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Goods and Services Tax : The Supreme Court held that adjudicatory proceedings cannot survive when authorities rely on undisclosed material or deny meaningf...
Goods and Services Tax : The High Court held that using Input Tax Credit for the mandatory 10% GST appeal pre-deposit is not a criminal act. It ruled that ...
Goods and Services Tax : Introduction: In India, GST has disrupted the traditional methods of managing compliance and taxation in most industries. For the ...
Goods and Services Tax : GST disputes often begin with scrutiny notices rather than investigations. A structured response at every stage can help taxpayers...
Goods and Services Tax : GSTN has introduced important changes to strengthen tracking and transparency in goods movement. Businesses must understand the ne...
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 : Authorities uncovered fraudulent ITC claims based on fake invoices without actual supply of goods or services. The accused was arr...
Goods and Services Tax : The representation highlights ambiguity in whether the ₹2.5 crore ITC threshold should be annual or cumulative. It emphasizes th...
Goods and Services Tax : The Telangana High Court refused to quash a GST show cause notice, holding that the question whether annuity payments were exempt ...
Goods and Services Tax : The Supreme Court refused to interfere at the show cause notice stage, holding that the dispute should be examined through adjudic...
Goods and Services Tax : Karnataka AAR disposed of the application after the applicant informed that GST demand orders on the same issue were already under...
Goods and Services Tax : Karnataka AAR disposed of the application after observing that a request for extension of the ITC availment deadline did not fall ...
Goods and Services Tax : The authority clarified that ITC cannot be claimed on amounts recovered from employees toward canteen facilities. Credit is restri...
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 Tamil Nadu Commercial Taxes Department directed that adjudication of LTU taxpayers inspected by the Intelligence Wing will now...
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 ...
Q.1 The amended section 6A of CST Act, 1956 requires the transferor branch to obtain ‘F’ form from the transferee branch and on failure to obtain the same the transaction is presumed to be sale. Whether such amendment can be said to be constitutionally valid, as it may amount to levy of tax on Consignment?
Question. The dealer has purchased plant along with land from Financial Institution in auction. The original owner of plant was declared sick unit and was liable to discharge sales tax dues for past years. The Sales Tax Department is contemplating to recover the said dues from the dealer who has purchased the plant and land in auction. Whether the department is justified in such demand?
The facts are that the dealer is registered under CST Act in Andhra Pradesh as well as in Maharashtra. Order is placed by AP branch on Tamil Nadu dealer for supply of goods against H form. The supplier prepares invoice mentioning Maharashtra address. The goods are delivered by TN party in AP from where dealer exports the goods. The dealer accounts the said invoice of TN party in its books in Maharashtra and shows the same in the Maharashtra Sales Tax returns. The H form issued by Maharashtra authorities is issued to TN party. Whether the above course of action as per law?
The subject of works contract is one of the most confusing and litigated issues. The Constitution (Forty Sixth Amendment) Act, 1982 granted powers to State Governments to enact laws for providing the levy of tax on the transfer of property (whether as goods or in some other form) involved in the execution of works contracts. Builders and Developers undergo untold hardship and misery while computing the gross and taxable turnovers. Each State has prescribed its own law, rules and methodology for determining the gross and taxable turnovers.
Under entry 92A of List I of the VII Schedule to the Constitution of India, the Parliament of India has the exclusive right to impose tax on sale or purchase of goods other than newspapers where such sale or purchase takes place in the course of inter-State trade and commerce. Article 269 of the Constitution of India authorises the Parliament to formulate principles for determining when a sale or purchase or consignment of goods takes place in the course of inter-State trade and commerce. Exercising the power so conferred by the Constitution of India, the Parliament has enacted the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 (herein after referred to as “the Central Act”), wherein section 3 specifies the principles as to when a sale or purchase of goods take place in the course of inter-State trade and commerce.
After amendment to the constitution by inserting Article 366(29A) providing definition of the term “taxes on sale or purchase of goods” to include deemed sales, States were empowered to levy tax on sale or purchase of goods involved in execution of works contracts. However, the power of States to levy tax on deemed sales including works contract sales are subject to restrictions contained in Article 286 of the Constitution of India. Under Article 286 State has no power to levy tax on –
The transaction involves a global acquisition of a banking business by the Purchaser from the Seller. Consequent thereto, all assets and liabilities in India will be acquired by the Purchaser from the Seller. The acquisition of the assets and liabilities in India will either be through: (a) slump sale process, in which the undertaking as a going concern will be transferred by the Seller to the Purchaser for a lump sum consideration, or (b) through a court approved scheme of reconstruction under section 394 of the Companies Act and section 44 of the Banking Regulation Act under which all the assets and liabilities will be transferred from the Seller to the Purchaser, or (c) individual transfer of assets and liabilities by the Seller to the Purchaser.
Q.1 Please explain the scheme of “in transit sale” covered by section 6(2) of CST Act, 1956? Ans.: Section 3(a) of CST Act,1956 defines the interstate sale/purchase transaction. Section 3(b) defines the interstate sale effected by transfer of documents of title to goods. When the goods are in movement from one State to other. The whole section 3 reads as under:
Businesses with more than Rs 10 lakh turnover may end up paying the central goods and services tax, with the Centre not agreeing to states’ suggestion of keeping the threshold at Rs 1.5 crore. The empowered committee of state finance ministers had suggested separate thresholds for central GST and state GST, wherein businesses below a […]
The government should bring petrol and diesel under a uniform VAT structure of 8 per cent as the variation in state tax was putting additional burden of taxation, industry body Assocham today said. States sales tax on petrol varies from 33 per cent in Andhra Pradesh to 18.9 per cent in Manipur and on diesel from 34 per cent in Mumbai to 8.3 per cent in Tripura, the chamber said adding that entry tax/octroi is also levied on movements of crude in many states.
