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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...
The minister added that all the issues, including the GST rate, area-based exemption, slabs in rates will be decided by the GST Council after detailed discussion with the states.
Government is not leaving any stone unturned to roll out the much awaited indirect tax reform from April 1, 2017. In less than a week after the first meeting of GST Council (on September 22-23, 2016), CBEC on September 26, 2016, has unveiled Draft Rules and formats under GST relating to registration, invoice and payment.
1) Return filing process for Normal Assessee: Step 1: Supplier (GSTR-1): Cover all outward supplies effected during/in earlier tax period and submit GSTR-1; Step 2: Recipient (GSTR-2): GSTR-2A (of recipient) shall be auto-generated based on GSTR-1 filed by Supplier;
Case Analyzed:- 1. What is job-work ?Provisions applicable to Job-worker? 2. Analyses the definition of supply in case goods send by the principal to Job-Worker. 3. Analyses situations where the Job –Worker required to take Registration or not. 4. Determination of Aggregate Turnover of the registered Job-Worker.
There are 22 sections under transitional provision of GST Law when all major indirect tax Act’s going to subsumed under the GST Law. This is most important provisions as these are applicable from the appointed day means when the GST Law shall be applicable.
The Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley said that the Government is working on a target date of 1st April, 2017 for the roll out of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the country. He said that till 16th September, 2017, that is one year after the provisions of the Constitution (101st Amendment) Act, 2016 being brought into force
We can see lot of benefits enumerated by Government on ACES portal, newspaper and media. Under simplification benefit, we can observe that In present indirect tax Scenario we have to remember or see various indirect tax laws (mainly Excise , Service Tax, VAT and CST) for dates like due dates of payments of taxes, last date of filing returns, last date of revision of returns, due date of audit etc for escaping from various penalties provisions.
Smooth implementation of GST requires many enabling conditions. One of them is to enable IT firms which supply tax accounting software to taxpayers and tax professionals. In this regard, Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), which has developed GST software for Government
As per sub-section (1) of section 19, every person who is liable to be registered under Schedule III of the Act shall apply for registration within thirty days from the date on which he become liable to registration but if the person is registered under an earlier law, it shall not be necessary for him to apply for fresh registration except in case of Input Service Distributor under this section.
As a step towards implementation of GST in India, the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has released the Draft Goods and Services Tax Rules (GST Rules) on the public domain recently. Along with GST Rules, CBEC has also released draft formats of the various Forms mentioned in the said Rules.
