« Top Headlines » Open DEMAT Account in 24 hrs  Tax planning for 2025: How to maximise your savings before March 31 deadline  New income tax bill reaches Parliament: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tables I-T Bill 2025 in Lok Sabha  5 major changes in the last 6 months every taxpayer should know!  Good news for taxpayers: ITR forms updated to allow 87A tax rebate claims, but there's a catch  Top 10 income tax changes from 2024 to look out for while filing ITR in 2025 «  Finmin unlikely to roll back fringe benefit tax... New provision rules could pinch bank bottomlines... » Service tax waiver limit may go up February, 02nd 2007 The finance ministry is likely to raise the exemption limit for service tax from Rs 4 lakh to Rs 10 lakh in the forthcoming Budget.    This will benefit a large number of individuals who provide taxable services like beauty enhancement at parlours.    There has been a demand from experts to raise the limit in order to lower the cost of collecting the tax.    Going by the 80:20 principle, where 80 per cent of revenues come from 20 per cent of tax-payers, such a move would lower the cost of administration and reduce the number of assessees by 40-50 per cent from the current 10 lakh, Ashok Dhingra, head of indirect taxation at Khaitan & Co, said.    PricewaterhouseCoopers Executive Director S Madhavan expected the limit to be hiked from Rs 4 lakh to Rs 10 lakh in this years Budget.    The other benefit of such a move would be less tax avoidance. Experts said the current limit encouraged people to misreport taxable income and resort to dealings in cash.