Dept of Revenue
Invites Suggestions from Industry and Trade for General Budget 2018-19
[Ref: F.No.
334/4/2017-TRU dated 16 November 2017]
Subject: Suggestions from the Industry
and Trade Associations for Budget 2018-19 regarding changes in direct
and indirect taxes.
In
the context of formulating the proposals for the Union
Budget of 2018-19,
the Ministry of Finance would like to be benefited by the suggestions and views of your Association. You may like to send your suggestions for changes in the
duty structure, rates and broadening of tax base on both direct and indirect taxes
giving economic justification for the
same.
2. Your suggestions and views may be supplemented and justified by relevant statistical information about production, prices, revenue implication of the changes suggested and any other information to support your proposal.
The request for correction of inverted
duty structure, if any for a commodity, should necessarily be supported by value addition
at each stage of manufacturing of the commodity. It would not be feasible to examine suggestions that
are either not clearly explained or which are not supported
by adequate justification I statistics.
3. Further, as regards direct taxes, while forwarding your proposals, please take into consideration the Budget announcement made in Union Budget
2015-16 to reduce the rate of
Corporate Tax from 30% to 25% over the next 4 years along
with rationalization and removal
of various kinds of tax exemptions and incentives and the plan of phasing out exemptions and tax incentives laid before the Parliament with the Union Budget 2016-17.
The Synopsis of your
suggestions could be given in the following
format:
Sr.No. |
Issue |
Jurisdiction |
2.1 Further, in respect
of proposals relating
to changes in Customs and Central excise duty rates, the additional information as prescribed in the Annexure
enclosed herewith, may
be provided.
3. Your suggestions and views may
be emailed, as word document
in the form of separate attachments, in respect of Indirect Taxes [Customs
and Central Excise [for commodities outside
GST)] to budget-cbec@nic.in and Direct Tax to ustpl3@nic.in. Hard
copies of the Pre-Budget proposals/ suggestions relating to Customs
& Central Excise may be
sent to Shri Alok Shukla, Joint Secretary (TRU-I),
and Service Tax to Shri Amitabh Kumar,
Joint Secretary (TRU-ll), CBEC, while the suggestions relating to Direct
Taxes may be sent to Shri Rasmi Ranjan Das, Joint Secretary, Tax Policy and Legislation
(TPL-1), CBDT . It
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would be appreciated if your views and suggestions reach us by the 25th
November 2017.