Hello Friends, we’re already 6 months into 2021 and while everyone was just waiting for 2020 to end, it seems that 2021 has also brought about the same feelings with the
kind of rise in cases that we saw in the last 2-3 months. Thankfully, this wave seems to be subsiding and with the vaccination drive in full swing I expect a far milder third
wave (hopefully no wave at all!!).
Please be safe and get vaccinated. This awareness needs to spread amongst our staff, co-workers and all the people around us – including our milkman, newspaper vendor, etc. etc..
On the Income Tax side there was a major change that came into force from 1st July 2021 – with the onus of deducting double TDS in case IT returns have not been filed by the
vendor and also with respect to TDS on Purchases on Goods replacing TCS on Sales of Goods for certain class of people. I do not know the entire wisdom behind both of these,
as this just adds a lot more compliance without really creating any material inflow of funds to the Exchequer. I suppose it is with the intention of ensuring that everyone
is compliant and therefore we as customers will only be doing business with people who are compliant. I suppose an even better provision could have been that you can only
transact on your PAN if you filed your returns for the last 2 years!
RealBooks adhered to both these compliances in a timely manner and does not require customers to calculate TDS or TCS manually. Additionally, some new releases came
about in the form of TDS enhancements for recording all details for TDS with respect to BSR Code, Challan No. etc so that generating TDS returns is truly a single
click activity. There are some features with respect to TDS deduction automation that have also gone live which you may ask our support team for assistance.
As always, I would like to thank the existing customers who keep referring us to new customers to join the RealBooks platform. Notable additions this month have
been Poddar Car World – Maruti’s largest dealer in Assam, and Chennai based NTC Group. We are working on some largescale changes, which would be going live in the
next 3-4 months. Keep watching this space for more details!