One of the key features of Goods and Service Tax (GST) in India is its uninterrupted and continuous chain of input tax credit (ITC). In the present indirect taxation system, cascading of tax is significant due to non-availability of ITC at various stages
Movement of goods to job workers is an essential business situation which occurs frequently. Many times a manufacturer send goods to a job worker for getting further work done on them, and receive the goods back from job worker or sell the goods directly from the place of job worker
In the existing VAT, service tax and excise legislation, there are no specific provisions for e-commerce operators to pay taxes on sale of goods or to make any tax deductions from the payments being made by them to actual seller of goods
Ease in making payment towards tax and other dues is very important in a country like India. Challenge before the Empowered Committee was to usher in a mechanism of payment which is user friendly and at the same time allows payment through various modes
Threshold limit for the regime be Rs. 20 Lakhs. The Council agreed on the preposition to set the threshold exemption limit to Rs. 20 Lakhs for all States except North Eastern states, where this limit will be Rs. 10 Lakhs. However various states were in favour of exemption limit of Rs. 25 Lakhs since such small dealers represent only 2% of total Indirect tax collection
Highlights of first meeting of the GST Council held on 23rd September 2016. 1. GST threshold limit to be kept at ₹ 20 lakhs for all states barring the north-east and hill-area states, for which limit been fixed at Rs. 10 Lakh. Threshold limit of Rs. 10 lakhs to be applicable in respect to following […]
The concept of ‘supply’ is the key stone of the proposed GST architecture. GST is a multi-stage tax levied on supply of goods and / or services, collected at each stage of the production and distribution, in proportion to the value added by each taxable person in the chain of supply.
Registration of any business entity under Model GST Law implies obtaining a unique number from the concerned tax authorities so that all the operations of and data relating to the business can be processed and agglomerated in seamless manner with a view to allow smooth flow of Input Tax Credit and also ultimately flow of fund in inter sate transactions.
The legal and conceptual foundations of the Goods and Services Tax have thus been laid out. The power to levy GST is drawn from Article 246A proposed in the Constitutional Amendment Act. In pursuance of the same Section 7 of the CGST / SGST Act and Section 4 of the IGST Act levy the respective taxes also determining the incidence of the respective taxes therein.
