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Goods and Services Tax : The Court held that damages paid under an arbitral award do not qualify as consideration for a taxable service under GST. The ruli...
Goods and Services Tax : The article examines whether authorities can retain a redemption fine under Section 130 after setting aside the penalty. The key t...
Goods and Services Tax : The Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime in India aims to establish a transparent and efficient indirect tax system. Despite the se...
Goods and Services Tax : This article explains the legal significance of a Show Cause Notice under GST and why it forms the foundation of adjudication proc...
Goods and Services Tax : The article explains that taxpayers with orders communicated before 1 April 2026 must file GSTAT appeals by 30 June 2026 to preser...
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 Supreme Court permitted the appeal to be entertained without pre-deposit after noting that the appealable order predated the a...
Goods and Services Tax : The High Court held that the issue requires consideration where the show cause notice preceded the amendment. It granted interim r...
Goods and Services Tax : The issue involved rejection of a delayed revocation application for cancelled GST registration. The Telangana High Court held tha...
Goods and Services Tax : The issue involved delay in disposal of a rectification application filed against a GST order. The Telangana High Court directed t...
Goods and Services Tax : The issue was whether a taxpayer could directly invoke writ jurisdiction claiming that a GST show cause notice and order were mere...
Goods and Services Tax : GSTAT instructed scrutiny officers not to raise defects where appellants have uploaded the required documents in prescribed form. ...
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...
I must share certain pathetic situations of corporates which i came across while rendering ex-parte counsel opinions in last 5-6 months on certain already implemented process of GST in different organisations including anti-profiteering on regular basis.
Input Service Distributor (ISD) means an office of the supplier of goods or services or both which receives tax invoices towards receipt of input services and issues a prescribed document for the purposes of distributing the credit of central tax (CGST)
Taxpayers are advised to file for Core Amendment or Non-Core Amendment one at a time. Once the first amendment is reflected in your Registration Certificate on the GST Portal, only then you are advised to file the second amendment.
Taxpayers who are not able to file for ITC 04 in spite of downloading new version of Offline tool, are advised to: 1. Uninstall the old version of offline tool 2. Reboot the system and then download 3. Install new version of offline tool (Version 1.1)
Recently, following new functionalities were made available on GST portal for you as on 04.01.2018: A) Registration: Form for application of cancellation of registration by (new) taxpayer, is now available on GST portal (see rule 20 of the CGST rules, 2017). B) Returns: a) Taxpayers has been provided facility to give details of supplies made […]
I am a single truck owner-operator and I ply my truck mostly between States, carrying the goods booked for my truck by an agent; aggregate value of service which I provided exceeded twenty lakh rupees during last year. Am I supposed to take registration?
The common errors while submitting FORM GSTR-3B and the steps needed to be taken to rectify the same in FORM GSTR-1 are provided in the table annexed herewith. The corresponding column in the table provides the steps to be followed by taxpayer to rectify such error: Scenario GSTR-3B (Return Filed) Changes in FORM GSTR-1 Refer […]
It has been decided that one representative of the rank of Commissioner or above from every zone shall attend every GST Council Meeting. In this regard Commissioner (GST) has already issued a letter dated 2nd January 2018.
Refund refers to an amount that is due to the tax payer from the tax administration. According to section 54 of the CGST Act, 2017, any person claiming refund of any tax and interest, if any, paid on such tax or any other amount paid by him, may make an application before the expiry of two years from the relevant date.
Assessment means determining tax liability under the CGST Act, 2017 and includes the following types of assessment Self Assessment, Provisional Assessment, Reassessment on Scrutiny, Best judgement Assessment-non filers of return, Assessment of unregistered persons, Summary assessment on evidence