Making maintenance of Rs. 5,000 mandatory for accounts in metropolitan areas, Rs. 3,000 in urban areas, Rs. 2,000 in semi-urban areas and Rs. 1,000 in rural areas, the SBI listed out the charges to be effective from April 1.

All services except those which are in the negative list will become expensive from Sunday with the implementation of the new service tax regime. With...

Indirect tax collections have increased by 16.1 per cent to Rs 37,166 crore in May on the back of rise in excise duty and service tax rates.The...