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Goods and Services Tax : The Court held that cancellation proceedings for Rule 10A violations must be initiated through FORM GST REG-31, which grants thirt...
Goods and Services Tax : The Karnataka AAR held that ITC on statutory canteen services is available only to the extent of expenses actually borne by the em...
Goods and Services Tax : E-commerce sellers generally require GST registration from their very first sale, irrespective of turnover thresholds applicable t...
Goods and Services Tax : The Court held that recovery from third parties cannot be initiated when only a proposed demand exists and no final tax liability ...
Goods and Services Tax : The article explains that ITC eligibility under Section 16 can still be denied by the overriding provisions of Section 17(5). It h...
Goods and Services Tax : The Rajasthan GSTAT Bar has urged the Tribunal to adopt a pragmatic approach by accepting pre-deposits made through the Electronic...
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 : The Court held that writ petitions need not continue once the GSTAT becomes operational and statutory appeal timelines are availab...
Goods and Services Tax : The Authority held that retrospective insertion of Section 16(5) does not permit reclaim of ITC already reversed under earlier rul...
Goods and Services Tax : The Kerala High Court ruled that businesses could distribute common ITC through cross-charge without obtaining ISD registration be...
Goods and Services Tax : The High Court remitted the GST matter for fresh consideration after the taxpayer agreed to deposit 25% of the disputed tax. The C...
Goods and Services Tax : The Uttarakhand High Court held that scheduling a personal hearing before the expiry of the time granted for filing a reply violat...
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...
1. Introduction: Remuneration/dividend paid to directors/shareholders has always been a subject of ambiguity under any taxation law. Deemed dividend is a topic of ambiguity under the Income Tax Act, 1961 and applicability of GST as per reverse charge on remuneration paid to directors have been a topic of ambiguity under the erstwhile Service Tax Law […]
GST Refund vis-à-vis temporary GST registration-CBIC had mentioned 12 categories (one being residuary category) under which refund application has to be filed electronically. One such situation is ‘refund on account of assessment/appeal/any other order’. To file an online refund application, a person must have a GST registration in a state where he/she seeks the refund. However, there are cases when the department granted temporary registration to a person in a state where he/she does not carry out any business. Let us first examine the Rule 16 which is related to suo moto registration.
Section 17(5) deals with blocked credit in GST. It enlists various circumstances under which the Input Tax Credit shall not be allowed to the Recipient irrespective of Section 16(1) & 18(1) of Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017. Sub-Section(c) & (d) of section 17(5) deal with blocked credit relating to Works Contract Services and […]
Section 35(6) could have been invoked if the GST authorities would have conducted a search and found unaccounted stock. Since the search was conducted by the income tax authorities and now for the purpose of GST the registered person is himself recording the unaccounted stock therefore the provisions of 35(6) are not attracted.
Bunching of GSt refund claims across Financial Years: i) At the outset, provisions under GST didn’t allowed taxpayer for clubbing of tax period across financial years for claiming refund application. (Say application from Jan’2018 to Dec’ 2018 cannot be filled since it is crossing two financial year.) The same stand was taken in master circular dated 18th Nov 2019 vide Para no. 8.
Taxability of gift vouchers / prepaid vouchers has always been a contentious issue in our country, where in fact the Supreme Court has also been referred to multiple times to clear the indirect tax position. Since these issues were raised under the different erstwhile indirect tax laws in the country, the GST Act was designed since inception to include and clarify the intention of the Revenue for taxing such transactions under the new single indirect taxation regime
Issue involved: Remuneration paid to director to attract GST under RCM. Rajasthan bench of the AAR in the case of Clay Craft India Pvt. Ltd Fact of the case: M/s Clay Craft India Pvt. Ltd is already paying GST by way of RCM on the commission paid to its Director. It filed an application before […]
1. Recent Advance Ruling Orders on whether GST is payable (under Reverse Charge) on remuneration payable to Directors? Recently Rajasthan Authority for Advance Ruling in the case of M/s Clay Craft India Pvt Ltd (Jaipur) (Order No RAJ/AAR/2019-20/33 dated 20th February, 2020) held that remuneration payable to Directors is taxable and liable to GST under […]
Due to the unprecedented COVID-19 situation at present, GST return filing due dates has been revised in order to give relation to tax payers. The details are being attached for your reference. Amendment in GST Due dates Sr. No Tax Payer Return Type Tax Period Regular Due Dates Revised Due Dates Interest Late Fees & […]
Recently the Authority of Advance Ruling, Rajasthan in the case of Clay Craft India (P) Ltd has passed a ruling that consideration / fees paid to directors will attract Goods and Services Tax under reverse charge vide entry no 6 of notification no 13/2017 Central Tax (rate) dated 28-06-2017.
