A hotel where the room tariff exceeds Rs 1,000 is liable for service tax at 15 percent. An abatement of 40% is allowed on the tariff value bringing the effective rate of service tax down to 9%. The Value Added Tax 5.5% to 14.5% and luxury tax will still apply.
Any Person whose aggregate turnover (Taxable + Exempted) in preceding financial year did not exceed 75 Lac (50 Lac for special category states), then that person can apply for registration under composition scheme.
To be Filed by the 20th of the Next Month by the recipient and supplier of Goods/Services (i.e. every registered taxpayer), this Return is divided into 2 parts A & B and it shall contain the following details.
The meaning of Supply is very wide in GST and it covers all forms of supply of goods or services or both via sale, transfer, barter, exchange, license, rental, lease or disposal made or agreed to be made for a consideration by a person in the course or furtherance of business. Infact there are certain specific transaction without consideration also considered to be supply.
GST i.e Goods and service tax or according to our Rajasthani folks GST means Ghadho saaro Tax. Yes offcourse it is not like this but for general public who are still not aware of what is GST and what changes are to be implying to them after the implementation of GST .
Bringing GST regime into reality, all required steps are being taken up to successfully implement GST from July 1, 2017. Another important step taken up with respect to Registration for GSTP, TDS & e-commerce operators (TCS). Yes, registration for all these are open from June 25, 2017.
Indeed, rolling out of GST from July 1, 2017 is unstoppable. But to provide relief to the taxpayers, GST Council in its latest meeting, extended the time period for filing of return i.e. FORM GSTR-1 & FORM GSTR-2 for the first two months after the roll out of GST.
Need of transitional provisions in GST – Transition provisions take effect during the period between the movements of existing taxation i.e. Central Excise, Service Tax, and Vat and luxury tax etc. and Goods and Services tax. Such provisions are required for the smooth and successfully implementation of GST.
Section 9(4) shall force every service provider who is providing services to business entity to get itself registered even if their turnover do not exceeds Rs. 20 Lakhs. Chartered Accountant, company secretaries and cost accountant will need immediate registration under GST on the first day of start of practice. Even supplier of goods shall come under this section purview.
It may be noted that the GST Act has, instead of providing a mechanism for valuation of land involved in the composite works contract and to reduce the same from the gross consideration, specified reduced tax rate of 12%. It implies that the legislature has assumed the value of land as 33% of the total consideration.
