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Goods and Services Tax : Supreme Court rules on Input Tax Credit for construction activities, clarifying Section 17(5)(d) of CGST Act 2017 in Safari Retrea...
Goods and Services Tax : The GST Council has exempted Extra Neutral Alcohol from GST for liquor production, addressing dual taxation issues in the Indian a...
Goods and Services Tax : Explore Section 11A of the CGST Act, clarifying GST non-recovery due to common practices and its implications for taxpayers....
Goods and Services Tax : Explore the legal guidelines and safeguards for GST payments during investigations, emphasizing taxpayer rights against coercive p...
Goods and Services Tax : जीएसटी धारा 128 ए के अंतर्गत ब्याज और अर्थदंड माफी क...
Goods and Services Tax : CGST Thane invites EOIs for empanelment of Chartered and Cost Accountants for GST special audits. Submit by October 27, 2024....
Goods and Services Tax : Biometric-based Aadhaar authentication and document verification for GST registration in Kerala, Nagaland, and Telangana began on ...
Goods and Services Tax : Start your mornings with essential GST knowledge. Join CA Sachin Jain for a 3-day live course focused on GSTR-9 and 9C, combining ...
Goods and Services Tax : Explore the key recommendations made by the GST Council during its 54th meeting, including changes in GST rates, GoM formations, a...
Goods and Services Tax : AGFTC & ITBA urge the Finance Minister to reduce GST appeal fees to ensure fair taxation, proposing fees similar to Income Tax rat...
Goods and Services Tax : The Tamil Nadu Medical Council's advance ruling application was rejected due to ongoing investigations regarding non-payment of GS...
Goods and Services Tax : GST AAR Tamilnadu clarifies tax rates for truck body building on customer-supplied chassis, determining the applicable 18% rate fo...
Goods and Services Tax : Murata Electronics (India) Pvt Ltd withdraws its GST advance ruling application regarding IGST on FTWZ warehoused goods before hom...
Goods and Services Tax : Calcutta HC directs benefit extension on rectified GSTR 9 for wrongful export invoice filing. Refund disallowed earlier despite ac...
Goods and Services Tax : Calcutta HC rules that revocation applications pending over 2 years, as in Globus Logisys Pvt Ltd vs. Deputy Commissioner, must be...
Goods and Services Tax : Notification No. 02/2024 establishes new GST rules for Ladakh, adapting Central GST regulations to the Union Territory, effective ...
Goods and Services Tax : The Ministry of Finance updates CGST Rules through Notification No. 20/2024, effective November 1, 2024, streamlining tax complian...
Goods and Services Tax : Ministry of Finance amends GST notification, exempting metal scrap suppliers from provisions of notification No. 5/2017-Central Ta...
Goods and Services Tax : The Ministry of Finance amends GST notification, exempting metal scrap suppliers from provisions of notification No. 5/2017-Centra...
Goods and Services Tax : IGST amendment requires registered recipients to pay tax on renting of non-residential property from unregistered persons, effecti...
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.
The Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, or PMEAC, has favoured asingle slab each for goods and services or one common rate for both under the proposed goods and services tax (GST), unlike the proposal mooted by the states.“The Centre could follow the pattern in which there is only one rate for goods and one rate for services, or one rate which is common to both goods and services,” PMEAC Chairman C Rangarajan said.
GST is just a VAT :-GST as you are aware is just value added tax (VAT) because when made a presentation to the chief minister this was an issue which I was asked – In three years you have somehow setup VAT and now you are talking about GST. I told them GST is VAT but two major more taxes are coming in but every other operation is like VAT.
The commercial taxes department has conducted 298 raids from April to November this year. These statistics were placed before the House by chief minister Digambar Kamat, who holds the finance portfolio, during Question Hour on Thursday. The additional tax collected from these raids are: Value Added Tax (VAT) from hotels -Rs 27.16 lakh; VAT from others-Rs 141.33 lakh; luxury tax from hotels-Rs 51.31 lakh, and entertainment tax from casinos – Rs 2.83 crore.
Q.1 What does GST seeks to achieve? Ans. GST is a major indirect tax reform in India which takes VAT to its logical conclusion. GST would avoid burden of multiple taxation (tax on tax) with a cascading effect. GST seeks to rule out cascading tax effect. Once it introduced, CST will also be removed.
