24 States pass the State GST (SGST) Act While 7 States viz. Meghalaya,Punjab,Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Jammu & Kashmir and West Bengal have yet to pass the SGST Act. Twenty Four (24) States have passed the State GST (SGST) Act till today i.e. 5th June, 2017 while 7 States viz. Meghalaya, Punjab,Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, […]
Cabinet Secretary asks the different Ministries/Departments and Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) under these Ministries to set-up and activate a GST Facilitation Cell to provide all possible support to the business and industry sector for the smooth roll-out of GST with effect from 1st July, 2017.
Following criteria are laid down to curb the misuse of the facility of auto downloading of Statutory Forms provided at the dealer’s end in the online module. The system/EDP branch will put a block on this facility and the Assessing Authority/Ward Incharge may take appropriate action on such blocked forms after verifying the due purchases viz a viz the sales and other relevant documents.
The transfers and postings of the following Additional/Joint Commissioners of Income-tax and assignment of additional charges are hereby ordered with immediate effect and till further orders:-
Articles Updates on changes in GST, Excise, Service Tax, Customs & VAT for the Month of May 2017 and is updated upto 4th June 2017.
As per the Model GST Law, GST will subsume Countervailing Duty (CVD) and Special Additional Duty (SAD), however, Basic Customs Duty will continue to do its round in the import bills. BCD has been kept outside the purview of GST and will be charged as per the current law only.
There have been substantial debate around the point whether the term ‘payable’ used in section 40(a)(ia) would include amounts outstanding at the end of the year or both amounts outstanding as well as paid during the year.
Provision of Explanation 2 to Section 132(B)(4) which excludes advance tax from the ambit of existing liability is applicable from 1st June 2013 and not applicable to the assessment years involved in this appeal. In the background aforesaid discussion of precedent we find that assessee was entitled to adjustment of cash seized and offered for taxation towards its liability for taxes including advance tax.
Who is distinct person? – As per CGST ACT -Section 22(1) provides that every supplier shall be liable to be registered under this Act in the State or Union territory from where he makes a taxable supply of goods or services or both, if his aggregate turnover in a financial year exceeds Rs. 20 lakhs (10 lakhs for specified states):
It has been stated that since transfer of shares to IEPF under section 124 (6) of the Companies Act, 2013 read with rules referred to above takes place on account of operation of law hence the procedure followed during transmission of shares may be followed in such cases and duplicate shares need not be issued in such cases.
