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Goods and Services Tax : The guide explains that GST registration certificates are available only through the GST Portal and must be downloaded manually. I...
Goods and Services Tax : From 22 September 2025, accommodation below ₹7,500 per day attracts 5% GST without ITC instead of 12%. The change aims to reduce...
Fema / RBI : The article explains RBI’s decision to reduce the export proceeds realization period from 15 months to 9 months and its impact o...
Goods and Services Tax : This guide explains the fundamentals of GST, including CGST, SGST, IGST, and UTGST. It also highlights how these classifications i...
CA, CS, CMA : GST disputes are increasing, creating substantial opportunities for Chartered Accountants in audits, adjudication, appeals, and ta...
Goods and Services Tax : Haryana recorded the highest State GST growth rate in India at 22% in May 2026. The achievement is attributed to strong tax admini...
Goods and Services Tax : Practitioners are reportedly following different methods while completing GSTAT appeal forms because of inadequate guidance. The r...
Goods and Services Tax : The certificate clarifies that dealing and investment in securities are outside the scope of GST. Companies engaged solely in secu...
Goods and Services Tax : Representation addressed to Union Finance Minister, GST Council and CBIC seeks legislative and administrative relief for bona fide...
Goods and Services Tax : Authorities uncovered fraudulent ITC claims based on fake invoices without actual supply of goods or services. The accused was arr...
Goods and Services Tax : The Gauhati High Court directed authorities to consider restoration of GST registration after the taxpayer filed pending returns a...
Goods and Services Tax : The Tribunal held that procurement strategy, supplier oversight, and sourcing support formed part of a substantive procurement ser...
Goods and Services Tax : The Court observed that the documents produced indicated a sale of immovable property, which is not subject to GST. The matter was...
Goods and Services Tax : The Madras High Court remitted Section 74A GST orders for fresh adjudication after taxpayers argued that their replies to DRC-01 n...
Goods and Services Tax : The Madras High Court held that GST authorities cannot issue a single show cause notice covering multiple financial years. The Cou...
Goods and Services Tax : GSTN has postponed the implementation of mandatory "Ship To GSTIN" capture and voluntary E-Way Bill closure to 1 August 2026. The ...
Corporate Law : The 2026 amendments significantly expand disclosure requirements for operational creditors and corporate applicants. The changes a...
Goods and Services Tax : Gross GST collections reached ₹1.94 lakh crore in May 2026, registering 3.2% growth. The increase was driven largely by a 19.1% ...
Goods and Services Tax : The West Bengal GST Department ruled that intra-State movement of goods related to job work remains exempt from e-way bill generat...
Goods and Services Tax : GSTN has announced mandatory capture of Ship-To GSTIN in Bill-To/Ship-To transactions under the EWB system. The change aims to imp...
Principal Commissioner of Customs Vs M. D. Overseas Limited (CESTAT Delhi) In this case Commissioner of Customs (Appeals) had set aside the Assessment Order (AO) passed on the three Bills of Entry (BoE) with a further direction for re-assessment of the rate of Basic Customs Duty applicable on the given BoE to the Department. M/s M. […]
Demand undertaking from your supplier of goods or services for filing of GSTR-1/IFF within due date under GST Act, 2017 As per Notification No. 49/2019 issued dated 9th October, 2019, Input Tax credit can be claimed in the month in which suppliers has filed the respective GSTR-1/IFF return and if duly reflected in GSTR 2A/B […]
Brief background: As per GST law, every person is required to get registered under this law if his activity falls within the ambit as provided under chapter VI ‘Registration’ of the CGST Act, 2017. Now, if such registered person is now no longer required to be registered under GST law, same may (optional/voluntarily) apply for […]
According to the provisions of IndAS, indirect taxes like sales tax, VAT, GST etc. that are recovered by the supplier from his customer should not form part of the supplier’s turnover as the tax is collected by the supplier on behalf of third parties. But in the opinion of the author, for reasons explained below, […]
The Hon’ble Uttarakhand Authority for Advance Rulings (UAAR), in the matter of M/s. Midas Foods (P.) Ltd. [Application No. 05 of 2020-21 dated October 15, 2020], held that Overseas Commission Agent is covered within the definition of the term ‘intermediary’ under Section 2(13) of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (the IGST Act). […]
AAAR held that the private coaching institutions imparting education to students facilitating them to obtain qualification like CA,CS, CMA etc., are not covered under the definition of ‘educational institution’ in para 2(y) of the Services Exemption Notification No. 12/2017- Central Tax (Rate) dated June 28, 2017 and hence not eligible to exemption under CGST Act.
The Hon’ble Madras High Court in Greenwood Owners Association v. Union of India [ W.P. Nos. 5518 and 1555 of 2020 dated July 01, 2021] held that contribution by the members of the Resident Welfare Association (RWA) only in excess of Rs. 7500/- per month per member would be taxable under the Goods and Services […]
True tests for determining Composite & Mixed Supply under GST laws including analysis of position under foreign laws Introduction To determine whether a particular supply is a composite supply or mixed supply, we have to analyze the definition of composite supply and mixed supply. Composite Supply Definition As per Section 2(30) of CGST Act, 2017, […]
Advisory on GSTR1 Filing (11th August 2021) Currently, the Taxpayers are seeing the below statuses for GSTR1, after uploading of JSON file from the of Tool: 1. Processed with Error or 2. In Progress This is due to the fact that many offline utilities used by Taxpayers are not filling the Table 12-HSN wise summary […]
1. Availing ITC: Crediting the ITC in Electronic Credit Ledger is availing ITC. Crediting ITC to credit ledger results in to ITC availed. 2. Utilization of ITC: Debiting the ITC in the Electronic Credit Ledger is utilization of ITC. Debiting ITC results in to ITC utilized. 3. Interest under section 50: Wrong credit taken i.e […]
