The Goods and Services Tax (GST) was implemented by the government of India on 1/7/17. India joined the likes of Australia, Brazil. The Government claims that it is a historical tax reform since independence. It was hailed by Flipkart’s chairman as a step which will financially unite the country.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has today arrested two Directors of Kolkata based private company in an on-going investigation of a bank fraud case to the tune of Rs.515.15 crore(approx).
Punjab National Bank (PNB) has taken many IT initiatives. Bank has computerized 100% of its branches and has implemented a Centralized Banking Solution with Data Centre at New Delhi and Disaster Recovery Site at Mumbai.
Whether local cable operators to whom signals of cable TV are provided by the applicant as MSO are agents of the applicants for the purpose of liability to GST of the applicants on services provided by LCO to the end customers?
Environmental crimes, in relation to import & export include: Illegal dumping of hazardous waste, electronic waste, including chemicals in India. Illegal import / export of plants and animal species; Smuggling of “Ozone Depleting Substances (ODSs)”; Smuggling of any other environmental pollutant (any solid, liquid or gaseous substance present in such concentration, as may be, or tend to be, injurious to environment);
While the year 2017 saw global trade expansion as a consequence of acceleration in global trade growth in the first six months of the year, India’s slow growth of trade has been a concern. Many are attributing this short term down turn as a negative fallout from the reforms – Demonetization and Goods and Service Tax (GST).
Comparing the design of India’s GST system with those prevailing internationally, we note that the tax rates in the Indian GST system are among the highest in the world. The highest GST rate in India, while only applying to a subset of goods and services traded, is 28 percent, which is the second highest among a sample of 115 countries which have a GST (VAT) system and for which data is available (Figure 61). Table 8 compares the highest and lowest standard tax rate (i.e. the tax rate that applies to the majority of transactions) across regions around the globe and shows that India has the highest standard GST rate in Asia. The table also highlights that the ASEAN region has the lowest rates as compared to the other regions.
This Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, challenges an order dated 2nd December, 2016 passed by the Settlement Commission (Commission) under Section 245 D(6B) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (the Act).
Non-availment of drawback: The third proviso to sub-section (3) of section 54 of the CGST Act states that no refund of input tax credit shall be allowed in cases where the supplier of goods or services or both avails of drawback in respect of central tax.
Advance Ruling has been sought on whether such goods supplied to the branches in states other than West Bengal can be valued in terms of the Cost Price under the Second Proviso to Rule 28 of CGST Rules, 2017, instead of 90% of MRP as required under the First Proviso of the same Rule.
