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Goods and Services Tax : In the recent times, GST Department by exercising the powers bestowed on them by way of Section 65 of the CGST Act 2017, has been ...
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Goods and Services Tax : A Superintendent in Nadiad is sentenced to 5 years for bribery. CBI also investigates two GST officers in Hyderabad for demanding ...
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Goods and Services Tax : Explore the latest details on GST rates for agricultural equipment, machinery, and fertilizers, and the government's stance on pot...
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Goods and Services Tax : Madras HC sets aside dismissal of GST appeal for delay, remands case to the appellate authority for fresh consideration despite th...
Goods and Services Tax : Delhi HC grants interim protection to a petitioner alleging misuse of GST credentials for ITC claims, pending further investigatio...
Goods and Services Tax : Bombay High Court held that amount payable has been quantified before 30th June 2019 and hence eligible to avail benefit under Sab...
Goods and Services Tax : Rajasthan HC ruled that appeals should be considered on merits, even if filed late, quashing a CGST order dismissing an appeal as ...
Goods and Services Tax : Rajasthan HC dismisses petition challenging 18% GST on samosa and kachori, directs Sodhani Sweets to approach the Appellate Author...
Goods and Services Tax : Maharashtra GST Circular No. 21T of 2024 updates guidelines for recovering outstanding dues after first appeal until the Appellate...
Goods and Services Tax : Instruction No. 03/2024-GST outlines procedures for CGST audits, emphasizing uniformity and reducing litigation through adherence ...
Goods and Services Tax : Kerala SGST department issues a circular clarifying the method of penalty calculation under the IGST Act, 2017 for tax demands mad...
Goods and Services Tax : CBIC's latest updates include a Customs cooperation deal with New Zealand, a new Hindi magazine, and significant seizures of smugg...
Goods and Services Tax : CBIC issues guidelines for a second All-India drive to detect and eliminate fake GST registrations, safeguarding government revenu...
Activity Codes are numerical codes that are used to define the activities of an economic unit. These codes are developed by National Industrial Classification (NIC) 2008. It is a standardized system of classification of economic activities essential for meaningful collection of data relating to such activities. This classification does not draw the distinction according to the kind of ownership, type of legal organization, type of technology and scale or mode of operation. It only classifies the economic activities under taken by economic units.
Levy of sales tax on a higher percentage on ‘superior kerosene oil’ (SKO) (also called white kerosene oil) and also levy of resale tax and surcharge on it by Tamil Nadu Government have been upheld by the Madras High Court. The attack by dealers that levy of different rates for same commodity was discriminatory was turned down by the Court which ruled that such allegation of discrimination would “amount to questioning legislative policy of the State to tax a particular commodity”.
The sub-rule (1) provides the different forms of returns to be filed by various categories of dealers. Earlier, the dealers. used to submit these forms of return-cum-chalan physically either to the Bank alongwith payment of tax, interest etc., if any or to the Sales Tax Department where tax liability was NIL. These forms of the return were return-cum-chalan.
The date for rolling out the Goods and Services Tax could be announced on January 8, the Chairman of the Empowered Committee on State Finance Ministers, Asim Dasgupta, said today. “There will be a joint statement after a meeting with Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on January 8 on GST rollout,” Dasgupta told reporters on the sidelines of the 23rd industrial trade fair, organised by the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry here.
You are aware that rate of tax on timber was reduced to 4% in the Budget Speech of Hon’ble Finance Minister, Maharashtra for the year 2008-09. This reduction in rate has been made with retrospective effect from 1st April 2009. The Gazette Notification for the amendment was published on 1st July 2009.
Further to the First Discussion Paper released by the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on 10 November 2009, the Finance Commission has released its report giving its recommendations on GST design implementation.
These recommendations differ considerably from the model and structure of the GST envisaged by the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers (EC) as described in the First Discussion Paper released by the EC on 10 November, 2009. The differences relate to several critical areas such as the tax base, tax rates, threshold limits, taxation of inter-State supplies of goods and services, exemptions/ compounding schemes and taxation of alcohol, tobacco and petroleum products in the GST regime, amongst others. It must be clearly understood that these are only recommendations and it is for the EC to accept or reject these recommendations.
This condition would be applicable to all the pending applications for administrative relief as well as the fresh applications that will be made. In case of pending applications dealer should file returns in respect of the URD period for which he has made payments and submit copy of acknowledgement to the concerned authority.
The Discussion Paper has envisaged a model of dual GST which has got certain structural defects that need to be pointed out for correction before the second Paper comes out. The proposed GST is an under achievement compared to the professed idea of a conceptually correct GST. It is an imperfect GST which has four rates with probably numerous exemptions, four thresholds, several taxes outside GST, a highly complicated system for inter-State credit of input tax and finally with no certainty that States will always abide by the fixed rates of tax. It is destined to be more complicated and ill administered than now.
A recent report by Finance Commission taskforce has clarified many issues related to implementation of GST in India. Though there are many new matters which were considered in this report, but there some variations were observed as of the matters which were recommended in first discussion paper on implementation of GST in India, issued by 13th Empowered Committee of Finance Ministers on 11th November 2009.
