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Article 265 of the Constitution of India provides that no tax shall be levied or collected except by the authority of law. Furthermore, insertion of new article 246A makes a clear division of power to make laws with respect to goods and services tax imposed by the Union or by such State, as enumerated in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution
till then there was nobody talking about the Excise Duty and its existence. GST has not yet been rolled out. Even the law is under preparation as yet. Then suddenly on 16.09.2016 what happened that everybody seems to be talking about it.
After the enactment of Constitutional (101st Amendment ) Act, 2016, the hope for advent of GST in India is no distant dream. GST Council has also been notified on September 15, 2016 and thus, the policy formulators have taken their positions as part of this Think-tank and shall be responsible for taking the biggest fiscal decisions of the Country.
The biggest change due to GST regime is the point when GST will be applicable i.e. Supply. First thing to understand before going forward to understand is that GST is a Destination based or consumption based regime of tax against the current Origin based regime.
Under GST regime, levy of IGST on imports would subsume CVD & SAD. Also, it appears that EC & SHEC shall continue to be levied on imports of goods on BCD and other Duties under Customs Act except CVD and SAD which are going to be subsumed under GST.
The proposed GST will cut short the time taken to deliver goods, saving of fuel, saving of additional expenses at check posts due to corruption etc. In this article all the possible opportunities, actions plans to be taken and representation to Govt. authorities on various issues are discussed.
GST is said to be levied on supply in legal words taxable event is supply thereby dispensing with the existing different taxable events for different levies of duties/taxes like Manufacture for levy of excise duty, ‘sale’ for levy of VAT/sales tax etc., Therefore understanding of the expression ‘supply’ is highly important.
Currently, majority mobile handset companies operate from warehouses in every state via stock transfer (through statutory forms) and thereafter sell goods locally to the distributors. This is done with the intention to avoid payment of non-creditable CST and in order to pass the creditable VAT to their distributors
The recent enactment of all sections of Constitutional (101st Amendment) Act, 2016 has triggered a lot of debate all across. Many experts have opined that among other, Section 19 post its enactment has taken away the power of Center to levy and Collect Excise Duty. However, this debate is also to be seen in the following perspective.
The present article deals with the provisions of job work provided under Model GST Law. Let us first take a look at the job work provisions prevailing under current laws and their comparison with Model GST Law in a nutshell;
