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Goods and Services Tax : The article explains how GST composition scheme, exemption rules, and time of supply provisions work in practice. It highlights co...
Goods and Services Tax : The GST Invoice Management System (IMS) promises stronger ITC reconciliation, fraud prevention, and invoice-level transparency. Ho...
CA, CS, CMA : The article summarizes important notifications, circulars, judicial rulings, and regulatory changes issued between 11–17 May 202...
Goods and Services Tax : The article examines how denying ITC to genuine buyers due to supplier tax default creates constitutional and commercial concerns ...
Goods and Services Tax : This article discusses GST compliance for service providers eligible for the QRMP scheme up to ₹5 crore turnover. It clarifies w...
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 : Authorities uncovered fraudulent ITC claims based on fake invoices without actual supply of goods or services. The accused was arr...
Goods and Services Tax : The representation highlights ambiguity in whether the ₹2.5 crore ITC threshold should be annual or cumulative. It emphasizes th...
Goods and Services Tax : Authorities arrested the key accused for orchestrating fake ITC claims and fictitious export transactions. The case highlights str...
Goods and Services Tax : Authorities uncovered fraudulent ITC claims exceeding ₹8 crore without actual supply of goods. The ruling highlights that ITC is...
Goods and Services Tax : Gujarat High Court upheld confiscation proceedings under Section 130 after noting that goods were transported without an e-way bil...
Goods and Services Tax : The Andhra Pradesh High Court held that GST recovery proceedings under Section 79 can be initiated against a bank after an assessm...
Goods and Services Tax : The Allahabad High Court considered a challenge to amended CGST provisions restricting ITC despite valid invoices and payment of t...
Goods and Services Tax : Kerala High Court ruled that authorities must determine both whether the payment amounts to a supply under Section 7(1) and whethe...
Goods and Services Tax : High Court ruled that a GST order could not survive where SCN did not specify date, time, or venue for personal hearing. Judgment ...
Goods and Services Tax : The GST Appellate Tribunal issued a detailed order constituting benches across India and classifying GST disputes into three categ...
Goods and Services Tax : The Principal Bench of GSTAT instructed scrutiny officers not to raise defects where appellants upload required soft copy document...
Goods and Services Tax : The Central Government amended Notification No. 14/2018-UT Tax by replacing officials listed against Serial No. 2. The notificatio...
Goods and Services Tax : The Central Government has authorized the GSTAT Principal Bench, New Delhi, to hear appeals under Section 101B of the CGST Act. Th...
Goods and Services Tax : The data highlights a sharp increase in GST collections driven by import-related IGST. It confirms strong revenue performance and ...
The GST Bill was passed in accordance with the provisions of Article 368 of the Constitution, and must be ratified by more than half of the State Legislatures, as required under Clause (2) of the said article. On 12 August 2016, Assam became the first state to ratify the bill, when the Assam Leglisative Assembly unanimously ratified it.
According, to model IGST law, IGST shall mean the tax levied under the IGST act on the supply of any goods and services in the course of inter-state trade or commerce. IGST act shall apply to whole of India.
CBEC has released Format of FORM GST 9A i.e. format of Audit Report under Central/ State Goods and Services Tax Act, 2016 and Central/ State Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2016 and Format of FORM GST ITC – 1C i.e. Input Tax Credit Mismatch Reports for E-commerce Operators.
In the digital era is there anybody who is ready to think out of box and allow the system to work automatically. Can government get out of concept of binding assesse for mandatory filing of returns under new regime of GST and if not complied then heavy penalties can be extracted as in case of Annual Return the penalty could be upto 1/4 % of Turnover (and Turnover is defined to include entire world) and in other cases maximum upto Rs. 5000/-.
It has been informed that all decisions have been made unanimously. However, to our surprise, no formal communication is available in public domain to general public of so called ‘decisions’ of the GST Council. Thus, though we have been hearing about the decisions of GST councils from various mediums, there is no authenticity of the information that can be quoted.
E-Commerce is defined u/s 43B of GST Act as: ‘electronic commerce’ shall mean the supply or receipt of goods and / or services, or transmitting of funds or data, over an electronic network, primarily the internet, by using any of the applications that rely on the internet, like but not limited to e-mail, instant messaging, shopping carts, Web services, Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), whether or not the payment is conducted online and whether or not the ultimate delivery of the goods and/or services is done by the operator.
It is destination based taxation system i.e. goods or services are taxed in the place where they are received or consumed as the case may be. Due to this feature few States did not support the biggest ever indirect tax reform due to loss of revenue to State Government. Concept of Supply – It includes all forms of supply and/or services such as sale, transfer, barter, exchange, license, rental, lease or disposal made or agreed to be made for a consideration by a person in course of business. It also includes import of services with or without consideration and also includes supplies specified in Schedule I of GST Act.
1) Every registered taxable person required to furnish the details: (a) of outward supplies of goods and/or services effected during a tax period under sub-section (1) of section 25; and (b) of outward supplies of goods and/or services effected during an earlier tax period under sub-section (2) of section 25
Any registered taxable person, except the persons covered by notification issued under clause (d) of sub-section (6) of section 38, claiming refund of any tax, interest, penalty, fees or any other amount paid by him, may file an application in FORM GST RFD-1 electronically through the Common Portal either directly or from a Facilitation Centre, notified by the Board or Commissioner
In GST we are going towards old regime of excise/Vat registration in which physical verification of business premises is required. Under current Service Tax Registration process, requirement of physical verification of business premises is not required.
