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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 : A GST Bar Association has sought a three-month extension for filing GSTAT appeals, citing procedural complexities and evolving fil...
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 : 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 : Haryana has directed officers to send GST show cause notices and demand orders by registered or speed post in addition to portal-b...
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 ...
Bringing GST regime into reality, all required steps are being taken up to successfully implement GST from July 1, 2017. Another important step taken up with respect to Registration for GSTP, TDS & e-commerce operators (TCS). Yes, registration for all these are open from June 25, 2017.
Indeed, rolling out of GST from July 1, 2017 is unstoppable. But to provide relief to the taxpayers, GST Council in its latest meeting, extended the time period for filing of return i.e. FORM GSTR-1 & FORM GSTR-2 for the first two months after the roll out of GST.
Need of transitional provisions in GST – Transition provisions take effect during the period between the movements of existing taxation i.e. Central Excise, Service Tax, and Vat and luxury tax etc. and Goods and Services tax. Such provisions are required for the smooth and successfully implementation of GST.
Section 9(4) shall force every service provider who is providing services to business entity to get itself registered even if their turnover do not exceeds Rs. 20 Lakhs. Chartered Accountant, company secretaries and cost accountant will need immediate registration under GST on the first day of start of practice. Even supplier of goods shall come under this section purview.
It may be noted that the GST Act has, instead of providing a mechanism for valuation of land involved in the composite works contract and to reduce the same from the gross consideration, specified reduced tax rate of 12%. It implies that the legislature has assumed the value of land as 33% of the total consideration.
The GST Act will come into force from 1st July 2017. A large number of Tax Payers were not required to take registration as per provisions of VAT Act. Now as per the provisions of GST Act, most of the Tax Payers will be required to take registration under GST Act.
Further, if you become liable to pay tax and apply for same within 30 days then you can take input credit on stock held in trade on the day immediately preceding the day of liable to registration.
This concept is called Reverse Charge. Previously it had a very little scope in Service Tax but in GST it has very wider scope and if a registered person deals with unregistered supplier then the registered person has to raise the invoice and pay the tax on it.
The first aspect to migrate to GST is to take provisional registration currently. This can be done directly by applying for provisional registration through your existing TIN number. There will be one Provisional ID issued for one PAN based registration for each state.
Are you worried about what will happen to the input tax credit [ITC] on your inputs [held as input/ semi-finished goods/ finished goods/capital goods upon transition to GST?
