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Goods and Services Tax : The article examines how NGTP classifications are increasingly being used as standalone grounds for ITC blockage and fraud proceed...
Goods and Services Tax : Missing GST return deadlines triggers late fees under Section 47 and interest under Section 50, both calculated separately. Unders...
Goods and Services Tax : The Court reaffirmed that taxpayers are entitled to due process before coercive recovery measures are initiated. Recovery actions ...
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 : 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 exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of Section 13 of the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 (74 of 1956), the Central Government hereby makes the following further amendments in the Central Sales Tax (Registration and Turnover) Rules, 1957, namely: –
Government of Maharashtra has raised the rate of tax under Schedule ‘C’ of Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 from 4 per cent to 5% on goods other than declared goods with effect from 1st April 2010. A notification to this effect has been issued as referred above. While issuing the notification, an inadvertent error had crept in, leading to inference that some fabrics & sugar would become taxable from 1st April 2010.
Section 62(5) of the PVAT Act 2005 provides for the precondition of deposit of 25% of total amount of tax, penalty and interest, if any before entertaining any appeal. Such condition was also imposed even on those appellant whose entire goods are detained by the department u/s 51 even if the value of such detained goods exceed the total amount of tax, penalty, interest. In such cases it results in burdening the assessee with another liability.
At present the entry 45 in Schedule-A provides NIL % of MVAT in respect of items covered under “The Additional Duties of Excise (Goods of Special Importance) Act, 1957. Fabric, being a tariff item is covered under Chapter 50 to Chapter 60 of the Central Excise Tariff Act and thus enjoys the exemption from MVAT from the whole of the VAT. The entry 45 reads as under:
In the notification No. VAT.1510/ CR.47taxation-1, dated 10th March 2010 published in Maharashtra Government Gazette, Extraordinary, Part IV-B, Number 47, dated 10th March 2010.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 42 of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 (Mah. IX of 2005) the Government of Maharashtra, hereby amends with effect from the 1st April 2010 the Government Notification, Finance Department No. VAT-1505/CR- 105/Taxation- l, dated the 1st June 2005, as follows, namely
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-entry (6) of entry 101 of Schedule C appended to the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 (Mah. IX of 2005), the Government of Maharashtra, hereby, amends with effect from the 1st April 2010, the Government Notification, Finance Department, No. VAT.1505/CR- 120/Taxation- 1, dated the 1st June 2005, as follows, namely
in Schedule-A, in entry 45, in column, (2) for the words, figures and brackets the Additional Duties of Excise (Goods of Special Importance) Act, 1957 (58 of 1957), the words, figures and brackets the Additional Duties of Excise (Goods of Special Importance) Act, 1957 (58 of 1957) but excluding those specified in Schedule-C shall be substituted;
BJP today said it would take legal action, if the state government fails to implement a cabinet decision to impose entertainment tax on the Indian Premier League(IPL) matches here. Finance minister Sunil Tatkare’s recent announcement that there will be no entertainment tax on the IPL matches, has evoked a sharp reaction from the main opposition.
The State Government, may from time to time issue notification and notify class or classes of the dealer who shall be required to make the said payment electronically. Further, State Government may specify the period from which electronic payment is to be made mandatory.
