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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 ...
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the telecom majors Bharti Airtel and Hathway and Datacom Pvt Ltd to move appropriate authority to decide whether transactions related to providing broadband services to subscribers can be treated as “sale of light energy” for levying sales tax. A bench headed by Justice Mr S H Kapadia while setting aside the Karnataka High Court order asked the companies
THE SALES TAX OFFICE HAS OPENED A SEPARATE DESK FOR ACCEPTING THE MVAT AUDIT REPORT (FORM 704). 1.THE MVAT AUDIT REPORT CAN ALSO BE SUBMITTED ON 28TH FEBRUARY & 1ST MARCH 2009. 2.ON ABOVE DATES THE SALES TAX OFFICE IN THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA WILL BE REMAIN OPEN DURING REGULAR OFFICE HOURS FOR ACCEPTING MVAT […]
The Department of Sales Tax has issued 1 lakh notices to traders in the last two months for tax evasion. It has also filed 431 FIRs against them for not filing returns. Raids, surveys and business audits have been further intensified. Sources said that hundred of crores of bogus bills and hawala transactions have been unearthed by the department while spreading its dragnet for tax evaders.
After receipt of Eligibility Certificate and the above mentioned information from the Industry Department, the Sales Tax Department shall issue the Identification Certificate on its own. There is no need for the eligible unit to separately make an application to the Sales Tax Department for grant of Identification Number.
Vide above referred Trade Circular, the Sales Tax Department (“the S.T.D.”) barred the unregistered dealers/ persons/employers from directly paying their tax/ interest/ penalty/composition money/fees/fine/ amount forfeited/ amount of TDS into the Government Treasury. The S.T.D advised the authorized banks not to accept tax/ interest/ penalty/composition money/fees/fine/ amount forfeited/ amount of TDS from the unregistered dealers/ persons/employers.
This circular cannot be made use of for legal interpretation of provisions of law as it is clarificatory in nature. If any member of the trade has any doubt, he may refer the matter to this office for further clarification.
This office had issued a Trade Circular dated the 20th February 2007. A view had been taken in that Trade Circular that Section 6A of the C.S.T.Act, 1956 deals only with transactions between agents and principals and does not deal with transactions which are on a principal to principal basis.
No. VAT/ AMD-1008/IB/ ADM-06 Mumbai Dt: 23rd January, 2009 Trade Cir. 3 T of 2009 Sub : Submission of Audit Report for year 2007-08. Ref. : 1. Government Notification No. VAT-1508/C.R. -69/ Taxation-1 dated 10th November, 2008. 2. Trade Circular 39 T of 2008 No. VAT/ AMD-1008/IB/ ADM-06 dated 15th November, 2008. 3. Trade Circular […]
The Department proposes to provide the compendium of e-services viz., e-return, e-registration, e-declarations, e-annexure, e-Form-704 etc. For availing of these e-services it is mandatory for the dealers to get enrolled with the Department’s web-site i.e. www.mahavat.gov.in .
Once the application has been approved the Central Repository staff would print the required number and type of statutory forms sign and dispatch them to the dealer s main place of business either through courier or Post.
