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Goods and Services Tax : The guide explains that GST registration certificates are available only through the GST Portal and must be downloaded manually. I...
Goods and Services Tax : From 22 September 2025, accommodation below ₹7,500 per day attracts 5% GST without ITC instead of 12%. The change aims to reduce...
Goods and Services Tax : This guide explains the fundamentals of GST, including CGST, SGST, IGST, and UTGST. It also highlights how these classifications i...
Goods and Services Tax : A single visit revealing closed premises is not sufficient to cancel GST registration. The department must establish statutory gro...
Goods and Services Tax : The article explains the crucial distinction between GST Credit Notes and Commercial Credit Notes. Once the Section 34 deadline ex...
Goods and Services Tax : Haryana recorded the highest State GST growth rate in India at 22% in May 2026. The achievement is attributed to strong tax admini...
Goods and Services Tax : Practitioners are reportedly following different methods while completing GSTAT appeal forms because of inadequate guidance. The r...
Goods and Services Tax : The certificate clarifies that dealing and investment in securities are outside the scope of GST. Companies engaged solely in secu...
Goods and Services Tax : Representation addressed to Union Finance Minister, GST Council and CBIC seeks legislative and administrative relief for bona fide...
Goods and Services Tax : Persistent technical issues prevented users from accessing the portal and completing filings. The representation seeks urgent fixe...
Goods and Services Tax : The Gauhati High Court directed authorities to consider restoration of GST registration after the taxpayer filed pending returns a...
Goods and Services Tax : The Tribunal held that procurement strategy, supplier oversight, and sourcing support formed part of a substantive procurement ser...
Goods and Services Tax : The Court observed that the documents produced indicated a sale of immovable property, which is not subject to GST. The matter was...
Goods and Services Tax : The Madras High Court remitted Section 74A GST orders for fresh adjudication after taxpayers argued that their replies to DRC-01 n...
Goods and Services Tax : The Madras High Court held that GST authorities cannot issue a single show cause notice covering multiple financial years. The Cou...
Goods and Services Tax : GSTN has postponed the implementation of mandatory "Ship To GSTIN" capture and voluntary E-Way Bill closure to 1 August 2026. The ...
Goods and Services Tax : Gross GST collections reached ₹1.94 lakh crore in May 2026, registering 3.2% growth. The increase was driven largely by a 19.1% ...
Goods and Services Tax : The West Bengal GST Department ruled that intra-State movement of goods related to job work remains exempt from e-way bill generat...
Goods and Services Tax : GSTN has announced mandatory capture of Ship-To GSTIN in Bill-To/Ship-To transactions under the EWB system. The change aims to imp...
Goods and Services Tax : GSTN has launched a standardized Annexure-B Offline Utility for refund applications involving accumulated ITC to enable automated ...
In the existing VAT, service tax and excise legislation, there are no specific provisions for e-commerce operators to pay taxes on sale of goods or to make any tax deductions from the payments being made by them to actual seller of goods
Ease in making payment towards tax and other dues is very important in a country like India. Challenge before the Empowered Committee was to usher in a mechanism of payment which is user friendly and at the same time allows payment through various modes
Threshold limit for the regime be Rs. 20 Lakhs. The Council agreed on the preposition to set the threshold exemption limit to Rs. 20 Lakhs for all States except North Eastern states, where this limit will be Rs. 10 Lakhs. However various states were in favour of exemption limit of Rs. 25 Lakhs since such small dealers represent only 2% of total Indirect tax collection
Highlights of first meeting of the GST Council held on 23rd September 2016. 1. GST threshold limit to be kept at ₹ 20 lakhs for all states barring the north-east and hill-area states, for which limit been fixed at Rs. 10 Lakh. Threshold limit of Rs. 10 lakhs to be applicable in respect to following […]
The concept of ‘supply’ is the key stone of the proposed GST architecture. GST is a multi-stage tax levied on supply of goods and / or services, collected at each stage of the production and distribution, in proportion to the value added by each taxable person in the chain of supply.
Registration of any business entity under Model GST Law implies obtaining a unique number from the concerned tax authorities so that all the operations of and data relating to the business can be processed and agglomerated in seamless manner with a view to allow smooth flow of Input Tax Credit and also ultimately flow of fund in inter sate transactions.
The legal and conceptual foundations of the Goods and Services Tax have thus been laid out. The power to levy GST is drawn from Article 246A proposed in the Constitutional Amendment Act. In pursuance of the same Section 7 of the CGST / SGST Act and Section 4 of the IGST Act levy the respective taxes also determining the incidence of the respective taxes therein.
Every Supplier shall be liable to be registered under GST Act if -his aggregate turnover in a financial year exceeds the THRESHOLD Limit -registered or who holds a license under an earlier law e.g. State Vat, Service Tax, Excise Duty etc. -liable to be registered under Compulsory Registration
Interest is a consideration for allowing someone to use your money. It could be termed as Compensation paid to one who allows his money to be used by another person. This is a common understanding and no big brains are required to understand this proposition.
Taxable person would therefore, cover both – one who are registered as taxable person under the Act and two, persons who are not so registered but required to be so registered. Thus, even unregistered person would be called a taxable person liable as such under the Act.