Budget 2021 from the indirect tax standpoint made various announcements primarily focusing on the two major aspects i.e. penalize fraudulent transaction and reduce the compliance burden. Of the many amendments proposed under GST, three main amendments that needs serious deliberation by taxpayers are a) The rationalization of the annual GST compliance; b) The amendment to […]
Basis recommendation by the GST council in its 37th meeting held on 20 September 2019, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), had issued a notification to place supply of renting of motor vehicles under the gamut of reverse charge mechanism. The recommendation was specifically intended to cover only those supplies made by non-body […]
Contrary to the suggestion made by the policy think tank of the Government of India i.e. Niti Aayog to introduce the Gold Amnesty Scheme (‘scheme’), it has now been reported that no such scheme is under consideration by the apex body of direct taxes. The scheme proposed to exempt the levy of penalty, including interest […]
CBIC has recently issued notification no. 49/2019-CT dated 9 October 2019, through which sub-rule (4) has been inserted in section 36 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017. By virtue of the said insertion, a restriction has been imposed on the taxpayers for availing input tax credit (ITC). ITC of unmatched credits, can […]
Filing of Annual return – Option Scheme for MSME – Critical Analysis of the possible impact Annual return in form GSTR-9 is required to be filed by every registered person (other than an Input Service Distributor, the person paying tax under section 51 or 52, a casual taxable person and a non-resident taxable person) for […]