Can a person doing E-commerce business having gross receipts upto 8,00,000 claim u/s 44AF?
If yes then, since we know that a person claiming u/s 44AF is not required to maintain any book of A/c (including purchase and sale voucher). So will the person be required to prove before authorities at any point of time before authorities that his business is retail only.
all sections in 44 are just criteria of fixation of audit norms in specified cases where the taxable income is declared below the limit of such sections,
also in gross term " e-commerce" it does not specify the exact nature of business, it covers everything which is transacted through e-portal, it may be sales of goods, receipt of money, sales of services, and many more. exact nature of business done through e commerce would be needed to specify the business is of retail nature or not.
e commerce is tool just to represent your collection centre online, and issue of "indent for supply of goods / services/ obligations" online, e commerce is not a business itself.
in your case if the business is proved as retail then taxable income would be higher of
a) actual income as per books / records
b) 5% of gross turnover
regarding the verification / scurtiny, there is no such illustration that department will not ask the records, so its always better to preserve the records of receipt and payment upto five years from close of assessment year.
Section 44AF is ineporative w.e.f A.Y. 2011-2012
W.e.f. 2011-2012, all other businesses except "plying, hiring or leasing of goods carriages" shall be under the purview of Section 44AD where a presumptive rate of 8% is to be considered for profit.
Agree with Amol Gopal kabra
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