A major controversy these days is on payment of interest for delayed GST on gross or net amount (net of ITC). Department is now demanding interest on gross amount and has sent numerous recovery notices throughout the country. However, there are few high court judgments to the contrary.
The next GST Council meeting is scheduled for 14 March, 2020 at New Delhi. It will, inter alia, take up the issue of compensation to states in the backdrop of revenue shortfall. States are already concerned over delayed release of compensation cess to them. Meanwhile, centre has already released a total of Rs. 1.20 lakh […]
Tax evasion and related arrests on tax offences have increased in last few weeks and the amounts involved are huge running into few thousand crores. Is it tax terrorism ! not for evaders. However, compliances continue to be troublesome. ‘We evolve and mature as we grow’ seems to be the Government’s stance. CBIC appears to […]
So far as GST is concerned, the focus of budget is on simplification and curbing tax evasion. A new return regime will happen from April 2020 including SMS based filing of Nil returns, return pre-filing and improved input tax credit. Electronic invoices will check tax evasion while refunds would be easier with so manual interface. The Budget also proposes to impose penalty on fake GST invoices.
The gross GST revenue collected in the month of December. 2039 is Rs. 1,03,184 crore of which CGST is Rs. 19,962 crore, SGST is Rs. 26,792 crore, IGST is Rs. 48,099 crore (including Rs. 21,295 erore collected on imports) and Cess is Rs. 8,331 crore (including Rs. 847 crore collected on imports). The total number […]
In any tax law, tax has to be paid on the value which is subject to tax. In case of GST, valuation principles are relevant. (a) To arrive at the fair value of consideration, to take out the effect of all the factors which could lead to suppression of value. (b) To arrive at the […]
Recently IMF has cautioned India on economic slowdown stating that India is in the midst of a significant economic slowdown calling for urgent steps to check the slowdown and continuing with fiscal consolidation. The policy reforms suggested are ongoing cleaning up of bank’s balance sheets, strengthening of bank’s governance, regulatory oversight of NBFCs, monetary easing, […]
The opposition parties, mainly Congress have claimed that GDP for the Q3 of financial year 2019-20 is going to be further down, given the state of economy. India’s economic growth, GDP, has slipped to slab 5% level @ 4.5% in July – September quarter, which is a six year low. India’s GDP grew by 4.5% […]
20 November, 2019 was to last date to file Form GSTR 3B for month of October 2019. The data released by CBIC indicate that returns filed on last two days were 11.52 lakh and 14.36 lakhs where as cumulative figure till 20.11.2019 is 60.91 lakh indicating that bulk of returns are filed on last 2 days or so, of course putting tremendous pressure on the GST network resulting in GSTN system even not functioning for some time on last day.
Government has made Document Identification Number (DIN) mandatory to be mentioned an all communications issued by officers of CBIC to taxpayers and other concerned persons. The Punjab and Haryana High Court vide order dated 04.11.2019 has directed Goods and Services (GST) Department to allow filing or revising Form TRAN-1 either electronically or manually. It may therefore, be advisable for the taxpayers to take benefit of this opportunity provided by courts and approach the respective adjudicating authorities.
