![]() ![]() Not only will it be the largest Hindu nation but also with a population of 310 Muslims, India will become the largest Muslim nation in the world. ![]() India will acquire a new global status in terms of the religious composition of its population. This means that the largest increase in the Muslim population of South Asia will occur in India. Its Hindu population will increase by 35 percent from 1.03 billion in 2010 to 1.38 billion in 2050, but Indian Muslim population will increase by 76 cent from 176million to 310 million in the same period. The largest and most consequential change however will be in India. Riaz Hassan, in his study Indian Muslim: Sociology of a religious Minority infers: By 2060, Pew estimates, there will be more Muslims in India than anywhere else in the world (outnumbering even Indonesia), and they will constitute 19% of Indians. Pew Research Center estimated that there were 195 million Muslims in 2015. Above all, the Muslim population in India has always been under-represented in the Lok Sabha. Not all the projections about the phenomenal growth of the Muslim population may be correct. The BJP wants to enforce a uniform Civil Code that outlaws polygamy. As such, a Muslim household is likely to have more siblings than a Hindu. The fanatic Hindus point out that Islam, unlike the Hinduism, allows polygamy. Smita Singh is Partner & Ajay Sharma Associate, Indirect Tax, Trade & Customs at Singh & Associates.ĭon’t miss out on ET Prime stories! Get your daily dose of business updates on WhatsApp.There is a hue and cry in India that the Muslim population in India may outnumber the current Hindu majority before long. Taking this ray of hope ahead, industry may expect that valuation aspect will eventually get settled in case of a favorable order on petition on this aspect leading to lower rate of tax in the future. It would not be wrong to say that this judgement is against the expectation and contention of the lottery industry, but still there is some hope left as the Supreme Court has left the issue of rate of tax open for challenge through a separate petition. ![]() Through Skill Lotto the apex court has laid down the jurisprudence on this prolonged issue of taxability of sale of lottery, which means pending litigations across the industry can finally end. Moreover, valuation mechanism under the GST laws has also been upheld, therefore, prize money is rightly included in the taxable value of sale of lotteries for the purpose of levy of tax. It was held that definition of “Goods” under the GST laws having much wider ambit and is in consonance with Article 366 (12) and 246A of Constitution.įurther on the question of hostile discrimination, the Apex Court has observed that taxation of gambling and lottery was well in practice even prior to independence, therefore inclusion of actionable claims only in respect of lotteries and gambling cannot be termed as hostile discrimination. of NCT of Delhi and Ors which held that actionable claims are to be included in the definition of Goods and if it was not to be included, then there was no need for excluding them specifically from the definition in Sales Tax laws in earlier regime. The Supreme Court relying on its own judgement in the matter of Sunrise Associates vs. Union of India & Ors has put all uncertainty to rest and held that Article 246A of Constitution is a special provision empowering the parliament to make laws regarding goods and services tax and needs to be liberally construed. The Constitution bench of the apex court in the matter of Skill Lotto Solutions Pvt. Supreme Court lays down the jurisprudence The argument of the petitioner was that there is ‘hostile discrimination’ in taxing only lottery by excluding all other actionable claims from the purview of GST which is also contrary to definition of Goods in Article 366 (12) of the Constitution which does not specifically include “actionable claims”. ![]()
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