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Goods and Services Tax : ECGC payouts in INR do not qualify as export proceeds under GST and FEMA laws. Exporters must secure AD bank write-offs to avoid r...
Goods and Services Tax : The issue was whether unregistered individuals could exercise appellate rights. The Court held that procedural hurdles like absenc...
Goods and Services Tax : The issue was denial of ITC transfer due to different State registrations of entities. The Court ruled that no such restriction ex...
Goods and Services Tax : The issue was delays and inconsistencies in GST fund settlement under the earlier framework. The new rules introduce a fully autom...
Goods and Services Tax : The issue was taxation of intermediary services as domestic supply. The law now treats such services as exports, allowing zero-rat...
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 CBI arrested a CGST Assistant Commissioner for demanding a bribe to halt GST proceedings. The officer was caught red-handed ac...
Goods and Services Tax : The Government reduced GST on paper sacks and bags from 18% to 5% following GST Council recommendations. The move addresses farmer...
CA, CS, CMA : ICAI has recommended mandatory verification of the Certificate of Practice for Chartered Accountants appearing before GSTAT to ens...
Goods and Services Tax : The Government introduced reforms such as e-invoicing and auto-population of data in GST returns. These measures improve accuracy,...
Goods and Services Tax : The Court held that GSTIN cannot be cancelled solely based on supplier irregularities without examining the taxpayer’s transacti...
Corporate Law : The Court held that input tax credit claimed on invoices from non-existent dealers justified penalty under VAT law. It reaffirmed ...
Goods and Services Tax : The Court set aside a show cause notice that combined several financial years into one proceeding. It held that each assessment ye...
Goods and Services Tax : The Court held that each financial year creates a separate cause of action, making a consolidated notice legally unsustainable. It...
Goods and Services Tax : The ruling found that issuing a single notice for multiple tax years violates statutory requirements. The Court quashed the notice...
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...
Goods and Services Tax : Both domestic and import revenues contributed to GST growth, alongside increased refunds. The figures highlight improved tax admin...
Goods and Services Tax : The government introduced new rules replacing the 2017 framework to streamline IGST settlement between Centre and States. The rule...
Goods and Services Tax : Maharashtra Government has extended the time limit to file appeals before the Appellate Tribunal for orders communicated before Ap...
Provision for transfer of unutilized Cenvat Credit by taxable person having centralized registration under the earlier law
The 8th meeting of GSTC held on 3-4 January, 2017concluded without any break through on cross empowerment, territory and compensation issues. The issue of territory was not raised earlier and compensation issue has triggered again as a fall out of demonetization.
Return is an important tool to collect the financial data and other related information, so as to enable the Department to have a concrete database for enforcing the compliance part. Thus, return process has become a powerful tool to implement the ‘data and revenue’ collection system.
It is provided in sub-section (1) that every proceeding of appeal, revision, review or reference relating to a claim for CENVAT credit initiated whether before, on or after the appointed day, under the earlier law shall be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of earlier law
8th two days meeting of GST Council concluded on 4th January 2017 but the contentious issue of tax administration remained un-resolved. Next meet scheduled on Wednesday – 11th Jan 17 to deliberate the same.
Since now the demonitization is finally settled down, the next hot issue shall be the implementation of GST until and unless the BIP government comes out with something new.
The list of the successful and qualified GSPs can be viewed at ww.gstn.org/ecosystem/images/Qualified GSPs.pdf. GSTN congratulates the GSP applicants who have successfully met all the requirements of becoming GSPs.
Enrolment date for the Central Excise assessees and Service Tax assessees have been differently prescribed. GST Migration for Excise assesses to start from 05/01/2017 and Service Tax assesses from 09/01/2017.
Person required to maintain the record- Every registered person under GST Law is required to maintain accounts & records in Manual or Electronic form.
In VAT Law there is provision of TDS in case of work contract in most of the Sates though in Service Tax there is no provision of TDS and TCS
