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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...
Will anything and everything, done anywhere, for anybody, for business/no business, for money/without money will constitute supply under GST?? GST supply provisions are Draconian and against the interest of General Public and will cause a lot of confusion in the mind of people as well as tax practitioners.
At present Reverse charge is not there on Goods except in few states like Punjab where Purchase tax is there on certain Goods. VAT is payable on sales by the seller of Goods but the payment of VAT in the hands of the purchaser (registered dealer) on purchase of goods from an unregistered dealer.
A number of tax administrations in the world have established special systems to administer their large taxpayers. In the 1950s and 1960s, several OECD countries introduced special tax audit operations for large corporations. Following the international practice, the Centre Governmenthas also adopted the concept of the Large tax payer unit in the year 2006.
GST is intend to cover larger number of people under its net and further keeping threshold exemption limit of 10Lakhs many people would come under GST net. Small tax payers may not have sufficient infrastructure, knowledge, awareness etc., in complying with various provisions of law including accounting, IT/ERP availability, and huge paper work.
1. Application for registration-(1) Every person, other than a non-resident taxable person, a person required to deduct tax at source under section 37 and a person required to collect tax at source under section 43C, who is liable to be registered under sub-section (1) of section 19 and every person seeking registration
1. Tax invoice (1) Subject to rule 5, a tax invoice referred to in section 23 shall be issued by the supplier containing the following details:‑(a) name, address and GSTIN of the supplier;(b) a consecutive serial number containing only alphabets and/or numerals, unique for a financial year;(c) date of its issue;(d) name, address and GSTIN/ Unique ID Number, if registered, of the recipient;
The electronic tax liability register under sub-section (7) of section 35 shall be maintained in FORM GST PMT-1 on the Common Portal and all amounts payable by a taxable person shall be debited to the said register.
In the present system of taxation every company in the retail sector plans locations of its warehouses and branches in order to avoid cost of CST. Suppose if a retailer is located in Delhi and it procures material from a manufacturer in Maharashtra then normally they prefer the route of stock transfer against f form to avoid CST although loss of retention is borne overall.
The dispute in entire world including Australia , New Zealand, UK, EU etc pertaining to the liability to pay GST towards payments made in lieu of court orders, settlements, compromises, penalties, appropriations etc were related to the following aspects :
The proposed implementation of GST, a destination based consumption tax, has been designed as a dual VAT, keeping in view the unique federal nature of India’s Constitutional Polity. The different imperatives driving this reform and role of GSTN in achieving them is briefly spelled out below
