Section 149 of Companies Act, 2013 (the Act) read with the corresponding rules requires every listed company and prescribed class of companies to have a women director. Section 172 of the Act lays down punishment for non-compliance.
Assets, properties etc. (i.e. all movable and immovable assets/properties) of such struck off companies (which ceased to operate as legal entities) cannot be used, operated, transferred or alienated in any manner by the companies including by their ex-directors/authorised signatories, till they are restored by following the due process of law under Section 252 of the Act.
Central Government had, till date, not notified the documents that have to be carried by a transporter of the goods in the course of interstate movement. Under the said circumstances and finding that neither the State Legislature nor the State Government would have the power to make laws/rules to govern interstate movements of goods in the course of trade, and for the purposes of levy of tax, detention for the sole reason that the transportation was not accompanied by the prescribed documents under the IGST Act/CGST Act/CGST Rules, cannot be legally sustained.
It is held that where no facility for advance ruling was made available under GST, it was held that Department must accept manually application for advance ruling under GST since web portal would not be ready to accept the same till January, 2018.
Where the assessee was trying to offset its IGST liability partially from CGST credit and partially from SGST credit but disallowed by GSTN portal with a message to first offset CGST credit completely before cross utilization. As there is no provision in GST law against such utilisation, Department was directed to file reply by next hearing date.
In this case the assessee had imported coal prior to the introduction of goods and service tax regime and had already paid clean energy cess at the prescribed rate. On the stock which the petitioner had not cleared, no credit had been allowed on such cess and Department again asked to pay fresh cess under the Goods and Service Tax (Compensation to States) Act, 2017. In view of the fact that the validity of a Union legislation is questioned, court ordered for notice to be issued.
Allahabad High Court has directed GST Department to place on record the reasons for cancellation of GST registration without giving personal hearing and by keeping the same on GST website.
It was held that since the User ID and Password of the assessee was not working no coercive action would be taken against the petitioner for not filing the GST return within the time stipulated.
Question 1: When will e-way bill system be applicable? Answer: As decided at the 24th GST Council meeting, nationwide e-way Bill will be made compulsory from 01.02.2018; trials to start from 16.01.2018. Question 2: What is the last date for filing TRAN-1? Answer: 27.12.2017. Please refer Orders 9/2017-GST and 10/2017, both dated 15.11.2017 Question 3: […]
Government has analyzed the impact of Goods and Services Tax (GST) on prices of the formulations and it is noticed that that there will be almost no impact on the prices of non-scheduled formulations which account for nearly 80% of the total pharmaceuticals sector.
