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Goods and Services Tax : Explains why liquidated damages are generally not subject to GST unless linked to a supply. Highlights the importance of distingui...
Goods and Services Tax : The Court ruled that ITC on GIDC charges is allowable where no construction is involved. It also held that Section 74 proceedings ...
CA, CS, CMA : The update discusses GST rulings on ITC and refunds, income tax relief interpretations, and insolvency reforms. It also covers dis...
Goods and Services Tax : The court held that recovery cannot proceed against a legal heir without determining liability under Section 93, reinforcing due p...
Goods and Services Tax : The comparison shows how large-scale frauds go undetected for years while professionals face immediate coercive action. Courts hav...
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 : The case highlights that summons lacking details of the underlying inquiry violate procedural fairness. It underscores the need fo...
Goods and Services Tax : CBI arrested GST officials for demanding a bribe to facilitate registration approval. The case highlights strict enforcement again...
Goods and Services Tax : The court held that an adjudication order passed without considering the taxpayer’s reply is unsustainable. It remitted the matt...
Goods and Services Tax : The Court held that a single show cause notice covering multiple assessment years is not legally sustainable. Authorities were per...
Goods and Services Tax : The ruling highlights that ignoring a taxpayer’s additional reply and request for hearing renders the order unsustainable. The c...
Goods and Services Tax : The court held that the revised 18% GST rate is applicable, but deferred recovery of the 6% differential tax as reimbursement from...
Goods and Services Tax : The Court removed the requirement to verify “authorized operations” for earlier transactions, holding that the condition was i...
Goods and Services Tax : The GST portal launches an Excel-based IMS Offline Tool to help taxpayers efficiently manage and process invoices. It enables bulk...
Goods and Services Tax : CBIC extends due date for filing March 2026 GSTR-3B to April 21, 2026, for registered persons under Section 39 of the CGST Act....
Goods and Services Tax : GSTN clarified that system-calculated interest for February 2026 was incorrectly reflected in March returns due to a technical iss...
Goods and Services Tax : GSTN has enabled editing of the pre-deposit percentage in APL-01 filings. The change allows taxpayers flexibility, while verificat...
Goods and Services Tax : Taxpayers faced issues filing appeals where adjudication orders showed zero demand. GSTN clarified that such system limitations re...
The Hon’ble Calcutta High Court in the case of M/s LGW Industries Limited & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors., (WPA No.23512 of 2019) vide its judgment dated 13th December’2021 has remanded the matter back to the GST authorities to consider afresh the cases of the petitioners on the issue of their entitlement of […]
Since the amount received in the form of credit note is actually a discount and not a supply by the applicant to the supplier, no GST is leviable on receiver on cash discount/incentive/schemes offered by the supplier to applicant through credit note against supply without adjustment of GST.
New Functionalities made available for Taxpayers on GST Portal in December, 2021 New Functionalities made available for Taxpayers for the Month of December, 2021 on GST Portal related to Changes in Form GSTR-1/IFF, Creation of My Masters facility in Form GSTR-1/IFF, Allowing entry of suspended GSTINs as recipients in Form GSTR 1/IFF (B2B Tables), Integration […]
Vageesh Umesh Jaiswal Vs State of Gujarat (Gujarat High Court) The whole object of issuing a show-cause notice is to make the recipient of the notice understand what the authority is trying to convey and what are the nature of the allegations. In the case on hand, when there are allegations of bogus billing, it […]
A revamped & enhanced version of Search HSN Functionality has been launched on the GST Portal. The Search HSN functionality was earlier given as a measure of facilitation to the taxpayer to search the Technical Description of any particular HSN code of any goods and/or service used in the Trade, vis-a-vis HSN description in the Customs Tariff […]
South Gujarat Textile Processors Association Vs Union of India (Gujarat High Court) 1. The draft amendment, as prayed for, is allowed. The necessary incorporation shall be carried out at the earliest. 2. We have heard Mr. S.S. Iyer, the learned counsel appearing for the writ applicants and Mr. Lodha, the learned standing counsel appearing for […]
GSTR-2A has been removed from the GST Portal for the month of January 2022 and onwards, only GSTR-2B shall be available. GSTR-2A till December 2021 shall be available. Vide Notification No. 40/2021-Central Tax dated 29th December, 2021. Form GSTR-2A is a system generated Statement of Inward Supplies for a recipient. Form GSTR-2A will be generated […]
To comply with the section 101A of Insurance Act, an insurance company must re-insure a specific proportion of the sum assured with another insurance company, commonly known as a “re-insurer”. A certain amount of re-insurance commission is kept by the insurer for this reason, which is termed as “Cession of Re-insurance Commission”. It is imperative to note that IRDAI’s […]
Our attention has been drawn to a recent pronouncement of this High Court in the case of Dharamshil Agencies vs. Union of India, Special Civil Application No.8255 of 2019 decided on 23.07.2021 wherein a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court observed that the exercise of pre-consultation should not be a mere eye-wash. Pre-consulation should be meaningful.
The levying of tax is done on both direct taxes and indirect taxes by both State and Central Government. Thus, to forgo the tediousness and to have a unified law by subsuming duties levied on services such as ‘custom duty, excise duty, service tax, sales tax, VAT’ the central government came up with Goods and Service Tax.
