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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 1710 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 420 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 1356 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


Trust to pay GST on renting of temporary residential rooms for consideration to devotees

September 30, 2019 5118 Views 0 comment Print

The applicant is liable to pay tax in renting of temporary residential rooms for consideration to the devotees and renting of space for shops and stalls.

Sewerage services falls under Article 243W of Indian Constitution

September 30, 2019 14697 Views 0 comment Print

In re M/s Sewerage & Infrastructural Development Corporation of Goa Ltd. (GST AAR Goa) 1. Whether the Project Management services provided by applicant to recipient would qualify as an activity in relation to function entrusted to Panchayat or Municipality under Article 243G or Article 243W respectively, of the Constitution of India. The services provided by […]

Resale of food & bakery products not fall under restaurant services: AAR

September 30, 2019 17466 Views 0 comment Print

Restaurant is a place of business where food is prepared in the premises and served based on the orders received from the customer. In the instant case it is a bakery, where ready to eat items are sold and mere facility is provided to have it from the shop.

CGST Act not empowers Authority to give Ruling on Place of Supply of Goods or Services

September 30, 2019 1293 Views 0 comment Print

In order to decide whether the said services amount to export or not, place of supply of service need to be determined. Section 97(2) of the CGST Act, 2017 empowers the Authority to give a Ruling on time and value of Supply. However it does not empower the Authority to examine the place of supply. In the absence of this provision the Authority is not empowered to answer whether the activity undertaken by the applicant amounts to export or not.

Setting up of data centres involving transfer of property in goods is Works Contract

September 30, 2019 3879 Views 0 comment Print

Applicant has entered into a contract for carrying out the various listed activities leading to erection, fitting out, renovation and commissioning of data centres. The contract also involves transfer of property in goods. It is therefore opined that the proposed activities of the applicant are covered under the definition of Works Contract.

EPC contract to set-up solar power plant till 31.12.2018 is works contract: AAR Karnataka

September 30, 2019 4365 Views 0 comment Print

Whether in case of separate contracts for supply of goods and services for a solar power plant, there would be separate taxability of goods as ‘Solar Power Generating System’ at 5% and services at 18%.

GST on Employee Car Parking Charges: No ruling In absence of requisite documents

September 27, 2019 10713 Views 0 comment Print

It seems that certain parking slots were allotted free of cost to the applicant. In this regard, the procedure as to how these free slots are accounted/allotted to the employees is not explained by the applicant. Further, the ‘trail of financial transactions to clarify the “pure agent” status of the company’, as promised by the authorized representative of the applicant at the time of personal hearing, was also not provided by the applicant.

Services provided to KRIDL being a Government Entity exempt from GST

September 27, 2019 4185 Views 1 comment Print

M/s KRIDL is established by the Government of Karnataka and the State Government has full control over the organisation and hence the KRIDL is a Government Entity and hence the second condition is also satisfied. Hence the services provided by the applicant to KRIDL are covered under the entry no.3 of Notification No. 12/2017- Central Tax (Rate) dated 28.06.2017 w.e.f 25.01.2018.

12% GST on supply of printed, centre pinned and hand numbered answer booklet to KSEEB

September 27, 2019 4782 Views 0 comment Print

In re Datacon Technologies (GST AAR Karnataka) The supply of printed, centre pinned and hand numbered answer booklet to the Karnataka State Secondary Education Board (KSEEB) constitutes supply of goods falling under the Heading 4802 of entry 112 of the Schedule 11 to the Notification 01/2017 central tax (Rate) dated 28/06/2017 and taxable at 6% […]

Depositing timber with Govt. Timber depot for disposal amounts to supply

September 27, 2019 3999 Views 1 comment Print

In re Tata Coffee Limited (GST AAR Karnataka) a) Whether the legally binding and prescribed activity of depositing the timber / wood by the applicant with the Government Timber Depot for disposal as per the provision of Section 104 of the Karnataka Forest Act will constitute a ‘supply’ and therefore subject to payment of GST […]

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