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...
Thus, it is clear that that the realty sector has been worst hit by this year budget. Even this was explained by us in our power point presentation on the budget. This explanation will bring every builder in ambit of service tax. The retrospective amendment of renting has added fuel to the fire. The Finance Ministry has not waited for the outcome of the verdict of Supreme Court and has proposed this amendment to nullify the impact of Delhi HC decision in case of Home solutions.
The renting of immovable property for commercial/business purpose was brought under service tax net in 2007. However, as has been the case with almost all the services the drafting of the provisions was not free from confusion. As per the definition it appeared that the services provided in relation to renting of immovable property was leviable to tax. However, the Government has embraced the interpretation and provided that renting of immovable property per se is leviable to service tax.
:This year the Budget 2010 announced on 26.02.2010 has given benefits to Small Scale Units. These benefits have been given not only to those units which are availing the small scale exemption under Notification No. 8/2003-CE dated 01.03.2003 but also to the units who are eligible to avail the benefit under the said Notification. In this Article we intend to take a deeper look at definition of “eligible units” and analyze the same.
As the budget, 2010-11 has brought many changes in Excise Law. It varies from areas like applicable rate of excise duty, their Cenvat Credit allowable, exemption from excise duty and so many. The duty on umbrella and umbrella parts are closely affected due to applicability of new Notifications inserted in this Budget. Therefore, we are giving the analysis / comparison of notifications which will help to know how they will affect upon manufacturer at the time of purchase of materials as well as at the time of clearance of finished products.
On February 26’ 2010, the Finance Minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee will present the Union Budget in the Parliament. Everyone is awaiting the announcement of Budget to see that their interest has been taken care of. There is a lot of speculation about the Budget as everyone has expectations from the same. In this Article we are discussing the expectations of the Trade and Industry from Budget 2010-11 relating to the field of Indirect Taxation.
GST shall have two components: one levied by the Centre (Central GST), and the other levied by the States [State GST].
The recent circular no. 120/01/2010-ST dated January 19, 2010 has been issued by the Board for claiming the refund of unutilized Cenvat credit under Rule 5 of Cenvat credit Rules by the service exporters. The above circular has tried to address all the problems faced by the service tax exporters in claiming such exemption. They have tried to give clarification on all the issues. But the famous Hindi proverb “lohe ke chane chabana” (Hard nut to crack) is apt for refund claim for the exporters under Notification 41/2007 or refund under Rule 5.
The credit taken on common inputs is very small but the demand is very huge. The authors of this article have come across the situation where the credit taken on common inputs was only Rs. 30,000 but the demand raised was around Rs. 65 Lakhs. Thus, it has created havoc in the minds of industrialists. Even the defenses taken in reply of such demands were struck down by the tribunal or Courts one by one. Thus, assessees facing such demands were under very difficult situation. The only way was available with them was to say ALL IS WELL as said by the AMIR KHAN in his latest movie 3- IDIOTS.
In these CHA services, during the import or export of goods, apart from the service of CHA there are various other services which are involved like the port services, terminal handling service, cargo handling service, cleaning or fumigation of containers services etc. In most cases, it is the CHA who is dealing with the service providers providing these services on behalf of their customer.
In continuation of previous articles, elaborating the difficulties in getting the refund claim under different services, we in this article are unveiling the problems existing in the Service tax refund mechanism under Services of purchase or sale of foreign currency, including money changing provided to an exporter in relation to export goods (Section 65(105)(zm)) & (Section 65(105)(zzk)) and (i) Services provided in relation to collection of export bills, (ii) Services provided in relation to export letters of credit such as advising commission, advising amendment, confirmation charges (Section 65(105)(zm)).
