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Goods and Services Tax : The Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime in India aims to establish a transparent and efficient indirect tax system. Despite the se...
Goods and Services Tax : This article explains the legal significance of a Show Cause Notice under GST and why it forms the foundation of adjudication proc...
Goods and Services Tax : The article explains that taxpayers with orders communicated before 1 April 2026 must file GSTAT appeals by 30 June 2026 to preser...
Goods and Services Tax : High Courts have held that taxpayers with cancelled GST registrations cannot be expected to monitor the portal continuously, makin...
Goods and Services Tax : The article examines the benefits and trade-offs of the composition scheme, helping small businesses determine whether the concess...
Goods and Services Tax : Stakeholders identified persistent issues in GST registration, cancellations, and refund processing affecting MSMEs. The consultat...
Goods and Services Tax : The Rajasthan GSTAT Bar has urged the Tribunal to adopt a pragmatic approach by accepting pre-deposits made through the Electronic...
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 : The Kerala High Court held that a composite show cause notice issued for multiple assessment years was legally unsustainable. The ...
Goods and Services Tax : The Kerala High Court held that issuing one show cause notice for multiple financial years is not legally sustainable. While quash...
Goods and Services Tax : The Bombay High Court held that TCS paid under protest before assessment must be considered while calculating the mandatory pre-de...
Goods and Services Tax : The Court held that a purchasing dealer cannot be denied input tax credit solely because the supplier failed to deposit tax with t...
Goods and Services Tax : The Madras High Court admitted writ petitions challenging a GST demand arising from the classification of logistics services as in...
Goods and Services Tax : GSTAT instructed scrutiny officers not to raise defects where appellants have uploaded the required documents in prescribed form. ...
Goods and Services Tax : GSTAT Mumbai Bench has officially commenced functioning, making it mandatory for taxpayers within its jurisdiction to file appeals...
Goods and Services Tax : The Committee recommended replacing daily cause lists with weekly schedules and permitting supplementary lists when necessary. The...
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% ...
The CBIC has recently issued CIRCULAR NO. 164/20/2021-GST dt 6.10.21. In this article we submit our critical analysis and legal submissions w.r.t. treating the supply of ice-creams by ice-cream parlours as a supply of goods. I. What is Restaurant Service? The term Restaurant Service has been defined in Para 3.2 of The CIRCULAR NO. 164/20/2021-GST […]
Thane CGST arrests one person for Input Tax Credit Fraud Of Rs. 90.68 crores In a major drive initiated against fraudsters who are availing and utilizing fake Input Tax Credit (ITC) Thane Central GST Commissionerate, Mumbai CGST Zone has arrested a mastermind who had opened a firm M/s. Doshi Marketing and was operating from Bhayander […]
1. Meaning of Transfer of Development Rights (‘TDRs’) To understand the meaning of TDRs, first of all one needs to understand the working style under the real estate sector. Under this sector various kinds of Joint Development Agreements have been entered between various parties. One such type is TDRs, where landowner offers rights in his […]
Recently, many taxpayers have received notices from the GST authorities demanding interest on subsequent reversal of input tax credit (‘ITC’) wrongly availed by them. The said demands are generally pertaining to initial years of GST wherein the lawmakers and taxpayers, both were evolving to adopt the newly introduced statute. Due to the demands pertaining to […]
In re M. F. Associates (GST AAR Uttar Pradesh) Que-1 Whether providing the service of repairs and maintenance of vehicles used for sewage and waste collection, treatment and disposal and other environmental protection services provided to Local Authorities would be covered by Sl. Nov. 3 of Notification No. 12/2017- Central Tax(Rate) dated June 28, 2017, […]
The last dates of filing of the Annual Return under Section 44 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (CGST Act, 2017), for the Financial Years 2017-18, 2018-19 & 2019-20 were as under: Sr. No. Period Last date to file Annual Return 1 2017-18 05th & 7th February, 2020 (Notification No. 06/2020-Central Tax, […]
In Jyoti Construction v. Deputy Commissioner of CT & GST, Jajpur, the Hon’ble High Court of Orissa has pronounced its order dated 07th October, 2021 that Electronic Credit Ledger (“ECRL”) cannot be used to give the pre-deposit for the purpose of filing an appeal under GST and the payment for the same must be done […]
You might have read my earlier article ‘Why GST Department Is Not Right In Asking Commercial Place For GST Registration?‘ published in September’2021. In the earlier article, I wrote that GST Laws does not mandate that “Commercial Address” is mandatory for GST Registrations. Further, I wrote that If we recall registration requirements of VAT Laws, […]
Where a landlord sells the land to a developer, there is no role for him in a real estate project. GST on the sale of land is not payable by virtue of Para 5 of Schedule III appended to Central and State GST Act, which provides that a transaction of sale of land shall be treated neither as a supply of goods nor a supply of services.
In re Rasi Nutri Foods (GST AAR Tamilnadu) Concessional GST rates not applicable to activity of manufacture and supply of fortified rice kernels till Sep 30, 2021 In Rasi Nutri Foods [Order No. 39 AAR/2021 dated October 21, 2021] Authority for Advance Ruling, Karnataka (KAAR) held that Notification No.39/2017 CT(R) dated 18.10.2017 (Concessional Rate Notification) […]
