Discover the impact of the 56th GST Council meeting on India’s pharmaceutical sector, including reduced GST rates on medicines and medical devices. Learn about the new tax structure, benefits for consumers, and challenges for manufacturers.
Discover the GST place of supply for custodial services provided by Indian banks to Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs), clarified by CBIC Circular No 220/14/2024-GST.
Recently Bombay High Court has delivered its Judgment in the case of ‘Dharmendra M. Jani Vs Union of India and others‘ on Intermediary service under GST. On this issue Views of Both the Judges Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Abhay Ahuja differed from Each other so they Both given their separate Judgment. This article makes […]
As per the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-20 (FTP), the 100% Export Oriented Units (EOU) are exempted from payment of duty of customs leviable thereon under the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 and additional duty leviable under section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975. The exemption from custom duty and additional custom […]
The latest judgement of Hon High Court of Madras in the case of Tvl. Transtonnelstroy Afcons Joint venture on refund of input tax credit on account of inverted rate structure is contradictory to the judgement of Hon Gujarat High Court in the case of VKC Footsteps on the same issue. Now this matter is to […]
Aatma Nirbhara Bharat is recent mission of the Central Government to promote manufacture in India. This is to ensure that India will be self-reliant and generate employment. Under the Invest India Scheme, the Central Government has introduced a facility called Bonded Manufacturing. Bonded manufacturing allows the manufacturer to import the raw materials and capital goods […]
TRAN-1 is the artery to infuse the eligible cenvat credit from the erstwhile tax regime to GST. Transitional provisions for this purpose have been provided in the CGST Act. Section 140 of the CGST Act, 2017 empowers the government to prescribe the procedure in this regard. Accordingly rule 117 of the CGST Rules, 2017 prescribed […]
It is very common that many factories and offices provide canteen facilities to their employees. Such facility may be provided as a matter of compulsion or as per the terms of employment or otherwise. The canteen facility may be provided to employees at free of cost or concessional rate or on chargeable basis. The GST […]
COVID19 has applied sudden break to halt all industries except few. Pharma is one of the exceptional industries wherein some activities are happening being essential in the current crisis. Though pharma industries are allowed to function during the lockdown, many challenges like, transportation of employees, movement of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), movement of finished goods […]
1. The Central Government had issued Notification No. 8/2017-Integrated Tax (Rate), dated 28.06.2017, notifying the rate of IGST for the services described therein and also the conditions in certain cases. 2. Section 9(3) of the CGST Act, 2017 and 5(3) of the IGST Act, 2017 empowers the Central Government, on the recommendation of the GST […]
