Goods and Services Tax : The GST Council at its meeting on May 18, 19 has evolved a consensus on GST rates for goods and services, leading us closer to Jul...
Goods and Services Tax : As per Section 12(6) of CGST Act, 2017 relating to Time of Supply of Goods states that time of supply to the extent it relates to ...
Goods and Services Tax : Since the assessee has the option to take single registration for business verticals within a State, it will be imperative for the...
Goods and Services Tax : At present, the manufacturers/dealers registered under the Central Excise Act, 1944 have the option to surrender their registratio...
Goods and Services Tax : Generally place of supply will be the place of recipient of service, if it is not available then place of supplier of service exce...
The main thrust of the present article is to analyse the landmark judgment given by the Hon’ble Uttrakhand High Court recently, in the case of Commissioner of Customs & Central Excise Vs Sachin Malhotra, Raj Kumar Taneja, and M/s Shiva Travels [2014-TIOL-2039-HC-UTTRAKHAND-ST] wherein the difference between renting and hiring has been reported for the purpose of levying service tax under the category of Rent a cab services.
The date of 01.07.2012 was a critical date in service tax laws because from this date the service tax laws underwent gigantic change. The concept of Negative list and partial reverse charge was introduced for the first time to broaden the scope of service tax along with simplifying the service tax laws.
The most awaited 2014-2015 Finance Budget was presented by Hon’ble Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley on 10th of July 2014. The sugar-coated budget did not aim at bringing any major change due to the reason that there was short time span but still changes in various issues have been introduced. The budget was both a shock […]
The budget 2014 has arrived and the Hon’ble Finance minister has bought in several, if not many, changes in the service tax regime. In his endeavour to put the indirect tax laws in road to GST, he has avoided major changes but for small. However, these small changes have somewhat failed to meet the expectations of few sectors.
Earlier there was dispute on duty liability and classification of Polyester Staple Fiber (PSF) and Polyester Filament Yarn (PFY) manufactured from plastic waste or scrap or plastic waste including waste polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles.
Budget of 2014 had become the talk of the town since the day Mr. Narendra Modi came into power as the Prime Minister of India. The veil on the most awaited Budget has been lifted. But there seem least changes in the indirect tax regime. However these little changes too might have a considerable impact on the assessee. This piece of articulation is about few such changes done in the Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 which restrict the time for availing the Cenvat credit to six months.
There may be more than one factory registered under Central Excise and running under the same management. In order to facilitate the management, single head office is being set up for incurring expenses, availing services, easy disbursements and communication purpose.
Dispute was going on the issue whether the first Appellate Authority or Tribunal can condone delay for late filing of review order under Section 35E(1) or not? As per Section 35E the Committee of Chief Commissioners is empowered to review an order passed by a Commissioner.
Providing the food grains at affordable prices to the public at large is the key policy of any government. Effective production of food grains is not possible without the fertilizers. A fertilizer is a chemical or natural substance added to soil or land to increase its fertility. Thus, to improve the quality as well as the quantity of agricultural produce, fertilizers are the key ingredients.
With effect from 01.10.2014, every assessee will be required to pay excise duty and service tax payable by him electronically through internet banking and there is no other option available except in certain peculiar circumstances. Therefore, with the technological advancement, the government has also adopted advanced means of revenue collection.
