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Goods and Services Tax : The Finance Bill 2025 proposes 11 significant amendments to GST provisions, addressing anomalies and introducing new mechanisms. E...
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Goods and Services Tax : The GST Council has deferred decisions on insurance premium taxation, granting more time to the GoM to finalize its recommendation...
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Goods and Services Tax : NBEMS stopped collecting GST on course fees per court order. Refund processing has begun, but no enquiry has been instituted. Deta...
Goods and Services Tax : Tobacco tax revenue contributed 1.27%-2.75% of Gross Tax Revenue from 2016-2024. Funds are allocated across government programs, i...
Goods and Services Tax : The GST Council deferred a decision on reducing GST on health and life insurance premiums in its 55th meeting as GoM sought more t...
Goods and Services Tax : Madras High Court upholds GST demand order, ruling that service via common portal is valid under TN-GST Act. Appeal rights remain ...
Goods and Services Tax : Allahabad High Court quashes GST registration cancellation of Precitech Engineers, citing lack of hearing opportunity and procedur...
Goods and Services Tax : Allahabad High Court sets aside GST registration cancellation of Assaka Powerinfra Pvt Ltd due to lack of hearing opportunity, rem...
Goods and Services Tax : Kerala High Court dismisses K.U. Niyas’ plea against GST demand notices, ruling late return filing invalid. Grants six weeks for...
Goods and Services Tax : Madras High Court ruled that the validity of service of notice is a factual question best addressed by the appropriate appellate a...
Goods and Services Tax : Maharashtra establishes GST Suvidha Kendra for Aadhaar-based biometric authentication and document verification for new GST regist...
Goods and Services Tax : Clarified procedure for appeals under Section 128A of CGST Act 2017, addressing disputes on interest and penalty where tax is full...
Goods and Services Tax : GST applicants in Maharashtra & Lakshadweep must complete biometric Aadhaar authentication & document verification at GST Suvidha ...
Goods and Services Tax : GST advisory clarifies E-Way Bill rules for goods under Chapter 71, excluding HSN 7117. Mandatory in Kerala; voluntary EWB generat...
Goods and Services Tax : Clarifications on GST registration for suppliers on e-commerce platforms in Maharashtra. Covers principal place of business, autho...
The Constitutional amendment will be the basis for the new tax regime and will be followed by adoption of separate state and Central GST laws. The last amendment to the Constitution dealing with a financial matter was in 2000, when the Centre was given the power to tax services. The Ministry of Finance was in consultation with the law ministry on drafting of the amendment Bill.
For non filing or late filing of the Audit Report, penalty at the rate of 0.1% of the turnover of sales is also leviable. As explained from beginning, under VAT Act the assessments will be sparing, based on selection criteria. Therefore, to have authentic checking of the returns/tax liability of the dealer, the VAT Audit provision has been introduced. The VAT Audit report in Form 704 is accordingly notified in the MVAT Rules right from 01.04.2005. However, the said Form is now replaced by Notification dated 26.08.2009 under Rule 17A(2) of MVAT Rules,2005 applicable from 01.04.2008. The newly introduced Form will accordingly be applicable from financial year 2008-2009. Some of the important aspects of this Form can be noted as under:
Threshold:Different thresholds have been proposed, Rs 10 lakh for SGST (lower for some underdeveloped states), Rs 1.5 crore for CGST for goods and a lesser amount (not indicated as yet) for services. Thus, there will be four thresholds which has been criticised by several analysts but one must remember it is different in many developed countries as well.
The Maharashtra Purchase Tax on Sugarcane Act, 1962 was amended in the year 2002 and year 2003. Thereafter, a Trade Circular cited at reference (1) was issued. By the aforesaid Trade Circular the effects of amendments were explained. In Para 2 of the Trade Circular, it was mentioned that the levy of purchase tax on sugarcane will continue to be based on purchase price as it existed prior to 01.05.2002. In the said Para it was further stated that the purchase price would be excluding the cutting and transportation charges.
The Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers will form joint committees at the level of the states for inputs on the proposed goods and services tax before its planned introduction next year.“A joint committee at the level of the states will be made and that will be a part of the exercise for preparation to implement GST. The committee will be made along with other representatives of state associations and industry associations,” chairman of the empowered committee Asim Dasgupta said after a meeting with the Confederation of All India Traders.
With issues like the exclusion of petroleum products from the purview of Goods and Services Tax (GST) yet to be resolved, India may miss the GST implementation deadline of April 1, 2010. “There are various issues remaining unsolved. Currently, we are taking various industries’ views on them to resolve them at the earliest,” a senior official of the Central Board of Excise and Customs told PTI here today.
The Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers, finally issued a long awaited First Discussion Paper on Goods and Services Tax in India. Though it was expected that this Discussion paper will put an end to much awaited queries on implementing GST in India, however after analyzing the Paper, it appears as if this has been drafted in a hush-hush manner to meet the revised deadline of implementing GST in India.
The indirect tax regime in India is evolving into GST in the year 2010. The steps towards introduction of GST have commenced. The Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers has introduced the First Discussion Paper on GST in India on November 10, 2009. A dual structure of Central GST (CGST) and State GST (SGST) is proposed to be imposed on the manufacture of goods and on provision of services.
States that have huge mineral and petroleum reserves, but are economically backward may face significant loss of tax revenues on implementation of goods and services tax (GST), according to economists and experts in public finance. Introduction of GST would lead to the abolition of central sales tax (CST), which is collected by state governments on inter-state sales of goods. The CST rate was reduced from 4% to 2% at the time of introducing value added tax (VAT) in 2005.
GST has been the preferred mode of taxation of goods and services and has been introduced in more than 140 countries. Most countries have single GST rate, however some countries like Canada & Brazil has dual GST structure. White paper proposes dual structure for GST in India. Standard GST rate in most countries vary between 15-25%.
