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I am, therefore I should think: Collection of excess Service Tax by Mast Kalandar restaurant - 1
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I am, therefore I should think. Saturday, August 24, 2013. Collection of excess Service Tax by Mast Kalandar restaurant - 1. I ordered food from one of the Mast Kalandar restaurants some months ago. The bill amounts were as follows:. Total = 286.00 INR. VAT @ 14.5% = 41.47 INR. Service Tax = 21.21 INR. Of total bill. (Update 24/11/15: Since Service Tax has increased to 14.5% from 15/11/15, including another nonsense called Swachh Bharat Cess, the Service Tax applied to restaurants is now 5.8%). I contact...
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I am, therefore I should think: November 2009
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I am, therefore I should think. Thursday, November 12, 2009. Perils of the new Direct Tax Code for long term investors. A new (draft) Direct Tax Code (DTC). From April 2011 has been proposed by the Hon'ble Indian Finance Minister in Aug 2009. The DTC has undergone quite favorable analysis. Sample articles like this: New tax code: Pay 10% tax on Rs 10-lakh salary. Or Decoding the direct tax code. In essence this means that the taxation of 0% on LTCG on equity is being abolished with retrospective effect!
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I am, therefore I should think: June 2009
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I am, therefore I should think. Thursday, June 25, 2009. Liquor sold above MRP - 5. Ah, I have some new knowledge. From The Standards of Weights and Measures (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 1977:. 23 Provisions relating to whole sale dealer and retail dealers:. 2) No retail dealer or other person including manufacturer, packer and wholesale dealer shall make any sale of any commodity in packaged form at a price exceeding the retail sale price thereof. The text above in bold is all I need. It is quite c...
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I am, therefore I should think: June 2013
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I am, therefore I should think. Friday, June 07, 2013. Reissuing a passport - 3 or Curious case of the namesake from Bhatinda. Part 2 is here: Reissuing a passport - 2 or Advance to the rear. Then started the long wait until my number was called. In the meanwhile hilarious things were going on at the counter. Every person who was called was asked to pay a fine! After much fiddling with my phone, and playing musical chairs, my turn finally arrived. Applause, bow, woof woof. The lady at the counter...Boody...
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I am, therefore I should think: Reissuing a passport - 1 or Making a monkey of queuing theory
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I am, therefore I should think. Friday, March 08, 2013. Reissuing a passport - 1 or Making a monkey of queuing theory. I need to apply for a UK visa, and the consulate needs 2 back-to-back blank pages in my passport for the same. Who knows why, but this ridiculous requirement has screwed up my travel plans and I've already wasted 2 full working days. Anyway, so now I needed to apply for a new passport since I dont have 2 back to back blanks on the old. Http:/ www.passportappointment.in/. This last websit...
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I am, therefore I should think: July 2009
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I am, therefore I should think. Friday, July 10, 2009. Example for new Perqusite Tax versus old Fringe Benefit Tax. An example for the previous post " FBT removed in Budget 09-10. Time to rejoice? An employee is awarded X shares under an RSU plan, with a vesting date 4 years in the future. The RSUs are awarded at face value, say INR 2. 4 years later, on the vesting date, the stock price is at an all time high of INR 102 i.e. the FMV = INR 102. After the vesting date, irrespective of when. The notional ca...
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I am, therefore I should think: August 2013
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I am, therefore I should think. Saturday, August 24, 2013. Collection of excess Service Tax by Mast Kalandar restaurant - 1. I ordered food from one of the Mast Kalandar restaurants some months ago. The bill amounts were as follows:. Total = 286.00 INR. VAT @ 14.5% = 41.47 INR. Service Tax = 21.21 INR. Of total bill. (Update 24/11/15: Since Service Tax has increased to 14.5% from 15/11/15, including another nonsense called Swachh Bharat Cess, the Service Tax applied to restaurants is now 5.8%). I contact...
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I am, therefore I should think: Reissuing a passport - 3 or Curious case of the namesake from Bhatinda
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I am, therefore I should think. Friday, June 07, 2013. Reissuing a passport - 3 or Curious case of the namesake from Bhatinda. Part 2 is here: Reissuing a passport - 2 or Advance to the rear. Then started the long wait until my number was called. In the meanwhile hilarious things were going on at the counter. Every person who was called was asked to pay a fine! After much fiddling with my phone, and playing musical chairs, my turn finally arrived. Applause, bow, woof woof. The lady at the counter...Boody...
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I am, therefore I should think: January 2010
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I am, therefore I should think. Friday, January 01, 2010. Retailers in B'lore take consumers for a ride. And consumers in B'lore are enjoying it. Time and again, I've found clear cases of cheating and fraud by all the big retail names in Bangalore: Foodworld leads the list, but the others (Reliance, Spencers, Spar, Monday 2 Sunday) are not far behind. I have already posted about Liquor sold above MRP. Found this in both Spencers and Foodworld. Still following that up. Latest incident at Spar: while billi...
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