Goods and Services Tax : Even after the sunset clause, anti-profiteering obligations continue through tribunals and policy directions, leaving businesses e...
Goods and Services Tax : The Delhi High Court upheld an anti-profiteering order, ruling that merely increasing product quantity or volume after a GST rate ...
Goods and Services Tax : GSTAT ruled 18% interest on GST anti-profiteering amounts applies prospectively from April 1, 2020, upholding that it cannot be im...
Goods and Services Tax : Delhi HC rules increasing product quantity or base price instead of reducing MRP after a GST rate cut violates Section 171 of the ...
Goods and Services Tax : GST 2.0 rate cuts trigger Anti-Profiteering rules (Sec 171). Summary covers obligation to pass on tax/ITC benefit, MRP display nor...
Goods and Services Tax : Leading consumer and public policy research and advocacy group, CUTS International has requested the Finance Minister, Ms Nirmala ...
Goods and Services Tax : Empanelment of Advocates / Law Firms for representing the National Anti-profiteering Authority and Director General of Anti-Profit...
Goods and Services Tax : Anti-Profiteering Measures The National Anti-Profiteering Authority (NAA) was constituted on 28th November, 2017 under Section 17...
Goods and Services Tax : GSTAT held that failure to pass on additional Input Tax Credit benefits to eligible homebuyers violated Section 171 of the CGST Ac...
Goods and Services Tax : The Tribunal allowed service of notice through registered post and speed post after no response was received regarding verificatio...
Goods and Services Tax : GSTAT upheld anti-profiteering findings after the developer accepted the DGAP report concerning ITC benefits in a housing project....
Goods and Services Tax : The GSTAT held that customer emails denying receipt of ITC benefit could not outweigh books of accounts, ledgers, and credit notes...
Goods and Services Tax : The GSTAT directed the DGAP to re-examine profiteering calculations after observing a possible miscalculation in the Input Tax Cre...
Goods and Services Tax : GST Authority will stop accepting requests for examination of input tax credits and tax rate reductions from April 1, 2025, as per...
Goods and Services Tax : Ministry of Finance empowers GST Appellate Tribunal to examine input tax credits and tax rate reductions, effective from October 1...
Goods and Services Tax : Central Goods and Services Tax (Fourth Amendment) Rules, 2022 – CBIC omitted following GST Rules 122,124,125,134 and 137 vi...
Goods and Services Tax : CBIC notifies Competition Commission of India to examine whether input tax credits availed by any registered person or the reducti...
Shri Rahul Sharma Vs M/s. Cloudtail India Pvt. Ltd. (NAA) (i) Firstly, the Respondent, as discussed in para 12 to 14 above, has submitted that the proceedings initiated should be deemed infructuous as the complaint under Section 171 of the CGST Act, 2017;was not against him but against HP India who was the brand owner […]
Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal, FCA, FCS The complaint against profiteering came up recently before the National Anti-profiteering Authority (NAA) in a case involving supply of tiles. In Kerala State Screening Committee on Anti-profiteering & DGAP, CBIC New Delhi v. Asian Grantio India Ltd., Ahmedabad, the NAA vide its Order dated 24.12.2018 ordered that where the business […]
Hindustan Unilever Limited Vs Union of India & Ors. (Delhi High Court) The issue pertains to Anti Profiteering order passed against HUL whereunder it was directed to deposit Rs.233 Crores. In the Writ Petition filed against the said order, the Delhi HC passed the following interim orders In view of the submissions and contentions raised, […]
It is also revealed that the reduction in discount doesn’t amount to profiteering as the same was offered from his profit margin by the Respondent and doesn’t not form part of the base price and therefore, the Respondent cannot be held guilty under Section 171 of the Act.
State Level Screening Committee on Anti-Profiteering Vs Ahuja Radios (National Anti-Profiteering Authority) The DGAP after scrutiny of the above two invoices issued by the Respondent has intimated that there was no increase in the per unit price (excluding GST) in respect of both the products mentioned in the above invoices. The base Price per unit […]
It is apparent from the perusal of the facts of the case that there was no reduction in the rate of tax on the above product w.e.f. 01-07-2017, as could be seen from the table given above. There is also no increase in the per unit base price (excluding tax) of the above product and therefore the allegation of profiteering is not established.
Kerala State Level Screening Committee on Anti-Profiteering Vs Janson (National Anti-Profiteering Authority) It is apparent from the perusal of the facts of the case that there was no reduction in the rate of tax on the above product w.e.f. 01-07-2017, hence the anti-profiteering provisions contained in Section 171(1) of the Central Goods and Services Tax […]
The legal obligation imposed on deqaler cannot be ignored only because he is not the manufacturer who controls the prices, as he is accountable as a supplier to pass on the benefit of GST rate reduction. T
Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal, FCA, FCS For the first time, National Anti-Profiteering Authority has held against the real estate company for Anti-profiteering activities in case of sale of flats to buyers. In Sukhbir Rohila v. Pyramid Infratech Pvt. Ltd. (2018) 9 TMI 1107 (NAA); (2018) 97 taxmann.com 379 (NAA), the National Anti-Profiteering Authority vide its order dated […]
