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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% ...
Here We Mention the following Due dates, Interest Clause, Penalty Clause and other useful Notifications (Covered Notification No. 30/2020 to Notification No. 36/2020) which are very useful for the purpose of GST Return Filling and other GST Compliances. A. New Dates for Filling of GSTR-3B T/o in last FY Interest Charged February 20 March 20 […]
Recently the decision of the Advance Rulings Authority of Rajasthan gave its decision in the case of Clay Craft India Pvt. Ltd. – Advance Ruling No. RAJ/AAR/2019-20/33 which has created a ripple in the hitherto sound understanding and for that matter taking for granted that Directors Remuneration is Equivalent to Salary paid to an Employee […]
As per Entry 6 of Notification 13/2017 dated June 28, 2017 provides for RCM implications on the services rendered by the director of a company or body corporate to the said company or body corporate thereby creating an onus on the company to pay taxes under RCM on the said services supplied by directors. As per this entry director remuneration is liable to GST under RCM but there are some exceptions which are stated in Schedule III of CGST Act.
1. Introduction: Remuneration/dividend paid to directors/shareholders has always been a subject of ambiguity under any taxation law. Deemed dividend is a topic of ambiguity under the Income Tax Act, 1961 and applicability of GST as per reverse charge on remuneration paid to directors have been a topic of ambiguity under the erstwhile Service Tax Law […]
GST Refund vis-à-vis temporary GST registration-CBIC had mentioned 12 categories (one being residuary category) under which refund application has to be filed electronically. One such situation is ‘refund on account of assessment/appeal/any other order’. To file an online refund application, a person must have a GST registration in a state where he/she seeks the refund. However, there are cases when the department granted temporary registration to a person in a state where he/she does not carry out any business. Let us first examine the Rule 16 which is related to suo moto registration.
Section 17(5) deals with blocked credit in GST. It enlists various circumstances under which the Input Tax Credit shall not be allowed to the Recipient irrespective of Section 16(1) & 18(1) of Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017. Sub-Section(c) & (d) of section 17(5) deal with blocked credit relating to Works Contract Services and […]
Section 35(6) could have been invoked if the GST authorities would have conducted a search and found unaccounted stock. Since the search was conducted by the income tax authorities and now for the purpose of GST the registered person is himself recording the unaccounted stock therefore the provisions of 35(6) are not attracted.
Bunching of GSt refund claims across Financial Years: i) At the outset, provisions under GST didn’t allowed taxpayer for clubbing of tax period across financial years for claiming refund application. (Say application from Jan’2018 to Dec’ 2018 cannot be filled since it is crossing two financial year.) The same stand was taken in master circular dated 18th Nov 2019 vide Para no. 8.
Taxability of gift vouchers / prepaid vouchers has always been a contentious issue in our country, where in fact the Supreme Court has also been referred to multiple times to clear the indirect tax position. Since these issues were raised under the different erstwhile indirect tax laws in the country, the GST Act was designed since inception to include and clarify the intention of the Revenue for taxing such transactions under the new single indirect taxation regime
Issue involved: Remuneration paid to director to attract GST under RCM. Rajasthan bench of the AAR in the case of Clay Craft India Pvt. Ltd Fact of the case: M/s Clay Craft India Pvt. Ltd is already paying GST by way of RCM on the commission paid to its Director. It filed an application before […]
