returns for July, businesses have claimed a credit of over Rs 65,000 crore for excise, service tax or VAT paid before the GST was implemented from July 1.

As per the GST law, carry forward of transitional credit is permitted only when such credit is permissible under the law.

“The possibility of claiming ineligible credit due to mistake or confusion cannot be ruled out… It is de sired that the claims of ITC (input tax credit) of more than Rs 1 crore may be verified in a time-bound manner,“ the CBEC emphasised. It asked the chief commissioners to send a report to the CBEC by September 20 on the claims made by these companies.

CBEC

To ensure only eligible credit is carried forward in the GST regime, the CBEC has asked field offices to match the credit claimed with closing balance in returns filed under the earlier law. They are also required to check if the credit is eligible under the GST laws.

Till last week, as many as 70 % of 59.57 lakh taxpayers had filed returns for July, amounting to maiden revenue of Rs 95,000 crore under the GST regime.

However, out of this, the input tax credit (ITC) data for Central GST (CGST) claimed in TRAN-1 has shown that registered businesses have claimed over Rs 65,000 crore as transitional credit.

The government, in late August, had come out with form TRAN-1for businesses to claim credit for taxes paid on transition stock.

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Unlisted companies on black money radar

Startups, unlisted companies on black money radar, probe on 200 entities

New Startups and unlisted auxiliaries of some real Indian organizations and multinationals find themselves in the crosshairs of the income tax department for raising funds through preference shares in excess of what it considers the fair market value.

Startup Registration

The examination arm of the income tax department has sent the notification to around 200 entities under Section 56(2)(vii)(b) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, in August, two individuals with coordinate information of the issue told ET.

In cases where deals have been done at valuations higher than the fair value arrived at by tax authorities, queries have been raised

Startup India

Fair market value is evaluated by the tax department in light of past exchanges and the record of comparable organizations. The Section is frequently connected when it’s presumed that organizations might be issuing shares at a premium over the reasonable incentive for washing unaccounted money.

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