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Goods and Services Tax : Discover the key decisions from the 53rd GST Council Meeting held on 22nd June 2024, including compliance measures, tax clarificat...
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Goods and Services Tax : CBIC issues guidelines for initiating recovery proceedings before three months of the demand order service, ensuring revenue prote...
Goods and Services Tax : Explore the robust growth in GST collection for FY 2023-24, crossing Rs. 20 lakh crore, reflecting economic resilience and improve...
Goods and Services Tax : April, 2023 has registered a revenue collection (GST) at Rs. 187 lakh crore, which is the highest ever since introduction of GST i...
Goods and Services Tax : GST book on ‘Assessment, Adjudication, Demand & Recovery’ provides a one point lucid guide which is an easy to und...
Finance : A realistic consequence of COVID pendamic could be counted in terms of loss of jobs, stagnant or reduced employment opportunities,...
Goods and Services Tax : New Book on GST Namely Compendium of Judicial Pronouncements (Relevant under GST Regime) Authored by Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal and publi...
Service Tax : Explore exemption under Entry No. 14 for machining of rails in case of Voestalpine VAE VKN India Pvt. Ltd. vs. Commissioner of Cen...
Goods and Services Tax : AAAR held that supply of coaching service by the appellant along with supply of goods/printed material/test papers, uniform, bags ...
Goods and Services Tax : Chandra Prakash Mishra Vs Flipkart India Private Limited & Ors. (Supreme Court of India) In Chandra Prakash Mishra v. Flipkart...
Goods and Services Tax : In re Resonance Eduventures Limited (GST AAR Rajasthan) The order is important as it contradicts its own ruling in Symmetric Infra...
Goods and Services Tax : In re Symmetric Infrastructure Private Limited (GST AAR Rajasthan) Q.1 Applicant supplies services of coaching to students which a...
The term ‘supply’ has been defined to mean the same as defined in section 3 of the CGST Act which provides for meaning and scope of supply.This section provides for the meaning and scope of supply of goods and services. There is no concept of supply of goods and services in the present law. In the proposed law, supply of goods or services shall include the following:
The scope of IGST Model is that Centre would levy IGST which would be CGST plus SGST on all inter-State transactions of taxable goods and services with appropriate provision for consignment or stock transfer of goods and services. The inter-State seller will pay IGST on value addition after adjusting available credit of IGST, CGST, and SGST on his purchases.
(i) Where a taxable service is exempt under any notification / special order or Service Tax is otherwise not payable, such service shall be exempt from levy of whole of KKC. (ii) KKC shall be leviable only on that portion / percentage of taxable service which is subject to Service Tax after availing abatement under Notification No. 26/2012-ST dated 20.06.2012. (iii) Value of taxable services for the purpose of KKC shall be determined as per Service Tax (Determination of value) Rules, 2016.
In one of the recent judgments of Delhi High Court (Division Bench), the court while disposing the WP(C) No. 2235/2011 and WP(C)2971/2011 in the matter of Suresh Kumar Bansal and Anuj Goyal v. Union of India has held that Service Tax on flats can not be levied on composite contracts.
it has been notified that w.e.f. 1.6.2016, wherever reverse charge mechanism is applicable in terms of Notification No. 30/2012-ST dated 20.06.2012, the same (reverse charge) shall be applicable mutatis mutandis for the purpose of Krishi Kalyan Cess.
Vide Notification No, 9/2016-ST dated 1.3.2016, w.e.f. 1.3.2016, following services provided by Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) shall be exempt –Services provided by the Indian Institutes of Management, as per the guidelines of the Central Government, to their students, by way of the following educational programmes, except Executive Development Programme, –
Finance Bill, 2016 has introduced clause (j) as one of the declared services. Accordingly ‘assignment by the Government of the right to use the radio-frequency spectrum and subsequent transfers thereof’ has been declared as a service w.e.f. enactment of Finance Act, 2016.
According to the report of the Task Force on GST, 13th Finance Commission (2009), it had recommended that adoption of the IGST Model for implementation with the caveat that a ‘strong IT infrastructure and complete information of the interstate transactions is a precondition and essential prerequisite for considering the IGST model. Without addressing these fundamental concerns of IT infrastructure and information support systems, the adoption of IGST model which is still at a conceptual stage is far from realistic at this stage in adoption of GST in the course of interstate transaction in goods and GST for the nation’.
In view of the concern over pollution and traffic situation in Indian cities, a cess called infrastructure cess of 1 percent has been levied w.e.f. 01.03.2016 on small petrol, LPG, CNG vehicles laws, 2.5 percent on diesel cars of specified capacity and 4 percent on other higher engine capacity vehicles and SUVs.
Union Budget for F.Y. 2016-17 is a complete miss so far as Goods and Services Tax is concerned, more so when everyone was expecting some announcement on GST in this Budget. The Budget speech in its opening paragraphs highlights the achievements of last three years including economic consolidation, growth and other strengths besides counting on the failures of previous Government but it lacks direction, vision, seriousness and commitment towards migrating to GST.
