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Highlights of first meeting of the GST Council held on 23rd September 2016. 1. GST threshold limit to be kept at ₹ 20 lakhs for all states barring the north-east and hill-area states, for which limit been fixed at Rs. 10 Lakh. Threshold limit of Rs. 10 lakhs to be applicable in respect to following […]
The concept of ‘supply’ is the key stone of the proposed GST architecture. GST is a multi-stage tax levied on supply of goods and / or services, collected at each stage of the production and distribution, in proportion to the value added by each taxable person in the chain of supply.
Registration of any business entity under Model GST Law implies obtaining a unique number from the concerned tax authorities so that all the operations of and data relating to the business can be processed and agglomerated in seamless manner with a view to allow smooth flow of Input Tax Credit and also ultimately flow of fund in inter sate transactions.
The legal and conceptual foundations of the Goods and Services Tax have thus been laid out. The power to levy GST is drawn from Article 246A proposed in the Constitutional Amendment Act. In pursuance of the same Section 7 of the CGST / SGST Act and Section 4 of the IGST Act levy the respective taxes also determining the incidence of the respective taxes therein.
Every Supplier shall be liable to be registered under GST Act if -his aggregate turnover in a financial year exceeds the THRESHOLD Limit -registered or who holds a license under an earlier law e.g. State Vat, Service Tax, Excise Duty etc. -liable to be registered under Compulsory Registration
Interest is a consideration for allowing someone to use your money. It could be termed as Compensation paid to one who allows his money to be used by another person. This is a common understanding and no big brains are required to understand this proposition.
Taxable person would therefore, cover both – one who are registered as taxable person under the Act and two, persons who are not so registered but required to be so registered. Thus, even unregistered person would be called a taxable person liable as such under the Act.
Q 1. What are the basic objective of Settlement Commission? Ans. The basic objectives of setting up of the Settlement Commission are:- i. to provide an alternate channel for dispute resolution for the taxpayer; ii. to expedite payment of GST involved in disputes by avoiding costly and time consuming litigation process; iii. to provide an opportunity to tax payers to come clean who may have evaded payment of tax;
The journey to rollout the Goods and Services Tax (GST) has commenced with the enactment of the 101st Constitution Amendment Act, 2016 on 8th September, 2016 and the subsequent notifications. The Government is committed and has set in motion a slew of steps to ensure that the GST conies into force from 1st of April, 2017. In this backdrop, the role of CBEC is of utmost significance and importance.
The Goods and Service Tax is a levy on supply. All intra-states supplies attract Central and State GST whereas all the inter states supplies attract IGST. Hence, Supply is at the root of GST. This is our second article in the series wherein we discuss on the term supply and its relevance in current tax structure.
