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In first week of December 2015, the draft GST law was published on the web portals of few State Governments. In this article, the author has tried to decode the provisions of valuation in the draft GST law.
The Committee headed by the Chief Economic Adviser Dr. Arvind Subramanian , had given its recommendations to the Finance Minister last week, recommending a four-tier rate structure wherein some essential items will be taxed at 12%, gold and precious metals at 2-6%, some so-called sin or demerit goods like luxury cars and tobacco products at 40% and most goods and all services at 17-18%.
It is easy to overlook how ambitious the Indian GST will be, and a cross-country comparison highlights the magnitude of ambition. According to the World Bank (2015), over 160 countries have some form of value added tax (VAT), which is what the GST is. But the ambition of the Indian GST experiment is revealed by a comparison with the other large federal systems European Union, Canada, Brazil, Indonesia, China and Australia–that have a VAT (the United States does not have a VAT).
In the present scenario service tax is levied on service which is governed by Chapter V of Finance Act, 1994. It states that Service tax is consumption based tax and for the purpose of determining the place where service has been consumed Place of Provision of Service Rules, 2012 are to be referred.
Yesterday, few of the private tax web portals published the copy of the draft GST law. Though the authenticity of the same is yet to be vetted by the Government officials, meanwhile, in the following paras the author has tried to decipher the proposed GST law.
If anything has been associated from the starting with Implementation of Goods and Services Tax in India, it has been Revenue Neutral Rate in GST and its Impact. Till today also, if we have to name the biggest hurdle in the implementation of GST in India, it’s the consensus over the Revenue Neutral Rate.
This analysis is all about impact of GST (Goods and Services Tax) on Indian economy in terms of job market. Before analyzing impact of GST on economy, we will have look on background and need of GST for India. Despite the success of VAT, there are still certain shortcomings in the structure of VAT, Both at the Centre and at the State level.
This act may be called the Central GST Act, 2016 (CGST) / State GST Act, 2016 (SGST). It extends to the whole India. In case of SGST, to the respective state. CGST/SGST will be levied on all intra-state supplies of goods/ services. Goods mean every kind of moveable property other than actionable claim and money but includes securities, growing crops, grass and things attached to or forming part of the land which are agreed to be served before supply of under the contract of supply.
Bracing to roll out the new Indirect tax regime — Goods and Services Tax (GST) from April 1, 2016, the Central Government on June 17, 2015 announced the setting up of two Committees to suggest tax GST rates and to look into IT preparedness for GST. The Government has entrusted Chief Economic Advisor, Dr. Arvind Subramanian—head of one of the two panels—with the task of proposing a Revenue Neutral Rate (RNR), or a rate at which there will be no revenue loss to States under the proposed GST regime.
Committee headed by the Chief Economic Adviser Dr. Arvind Subramanian on Possible Tax rates under GST submits its Report to the Finance Minister; On the Revenue Neutral Rate (RNR), the Committee recommends the same in the range between 15 percent and 15.5 percent (Centre and states combined) with a preference for the lower end of […]
