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Parliament approves Finance Bill 2017; rejects Rajya Sabha’s amendments

31 Mar 2017 Evaluate

Clearing the decks for budget implementation, the Parliament has approved the Finance Bill 2017, with the Lok Sabha rejecting five amendments proposed by the Rajya Sabha with regard to curbing more powers to taxmen and a cap on donation by companies to political parties.  The Bill, being a Money Bill, will now go to the President for approval before becoming law.

Talking on the amendments suggested by the Rajya Sabha, Finance minister Arun Jaitley has said that it cannot be accepted by the Parliament as it would limit the number of donors to political parties. Finance minister said that most of the donations that come to political parties in the current scenario are from unclean money and lacks transparency. He also said that government has granted the option of receiving donations by cheque and he added that small donations of less than Rs 2,000 can be made by cash or can receive online donations too. He noted that one can do it through bonds, which is clean money.    

With regard to the taxation amendments, Jaitley has stated that the current position will continue and as a matter of ‘abundant caution’ and to protect whistle-blowers, the government has specified in the bill that the ‘satisfaction note’ will not be given to the target of investigation. He also noted that since 1961, there is no example that the target of investigation was revealed the satisfaction note which forms the basis of investigation with regard to tax evasion.

The amendments proposed by the Rajya Sabha is to delete the provisions relating to the powers given to taxmen like power to requisition books of account, power to survey and more powers to more officers. The Rajya Sabha also approved a cap of 7.5 per cent of net profit of the last three financial years for donations to political parties and a provision to disclose the name of political parties to which contribution has been made by a company.

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