Much has been spoken about the controversial anti-profiteering measure adopted by the Government during the advent of GST. There have been nationwide disputes whether anti profiteering can be considered as a successful and a just measure by the Government.
There has been a massive evolution in the process of filing returns under GST when compared to the returns under the present laws. The requirement of robust technology for filling up data in the returns is one of the key reasons behind this.
All the existing registrants having a Permanent Account Number will be issued a provisional registration certificate in Form GST REG-21.Such Certificate shall be valid for an initial period of six months (or an extended period, as may be notified by the Central Government/State Government on recommendation of the Council) from the date of issue.
In order to determine whether a supply is interstate or intra state, both the location of the supplier and the place of supply are relevant. If the location of the supplier and the place of supply are in different states, then in that it will be considered as an Inter-state supply and IGST will be levied
The Central Government has decided to levy Krishi Kalyan Cess @ 0.5% on the value of taxable services from 01/06/2016. As a result, there are bound to be questions as to how this levy will get integrated into the existing dynamic structure of the Service Tax provisions.
Notification no. 32/2016-ST, 33/2016-ST and 34/2016-ST dated 6th June, 2016 has amended the position of senior advocates under Service Tax. The impact of these amendments is summarized as below:
In today’s scenario, every business entity has to make multiple kinds of payment to the Government or local authority. While making these payments, it is now important for these business entities to realize the repercussions of these payments from a service tax point of view as well. This is because a number of services provided by Government or local authority have been brought within the ambit of Service Tax on reverse charge basis with effect from 01/04/2016. Ever since this amendment, there are a number of apprehensions across trade and industry as to which are the services which would be covered under the tax net and what would be the provisions relating to Cenvat Credit, Point of Taxation, Valuation etc. An endeavor has been made to put together most of these questions at one place and answer them on the basis of the relevant Service tax provisions
