How to withdraw hard-earned tax-paid money from a Company has always been a challenge. Before any money can be paid to shareholders and promoters in the form Dividends or Buy back, the company already suffers a tax of 30% plus surcharge and Cess. The effective rate of Dividend Distribution Tax (which has been abolished from 01-04-2020) was 20.35%. Even now,
GST is planked as a “One Nation One Tax” which is a misnomer in many ways. First of all we have come out with a dual system of GST where every transaction will suffer two Taxes, being CGST and SGST, when a transaction is done Intra-State, and IGST in case of an Inter-State transaction.