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Dispute Resolution Scheme: 5 Tax-Friendly Rules
The Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley said that litigation is a scourge for tax friendly regime and creates an environment of distrust.
Litigation also leads to increasing the compliance cost of the tax payers and administrative cost for the Government.
As of now, there are 3 lakh tax cases pending with the 1st Appellate Authority with disputed amount being 5.5 lakh crores.
In order to reduce this number new dispute Resolution Scheme (DRS) is launched.
Following are highlights of dispute resolution scheme:
- A taxpayer who has an appeal pending as of today before the Commissioner (Appeals) can settle his case by paying the disputed tax and interest up to the date of assessment.
- No penalty in respect of Income-tax cases with disputed tax up to Rs. 10 lakh will be levied.
- Cases with disputed tax exceeding Rs. 10 lakhs will be subjected to only 25% of the minimum of the imposable penalty for both direct and indirect taxes.
- Any pending appeal against a penalty order can also be settled by paying 25% of the minimum of the imposable penalty.
- Certain categories of persons including those who are charged with criminal offences under specific Acts are proposed to be barred from availing this scheme.
Other tax regimes
He proposed one-time scheme of Dispute Resolution for past cases ongoing under retrospective amendment.
One can settle the case by paying only the tax arrears in which case liability of the interest and penalty shall be waived. This is subject to agreeing to withdraw any pending case lying in any Court or Tribunal or any proceeding for arbitration, mediation etc. under BIPA.
The penalty rates will now be 50% of tax in case of underreporting of income and 200% of the tax where there is misreporting of facts. Remission of penalty is also proposed where taxes are paid and appeal is not filed.
Quantification of disallowance of expenditure relatable to exempt income in terms of Section 14A of the Income Tax Act is another issue led to number of disputes.
Source: PIB
