taxes types, methods & budgeting process section 2 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (b)

Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) is a Section 8 (under new companies Act, not for profit companies are governed under section 8), non-Government company.

(But cabinet has approved a decision to make it a wholly-owned govt. company).

It was incorporated on March 28, 2013. The Company has been set up primarily to provide IT infrastructure and services to the Central and State Governments, taxpayers and other stakeholders for implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST).

Answer: (c)

Exports, imports and movement of goods from one state to another state is treated as an interstate supply for the purpose of GST.

On imports, first customs duty is imposed and then Integrated GST (IGST) is also imposed.

Answer: (c)

The Finance Commission recommends for devolution of taxes (from the divisible pool) from Centre to States only (called Vertical devolution) and is not meant for UTs, whether they have their own assembly/legislature or not.

The Fifteenth Finance Commission (FFC) recommendations will be applicable for six years period from 2020-21 to 2025-26. For the year 2020-21, the recommendations have been submitted and the final recommendations for the five-year period 2021-22 to 2025- 26 will be submitted by October 2020.

FFC quoted:

“The State of Jammu & Kashmir was reorganised into the Union Territories (UT) of Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir through the Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019. Article 280 of the Constitution, along with the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act puts the newly-created UTs of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir outside the purview of the Finance Commission's award.

Since UTs are the responsibilities of the Union, they are within the purview of the Union budget. We have notionally estimated that the share of the erstwhile State of Jammu & Kashmir would have come to around 0.85 per cent of the divisible pool. We believe that there is a strong case for enhancing this to 1 per cent of the divisible pool in order to meet the security and other special needs of the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

Since this enhancement has to be met from the Union' Government's resources (through Ministry of Home Affairs), we recommend that aggregate share of States may be reduced by 1 percentage point to 41 per cent of the divisible pool.”

So basically, FFC has not recommended the transfer of taxes to Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh Union Territories for the period 2020-21.

Answer: (b)

Royalty from onshore (on land) oilfields goes to the State Governments as State governments are the owners of the minerals beneath the land in their territory.

From offshore (within sea) oilfields, royalty goes to Central Government as Central Govt. is the owner of the offshore fields. So, (iii) statement is not true.

Answer: (a)