Mat Credit Entitlement Under Ind As

Easing the mat credit mechanism and.

Mat credit entitlement under ind as.

Book profit of the financial year in which the asset is retired disposed realised or otherwise. Treatment of current year ind as adjustments. Minimum alternative tax is payable under the income tax act. In the year of set off of credit the amount of credit availed should be shown as deduction from the provision of taxation on the liabilities side of the balance sheet.

Mat credit even though the carry forward period of credit has been allowed up to 15 years. 8 lakh while the liability as per the provisions of mat is rs. Normal tax in this case means the tax payable on the basis of normal computation of total income of the company. Mat credit will be allowed to carry forward facility for a period of.

No 133 23 2015 tpl issued a faq titled clarifications on computation of book profit for the purposes of levy of minimum alternate tax mat under section 115jb of the income tax act 1961 for indian accounting standards ind as compliant companies where it answered 14 questions. When a company pays tax under mat the tax credit earned by it shall be an amount which is the difference between the amount payable under mat and the normal tax. The concept of mat was introduced to target those companies that make huge profits and pay the dividend to their shareholders but pay no minimal tax under the normal provisions of the income tax act by taking advantage of the various deductions and exemptions allowed under the act. Tax liability of a company for fy 2019 20 under normal provisions of the income tax act is rs.

Complexity in computing the book profit under mat provisions and recent changes in accounting standards have further increased the tax compliance burden for companies. Mat a brief introduction. Then the transition amount will be adjusted under mat equally in five consecutive years starting from 2017 18. The asset may be reflected as mat credit entitlement.

Mat and amt mat stands for minimum alternate tax and amt stands for alternate minimum tax. When mat for a company is greater than its normal tax liability the difference between the mat and normal tax liability is called mat credit. Hence the transition amount will be adjusted 1 5 th each year in 2017 18 to 2021 22. Dividend on preference shares whether classified as interest costs or dividend under ind as would be considered as dividend for the purpose of mat computation and needs to be added back to book profit for the purpose of mat computation.