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Budget 2018: Govt may abolish dividend distribution tax, says EY India on Business Standard. The finance ministry may consider taxing dividend in the hands of shareholders and do away with the dividend distribution tax (DDT) in the Budget to be unveiled on February 1, EY India said today.In its pre-Budget expectations, EY said DDT has<br>
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Budget 2018: FinMin may tweak Minimum Alternate Tax norms to boost industry The Finance Ministry may change the arrangements on Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) in the imminent Union Budget to enable the business over come the effect of assessment changes in the US, to state specialists. The reason behind the presentation of MAT in the Income Tax Act was to bring every one of the zero assessment organizations and to kill the effect of specific advantages/motivating forces. Both the main business chambers, Ficci and CII, have proposed to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to diminish the occurrence of MAT which has "affected fundamentally" the income of organizations who generally have low assessable salary or have brought about duty misfortunes. Duty master Amit Singhania, Partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, said that considering the current slicing of corporate assessment rate in the US, there is a need to return to the corporate expense rate in Union Budget 2018-19, to be exhibited to Parliament on February 1. In a reminder to the fund service, Ficci said that with the eliminating of exclusions and reasonings accessible under the Act, "the weight of MAT ought to likewise be continuously diminished from the present levels of 18.5 for every penny to a rate which will be comparable with the eliminating of expense exceptions and motivators. Click Here To Know More –Union Budget