The Finance Act 2020 came up with several new tax provisions, one of which expanded the scope of 2016 equalisation levy to include e-commerce transactions. The Act introduced Section 153(iv), which added Section 165A to the Finance Act 2016 to put an equalisation levy charged at 2% on the non-resident e-commerce operators. This levy was […]
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Finance Act 2020, came up with the provision to expand the existing scope of equalisation levy to the non-resident e-commerce operators. This provision was added to the Finance bill at the last minute without any notice or any reference either in the original bill or in the union budget speech of the Finance Minister. Due
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