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Goods and Services Tax : Analysis of the evolving relationship between Direct and Indirect Taxes in India, examining revenue recognition and the impact of ...
Goods and Services Tax : Understand recent Supreme Court decisions on GST ITC denial due to supplier errors. Learn about taxpayer rights to correct genuine...
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Goods and Services Tax : India implements digital tax reforms, AI tools, and compliance measures. No new 5% GST on food delivery apps. Learn about tech-dri...
Goods and Services Tax : ndia's GST Council examines 5% GST on food delivery apps like Zomato, Swiggy. Restaurant services face 5% GST without input credit...
Goods and Services Tax : The Sales Tax Bar Association (STBA) Delhi seeks an extension of the GST Amnesty Scheme deadline to 30th June 2025 due to taxpayer...
Goods and Services Tax : Kerala High Court dismisses Revenue’s appeal against quashing of 14-year delayed notice under Section 17D of KGST Act in K. Sasi...
Goods and Services Tax : Calcutta High Court directs reconsideration of transitional GST credit claim, citing technical breach in obtaining provisional ID ...
Goods and Services Tax : Allahabad HC upheld GST order as valid due to taxpayer's failure to respond to notices and show cause, confirming tax, interest, a...
Goods and Services Tax : Gujarat HC issues notice on plea against two GST orders for same period, disallowing ITC for non-filing and GSTR mismatch. Interim...
Goods and Services Tax : Allahabad High Court quashes GST order against Mishra Enterprises due to lack of hearing. Remanded for fresh order with opportunit...
Goods and Services Tax : From April 2025, GSTR-1 Table-12 will be split into B2B and B2C with mandatory HSN code selection from dropdown. Manual entry will...
Goods and Services Tax : Important update on GSTR-3B Table 3.2. Starting April 2025, auto-populated inter-state supply values will be non-editable. Learn h...
Goods and Services Tax : Kerala SGST Circular 10/2025 sets officer-wise monetary limits for notices/orders under new Section 74A of GST Acts, effective now...
Goods and Services Tax : Kerala SGST assigns Section 74A functions to officers, amending Circular 5/2023 as per 53rd GST Council meeting recommendations. E...
Goods and Services Tax : Kerala SGST clarifies interest waiver scheme under Section 128A, detailing rules for handling tax demands and self-assessed tax re...
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%.
