Digital payments up 30.2% in FY21: According to RBI data

Digital payments up 30.2% in FY21: According to RBI data

According to RBI data, digital payments grew by 30.19 per cent in the year ended March 2021, demonstrating the country’s adoption and deepening of cashless transactions. The newly created Digital Payments Index (RBI-DPI) grew to 270.59 at the end of March 2021, up from 207.84 the previous year.

“In recent years, the RBI-DPI index has shown remarkable growth, indicating the fast adoption and deepening of digital payments across the country.”

The Reserve Bank of India had previously announced the creation of a composite Reserve Bank of India – Digital Payments Index (RBI-DPI) with March 2018 as the basis to measure the amount of payment digitisation in India.

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The RBI-DPI is made up of five major metrics that can be used to track the depth and penetration of digital payments in the country over time.

Payment Enablers (25 percent weight); Payment Infrastructure – Demand-side variables (10 percent); Payment Infrastructure – Supply-side factors (15 percent); Payment Performance (45 percent); and Consumer Centricity (45 percent) (5 per cent).

Govt’s net tax collection rises 86% to Rs 5.57 lakh crore in Quarter1

The RBI said in January that the index would be issued semi-annually starting in March 2021, with a four-month lag.

Todays Tax Updates

Todays Tax Updates

1. CBDT grants further relaxation in electronic filing of Income Tax Forms 15CA/15CB

It has now been decided to extend the aforesaid date to 15th August 2021. In view thereof, taxpayers can now submit the said Forms in manual format to the authorised dealers till 15th August 2021. Authorised dealers are advised to accept such Forms till 15th August 2021 for the purpose of foreign remittances.

2. Gujrat High Court in the case of Nagri Eye Research Foundation VS UOI stated that Charitable Trust required to obtain GST Registration & Medicines provided by them, even at a lower rate, will get covered under “Supply”.

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3. . Interest-free loan cannot be treated as a financial debut without evidence that the loan was disbursed for the time value of money.
Case Name: Orator Marketing Pvt. Ltd. Vs Samtex Desinz Pvt. Ltd. (NCLTAT Delhi) Appeal Number: Company Appeal (AT) (Ins) No.1064 of 2020 Date of Judgement/Order: 08/03/2021

4. Income Tax Assessing Officer can make addition u/s 68/69C despite estimation of Income U/s 44AF of the Income Tax Act.
Case Name: Atul Dinesh Seth Vs ITO (ITAT Bangalore). Appeal Number: ITA Nos. 399 to 401/Bang/2020. Date of Judgement/Order: 08/03/2021

Govt’s net tax collection rises 86% to Rs 5.57 lakh crore in Quarter1 

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Govt’s net tax collection rises 86% to Rs 5.57 lakh crore in Quarter1

Govt’s net tax collection rises 86% to Rs 5.57 lakh crore in Quarter1

Parliament was informed on Monday that the government’s total tax collection increased by almost 86 percent in the April-June quarter to more than Rs 5.57 lakh crore. Net direct tax collection totaled Rs 2.46 lakh crore, while indirect tax collection totaled Rs 3.11 lakh crore.

Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said, “The net direct tax collection in the first quarter of FY 2021-2022 is Rs 2,46,519.82 crore as against Rs 1,17,783.87 crore during the same period of previous FY 2020-21, representing a growth of 109.3 percent.”

In the first quarter of FY 2021-2022, net indirect tax collection was Rs 3,11,398 crore, up from Rs 1,82,862 crore in the same time the previous year, a 70.3 percent increase.

In response to another query, Chaudhary stated that the Income Tax Department takes appropriate action against tax evaders in accordance with applicable legislation.

Searches, surveys, inquiries, income assessments, tax levy, interest, penalties, and the filing of prosecution cases in criminal courts, if applicable, are examples of actions taken under direct tax laws.

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Furthermore, under the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act of 2015, more than 107 criminal complaints have been submitted.
Assessment orders under the Act had been issued in 166 cases as of May 31, 2021, with a total demand of Rs 8,216 crore.

In the HSBC cases, concealed income of around Rs 8,465 crore was brought to tax, and a penalty of Rs 1,294 crore was imposed. In ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) cases, the undisclosed income of almost Rs 11,010 crore has been discovered.

Representation on 10 issues relating to GST

Undisclosed credits totaling Rs 20,078 crore and Rs 246 crore have been discovered in the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers disclosures, respectively.