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Goods and Services Tax : This article explains the extent of the burden of proof under Section 155 of the CGST Act. The key takeaway is that recipients mus...
Goods and Services Tax : Dual Control Without Coordination: How CGST–SGST Jurisdiction Gaps Are Trapping Taxpayers in Parallel Proceedings Overview One o...
Goods and Services Tax : The debate over mandatory pre-deposit in GST penalty-only proceedings has gained momentum after the Finance Act, 2025 amendment. C...
Goods and Services Tax : The article examines whether automated interest notices for FY 2019–20 can survive after limitation under Section 73 has expired...
Goods and Services Tax : The Court held that absence of lorry receipts or weighment slips, by itself, cannot justify denial of Input Tax Credit when invoic...
Goods and Services Tax : Stakeholders identified persistent issues in GST registration, cancellations, and refund processing affecting MSMEs. The consultat...
CA, CS, CMA : CAAS suggested that while favourable outcomes may be automated, adverse actions should require a named officer's approval supporte...
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 Telangana High Court granted bail to an accused in a Rs.30 crore fake GST ITC case after noting that no complaint had been fil...
Goods and Services Tax : Considering Clauses 7 and 7.1 of the 2022 Circular, the Court found that the amount in question appeared to be compensation rather...
Goods and Services Tax : The Allahabad High Court held that GST appellate authorities cannot dismiss appeals solely on limitation without examining the act...
Goods and Services Tax : The Punjab and Haryana High Court directed the competent authority to decide a representation alleging fraudulent GST record manip...
Goods and Services Tax : The Karnataka High Court set aside a GST adjudication order after finding that the authority incorrectly stated that no reply had ...
Goods and Services Tax : GSTAT Mumbai Bench has officially commenced functioning, making it mandatory for taxpayers within its jurisdiction to file appeals...
Goods and Services Tax : The Committee recommended replacing daily cause lists with weekly schedules and permitting supplementary lists when necessary. The...
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% ...
A. General conditions for claiming refund As per section 54(4), the application shall be accompanied by— (a) documentary evidence to establish that a refund is due to the applicant; and (b) such documentary or other evidence to establish that the amount of tax etc. was collected from, or paid by applicant and the incidence of it had not been passed on to any other person.
The issues with the GST acceptance are mainly about safeguarding the powers of states in taxation matters. Since the indirect taxes are major source of revenue for state governments so any change in this tax structure can impact the state governments adversely.
The concept of GST was first mooted in the year 2000 by the Vajpayee Government. To formulate the modality of the same, the Kelkar Task Force on Fiscal Consolidation was constituted. Under the present NDA Government on the eve of 8th September, 2016
Festival season is again around the corner, promotional offers would be very common sights in the marketplaces. These promotional schemes are employed as an effective sales strategy to woo the customer for buying their products.
The GST law contains a unique provision on anti-profiteering measure as a deterrent for trade and industry to enjoy unjust enrichment in terms of profit arising out of implementation of Goods and Services Tax in India, i.e., anti-profiteering measure would obligate the businesses to pass on the cost benefit arising out of GST implementation to their customers.
Touted as India’s most radical tax reform since liberalism in 1991, the Indian GST regime intends to subsume almost all the previous central and state indirect taxes into it, thereby relieving the households and investors of the complicated tax regime.
Traditionally an E-Way Bill is considered as a document issued by a carrier giving details relating to a shipment of consignment of goods, also the names of consignor and consignee, the points of origin and destination and in some cases the route. With igitalization the Electronic Way Bills have come into vogue.
As we are aware of our evolution of Indian Indirect Tax starting from Excise Duty, Customs Duty, Sales Tax, VAT, Service Tax wherein, an industry/ organization were having different specialized professions/ people being allocated with different Indirect Tax compliances
In this essay, I have tried to explain the role of GST council in relation to the state autonomy. This essay deals with the four major elements of the topic. Firstly, the historic perspective in respect to the Constitution of India, secondly a basic brief about GST and why such tax regime is needed.
After long years of battle GST has finally been introduced on July 1st, 2017. GST bill is focused to remove tax barriers between states and creates a single market i.e. One nation One Tax. In the pre-gst regime, multiple indirect taxes were levied by centre as well as state governments.
