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Ruling passed by Authority for Advance Rulings Customs , Central Excise & Service Tax. The Authority for Advance Rulings consists of a Chairman who is a retired Judge of the Supreme court and two members of the rank of Additional Secretary to the Government of India, one each from the Indian Revenue Service and the Indian Legal Service.

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GST on Canteen Services in Business Premises: Judicial Rulings & Analysis

Goods and Services Tax : Scenario-wise analysis of GST on business canteen services covering ITC, employee recovery, contractor supply, and statutory oblig...

May 10, 2026 1701 Views 0 comment Print

Quick Lime (90%) and Hydrated Lime (85-95%) Attract 5% GST: AAR Tamilnadu

Goods and Services Tax : The ruling examines the composition of lime products and holds that impurities of 10–15% place them under Heading 2522. The Auth...

December 4, 2025 840 Views 0 comment Print

Can ITC Be Used Across Unrelated Supplies? A Key GST Ruling

Goods and Services Tax : Gujarat AAAR rules ITC from one business can offset GST on unrelated output supplies under a single registration, emphasizing fung...

July 21, 2025 1821 Views 0 comment Print

जीएसटी में एडवांस रूलिंग: एक विस्तृत अवलोकन

Goods and Services Tax : जीएसटी के तहत एडवांस रूलिंग (AAR) की प्रक्रिया, प्रा...

July 21, 2025 1341 Views 0 comment Print

Analysis of Notifications and Circulars for Week ending 22nd June 2025

CA, CS, CMA : Stay informed on India's latest regulatory changes from June 16-22, 2025. This summary covers Income Tax exemptions, GST amendment...

June 25, 2025 5175 Views 0 comment Print


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Functionality to search and view Advance Ruling Orders under GST

Goods and Services Tax : New functionality to search for GST Advance Ruling Orders issued by Authority / Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling on GST Por...

August 10, 2022 2820 Views 0 comment Print

GST Authorities of Advance/Appellate Rulings-Status Upto April 2019 

Goods and Services Tax : Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR) constituted under the provisions of a SGST/ UTGST Act, in terms of the provisions of Section 96...

May 29, 2019 1137 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


CAAR Rejects Advance Ruling Plea as Roasted Areca Nut Classification Already Decided by HC

Custom Duty : CAAR declined to entertain an advance ruling application on roasted areca nut classification after finding that the issue had alre...

June 4, 2026 198 Views 0 comment Print

Chilli Grinding Job Work GST Issue Left Undecided Due to Withdrawal of AAR Application

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...

June 2, 2026 129 Views 0 comment Print

GST Advance Ruling Application Withdrawn as ITC Time-Limit Issue Was Outside AAR Jurisdiction

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 ...

June 2, 2026 183 Views 0 comment Print

Factory Canteen ITC Allowed Only to Extent of Actual Employer Expenditure

Goods and Services Tax : The authority clarified that ITC cannot be claimed on amounts recovered from employees toward canteen facilities. Credit is restri...

June 2, 2026 414 Views 0 comment Print

Fresh Isabgol Seeds Exempt from GST as They Remain Unprocessed After Harvest: AAR Gujarat

Goods and Services Tax : The Gujarat AAR held that Psyllium (Isabgol) Seeds procured from farmers and supplied without drying, freezing, or processing qual...

May 30, 2026 1350 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Maharashtra GST Authority Appoints New Member

Goods and Services Tax : Maharashtra Goods and Services Tax Authority makes changes in its lineup, appointing Shri. Ajaykumar Vaman Bonde as a member of Ad...

October 16, 2023 1428 Views 0 comment Print

Rajiv Ranjan appointed as member of Maharashtra Advance Ruling Authority

Goods and Services Tax : Mr. Rajiv Ranjan has been appointed as member of Maharashtra Advance Ruling Authority in the place of Mr. Rajiv Magoo. FINANCE DEP...

September 13, 2022 1599 Views 0 comment Print

Notification to re-constitute Himachal Pradesh Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling

Goods and Services Tax : Governor of Himachal Pradesh, in supersession of this department’s notification of even No. dated 14.09.2020, published in the e...

January 20, 2022 1110 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi Authority for Advance Ruling reconstituted

Goods and Services Tax : Governor of Delhi under Delhi Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, is pleased to reconstitute the Delhi Authority for Advance Ruling...

July 27, 2021 2253 Views 0 comment Print

Rajiv Magoo appointed as member of Maharashtra GST Advance Ruling Committee

Goods and Services Tax : Shri. Rajiv Magoo, Joint Commissioner of Central Tax has been appointed as member of Maharashtra GST Advance Ruling Committee in t...

April 29, 2021 2388 Views 0 comment Print


Rajiv Magoo appointed as member of Maharashtra GST Advance Ruling Committee

April 29, 2021 2388 Views 0 comment Print

Shri. Rajiv Magoo, Joint Commissioner of Central Tax has been appointed as member of Maharashtra GST Advance Ruling Committee in the place of Ms. P. Vinitha Sekhar. FINANCE DEPARTMENT Madam Cama Marg, Hutatma Rajguru Chowk, Mantralaya, Mumbai 400 032, Dated the 29th April 2021. NOTIFICATION MAHARASHTRA GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2017. No. GST-1021/C.R. 43/Taxation-1. […]

GST on Various Services provided by Tiruppur City Municipality

April 28, 2021 2127 Views 0 comment Print

In re Tiruppur City Municipal Corporation (GST AAR Tamilnadu) Q.1. Advance ruling is required in respect of Sl No 1 to 5, 7 to 9, as to whether the services rendered by us directly are covered under Twelfth Schedule to Article 243W of the Constitution and /or exempted under the Notfn. No mentioned against each Sl […]

AAR explains GST on Various services provided by Municipality

April 28, 2021 6798 Views 0 comment Print

In re Erode City Municipal Corporation (GST AAR Tamilnadu) Q1. Advance ruling is required in respect of Sl No 1 to 6, 8,9 & 13 whether the services rendered by us directly are covered under Twelfth Schedule to Article 243W of the Constitution and / or exempted under the Notfn. No mentioned against each SI […]

GST on construction of Residential Real Estate Project other than affordable residential apartments’

April 28, 2021 6663 Views 0 comment Print

In re Ashiana Housing Limited (GST AAR Tamilnadu) Whether the activities of construction carried out by the applicant for its customer under the Construction Agreement, being composite supply of works contract are appropriately classifiable under Heading 9997, and chargeable to CGST @ 9% under S. No. 35 of Notification No.11/2017- CT(Rate) dated 28.06.2017. The Proposed […]

Supply of license of pre-developed or pre-designed software amounts to supply of goods covered under heading 8523

April 23, 2021 2622 Views 0 comment Print

The AAR, Karnataka in the matter of M/S. SPSS South Asia Pvt. Ltd., [Advance Ruling No. KAR/ADRG/15 of 2021, dated March 24, 2021] held that, supply of license of pre-developed or pre-designed software by assessee amounts to supply of goods and said supply is covered under tariff heading 8523. Further, such supply of computer softwares […]

No GST on membership subscription fees collected from members

April 22, 2021 28344 Views 1 comment Print

In re Bowring Institute (GST AAR Karnataka) 1. Whether amount collected as membership subscription fees paid by the members of the applicant towards facilities provided by the applicant are liable as supply of service under GST? 2. Whether amount collected as infrastructure development fund for the development and maintenance of the facilities provided by the […]

AAR application not admissible if question raised was already been decided

April 22, 2021 1119 Views 0 comment Print

In re Veena Madhukant (Shree Parshwanath Coconuts) (GST AAR Tamilnadu) The Authorised representative was intimated that the question raised in the application stands decided under Section 60 of the CGST/TNGST Act 2017 in their own case by the Jurisdictional authority, therefore as per first proviso to Section 98(2) of the Act, the application cannot be […]

Recipient of services cannot file AAR Application

April 19, 2021 1083 Views 0 comment Print

In re Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (GST AAR Karnataka) Any person registered or desirous of obtaining registration under CGST Act 2017 can seek advance ruling only in relation to the supply of goods or services or both being undertaken or proposed to be undertaken. In the instant case, we observe that M/s HDMC, who have filed […]

De-linking of Debit Notes for ITC – A Judicial perspective

April 17, 2021 5172 Views 0 comment Print

Amended Section 16(4) to de-link ITC on Debit Note with Invoice fails to get stamping of Gujarat AAR in case of M/s I-Tech Plast Input tax credit is a beneficial piece of legislation but subject to various conditions and limitations prescribed under Section 16 and 17 of CGST Act, 2017. One of the conditions contained […]

Pharmaceutical Reference Standards classifiable under CTH 38220090

April 16, 2021 4296 Views 0 comment Print

In re Analytica Chemie Inc. (GST AAR Karnataka) The Pharmaceutical Reference Standards (Prepared Laboratory Reagents) imported and supplied by the Appellant and classified under Tariff Item 3822 00 90 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 is covered under Entry No. 80 of Schedule-II to Notification No.1/2017-Integrated Tax (Rate) dated 28.06.2017 attracting a levy of Integrated […]

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