Tax experts welcomed the move to reduce the corporate tax reduction to 25 per cent for msmes with turnover up to rs 50 crore.
Mat credit entitlement period.
Unabsorbed mat credit will be allowed to be accumulated subject to the 10 years carry forward limit.
The unavailed amount of mat credit entitlement if any should continue to be presented under the head loans advances.
This is with effect from ay 2018 19 prior to which mat could be carried forward only for a period of 10 ays.
Providing relief to assessees paying minimum alternate tax mat finance minister arun jaitley proposed to enhance the time limit to claim mat credit from the existing 10 years to 15 years.
They do so by showing the mat credit as mat credit entitlement to the credit of the income and expenditure amount.
In the assessment year when regular tax becomes payable the difference between the regular.
Suggestion on clause 46 a of finance bill 2017 section 115jaa extension of period of carry forward of mat credit from 10 years to 15 years clarity regarding carry forward and set off of mat credit in cases where the ten year period has expired on or before ay 2016 17 but the fifteen year period has still not expired.
The asset may be reflected as mat credit entitlement.
Mat credit will be allowed to carry forward facility for a period of 10 assessment years immediately succeeding the assessment year in which mat is paid.
If this circumstance does not arise and mat credit stays in the loans and advances column of the company s balance sheet till the end of the specified period after which it is simply written off.
Rs 14 43 000 rs 12 48 000 rs 1 95 000.
Currently tax credit can be carried forward up to the 10th.