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What is GST? Why GST is a need for India? ♠ GST stands for Goods & Service Tax. GST is a destination based consumption tax levied at multiple stage of production & distribution of goods & services in which taxes paid on inputs are allowed as set-off against taxes payable on output. Thus, GST will be a single comprehensive integrated indirect tax on pure value addition at each stage.
Board had clarified that the relaxations are applicable to the vessels which exclusively carry coastal goods and ply as coastal vessels. It will not be applicable for vessels which convert the status from foreign run to coastal run and rice versa. The loading and unloading operation by coastal vessels must take place at separate and exclusive berths in the ports where both coastal and foreign traffic is handled.
Central Board of Excise and Customs, hereby makes following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) number 12/97-CUSTOMS (N.T.), dated the 2nd April, 1997, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3,Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 193(E), dated the 2nd April, 1997, namely:-
Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby appoints the Commissioner of Central Excise, Customs and Service Tax, C.R. Building, Mananchira, Calicut to act as a common adjudicating authority to exercise the powers and discharge the duties conferred or imposed on-
Central Government hereby directs that the provisions of sections 30 and 41 of the said Act shall apply to vessels carrying exclusively coastal goods operating from berths used by vessels carrying imported goods or export goods, as the case may be and the person-in-charge of such vessel or his agent shall deliver to the proper officer, a coastal manifest, prior to the arrival of the vessel or departure as the case may be, in the Form as given below.
Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts vessels carrying exclusively coastal goods from the provisions of section 92, section 93, section 94, section 95, section 97 and sub-section (1) of the section 98 of the said Act.
